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Kaivalya Darsanam: The Holy Science
Kaivalya Darsanam (The Holy Science)

A treatise in four chapters—the Gospel, the Goal, the Procedure and the Revelation—that sets out Samkhya cosmology and yogic practice through commented Sanskrit aphorisms and places them alongside passages from the New Testament and Revelation. It argues that all religions share a single goal and describes five states of the heart through which the seeker advances, guided by the 'heart's natural love'. Its introduction proposes a 24,000-year cycle of yugas, tied to a hypothetical companion star of the Sun, and places humanity in an ascending Dvapara: the most famous and most disputed part of the book.
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Authorship note
Written in 1894 in English, with Sanskrit aphorisms composed by the author. It first appeared in instalments in the journal *Sadhusambad*; in 1920 Atul Chandra Chowdhury printed it as a book; since 1949 Self-Realization Fellowship has published a revised version (Bengali terminology replaced by Sanskrit, grammar corrected, introduction modified), to which in 1963 it added a translation of the sutras.
Editions and translations
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English
Sri Yukteswar
The Holy Science – Original 1920 Edition
The Conscious LibraryThe Holy Science – Original 1920 Edition
Reimpresión independiente
ISBN 9789199010021
ISBN visto en AbeBooks; reproduce el texto de 1920. Editor y año no confirmados en catálogo.
Sri Yukteswar
The Holy Science
The Conscious LibraryThe Holy Science
Yogoda Satsanga Society of India, Calcuta, 2009
ISBN 9788189535193
Open Library registra por error el título como «The Only Science».

The Holy Science
Self-Realization Fellowship, Los Ángeles, 1990
ISBN 9780876120514
Edición revisada de SRF (copyright 1949); el texto de 1949 está protegido.
Sri Yukteswar
Kaivalya Darsanam (The Holy Science)
The Conscious LibraryKaivalya Darsanam (The Holy Science)
Edición privada de Atul Chandra Chowdhury, Calcuta, 1920
Primera edición en libro; dominio público. Texto base de la reimpresión «The Holy Science – Original 1920 Edition».
Français
Sri Yukteswar
La science sacrée
The Conscious LibraryLa science sacrée
Self-Realization Fellowship, Los Ángeles, 1978
ISBN 9780876120545

La science sacrée
Self-Realization Fellowship, Los Ángeles, 2017
ISBN 9780876128060
Nederlands

The Holy Science (edición neerlandesa)
Self-Realization Fellowship, 1998
ISBN 9789020240160
Título neerlandés no confirmado: Open Library lo registra de forma defectuosa.
Español

La ciencia sagrada
Self-Realization Fellowship, Los Ángeles, 1998
ISBN 9780876120569
Sri Yukteswar
La ciencia sagrada
The Conscious LibraryLa ciencia sagrada
Editorial Kier, Buenos Aires, 1999
ISBN 9789501716092
Deutsch
Sri Yukteswar
Die heilige Wissenschaft
The Conscious LibraryDie heilige Wissenschaft
Self-Realization Fellowship, 1998
ISBN 9783502626718

Die heilige Wissenschaft
Self-Realization Fellowship, Los Ángeles, 2002
ISBN 9780876120576
Italiano
Sri Yukteswar
La scienza sacra
The Conscious LibraryLa scienza sacra
Self-Realization Fellowship, 1998
ISBN 9788834011164
日本語

Seinaru kagaku
Self-Realization Fellowship, 1998
ISBN 9784627999503
हिन्दी

Kaivalya Darshanam (कैवल्य दर्शनम्)
Yogoda Satsanga Society of India, 2007
ISBN 9788189955038
Türkçe

Kaivalya Darsanam – Kutsal Bilim
Mitra Yayınları, Estambul, 2020
ISBN 9786056998935
Other works by Sri Yukteswar
Sources
- Yukteswar Giri, Swami Sri. The Holy Science (Kaivalya Darsanam). Los Ángeles: Self-Realization Fellowship, 7.ª ed. 1972, 3.ª reimpr. 1977 (texto de 1894; copyright de la revisión, 1949). Consultado en Internet Archive.
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