The Yoga Philosophy of Patanjali

The English original of Sanskrit translation and commentary on Yoga philosophy with the 195 aphorisms of Patanjali translated and explained.
Yoga (from the Sanskrit root Jug-yog which means union) is, in the Indian spiritual tradition, one of the six "essential visions of reality" or Darṣan. Of ancient origin (archaeological discoveries in the Indus Valley, Mohenjo-daro and Harappa, have confirmed that Yoga practices were already widespread in the pre-Aryan civilization of the III-II millennium BC), the Yoga philosophy was treated for the first time in a work that is still the fundamental text of the doctrine: the Yogasutra of Patanjali.
Patanjali ("the guiding genius and teacher of Rajayoga, or Yoga based on scientific psychology", as Anthony Elenjimittam says) is one of the greatest figures in the history of Indian philosophy: lived, it seems, in the second half of the second century BC, beyond that of the 195 short aphorisms of the Yogasutra, he would also have been the author of a work on grammar and one on medicine.
In his philosophy he supports "the emancipation of the soul from the infections and infections of worldly existence, from desires and well-being, from pleasures and luxury, from birth and death": it is therefore this emancipation that is "the true redemption, true salvation ". This concept, noble and pure, has particularly struck Elenjimittam, who in this work examines the aphorisms of Patanjali in a unified vision, studying and highlighting above all the influences on Western spirituality and the points of contact with it, in particular with Christianity.

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