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The Integrity of the Yoga Darsana centers on the thought of Patanjali, the great exponent of the authoritative and Classical Yoga school of Hinduism and the reputed author of the Yoga-sutras. In this textual, historical, and interpretive study, Whicher offers a plausible and innovative reading of the 'intention' of the Yoga-sutras, namely that Yoga does not advocate the abandonment or condemnation of the world, but rather supports a stance that enables ...
This monograph Patanjali's Metaphysical Schematic: Purusa and Prakrti in the Yogasutra is a reprint from The Adyar Library Bulletin, volume 63, 1999. Ian Whicher is a well-known scholar of Indian philosophy who has been specializing in Patanjali's Yoga. We have already published his monograph Cognitive Samadhi in the Yogasutra-s in The Adyar Library Pamphlet Series, no. 52. We have great pleasure in bringing out this monograph also in the same series as no. 55.. ...