About the Book: An Introduction to Yoga
"'An Introduction to Yoga by Annie Besant gives an overview of Yoga, in order to
ready the student to take up, for practical purposes, the Yoga sutras of
Patanjali, the chief treatise on Yoga. This book leads to the way where
tranquility can be attained that can make life peaceful and healthy.
Annie Besant explains the theory of spiritual development based on the teachings
of yoga. In the first lecture, 'The Nature of Yoga, Besant talks about
consciousness, what is divine, and how they interrelate. The second lecture
views the six Indian schools of philosophy, mostly comparing and contrasting
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