{"product_id":"9780231519472","title":"Yoga, Karma, and Rebirth: A Brief History and Philosophy","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor serious yoga practitioners curious to know the ancient origins of the art, Stephen Phillips, a professional philosopher and sanskritist with a long-standing personal practice, lays out the philosophies of action, knowledge, and devotion as well as the processes of meditation, reasoning, and self-analysis that formed the basis of yoga in ancient and classical India and continue to shape it today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn discussing yoga's fundamental commitments, Phillips explores traditional teachings of hatha yoga, karma yoga,  \u003ci\u003ebhakti\u003c\/i\u003e yoga, and tantra, and shows how such core concepts as self-monitoring consciousness, karma, nonharmfulness ( \u003ci\u003eahimsa\u003c\/i\u003e), reincarnation, and the powers of consciousness relate to modern practice. He outlines values implicit in  \u003ci\u003ebhakti\u003c\/i\u003e yoga and the tantric yoga of beauty and art and explains the occult psychologies of  \u003ci\u003ekoshas\u003c\/i\u003e,  \u003ci\u003eskandhas\u003c\/i\u003e, and  \u003ci\u003echakras\u003c\/i\u003e. His book incorporates original translations from the early Upanishads, the  \u003ci\u003eBhagavad Gita\u003c\/i\u003e, the  \u003ci\u003eYoga Sutra\u003c\/i\u003e (the entire text), the  \u003ci\u003eHatha Yoga Pradipika\u003c\/i\u003e, and seminal tantric writings of the tenth-century Kashmiri Shaivite, Abhinava Gupta. A glossary defining more than three hundred technical terms and an extensive bibliography offer further help to nonscholars. A remarkable exploration of yoga's conceptual legacy,  \u003ci\u003eYoga, Karma, and Rebirth\u003c\/i\u003e crystallizes ideas about self and reality that unite the many incarnations of yoga.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47120342253808,"sku":"9780231519472","price":13.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780231519472_p0.jpg?v=1763679327","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780231519472","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}