You're most welcome. And thank you for sharing the Sivananda site which you found: I will add it to my 'reliable sources for reference'. I checked the Amazon website for reader reviews of the book I mentioned - its full title is 'The Science of Yoga: The Yoga-Sutras of Patanjali in Sanskrit With...
Hi Natural Submission,
I have recently been interested in formally studying Yoga, and particularly in reading a translation of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras (written in Sanskrit about 2000 years ago), which comprise 195 sutras or aphorisms on the practice of yoga. I found a book in my local library...
Dear Lilithu,
I forgot to add in my last message that the story of Goddess Lalita is found in the Lalitopakhyana in one of the Puranas (Hindu scriptures). Here is a link to a rendering of this story...
Dear Lilithu,
Lalita or Lalitha is the Divine Mother who takes on several forms like Kali, Durga, Parvati, etc. She has a 1000 different names to describe each personification. These 1000 names are described and invoked in the Lalita Sahasranama, or 1000 names of Lalita, which is recited while...