Bases of Yoga

In his book “Foundations of Yoga,” the famous Indian sage and teacher Sri Aurobindo Ghosh presents—in remarkably clear and precise terms—what is essential about yoga, focusing on the key moments, difficulties, misconceptions, physical problems, and how yogis relate to European psychology.

For the first time, this yogi—revered in India and other countries as a saint—explains how to correctly relate consciousness and the subconscious, and how to transform night sleep into an aware state of consciousness. Sri Aurobindo describes in detail the yogic understanding of the essence of human illnesses and the ways to prevent them and treat them. He says: “Your theory of disease is rather a dangerous belief, because disease is something that should be eliminated, not accepted or indulged in... All diseases come through the nervous or vital-physical sheath of subtle consciousness, before they enter the physical body.”

This book is firsthand knowledge, without any additions or distortions from the science that comes from deep antiquity—yoga.