हठयोग प्रदीपिका (योगी स्वात्माराम - ज्योत्स्ना टीका सहित सटीक)

INTRODUCTION THE Haṭhayogapradīpikā is a well-known authoritative treatise on Yoga which has been taken for a guide by different classes of Yogin-s in India. Of all the existing works on occultism, the Haṭhayogapradīpikā is perhaps the one which stands unrivalled in its attempt to grapple with the task of reconciling the Rāja-yoga and Haṭha- yoga systems. Concealing a truth in every sentence, the treatise offers, in one respect, a wealth of occult lore to the earnest student of Yogavidyā, and, in another, holds behind the apparent charms of a bright curtain a venomous serpent ready to pounce upon the first strag- gler from the right hand path who has not thoroughly shaken off earthly impurities before launching himself upon the forbidden path of Yoga. The pure and unselfish alone will have the keenness and power to extract the pure drop of immortality from the compound mixture in which the mystic author of the treatise has so beautifully combined the two systems of Yoga. The word yoga means union between Jīvātman and Paramātman. The science that teaches the way of acquiring this occult knowledge is called Yoga- śāstra. As this knowledge leads directly to the fusion of the Jīvātman and the Paramātman, it is consider- ed very sacred and sublime, and, as such, is not