v0.6: Structured Study

Instead of having a half-hazard study I have codified my study of the different teachers that I follow. The outcome of this is that I have a strict end to end for my Yoga-Vedanta studies that encompass the different paths. But there are a lot of texts and the teachers I have decided to follow have created a lot of writing. The preliminary study of these texts will take me a minimum of three years with some other texts likely taking me a lifetime to finish.

I will be updating this site with the readings as I go through them organized according to the various limbs of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras. So I will not be listing them out here individually until I have read them.

Interestingly, most of the teachers I ascribe to have various paths that they teach or orient around. Karma Yoga/yama is Vivekananda, Bhakti-Jnana Yoga/niyama is Ramakrishna, Chinnamayananda and Daryananada, Hatha Yoga/asana & pranayama is Satyananda and Raja Yoga is Aurobindo. Sivananda Saraswati seems to be a combination of all of these paths.

Beyond this I haven't even started on the Vedantic texts such as the Upanishads, Brahma Sutras, Bhagavad Gita, Yoga Vaishista and the commentaries. Those will be included in my study as well, but with the preliminary focus on the writings of the teachers I follow.