Author, musician and yoga practitioner who has been published across genres by Bloomsbury, Poisoned Pen Press, HarperCollins, Editora Vestigio (the Portuguese language edition of Sherlock Holmes in Japan), Sage, Rupa, and LiFi, Vasudev Murthy, is back with Yoga Sutras Simplified–A Searching Adventure With Patanjali (Jaico Books), which releases on 15 November 2022.
Yoga Sutra Simplified has a brilliant foreword by Yogacharya Dr Ananda Balayogi Bhavanani, Chairman, International Centre for Yoga Education and Research (ICYER).
Yoga has been used for millennia as a tool for self-discovery and illumination, with the ultimate goal of uniting the individual consciousness with the universal. This book expounds the purpose and meaning of yoga, going beyond the popular physical aspects. Vasudev shares the steps we need to master to gain more control over our minds and, in turn, our daily lives. It liberates you as a leader and a human being.
A restless mind is the root cause of all your troubles, but a calm mind will liberate you. Want to know how to reach that state?
In this gentle elaboration of the brilliant Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Vasudev Murthy delves into life’s fundamental questions. Taking the reader through Patanjali’s 196 power-packed sutras, he explains the purpose and meaning of yoga, going beyond the popular physical aspects. He shares the steps we need to master to gain more control over our minds and, in turn, our daily lives.
He effortlessly interprets Patanjali’s profound wisdom and deep insights, simplifying the complex Sanskrit sutras in layman’s terms and answering pressing questions that we have asked through our lifetimes: Who am I? Where have I come from, and where will I go? Why must I be born again and again?
The author distills the beautiful essence of this great cultural masterpiece.