Overview for Four Chapters on Freedom: Commentary on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Four Chapters on Freedom contains the full Sanskrit text of Rishi Patanjali's Yoga Sutras as well as transliteration, translation and an extensive commentary. The yoga Sutras, containing 196 epithets or threads of yoga, is the most respected treatise on yoga. In his commentary on each verse, Swami Satyananda Saraswati fully explains the text and the path of raja yoga. Serious yogic aspirants and spritual seekers will find invaluable guidance within these pages.
Swami Satyananda Saraswati (Author)
Swami Stayananda was born at Almora, Uttar Pradesh, in 1923. in 1943 he met Swami Sivananda in Rishikesh, where he lived as a sannyasin for the next 12 years. Swami Satyananda founded the International Yoga Fellowship in 1956 and the Bihar School of Yoga in 1963. Over the next 20 years he toured internationally and authored over 80 books, in 1984 he founded Sivananda Math, a charitable institution for aiding rural development, and the Yoga Research Foundation in 1980 he adopted kshetra sannyasa and settled in Rikhia, Jharkhand, where he now lives as a paramahamsa sannyasin.
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