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    The Perfect

    Introduction To

    Yoga Philosophy

    Patañjali. Patañjali's Yoga Sūtra: Translation, Commentary and Introduction. Translated by S. Ranganathan. Edited by S. Ranganathan, Black Classics. Delhi: Penguin Black Classics, 2008.    

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    Students of Yoga and Philosophy will find an accessible translation and commentary here, that relates Yoga to the practical questions of the practitioner. 

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    This is the first and only translation of the Yoga Sūtra composed on the basis of cutting edge research in Ethics, Philosophy of Language, South Asian Philosophy, and Translation Studies. 

     

    This translation was Dr. Ranganathan's project as he wrote his PhD dissertation: Translating Evaluative Discourse: The Semantics of Thick and Thin Concepts. 

    The translation process was hence not only informed by the best research on Translation Studies at the time, but it also informed the Dissertation, which defended an approach to translation that prevented translators from using their beliefs as filters for translation. 

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    A distinguishing feature of this translational approach is that it departs from the standard practice of translating South Asian Philosophy, which consisted in the projecting of beliefs of the translator on to the text. 

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    Published via Penguin India, copies are often available via online book sellers. Autographed copies are available from Yoga Philosophy. 

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    Dr. Shyam Ranganathan is a Canadian Yoga Alliance Certified Experienced, Gold (CYA-E-RYTGOLD), Yoga Teacher with over 1000 hours of training 

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    YogaPhilosophy.Com is a  Gold Yoga School Certified (CYA-RYSGOLD) to offer Yoga Training, Yoga Teacher Training and​

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    Yoga Philosophy is a Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider

    Dr. Ranganathan is a Research Leader in Translating Philosophy and the Study of Indian Ethics and Moral Philosophy, 

    He is translator of the Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra (Penguin 2008),

      

    Author of 50 peer reviewed publications overlapping philosophy and yoga,

     

    Member of the Department of Philosophy and York Center for Asian Research, York University, and

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    Your Internet Yoga Philosophy Prof.

     

    Shyam holds an MA in South Asian Studies, and an MA and PhD in Philosophy

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    Dr. Ranganathan is an experience Yoga Alliance Yoga teacher (over 500 hours in training)

    Over 4000 students

    Over 20000 Teaching Hours

    Distinguished for providing Yoga Education on the basis research and scholarship on Yoga and Philosophy

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