Yoga Philosophy of Patanjali with Bhasvati

by Hariharananda Aranya

People gibly speak of Yoga without realising that it forms an integral part of a composite Samkhya-yoga philosophy, the oldest philosophical system in the world. Samkhya provides the theoretical base without which one can neither fathom the terse aphorisms of Patanjali and their masterly interpretations by Vyasa nor derive full benefit through practising them mechanically. In the last two millenniums many learned commentators have elaborated on these texts. Swami Hariharanada Aranya's commentary with further elucidation by his disciple and worthy successor Swami Dharmamegha Aranya is refreshingly different reflecting, as it does, their own realisations, which make Samkhya-Yoga a living precept today.