Great System of Yoga

This is a short review of the major schools of yoga, including Hindu, Buddhist and Sufi varieties. Wood was a founding Theosophist and wrote extensively on Hinduism, and Yoga in particular. His works on the subject are written for Western readers, and where he needs to use Sanskrit or other esoteric terms, he takes care to explain them. He was a practicing Yogi for most of his lifetime.

Brief Contents:
The Ten Oriental Yogas;
Patanjali’s Raja Yoga;
Shri Krishna’s Gita Yoga;
Shankaracharya’s Gnyana Yoga;
The Hatha and Laya Yogas;
The Bhakti and Mantra Yogas.

Professor Ernest Egerton Wood was a noted yogi, theosophist and author of numerous books, including Concentration – An Approach to Meditation and Yoga. Because of an early interest in Buddhism and Yoga, he also started to learn the Sanskrit language.