Hatha Yoga Pradipika

Hatha Yoga Pradipika translates as a Light on Hatha Yoga and serves to shine a light on the practice of Hatha yoga.

The book includes the original Sanskrit text compiled by Maharishi Swatmarama with a translation and thorough commentary in english by Swami Satyananda and Swami Muktibodhananda. It elucidates the entire science of hatha yoga as it was conceived and practised, not for health and fitness only, but for awakening the pranas, chakras and kundalini shakti. This text points out that hatha yoga is not just a physical practice but a process of cellular transmutation from gross, to subtle to divine. Thus hatha yoga was considered the foundation of all higher yogas. This text clearly shows the link between tantra and hatha yoga, and also emphasises that hatha yoga leads to raja yoga, otherwise it is practised in vain. Line drawings and diagrams illustrate the text.

At the age of seventeen, the author Swami Muktibodhananda moved from Australia to India and became a worthy disciple of Swami Satyananda Sarawati. She became well versed in the scientific as well as traditional aspects of yoga. She now lives and teaches in Brisbane.