In this class (Class 2 on April 18, 2024), we discuss Yoga Sutra 1.1 and 1.2, along with Edwin Bryant's commentaries on these sutras (pp. 1-21 of Bryant's book).


Main textbook for class: Edwin Bryant's The Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali

Other textbooks: Swami Vivekananda's Raja Yoga; Swami Hariharananda Āraṇya's Yoga Philosophy of Patañjali (translated into English by P.N. Mukerji)

For those of you who are trying to memorize the Yoga Sutras, this page listing all the sutras may be of help to you: https://sanskritdocuments.org/doc_yog...