The Unadorned Thread of Yoga [Unadorned Thread of Yoga - front cover] <http://www.yogasutras.net/bookdemo/index.html> The Yoga-Sutra of Patañjali in English by Salvatore Zambito International Orders Price: $49.95 USD + shipping
Review: Yoga Journal <http://www.yogajournal.com/> June, 2007 When you study a Sanskrit text like Patañjali's Yoga Sutra, you're forced to rely, for the most part, on an English translation. Unfortunately, most of the Sutra's Sanskrit words can't be directly translated into English. As a result, rendered manuscripts seem somewhat flat relative to Patañjali's original passages. One solution is to compare several translations so that the text's fuller meaning is gradually revealed through different interpretations. The problem is, you can end up flipping tediously back and forth through a tall stack of books. Fortunately, Salvatore Zambito, a yoga teacher since 1968 from Washington State, has devised an almost perfect solution to this dilemma. In this, his first book, he has collected a dozen translations of the sutras, or threads of knowledge, published between 1890 and 1995. The translators' commentaries that usually accompany the sutras in other volumes have been eliminated, thus making the sutras "unadorned." In Zambito's collection, each sutra includes the original Sanskrit with its English transliteration and the breakdown of the individual Sanskrit words into their constituent elements, followed by 12 English interpretations. For example, sutra I.2, which defines yoga as citta-vrtti-nirodha, has several interpretations, including citta as "thinking principle" or "consciousness"; vrtti as "thought-waves" or "activities"; nirodha as "cessation," "quieting," "suppression," or "subjugation." The translations are as diverse as the scholars who wrote them: Georg Feuerstein, Vyaas Houston, and Swami Veda Bharati (formerly Pandit Arya), who wrote the foreword to the book; distinguished swamis Vivekananda and Satchidananda; Theosophist sympathizers Alice A. Bailey and M.N. Dvivedi. Along with its informative essays in the appendixes, this book is an essential reference for serious Yoga Sutra students. Let's hope that volume 2, with translations made since 1995, is coming soon. Richard Rosen --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister <no_re...@...> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@ wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" <emptybill@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > You don't give a voiceless alveolar non-sibilant fricative? > > > > If you mean the voiceless labiodental fricative (f), in one > > of my dictionaries every initial 'ph' is "pronounced" like > > it was an f-sound... > > > > Oops! I misunderstood your question... :] > So, to answer your second question, I don't like > to be a hypocrite. >
