The Science of Yoga: The Yoga-Sutras of Patanjali in Sanskrit by I. K. Taimni

This is an excellent book on the yoga of Patanjali (Raja Yoga). Really well written and and well explained a subject that is truly difficult to understand at first reading. You will need to re-read a few times to digest well and assimilate those teachings. I know I will have to return to it again and again and again. There is another very good book by the same author called "Gayatri: The Daily Religious Practice of the Hindus", a book/subject very dear to me that I too well recommend. Really excellent and well recommended(book and author).

This book by Dr Taimni is a comprehensive work giving the text of the Yoga-sutra in sanskrit transliteration in Roman followed by a translation and commentary.It covers the the field of evolution,the unfoldment of consciousness, the practical approach to a spiritual way of the unravelling of the great mystery of existence, and the culminating experience of samadhi, the goal of the kingly science of Yoga. It presents to the serious student the fundam