Title: good translation, missed the point
Product review: Feuerstein offers a solid translation and interpretation, except that he misses the point of the central teaching of Patanjali: yogascittavrttinirodha. He takes it to mean that yoga aims at the dissolution of life and the human being. This is not true. As Ian Whicher expounds in his "The Integrity of the Yoga Darsana" (SUNY), cittavrttinirodha can be taken to mean the cessation of misidentification with modifications of the mind, not the total cessation of the modifications of the mind. This renders Yoga a life-affirming and positive philosophy and practice as opposed to Feuerstein's thesis that it is inherently aimed at the destruction of the whole human being who practises it. The translation in this book is still great, but for explanation of the meaning, look somewhere else, e.g. Whicher's "The Integrity of the Yoga Darsana".
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