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Demystifying : The (Aphorisms): The Wisdom of Paramhansa Yogananda Presented by His Direct Disciple, , Paramahansa Yogananda, Swami Kriyananda, Crystal Clarity Publ, 2013, 1565892739, 9781565892736, 196 pages. What happens as we grow spiritually? Is there a step-by-step process that everyone goes through all spiritual seekers, including those of any or no religious persuasion as they gradually work their way upward, until they achieve the highest state of Self-realization? About 2200 years ago, a great spiritual master of named Patanjali described this process, and presented humanity with a clear-cut, step-by-step outline of how all truth seekers and saints achieve divine union. He called this universal inner experience and process yoga or union. His collection of profound aphorisms a true world scripture has been dubbed Patanjali s Yoga Sutras. Unfortunately, since that time many scholarly translators with little or no spiritual realization have written commentaries on Patanjali s writings that have succeeded only in burying his pithy insights in convoluted phrases like becomes assimilated with transformations and the object alone shines without deliberation. How can any reader understand Patanjali s original meaning when he or she has to wade through such bewildering terminology? Thankfully, a great master Paramhansa Yogananda, author of the classic Autobiography of a has cut through the scholarly debris and resurrected Patanjali s original teachings and revelations. Now, in Demystifying Patanjali, Swami Kriyananda, a direct disciple of Yogananda, shares his s crystal clear and easy-to-grasp explanations of Patanjali s aphorisms. As Kriyananda writes in his introduction, My Guru personally shared with me some of his most important insights into these sutras. During the three and a half years I lived with him, he also went with me at great length into the basic teachings of yoga. I was able, moreover, to ask my Guru personally about many of the subjects covered by Patanjali. His explanations have lingered with me, and have been a priceless help in the [writing of this book]..

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About 2200 years ago, a great spiritual master of India named Patanjali described this process, and presented humanity with a clear-cut, step-by-step outline of how all truth seekers and saints achieve divine union. He called this universal inner experience and process “yoga” or “union.” His collection of profound aphorisms—a true world scripture—has been dubbed Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras.

Unfortunately, since that time many scholarly translators with little or no spiritual realization have written commentaries on Patanjali’s writings that have succeeded only in burying his pithy insights in convoluted phrases like “becomes assimilated with transformations” and “the object alone shines without deliberation.” How can any reader understand Patanjali’s original meaning when he or she has to wade through such bewildering terminology?

Thankfully, a great modern yoga master—Paramhansa Yogananda, author of the classic —has cut through the scholarly debris and resurrected Patanjali’s original teachings and revelations. Now, in Demystifying Patanjali, Swami Kriyananda, a direct disciple of Yogananda, shares his guru’s crystal clear and easy-to-grasp explanations of Patanjali’s aphorisms.

After reading many translations of the Yoga Sutras over the years, I found Swami Kriyananda's commentaries and writings so lucid and practical in their application to everyday life. It is a blessing to have Patanjali's teaching accessible to everyone seeking the divine within. (Dennis M. Harness, Ph.D., Psychologist and Vedic astrologer January 2013)

Swami Kriyananda has provided an immensely readable translation of and commentary on Patanjali's Yoga Sutras. This central text outlines all the basics required for a balanced Yoga practice. It effortlessly describes and explains the various states of meditation. Patanjali outlines the foundational ethics of Yoga, including abstention from impure, distracting, and deflating actions. By rising up into the state of spirituality, one can overcome the myriad troubles of life. Swami Kriyananda adds yet another jewel to the treasure trove of Yoga interpretations. (Christopher Key Chapple January 2013)

The Yoga Sutras has generated almost as many translations and commentaries as there are sutras in Patanjali’s masterpiece. Inevitably, the takeaway for readers is different in each instance because the nuances of interpretation lead the student in radically different directions. Many versions were written by the who brought the ancient tradition to the West, but one important voice, Yogananda’s, was missing. We will never have a Yogananda translation, but now we have the next best thing: a direct disciple’s interpretation of the master’s perspective. Because Yogananda’s role in bringing Yoga to the West is unsurpassed, Demystifying Patanjali is a welcome and illuminating contribution to the ongoing transmission. (Philip Goldberg, author of American Veda: From Emerson and the Beatles to Yoga and Meditation, How Indian Spirituality Changed the West January 2013)

I enjoyed reading Demystifying Patanjali, which is a view of the Yoga Sutras from the perspective of Paramhansa Yogananda. Its personal anecdotes and other stories add to the narrative. (, Regents Professor and Head, Department of Computer Science, Oklahoma State University, author of The Within: Mind, Consciousness and the Vedic Tradition January 2013)

The words of a great master, whether written by his own hand or recorded by others, are a vehicle primarily for the transference of his consciousness. By studying his thoughts we receive not only his meaning, but also his vibrations. The vibrations of Patanjali, until now, have been largely obscured by clumsy translations, or often even more obscure "interpretations." The power of this volume is not only clear, simple meaning, but also a clarity of vibration. This is a Patanjali we never knew was there: kind, practical, incisive, yes, but also generous and sympathetic to those who seek to embrace the vision of infinity he has attained. (Asha Praver, Spiritual teacher, Author of Swami Kriyananda: As We Have Known Him)

If you're a follower of Paramahansa Yogananda, and if you're looking for the most authentic information about Patanjali, then this is the book for you. I read this book in a day, or so, because the information was so fulfilling and easy to understand with information applicable to daily life. I recommend this read!!!

Paramhansa Yogananda's mission was an important one: to sow clarity and reason in an age when the world has lost touch with its moral foundations through excessive, blind in the powers of reason. Kriyananda does a wonderful job of encapsulating his Master's - very lengthy - interpretations of the teachings of Patanjali.

Kriyananda's books are very important to the - they show how Christians and other believers can set their on firm grounds of direct, individual experience. The replace the rational fallacy - "Religion is not logical, therefore it is false." - with a method for testing the claims of the world's great spiritual paths scientifically - that is, by direct experiment. As he puts it, the "proof" of religion's claims are no less real for being subjective. And they pass the tests of scientific inquiry: those who have completed the experiment - the saints - are unanimously in agreement about the nature of .

I do not understand the 1-star reviewer's objections. He appears not to have read the book but to be biased against anything Kriyananda writes on political grounds - hence the inflammatory, emotional rhetoric of his "reviews." For a balanced account of the reasons for the animus of the anti-Kriyananda faction, a perusal of Jon Parsons' excellent book A Fight for Religious Freedom is recommended. Also, www.yoganandafortheworld.com, and www.anandaanswers.com.

Kriyananda talks in the intro how a lot of the commentaries he read were not very clear and hard to understand. I completely agree. I have one such commentary and I could never understand what this sage was saying. Demystifying Patanjali is very clear and warm. It seems he isn't trying to impress you with complicated thoughts and words!

Patanjali has a reputation for being obscure. Turns out it wasn't the ancient sage, but the translations and interpretations we have. Concise yes, but exact in his meanings. Before now, in forty years of spiritual study, I've not been able to get into Patanjali. I like spirituality to be practical and it was too far out for me. This book is a confluence of of understanding between two -- Patanjali and Yogananda -- and one devoted disciple -- Kriyananda. Yogananda, when asked if his mission was a new religion, replied emphatically, "It is a new expression." Ancient teachings, modern expression. This is a serious book, but if you are a serious seeker, Patanjali is the textbook of Self-realization.

One of the greatest gifts Paramhansa Yogananda gave to us for the decades after his passing was to empower his scribe and disciple, Swami Kriyananda, to carry on some of his teachings through writing. Kriyananda's gift has been to crack through languaging many centuries old to present these deep spiritual principles in a simple way that speaks to both and mind, rather than forcing us to spend our mental energy trying to work out all the interpretations. "Demystifying Patanjali" is no different. It gets to the point on each sutra, and presents it so that we can apply immediately to our lives. As a long-time writer/author/editor, I've gone back and forth at times over Kriyananda's writing style, but never with his substance – or, most importantly, the divine connection he has with Yogananda. This is a great way to get to know Patanjali & Yogananda. And a fitting way for Kriyananda to spend some of his final year. Buy it.

What happens as we grow spiritually? Is there a step-by-step process that everyone goes through all spiritual seekers, including those of any or no religious persuasion as they gradually work their way upward, until they achieve the highest state of Self-realization? About 2200 years ago, a great spiritual master of India named Patanjali described this process, and present...more What happens as we grow spiritually? Is there a step-by-step process that everyone goes through all spiritual seekers, including those of any or no religious persuasion as they gradually work their way upward, until they achieve the highest state of Self-realization? About 2200 years ago, a great spiritual master of India named Patanjali described this process, and presented humanity with a clear-cut, step-by-step outline of how all truth seekers and saints achieve divine union. He called this universal inner experience and process yoga or union. His collection of profound aphorisms a true world scripture has been dubbed Patanjali s Yoga Sutras. Unfortunately, since that time many scholarly translators with little or no spiritual realization have written commentaries on Patanjali s writings that have succeeded only in burying his pithy insights in convoluted phrases like becomes assimilated with transformations and the object alone shines without deliberation. How can any reader understand Patanjali s original meaning when he or she has to wade through such bewildering terminology? Thankfully, a great modern yoga master Paramhansa Yogananda, author of the classic Autobiography of a Yogi has cut through the scholarly debris and resurrected Patanjali s original teachings and revelations. Now, in Demystifying Patanjali, Swami Kriyananda, a direct disciple of Yogananda, shares his guru s crystal clear and easy-to-grasp explanations of Patanjali s aphorisms. As Kriyananda writes in his introduction, My Guru personally shared with me some of his most important insights into these sutras. During the three and a half years I lived with him, he also went with me at great length into the basic teachings of yoga. I was able, moreover, to ask my Guru personally about many of the subjects covered by Patanjali. His explanations have lingered with me, and have been a priceless help in the [writing of this book].(less)

I wrote the bit below for our bookstore's magazine, but I'll add a few more personal comments as well. This was the last scriptural commentary Swamiji wrote before his passing, and it's a nice feeling of completeness to get Patanjali covered in that collection finally. Very different feel to this book compared to, say, The Essence of the . By this point, Swami seems to have been writing in a much more informal flow, almost like he's just talking to you about it all in his living roo...more I wrote the bit below for our bookstore's magazine, but I'll add a few more personal comments as well. This was the last scriptural commentary Swamiji wrote before his passing, and it's a nice feeling of completeness to get Patanjali covered in that collection finally. Very different feel to this book compared to, say, The Essence of the Bhagavad Gita. By this point, Swami seems to have been writing in a much more informal flow, almost like he's just talking to you about it all in his living room. And so that's sort of sweet, though the insights are still as spiritually deep and valid as in any of his other books. I don't relate to Patanjali as much as to the other masters and scriptures that are more directly related to our path (speaking as a Yogananda devotee), and so I don't have this on quite the same pedestal as some of Swami's other books. But if you want to know what Patanjali was all about, this is the thing to read.

For the past 2,200 years, Patanjali’s yoga sutras have provided humanity with a non-sectarian roadmap to the entire spiritual path. However, few are able to grasp the subtleties of these teachings, and the many translations and commentaries over the years have more often confused than clarified them. It was the great yoga master Paramhansa Yogananda who brought the ancient teachings into the modern age through direct revelation. Now, direct disciple Swami Kriyananda shares his guru’s insights with his trademark clarity, compassion, and humor, in a guide for seekers of all paths. (less)

Thousands of years ago, Patanjali presented his philosophy of living in the Yoga Sutras which are arranged in four sections: oneness with the divine, the way to , accomplishments/attainments, and absoluteness. These teachings have been pondered and interpreted by Paramhansa Yogananda (Autobiography of a Yogi), who is considered by many to be the greatest of all yoga masters to teach in the West.

In Demystifying Patanjali, Swami Kriyanada, a direct disciple of Yogananda, has unlocked the secrets of this great text which consists of 196 aphorisms. Here the reader will discover wise advice on the calmness that is the only true foundation for happiness, the endeavor to develop even-mindedness as essential to spiritual practice, listening to AUM as an advanced yoga technique, rising above obstacles to meditation by one-pointed concentration, and the practice of contentment as a sign of serenity of heart.

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Paramhansa Yogananda was born on January 5, 1893 in , India. He was the first yoga master of India to permanently live and teach in the West. Yogananda arrived in America in 1920 and travelled throughout the United States on what he called his 'spiritual campaigns'. Yogananda's Autobiography of a Yogi, first published in 1946, helped launch a spiritual revolution throughout the world. Yogananda continued to lecture and write up to his passing in 1952.

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