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Yoga As Philosophy and Religion
Surendranath Dasgupta · 2013
78/100
👍 Worth It
Dasgupta's 1924 treatise is a landmark — one of the first serious English-language attempts to treat Patanjali's yoga as a complete philosophical system rather than a fitness trend. The scholarship is rigorous and historically important, drawing on multiple Sanskrit commentaries with careful structure. Dense academic prose and century-old Indological framing make it a specialist text, not a general wellness read.
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