History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c94.320

v7.c94.320

Geraldine Coster in 'Yoga and Western Psychology' (Oxford Uni. Press, 1934) observes 'I am convinced that the ideas on which Yoga is based are universally true for mankind and that we have in the Yoga-sūtras a body of material which we could investigate and use with infinite advantage (p. 244)... My plea is then that Yoga as followed in the East is a practical method of mind development, quite as practical as analytical therapy and far more practical and closely related to real life than the average university course. I am convinced that the Yogasūtras of Patañjali do really contain the information²³⁹³ that some of the most advanced psychotherapists of the present day are ardently seeking' (p. 245).