This is the first comprehensive and systematic analytical study of the major
philosophical concepts of classical yoga. The book consists of a series of
detailed discussions of the key concepts used by Patanjali in his Yoga-Sutra to
describe and explain the enigma of human existence and to point a way beyond the
perpetual motion of the wheel of becoming. Feuerstein's study differs from
previous ones in that it seeks to free Patanjali's aphoristic statements from
the accretions of later interpretations; instead, the author places the Sutra in
its original context and sees it as the source of the whole edifice of classical
yoga and not just as