Essence and Substance of Yoga

Author(s): S M Jain
Publisher: S M Jain

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experience, has been shifted to unreal, non-existent and imaginary noumena. Unscrupulous distortions fantasies and weird occultism are replacing the fundamental tenets, principles and practices.
There is dire necessity to restore the pristine form of yoga, examine and evaluate the new additions and modifications on the basis of scientific scrutiny. Yoga is a vast and varied subject with myriad ramifications. There is enormous voluminous literature both old and new. Yoga is essential, innate and intrinsic in life, permeating its entire web in each weft and warp, every activity, every moment. Here an effort has been made to sift from the conglomerate of distortions, manipulations and concoctions, the real gems embodying and emanating the essence and substance of yoga on the basis of the study of some widely recognised canonical works of eminent yoga teachers of past and present. Readers only can judge as to how successful the effort is.