Diving into yoga philosophy & literature
Now and again, I often think about this - the soul and the self. The connection. Is it the same or is it different? I've been doing some reading (currently reading The Journey of Souls by Michael Newton) and a very interesting book on Self & the ego,...
Patanjali's Yoga Sutras begins with the line: Atha yoga anushasanam. The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali is an ancient text of 196 sutras (short aphoristic statements) which is dated around 400b.c. and gives the practices of the philosophical system of yoga. If you translate the line, it means....