Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Abbreviations xv
6. The Yoga Tradition 1
7. The Practice of Yoga
8. Sāṃkhya Philosophy and Yoga Practice 19
9. Precepts and Vows in Yoga and Jainism 31
10. Imitation of Animals in Yoga Tradition 49
11. Patañjali on Meditation 61
12. Yoga and Liberation
13. Luminosity and Yoga 71
14. Living Liberation in Sāṃkhya and Yoga 83
15. Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra
16. Approaching the Yoga Sūtra 103
17. The Yoga Sūtra of Patañjali 115
18. Translation Methodology and Grammatical Analysis 139
19. “Samādhi pāda” 143
20. “Sādhana pāda” 163
21. “Vibhūti pāda” 183
22. “Kaivalya pāda” 203
23. Interpreting Yoga
24. Reading Patañjali without Vyaāsa 219
25. The Use of the Feminine Gender in Patañjali’s Description of Yogic Practices 237
26. Contemporary Expressions of Yoga 249
27. Notes 261
28. References 279
29. Index of Sanskrit Terms 287
30. Index 295