Thursday, June 23, 2016

The Perfection of Yoga

Read The Perfection of Yoga in the laundromat yesterday. Nice book! Considering reciting it on Soundcloud.

It describes the Sixth Chapter of Bhagavad-gītā, the foundation of yoga meditation, and explains the perfection of yoga in the modern age.

This reminds me to contact my Sanskrit teacher. We had been reading together over Skype the Sixth Chapter with the Sanskrit commentaries of Śrīla Rāmānujāchārya, Śrīla Viśvanāth Chakravartī Ṭhākur, and Śrīla Baladev Vidyābhuṣaṇ. This was suspended last semester when he and I were teaching in universities. I want to see whether he's available now that it's summer.

It would be interesting to use The Perfection of Yoga as the nucleus of a comparative study between the Sixth Chapter and The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali.

I would like to learn how to produce ebooks with synchronized narration and word-for-word synonyms in other languages on demand.

I had read Unifying Hinduism a while ago, it provided a very interesting perspective on Sāṅkhya philosophy. It makes me want to get and read the Sanskrit commentary of Vijñānabhikṣu on The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali.

That also reminds me that I had started reading Varaha, Vidura, & Kapila, which is beautifully written and provides deep insight into Sāṅkhya philosophy, several months ago. I was really liking it and got about halfway through when life happened. I want to take it up again.

I also want to continue reading Krishna's Other Song: A New Look at the Uddhava Gita.

An ebook with narration, studying these books and Sanskrit commentaries, could form the basis of courses on yoga philosophy.

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