When: Weekly every Saturday, 6:30 am -7:30 am Pacific time (tentative), 3:30pm-4:30pm CET, 7:00pm-8:00pm IST starting June 28, 2025.

A minimum of 10 students are needed to hold this study series.

Duration of the entire study: ~32 classes 

Where: Online. (If there is interest from people for in-person study, then it may be accomodated). Recordings will be provided for each class.

Requirements: This class is offered primarily as a service to transmit and preserve the yoga scriptures in their original form and correct interpretation, just as this information had been preserved and passed on for thousands of years in more dire situations like war and persecution. For this reason, out of reverence for these scriptures, only people who are willing to commit the time to the study, by attending classes and making up for missed classes through video/audio recordings, are requested to attend.  

Community aspects: People in the study group form a community and encourage each other in their study. This is all the more the reason for serious participants to be in the study. Active participation in the study is encouraged through questions. A whatsapp group will also be available.

Format: The first ~55 minutes will be a slide presentation, such as this, using specifically designed slides following the classic commentary of Swami Hariharananda Aranya and using many stories and analogies from Vedanta. The last ~5 minutes will be allocated to chanting. The material will be traditional yet light-hearted and interspersed with stories.

This in-depth study is ideally suited for yoga teachers and yoga enthusiasts who would like to describe the subtler dimensions of yoga to their students and or friends, and intersperse their classes with these jewels of timeless wisdom, applicable as much now in our world, as it was thousands of years ago. 

Recordings of the classes will be provided.

Cost: The scriptures on Yoga are priceless. Traditionally, hundreds or thousands of years ago, it was just offered by very few people and others donated money to support this activity. In the same light, to maintain this activity of passing on the scriptural information, and to take care of costs associated, an offering, such as $50 per chapter (~8 classes) can be made, at the beginning of each chapter. (If you have financial difficulty or live in another country, please pay what you can afford or what you would normally offer and send me a note).  

Paypal, Venmo (Please use the friends and family option to avoid a fee)

Registration Link: Please read the link fully and kindly only register if you are serious about attending classes and making up for missed sessions using recordings.

References:

1) The Sutra Study Series (offered several years ago)- Slides and recordings

2) A Study in comparison of the two Greatest Scriptures on Yoga

3) Why study the scriptures ?

Slides

1) Samadhi Padah - The chapter on mind and meditation

2) Sadhana Padah

3) Vibhuti Padah

4) Kaivalya Padah