Yoga Sūtras of Patanjali: Architecture of Consciousness, Discipline, and Liberation - Paperback
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The Yoga Sūtras is not a posture manual.
It is a rigorous architecture of consciousness.
Across 195 aphorisms, Patañjali constructs one of the most precise philosophical systems in classical Indian thought - aimed not at belief, but at liberation through disciplined cognitive refinement.
In Yoga Sūtras of Patanjali: Architecture of Consciousness, Discipline, and Liberation, Dr Bhaskar Bora restores the text to its metaphysical depth and structural clarity.
This volume explores:
- The dualist ontology of puruṣa and prakṛti
- The materiality of mind in Sāṃkhya-Yoga
- Misidentification (saṃyoga) as the root of suffering
- The psychology of the kleśas and karmic conditioning
- The eightfold discipline as structural transformation
- The taxonomy of samādhi with epistemic precision
- Viveka-khyāti and irreversible discrimination
- Kaivalya as ontological isolation
Engaging classical commentators and contemporary philosophy of mind, this work situates Patañjali in dialogue with Advaita Vedānta, Buddhism, and modern neuroscience - without reducing Yoga to psychology or inflating it into mysticism.
This is not devotional paraphrase.
It is not modern wellness literature.
It is not introductory spirituality.
It is a disciplined philosophical reconstruction.
For scholars, serious practitioners, and readers interested in the structure of consciousness itself, this book offers a system that must be tested - not merely admired.
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