Collected works on Yoga, Hatḥa Yoga etc.

Collected works on Yoga, Haṭha Yoga etc.

This eighth and final volume of Astadala Yogamala Brings the reader to the culmination of the entire project. The author has guided us carefully through the maze and intricacies of an apparently unsurmountable subject that is the terrain of yoga knowledge. He has shone rays of light into every conceivable aspect of yoga sadhana, elucidating this difficult subject succinctly and with lucidity. Guruji (Yogacharya B.K.S. Iyengar) calls and encourages us to climb to the apex of the subject so that the reader may see for themselves its vastness, its purity and its brilliance.

This is the fourth volume of the second part of the "Collected Works" of Yogacharya B.K.S. Iyengar. Each part comprises several volumes which are arranged according to the following scheme: Articles, Interviews, Question & answer Sessions etc. This volume is a compilation of question and answer sessions with Guruji from 1958 to 1984. It contains Guruji's answers for questions on personal, practical and philosophical aspects.

This fifth volume of Astadala Yogamala contains a great treasure house of material compiled from interviews taken with Yogacharya B.K.S. Iyengar. Like an explorer, who enters a dark cave and penetrates its depth with a beam of light, the torchlight of each interview illumines a section of the cave revealing the Gem of Wisdom, lying in the depth of the ardent, unceasing and devoted sadhana of Sh. B.K.S. Iyengar.

This book contains not only the matured intellectual vision of Yogacarya, but takes the sadhaka into the interior parts of the consciousness to savour the true essence of life-force-the Seer.

This book presents to the reader the revealed insight and experienced understanding brought to light in response to questions asked of Yogacharya B.K.S. Iyengar over the years. At times the questions express doubts of the questioner, at other times it is their thirst for knowledge. This volume is like a deep well; one can draw water from its surface and quench one’s thirst, or one can, with effort, break the surface of the water and plunge into its depth where the cool waters are fed from an inexhaustible stream of distilled knowledge that can come only from one who has totally immersed himself in the ocean of wisdom.

This, the sixth volume of A.Y., continues to reveal the great wisdom housed in the treasure trove of the interviews of Yogacharya B.K.S. Iyengar. It provides education for the sadhaka to accomplish an inner transformation freeing him from sensual pleasures, and making him move towards the Soul, where untainted wisdom illuminates the practitioner from within purifying his actions. As you progress in your practice, the cloud of affications and obstavles in life interfree less and less. They disperse revealing the glory of the soul’s eternity.

The Yogacana-Vijnanavada Idealism was the last great creative synthesis of Buddhism and its position in that tradition is comparable to that of the Advaita Vedanta. In this present book the author deals with the Yogacara-Vijnanavada in all its aspects and bearings, historically, analytically and comparatively. The first two chapters show, with great clarity and sufficient detail, the origin and development of the Yogacara idealism as an outcome of those fruitful and dynamic ideas associated with the previous schools of Buddhism, especially with the Sautrantika and the Madhyamika. The originality of the Yogacara synthesis of Buddhist teachings has been clearly brought out, and the individual contributions made by the philosophers of this school, such as Asanga, Vasubandhu, Sthiramati, Dignaga, Dharmakirti and Santaraksita, have received adequate attention. The subsequent chapters, which form the core of the work, represent a constructive and critical exposition of the Yogacara metaphysics, its idealism and absolutism as well as its spiritual discipline. This reprint after a lapse of ten years fills the need of the researchers.