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Are there any yoga /lit/ charts?
Want to dive deep into the yoga rabbit hole

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Yoga Sutras
Bhagavad Gita
Yoga Vasistha

>> No.18656376

I don't have a chart, but I feel you should start with Mircea Eliade's book. It will give you a feeling for how vast and dishomogeneous the whole Yoga thing is, and at the same time protect you from the vapid feel-good swamp that yoga has become in modern times.

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>>18654092
The Princeton sale has a Yoga and a Tantra reader that look like great starting points, both collections of translations of first hand texts across a variety of religions and regions:
https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691140865/yoga-in-practice
https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691057798/tantra-in-practice

Some others in the series may be relevant too:
https://press.princeton.edu/series/princeton-readings-in-religions

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bump

>> No.18657018

thanks bros!

Will have a look.
I'm especially interested in reaching samadhi - all the siddhis/strengths etc are not what i'm looking for!

>> No.18657079

Edwin F Bryant made a great translation of / commentary on the Yoga Sutras.

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>>18656376
I second this. Yoga and Patanjali by Eliade is top.