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The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, a foundational Yoga text, forms part of the corpus of Sutra literaturedating back to India's Mauryan period. The purpose of this text is to reveal the practical meansfor the birth of the spiritual being from the psychical body and to indicate the glory and power ofthis rebirth. In this text, writer, journalist and theosophist, Charles Johnston sets forth Patanjalisinstructions in an understandable manner, so as to make his learnings ...
The Bhagavad-Gita forms a small part-seven hundred stanzas--of the epic of the Mahabharata. Contained in the Gita's pages are the mysteries of life. The narrative uses an event, a war, as a setting to exemplify fundamental human conflict--understanding action and non-action, how to live in society, how to understand your place in the universal scheme, as well as explaining the secrets of meditation. The Bhagvad-Gita is as applicable today as when it first ...