Book Description
Yoga Sutras are not only ancient texts from other centuries, nor are they excluded to the commonly known texts such as those of Patainjali. Here you will find a series of sutras from the 20th century, illuminating one with yogic wisdom for the modern world. Essential reading for any serious student of yoga or Eastern philosophy. Shrii Shrii Ánandamúrti dictated the original Bengali Ánanda Sútram to a close devotee as they sat, in a series of night sessions in 1961, on the tiger's grave in Jamalpur that Ánandamúrtijii and the devotees used to frequent. The devotee wrote by the light of a candle. Sometimes the candle flame was sheltered by a glass drinking tumbler as a sort of makeshift lantern. Ánanda Sútram means, in part, "aphorisms leading to ánanda, divine bliss." The sútra form has been valued over the centuries as a powerful tool for communicating a deep philosophy in a condensed, memorable way. The literal meaning of sútra is "thread," implying that numerous jewels of thought can be strung on a single such thread. In the best traditions of sútra literature, the eighty-five sútras of this book serve, with breathtaking conciseness, as a framework for the entire Ananda Marga ideology.
