The Yoga Sutras Of Patanjali: Alistair Shearer

This is a beatifully written and accessible commentary to Patanjali's great work. I find other commentaries to the Yoga Sutras are unduly complex but his book by contrast is lucid and helpful. It does not set out to be a 'Teach Yourself' guide but is an inspiring book for a seeker new to yoga or an exprienced traveller on the Way. As a priest and meditation teacher this is in my lifetimes top ten books.The1982 edition was acompanied by lavish phoographs of sacred sites by Richard Lannoy which are not inluded in this new edition.

Arrived on time , good condition. Very informative concise version of sutres

I teach Yoga and I have found this book very helpful. It is the kind of book I can read over again and gradually absorb what it has to say.

Very happy with this book.The quality is not A1 ...but hey!It is an interesting translation to use in conjunction with others.

Simple and easy to understand

Excellent

perfect

Only Half of the book taken up with the sutras. All breathing exercises missing. having said that the first half is informative and worth reading.

Alistair Shearer is a fantastic writer, and the book is a very nice small design, easy to read and hold. Just a work of art. Cant wait to read chapters 2,3,4.

J’avais toujours évité Patanjali car le peu que j’en avais trouvé peignait un tableau qui me paraissait sombre. Mais la présentation de cet auteur est superbe, il a vraiment une vision claire de la vie et du yoga, sans idéologie d’ auto-flagellation ou d’auto-suppression, qui donne à l’ensemble une clarté rare.Et c’est un joli petit livre, qui rentre dans la poche arrière d’un pantalon, et qui peut se lire en une après-midi.

I have been researching the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali in published format over the past 2 years and physically bought and checked out close to 10 different versions! Many of the translations are not well done (too convoluted and not user-friendly). Others include too many comments with interpretations that are not terribly helpful and often a bit confusing. I keep coming back to this little book by Alistair Shearer. Alistair is quite a renowned British Sanskrit scholar and long-time teacher of transcendental meditation. This little book is just wonderful, and I strongly recommend it. The book first provides an easy concise(!) introduction from a vedic perspective followed by the best translation I have come across. Alistair's writing is very accessible, and I am quite confident most readers will really like it.

This such a beautiful and simple English aphorismic translation of the Sanskrit sutras. I bought the kindle version because that had the correct cover, intro and translation .Somehow, this translation maintains the flow of reading, so much so that you could read in one go.Keep doing it and it will fall in place.The Sanskrit terms when they appear in a sutra have in a way being explained in the sutra before anyway.My suggestion is to keep reading and every time another sutra will catch your eye and … enlightening.All other formats lead to some other translation.Look for Random house book, Shearer and The specific cover before you buy. I will buy the hardover in a bookshop, atleast I will know if I am buying the correct version.

Naturalmente gli Yoga Sutra sono da leggere a più riprese per poi ritornarci spesso. Ho acquistato questa edizione per avere il testo su Kindle e poterlo avere sempre con me. Si tratta di una traduzione molto interessante, così come anche tutta l'introduzione, manca però il testo originale traslitterato. Anche se non conosco il sanscrito, preferisco che ci sia l'originale, per poter vedere alcuni termini e comunque come riferimento.