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Yoga Sūtras (The Aphorisms of Yoga)

योगसूत्र (Yogasūtra), en los colofones पातञ्जलयोगशास्त्र (Pātañjalayogaśāstra)

Patañjali como encarnación de Ādiśeṣa (imagen de culto)
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A treatise in 195 or 196 aphorisms (the number varies in the third chapter) divided into four pādas: Samādhi (51), Sādhana (55), Vibhūti (55 or 56) and Kaivalya (34). It defines yoga as the stilling of the movements of the mind and describes the states of concentration, the afflictions that cause suffering, the eight-limbed path, the powers that accompany absorption and the final isolation of consciousness from nature. It is the base text of the Yoga school, one of the six orthodox "views", and today the founding work invoked by yoga schools throughout the world.

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Authorship note

Work of the yoga Patañjali, who according to Maas gathered aphorisms from earlier traditions (c. 325–425). His identity with the grammarian of the Mahābhāṣya is traditional and rejected by most scholars (Woods 1914, Renou 1940). In India the text has been transmitted within the Pātañjalayogaśāstra, together with the commentary.

Editions and translations

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English

  • The Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali — Patañjali

    The Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali

    Integral Yoga Publications, 2012

    Translation: Swami Satchidananda

    ISBN 9781938477072

  • The Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali: A New Edition, Translation, and Commentary — Patañjali

    The Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali: A New Edition, Translation, and Commentary

    North Point Press, 2009

    Translation: Edwin F. Bryant

    ISBN 9780865477360

  • Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali — Patañjali

    Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

    Thorsons, 2003

    Translation: B. K. S. Iyengar

    ISBN 9780007145164

    Primera edición 1993

  • Yoga: Discipline of Freedom. The Yoga Sutra Attributed to Patanjali — Patañjali

    Yoga: Discipline of Freedom. The Yoga Sutra Attributed to Patanjali

    Bantam Books, 1998

    Translation: Barbara Stoler Miller

    ISBN 9780553374285

  • How to Know God: The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali — Patañjali

    How to Know God: The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali

    Vedanta Press, 1996

    Translation: Swami Prabhavananda y Christopher Isherwood

    ISBN 9780874810417

    Primera edición 1953

  • Yoga Philosophy of Patañjali, containing his Yoga Aphorisms with Vyāsa's Commentary — Patañjali

    Yoga Philosophy of Patañjali, containing his Yoga Aphorisms with Vyāsa's Commentary

    State University of New York Press, 1983

    Translation: Swāmi Hariharānanda Āraṇya; trad. inglesa de P. N. Mukerji

    ISBN 9780873957298

  • The Yoga-Sūtra of Patañjali: A New Translation and Commentary — Patañjali

    The Yoga-Sūtra of Patañjali: A New Translation and Commentary

    Dawson, 1979

    Translation: Georg Feuerstein

    ISBN 9780712909150

  • The Yoga-System of Patañjali (Harvard Oriental Series 17)

    Harvard University Press, 1914

    Translation: James Haughton Woods

    Con el Yoga-bhāṣya y la Tattvavaiśāradī de Vācaspati Miśra; dominio público. Reimpresión Motilal Banarsidass / South Asia Books, 1998: ISBN 9788120805705.

  • The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: «The Book of the Spiritual Man»

    Nueva York (ed. del traductor), 1912

    Translation: Charles Johnston

    Dominio público (Project Gutenberg n.º 2526).

  • Raja Yoga, or Conquering the Internal Nature

    Longmans, Green and Co., 1896

    Translation: Swami Vivekananda

    Traducción comentada de los aforismos dentro del libro; dominio público. Reediciones: Advaita Ashrama, 1970 (ISBN 9780902479135); Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center, 1980 (ISBN 9780911206234).

  • The Yoga-Sutra of Patanjali

    Bombay Theosophical Publication Fund, 1890

    Translation: Manilal Nabhubhai Dvivedi

    Dominio público.

العربية

  • Kitāb Bātanjal (كتاب باتنجل)

    Oriens 9 (ed. Hellmut Ritter), 1956

    Translation: Al-Bīrūnī (adaptación árabe, c. 1030)

    Adaptación con comentario; edición crítica del texto árabe por Ritter.

Español

  • Aforismos del yoga

    Debate, 1999

    Translation: Archie J. Bahm (versión e introducción)

    ISBN 9788483061923

  • Los Yoga-Sutra de Patanjali — Patañjali

    Los Yoga-Sutra de Patanjali

    Oniro, 2005

    Translation: Chip Hartranft

    ISBN 9788497541756

  • Luz sobre los Yoga Sūtras de Patañjali

    Kairós, 2013

    Translation: B. K. S. Iyengar (trad. y comentario)

    ISBN 9788472455252

    View in store · Editorial Kairós

  • Yoga-Sûtra de Patanjali

    Edaf, 2018

    Translation: T. K. V. Desikachar (comentario)

    ISBN 9788441438293

  • Yogasūtra. Los aforismos del yoga

    Kairós, 2021

    Translation: Óscar Pujol

    ISBN 9788499884981

    View in store · Editorial Kairós
  • Raja Yoga — Patañjali

    Raja Yoga

    Kier

    Translation: Swami Vivekananda (texto); traductor no indicado en el catálogo

    ISBN 9789501701210

    Registro de Open Library sin fecha.

Sánscrito · संस्कृतम्

  • Samādhipāda. Das erste Kapitel des Pātañjalayogaśāstra zum ersten Mal kritisch ediert

    Shaker, 2006

    Translation: Philipp André Maas (edición crítica)

    Solo el primer capítulo, con el comentario

Français

  • Le Yoga-Sūtra de Patañjali. Le Yoga-Bhāṣya de Vyāsa

    Les Belles Lettres, 2008

    Translation: Michel Angot

    ISBN 9782251720500

    Edición bilingüe con extractos del Yoga-Vārttika de Vijñānabhikṣu

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Sources

  • Woods, James Haughton (trad.). The Yoga-System of Patañjali, or the Ancient Hindu Doctrine of Concentration of Mind, embracing the Mnemonic Rules, called Yoga-sūtras, of Patañjali, and the Comment, called Yoga-bhāshya, attributed to Veda-Vyāsa, and the Explanation, called Tattva-vāiçāradī, of Vāchaspati-Miçra. Cambridge (Mass.): Harvard University Press, 1914 (Harvard Oriental Series 17). Introducción, §§ 3–5, sobre la identidad de los dos Patañjali y las fechas.

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