LayaYoga

LayaYoga – Shyam Sundar Goswami

Yoga, as taught in Ancient India, is an inexhaustible fount of lore, scientific theories, elaborate techniques and empirically acquired methods: it has withstood the vicissitudes of time and the conflicts of history. In Ancient India, Yoga had many distinct forms or systems, each with its characteristic features and specific practices. Four main streams remain today, all elaborations of the original eightfold Ashtanga Yoga — Mantra Yoga, Hatha Yoga, Raja Yoga and Layayoga. In Layayoga, Concentration is developed in the Chakra system, following the rousing of the Great Spiritual Potential, Kundalini. Ultimately, it leads to Samadhi (superconcentration) through the absorption of all cosmic principles.

This book, by one of the foremost pioneers of Yoga in the West, presents Layayoga authentically and systematically in its original forms, as revealed to the Rishis of Ancient India and through the different processes they elaborated. It is the unique result of more than fifty years of research in the scriptures of India, including hitherto unpublished manuscripts. A scholarly treatment of high standard, it is also a book of great practical worth, for the author has devoted a large part of it to the details of the practice of Layayoga.