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The Hatha Yoga Pradipika is an ancient text used by Yogis to create the power. This is one of the earliest treatises on Hatha Yoga; all the modern books are based on it. This book is intended as an aid for those who wish to learn the advance practices of Hatha Kundalini Yoga from a qualified teacher. Many of the instructions given here have been purposely veiled by the original writers, others need elaboration, and many require the guidance of a teacher for correction. Swami Vishnu-Devananda has repeatedly stressed that these practices are not for beginners, and that to violate this caution is to put the psyche at risk.

Please therefore, follow these instructions along with the guidance of your guru. A Glossary has been prepared for this book for this third edition, the hopes that this will be used as a reference manual for serious Yoga students on all levels. Skip to content.

The Hatha Yoga Pradipika. Hatha Yoga Pradipika. Hatha Yoga Pradipika Book Review:. Author : Svatmarama Publsiher : YogaVidya. Author : A. The Gheranda Samhita. The Gheranda Samhita Book Review:. Ha haprad pik of Sv tm r ma. Ha haprad pik of Sv tm r ma Book Review:. Ha hayogaprad pik.

Ha hayogaprad pik Book Review:. No comments:. Newer Post Older Post Home. Subscribe to: Post Comments Atom. Popular Posts. Sanskrit Alphabet. Why we don't practice on Moon Days. From Shri K. Two stars one place conjunction Kapali and Kapalika are both mentioned as past masters of Hatha Yoga in the list given in verses 1.

In fact, some manuscripts of the Hatha Yoga Pradipika prefix the name Kapali with Chanda, rather than Khanda, the more common reading.

However, as we shall see below, the practices taught in this book are tame compared to some of those taught in other works on Hatha Yoga, and Gheranda Introduction appears to have been a follower of Vishnu, so we cannot claim Kapalika origins for the text.

Perhaps Chanda's epithet is simply a way of establishing a connection between the text and the lineage of the Mahasiddhas mentioned in the Hatha Yoga Pradipika. There are also no records of the place and date of com- position of the text, but there are indications that it is a relatively late work on Hatha Yoga from northeast India.

The majority of its manuscripts are found in the north and east of India, and, of those which are dated, the oldest was copied in Bengal in c. As far as I am aware, it was never cited by medieval commentators in their works on Hatha Yoga. Doctrinal discontinuities also set it apart from the rest of the Hatha Yogic corpus.

Tantric influences have been toned down considerably. See, for example, the descrip- tion of Vajrolimudra in verse 3. The author attributes the teachings of Hatha Yoga to Shiva, but verses 5.

Fur- thermore, several verses indicate that the text was compiled by a vedantin, in particular verse 7. I am Brahman alone and do not suffer. My form is truth, consciousness, and bliss. I am eternally free. I abide in my own nature. Introduction The early texts of Hatha Yoga showed no trace of Vedanta; their doctrinal framework was Tantric. As Hatha Yoga and its proponents, the Nathas, gained in popular- ity and patronage, the religious orthodox, amongst whom Vedanta had become the predominant ideology, had to sit up and take notice.

As they had done with other heterodox movements that threatened their hegemony e. This process culminated in the eighteenth century with the compilation of several new Upanishads and the rewriting of some older ones; these are now known collec- tively as the Yoga Upanishads. The unknown compiler s used verses from established works on Hatha Yoga to create the texts. The Vedantic and Vaishnava leanings in this book, combined with its use of verses from established works on Hatha Yoga, suggest that it probably resulted from a similar process.

In the light of this, as well as the fact that errors in the manuscript of c. The Sanskrit text presented here is based on the edition of Swami Digambarji and Dr. Gharote, first published at Lonavala, Maharashtra, in , for which they collated fourteen manuscripts and five printed books, including the Adyar Library edition of , which formed the foundation of their edition.

The best known edition of the text is that of Chandra Vasu, which was first published in It was Introduction based on two earlier Bengali editions which appear to have relied on a very small number of manuscripts.

The Adyar Library edition is much more thorough and omits several spurious verses found in Vasu's edition. I consulted three manuscripts two in the library in Jodhpur's Mehrangarh Fort and one in the Bodleian Library, Oxford that were not collated for the Lonavala edition, but they were very similar to manuscripts that had been used so I decided that there was no point in editing the text myself.

I have made emen- dations or adopted alternative readings in a few places, but in general the text is the same as the Lonavala edition.

Some verses have been borrowed from other works, in particular the Hatha Yoga Pradipika and the Goraksha Samhita. The section on the five dharanas elemental visualizations in verses 3. It has clearly been taken directly from the Goraksha Samhita, verses , but is incoherent and ungrammatical in all the Gheranda Samhita manuscripts. In the Goraksha Samhita each element has a 'These critical editions are mentioned in the introduction and footnotes. The first work has been referred to as the Goraksha Samhita.

Nowotny, Fausta. Das Goraksasataka. Dokumente der Geistesgeschichte 3. K In: K. Nowotny, Digambarji, Swami, and Dr. Gharote, eds. Mallik, Kalyani. Poona: Oriental Book House, Introduction color, a shape, a location in the body, and a mantra, but these are confused and omitted in the Gheranda Samhita. In verse 3. I have somewhat boldly decided to adopt the readings of the Goraksha Samhita for the entire passage. That all the Gheranda Samhita manuscripts present a similarly incoherent description of the dharanas is surpris- ing and points to two possible scenarios.

Either they are descended from a single flawed manuscript or the compiler of the Gheranda Samhita was using a flawed manuscript of the Goraksha Samhita to write the text. The first hypothe- sis requires a lengthy and improbably irregular manuscript tradition predating the earliest extant manuscript, which, in the absence of external evidence for the text's existence prior to c.

I am thus inclined to believe the second hypothesis. In translating, I have tried to be as literal as possible without sacrificing readability.