their own comments; thus, in a book they are always accompanied by an interpretation.
The word “yoga” comes from the same Sanskrit base that gives us our word “yoke,” and implies a union or harnessing of energies, in this case a discipline or technique for investigating and developing the Self. A look at the literature reveals a fully developed philosophy, a way of explaining the world around us
and why we’re here. You might say it’s similar to the Buddhist
approach, but a bit less ethereal. Or it could be compared to some of the basic tenets of Hindu thinking, but since pinning down Hinduism with words and logic is like trying to put a puffy white cloud into a plain brown wrapper with a small plastic fork, we are
