The Path of Yoga

Discovering the Essence and Origin of Yoga
Vol. 1 of the series: Yoga: The Science of the Soul
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Yoga is now internationally an integral part of our health-conscious cultural landscape. It is practiced by millions for health and fitness reasons. While Yoga is seen and practiced mostly as a body exercise program, the interest in the philosophical and spiritual dimension of Yoga is growing.

This book introduces us to Patanjali, the founder of ancient Yoga in India. It takes us step by step into a deeper understanding of the essence and origins of Yoga. Osho introduces and unlocks Patanjali’s ancient sutras, revealing how contemporary this ancient message truly is. It quickly becomes clear that we are just on the cusp of a gaining a much deeper understanding of Yoga and its place in our evolving world.
Chapter Titles
    #1: Introduction to the Path of Yoga
    #2: Desireless, You Are Enlightened
    #3: Five Modifications of Mind
    #4: Madness or Meditation
    #5: Why Can’t You Dance?
    #6: The Purity of Yoga
    #7: An Ecstasy Is Born
    #8: Stop, and It Is Here!
    #9: This Very Life, the Ultimate Joy
    #10: The End Is in the Beginning
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Yoga is now internationally an integral part of our health-conscious cultural landscape. It is practiced by millions for health and fitness reasons. While Yoga is seen and practiced mostly as a body exercise program, the interest in the philosophical and spiritual dimension of Yoga is growing.

Excerpt from: The Path of Yoga, Chapter 8
     “Yoga says – and let it penetrate you very deeply because it will be very meaningful – Yoga says the more impatient you are, the more time will be needed for your transformation. The more in a hurry, the more you will be delayed. Hurry itself creates such confusion that delay will result. The less in a hurry, the earlier will be the results. If you are infinitely patient, this very moment transformation can happen. If you are ready to wait forever, you may not wait even for this next moment. This very moment the thing can happen because it is not a question of time, it is a question of the quality of your mind.

     “Infinite patience, simply not hankering for the result gives you much depth. Hurry makes you shallow. You are in such a hurry that you cannot be deep. This moment, you are not interested here in this moment but in what is going to happen in the next. You are interested in the result. You are moving ahead of yourself; your movement is mad. So you may run too much, you may travel too much – you will not reach anywhere because the goal to be reached is just here. You have to drop into it, not to reach anywhere. And the dropping is possible only if you are totally patient….

     “Wherever you are, in that moment, enjoy not asking for the future. No futuring in the mind, just the present moment, the nowness of the moment, and you are satisfied. Then there is no need to go anywhere. Wherever you are, from that very point you will drop into the ocean, you will become one with the cosmos.

     “But the mind is not interested in here and now. The mind is interested somewhere in the future, in some results. So the question is, in a way, relevant for such a mind – it will be better to call it the modern mind rather than Western – the modern mind which is constantly obsessed with the future, with the result, not with the here and now.

     “How can this mind be taught Yoga? This mind can be taught Yoga because this future orientation is leading nowhere. And this future orientation is creating constant misery for the modern mind. We have created a hell, and we have created too much of it. Now either man will have to disappear from this planet Earth, or he will have to transform himself. Either humanity will have to die completely because this hell cannot be continued anymore, or we will have to go through a mutation.

     “Hence, Yoga can become very meaningful and significant for the modern mind because Yoga can save man. It can teach you again how to be here and now, how to forget past and how to forget future and how to remain in the present moment with such intensity that this moment becomes timeless. The very moment becomes eternity.” Osho

In this title, Osho talks on the following topics:
yoga... patanjali... peak... mind... sutras... understanding... happiness... inside... science... vision

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Edition/ Version    Revised Edition
Type    Series of Talks
Publisher    Osho Media International
ISBN    81-72611056
ISBN-13    978-8172611057
Dimensions (size)    5.5 x 0.6 x 8.7 inches
Number of Pages    250