Georg Feuerstein, one of the world's foremost scholars of yoga, and Jeanine Miller, long recognized for her insightful commentaries on the RgVeda, here pool their considerable talents in a look at the development of yogic thought across the ages and its similarities with the Christian mysticism of Meister Eckhart. Two of their essays included here?one concerning the essence of yoga and the other looking at the meaning of suffering in yoga?have long been singled out by indologists for correcting prevalent misconceptions and providing a conceptual framework for many of the subsequent studies in that field. The reprinting of these important essays in The Essence of Yoga gives new readers a chance to share some of the authors' earliest insights into yoga and their deep conviction that these discoveries are of the highest significance for a proper understanding of the human condition.
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A collection of classic essays by two highly regarded scholars on the development of yoga and its rapport with other religious traditions.
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"Feuerstein's voice is sane and solid, careful and compassionate, and yet he always sheds new light and understanding on even the most mundane of topics."
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Georg Feuerstein is a widely respected yoga scholar, and has written a number of books on yoga and related topics, including Yoga: The Technology of Ecstasy, Enlightened Sexuality, The Philosophy of Classical Yoga, Lucid Waking, and The Yoga-Sutra of Patanjali: A New Translation and Commentary. Jeanine Miller, author of The Vedas and Vision of Cosmic Order in the Vedas, resides in France.
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Dr. Georg Feuerstein (born 1947) is a German-Canadian Indologist. Feuerstein has authored over 45 books on mysticism, Yoga, Tantra, and Hinduism and Buddhism.
Dr. Feuerstein offers distance-learning courses on Yoga philosophy and history through Traditional Yoga Studies at http://www.traditionalyogastudies.com
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Studies the early roots of yoga,
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If you are a fan of Georg Feuerstein's writings, this book resembles the Philosophy of Classical Yoga in that it is written for the more intermediate, advanced or scholarly yoga student as it reviews yoga's early roots in the Vedic tradition, while relating the study to the Christian mystic, Meister Eckhart. From her expertise in the Vedas, co-author Jeanine Miller offers her insights that help the Vedas come alive for the reader and realize how the yoga of today springs forth from a 5,000 year old tradition.
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If you like philosophy and get turned by Yoga, this is a book for you. The chapters are pretty technical and full of yogic terminology, but the presentation is sound and endlessly fascinating. The book has my vote.
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As indicated in the preface, the nucleus of Yoga is its practice, and the yogin is primarily practitioner, not philosopher, theologist or psychologist in the common sense. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
subconscious impressions, conditioned existence, flame divine, cosmic existence, descriptive epithets Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Vide Rgv, Meister Eckehart, New York, Sri Aurobindo, The Vision of the Vedic Poets, Kunhan Raja, Oxford University Press, Old Testament, The Hague, Aurobindo's Vedic Glossary, History of Indian Philosophy, Rgvedic India, Shree Purohit, Vedic Fire New!
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As indicated in the preface, the nucleus of Yoga is its practice, and the yogin is primarily practitioner, not philosopher, theologist or psychologist in the common sense. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
subconscious impressions, conditioned existence, flame divine, cosmic existence, descriptive epithets Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Vide Rgv, Meister Eckehart, New York, Sri Aurobindo, The Vision of the Vedic Poets, Kunhan Raja, Oxford University Press, Old Testament, The Hague, Aurobindo's Vedic Glossary, History of Indian Philosophy, Rgvedic India, Shree Purohit, Vedic Fire New!
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- Sri Aurobindo on the Veda by Aurobindo Sri on 10 pages
- Yoga: Immortality and Freedom (Bollingen Series, Vol. LVI) by Mircea Eliade on 9 pages
- Vision of the Vedic Poets by J. Gonda on 8 pages
- Mysticism: Christian and Buddhist by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki in Front Matter, page 156, and page 160
- The Perennial Philosophy (Perennial Classics) by Aldous Huxley in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and page 9
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- The Ascetic Self: Subjectivity, Memory and Tradition by Gavin Flood on page 92, and Back Matter
- The Yoga Tradition: Its History, Literature, Philosophy and Practice by Georg Feuerstein in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- India Song by Marguerite Duras in Back Matter
- The Yoga-Sutra of Patanjali: A New Translation with Commentary (Shambhala Classics) by Patanjali in Back Matter
- Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: With Great Respect and Love by Mukunda Stiles in Back Matter
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