This affordable, definitive edition of the Gheranda Samhita contains a new introduction, the Original Sanskrit, a new English translation, and 39 full-page photographs. .. .
He should steady himself and visualize a great jeweled pavilion .
Bees and cuckoos buzz and call there.
In every direction there are kadamba trees with abundant flowers.
Excerpt The yogi should visualize a sublime ocean of nectar in his heart, with an island of jewels in its middle whose sand is made of gemstones.
Secondly, it is unique in teaching a sevenfold path to perfection of the person.
The usual meaning of ghata is pot, but here it refers to the body, or rather the person, since the techniques taught by Gheranda work on both the body and the mind.
Firstly, it calls its Yoga ghata Yoga or ghatastha Yoga and not Hatha Yoga.
It sets itself apart from other books on Hatha Yoga in two notable ways.
Gheranda assents and the book is thus called the Gheranda Samhita, or The Collection of Verses] of Gheranda.
At the beginning of the book, Chanda asks Gheranda to tell him about the Yoga of the body, which is the cause of knowledge of the Ultimate Reality.
From the Introduction The book you are about to read, a manual of Yoga taught by Gheranda to Chanda, is the most encyclopedic of all the root texts of Hatha Yoga.
It\'s for people who practice Yoga and for anyone with an interest in health and fitness, philosophy, religion, spirituality, mysticism, or meditation.
This is the first edition to meet high academic, literary, and production standards.
It\'s the most encyclopedic of the classic Yoga texts and teaches a unique sevenfold path to perfection of the person.
This affordable, definitive edition of the Gheranda Samhita contains a new introduction, the Original Sanskrit, a new English translation, and 39 full-page photographs
