The Light of the Soul: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali by Alice Bailey

Many translations have been made from the original Sanskrit of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. They have become well loved, well used, and well applied by many in all parts of the world and of all religious beliefs. The Sutras have a power and a timelessness about them which demonstrate the accuracy with which they pinpoint the basic truths of human evolution from subservience to personality glamours to the serene freedom of the soul. Most human problems today originate in selfish desire; the prostitution of the feeling nature to self-centered physical appetites. This is also brought out clearly in the teaching of the Lord Buddha, the treading of the Noble Eight-Fold Path providing the only way out of the maze: “Right values; Right Speech; Right Mode of Living: Right Thinking: Right Expression: Right Conduct; Right Effort, Right Rapture or True Happiness”. These are attributes of the soul. Patanjali explores exhaustively the means, the techniques and the mental posture which create the c