Product Overview
A remarkable approach to the classic Yogic text, The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali - A Visual Meditation, is both a traditional, well-informed translation of Book One of the Yoga Sutras, with commentary; and it is a sophisticated art book, with full color, full page reproductions of the beautiful and evocative paintings, one for each for each sutra, created by the author as meditative guides in response to her years of work, studying, working with, and translating the Yoga Sutras. The sutrasare in the original Devanagari, with transliteration, translation and succinct, accessible, grounded commentary, that draws upon author and artist Melissa Townsend's 30+ years of spiritual practice.
The book is as accurate and useful as it is lovely. A graduate of Brown University, Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude, along with her years of spiritual practice and study of Sanskrit, Ms. Townsend's many years' experience as an internationally known psychic, speaking to people one-on-one about their lives, informs her writing as well, helping to make the commentary clear, practical, human and delightfully accessible. Wry and warm, as well as knowledgeable, her writing brings an important yogic text into clear focus, while the artwork takes the book to an entirely new level.
The work of Sanskrit and of the Yoga Sutras is to push one along the path towards Enlightenment. To this end, the Yoga Sutras mean both exactly what they say, and each one means infinitely more. That, infinitely more, is expressed through the remarkable artwork in this book.
