Commentaries

	Four Chapters on Freedom
	Hatha Yoga Pradipika
	Ishavasya
	Nine Principal Upanishads
	Prashnopanishad
	Sri Vijnana Bhairava Tantra
	Swara Yoga
	Yoga Chudamani Upanishad

Four Chapters on Freedom
(Commentary on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali)

Swami Satyananda Saraswati

This text contains the full Sanskrit text of Rishi Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, along with transliteration, translation and commentary. The Yoga Sutras, containing 196 epithets or threads of yoga, is the most respected treatise on yoga. This extensive commentary on each sutra fully explains the text and the path of raja yoga.

Serious yogic aspirants and spiritual seekers will find invaluable guidance within these pages.

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Hatha Yoga Pradipika
(Light on Hatha Yoga)

Maharishi Swatmarama, translation and commentary by
Swami Satyananda Saraswati and Swami Muktibodhananda

This book is a thorough commentary on the original text by Maharishi Swatmarama. It elucidates the entire science of hatha yoga as it was conceived and practised, not for health and fitness only, but for awakening the pranas, chakras and kundalini shakti. This text points out that hatha yoga is not just a physical practice but a process of cellular transmutation from gross, to subtle to divine. Thus hatha yoga was considered the foundation of all higher yogas. This text clearly shows the link between tantra and hatha yoga, and also emphasises that hatha yoga leads to raja yoga, otherwise it is practised in vain.

Please remember that no practice can be adequately learned from a book.

All Satyananda Yoga practical text books are designed to complement instruction by an experienced yoga teacher.

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Ishavasya Upanishad

Swami Satyananda Saraswati

Nine Principle Upanishads

Swami Satyananda Saraswati

The Nine Principal Upanishads are the culmination of vedic thought and contain the essence of the original vedantic teachings. They impart sublime truths about the nature and destiny of mankind revealed by great sages and seers during informal discussions with disciples and spiritual seekers. These upanishads describe the direct experience of transcendence which results in the unity of the individual with the highest consciousness. They also provide methods of meditation to realize the nature of Atman, the supreme soul, and to attain the immortal Brahman.

This text includes the original Sanskrit verses, transliteration and translations of the following nine major upanishads: Prashnopanishad, Kenopanishad, Mandukyopanishad, Mundakopanishad, Ishavasya Upanishad, Kathopanishad, Aitareya Upanishad, Shvetashvataropanishad and Taittiriya Upanishad.

Please remember that no practice can be adequately learned from a book.

All Satyananda Yoga practical text books are designed to complement instruction by an experienced yoga teacher.

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Prashnopanishad

Translation and commentary by Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati

This book contains the complete Sanskrit text of Prashnopanishad, the 'Upanishad of Questions', along with the transliteration, translation and commentary of a modern master. Subjects covered are tapasya (austerity), brahmacharya (celibacy), faith, the process of creation, the supporters of life, the senses and prana, and how the life force originates. The text is thoroughly explained from the yogic and scientific points of view, and many points relating to yoga philosophy are clarified. The commentary of Adi Shankaracharya is also given in Sanskrit with each verse and an explanation of the Vedantic interpretation. The practices necessary to understand and experience the teachings are distilled in the final section.

Suitable for advanced practitioners, yoga teachers and scholars.

Please remember that no practice can be adequately learned from a book.

All Satyananda Yoga practical text books are designed to complement instruction by an experienced yoga teacher.

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Sri Vijnana Bhairava Tantra
(The Ascent)

Swami Satyasangananda Saraswati

The theme of Vijnana Bhairava Tantra is dharana, or concentration, a subject most relevant today. This new translation and commentary of a classical tantric text sheds much light on the practice of dharana, which until now has been revealed only by peripheral explanations. The text comprises 112 different dharanas, or techniques of concentration, which can easily be incorporated into one’s daily life. Although dharana is a practice intended for an adept, whose mind is steady and controlled, the techniques contained within this book provide a way even for the aspirant with a distracted mind to gradually develop concentration and meditation.

This work is the result of an in-depth study of dharana in relation to the tantric view of meditation, substantiated by the personal experience of the author. Included is a detailed introduction followed by the original Sanskrit slokas, with transliteration, translation and extensive commentary.

Please remember that no practice can be adequately learned from a book.

All Satyananda Yoga practical text books are designed to complement instruction by an experienced yoga teacher.

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Swara Yoga
(the Tantric Science of Brain Breathing)

Swami Satyananda Saraswati and Swami Muktibodhananda
Line drawings, diagrams

Swara yoga is an ancient science of pranic body rhythms and explores how prana can be controlled through the breath. Traditionally a closely guarded science, taught only through direct transmission from guru to disciple, very little has ever been written about it.

In this book the theory behind swara yoga is discussed, including the topics of prana, nadis and chakras. In the practice section the techniques of swara yoga are given in detail. The last section contains the original Sanskrit text of the Shiva Swarodaya with an English translation.

Swara Yoga is a suitable text for advanced yoga practitioners and yoga teachers. Line drawings, charts and illustrations are included.

Please remember that no practice can be adequately learned from a book.

All Satyananda Yoga practical text books are designed to complement instruction by an experienced yoga teacher.

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Yoga Chudamani Upanishad
(Crown Jewel of Yoga)

Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati and Swami Satyadharma

Yoga Chudamani Upanishad is a manual of higher sadhana for advanced and initiated aspirants. It delineates the ancient path of kundalini awakening in its original and pure form before the proliferation of modern yogic literature. The text elucidates a unique combination of kundalini yoga and vedantic upasana. It discusses the nadis, prana vayus, chakras and kundalini shakti, and also provides detailed descriptions of ajapa gayatri and pranava, which are older vedic and upanishadic meditative disciplines.

The text includes the original Sanskrit verses, along with transliteration, anvay, translation and a comprehensive commentary by Swami Satyadharma Saraswati under the guidance of Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati. For students of Indian philosophy, it provides a valuable study of the compatibility of Yoga and Vedanta, or the tantric and vedic systems of philosophy and practice.

Please remember that no practice can be adequately learned from a book.

All Satyananda Yoga practical text books are designed to complement instruction by an experienced yoga teacher.

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