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Shyam Ranganathan

Patañjali’s Yoga Sutra

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Patanjali is the compiler of the Yoga Sutras, which date from around 200 BC. Shyam Ranganathan has an MA in South Asian Studies and an MA in philosophy from the University of Toronto, and wrote a PhD dissertation at York University in analytic philosophy on the topic of translating philosophical texts across languages. His areas of research include Indian philosophy, theoretical ethics and the philosophy of language. He is the author of Ethics and the History of Indian Philosophy. Shyam Ranganathan has an MA in South Asian Studies and an MA in philosophy from the University of Toronto, and wrote a PhD dissertation at York University in analytic philosophy on the topic of translating philosophical texts across languages. His areas of research include Indian philosophy, theoretical ethics and the philosophy of language. He is the author of Ethics and the History of Indian Philosophy.
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499 printed pages
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2014
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  • stellarnodehas quoted5 years ago
    Moreover, they held that an absolute prerequisite for liberation is a strict adherence to originally four, and later five, moral strictures. These are the Mahāvrata-s, or a commitment to 1. abstaining from harm, 2. truthfulness, 3. abstinence from theft, 4. sexual restraint, and 5. unacquisitiveness (Ācārāṅga Sūtra II.15.i.1–v.1).17 Failure to live according to these rules resulted in karma (that is, actions) accruing to the soul like dirt or physical matter that kept the soul in bondage.

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