There are many spiritually elevated people in the world, but not many levitating
yogis: and The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali are meant to elevate the spirit of every
man, not to teach him how to levitate. This is clearly the gospel of enlightened
living, neigher an escape from life nor a hallucinatory 'light'. The attempt in
this little book has been to expose that gospel, to avoid technicalities, and to
relate the whole yoga philosophy to the ordinary and simple daily life of
everyone. There are many excellent translations of the Sutras: this, however, is
an interpretative translation. There are several scholarly and erudite
commentaries, too: this