Aphorisms of the Yoga Philosophy of Extracts a the Commentary, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

Hindu Philosophy is based upon six sets of very concise A phorisms. Without a commentary the Aphorisms are scarcely intelligible, they being designed not so much to communicate the doctrine of the particular school, as to aid, by the briefest possible suggestions, the memory of him to whom the doctrine shall have been already communicated. To this end they are admirably adapted; and, this being their end, the obscurity, which must needs attach to them in the eyes of the uninstructed, is not chargeable upon them as a fault. For various reasons it is desirable that there should be an accurate translation of the A phorisms, with so much of gloss as may be required to render them intelligible. A class of pandits, in theB enares Sanskrit College, having been induced to learn English, it is contemplated that a version of the A phorisms, brought out in successive portions, shall be submitted to the criticism of these men, and, through them, of other learned Br hmans, so that any errors in the version may have the best chance of being discovered and rectified. The employment of such a version as a class-book is designed to subserve further the attempt to determine accurately the aspect of the philosophical terminology of theE astas regards that of theW
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