Govindan wasted no time to raise the necessary funds to assemble a team of Tamil experts to set about translating this text of no fewer than 3,047 recondite verses. I had no idea that my words would find a receptive ear. Until recently, the last-mentioned work was available only in a dubious English rendering, which I was reluctant to recommend to my students.Ī dozen or so years ago, I expressed to Marshall Govindan (Satchitananda), president of Babaji’s Kriya Yoga Order of Acharyas, my earnest wish to one day see a competent English translation of the Tiru-Mandiram. ![]() The fourth scripture is Tirumūlar’s Tiru-Mandiram, which is written in Tamil. There are at least four Yoga scriptures that should have a place in any library of core Yoga works: Patanjali’s Yoga-Sūtra, the Bhagavad-Gītā, and the ten-chapter edition of the Hatha-Yoga-Pradīpikā of Svātmarāma Yodīndra, which are all composed in Sanskrit. Now Available in a 5 volume hardbound version, 3770 pages. Etienne de Bolton, Quebec: Babaji`s Kriya Yoga and Publications, copublished with Varthamanan Publications, Theyagaraya Nagar, Chennai, India, 2010. ![]() ![]() TIRUMULAR’S TIRUMANDIRAM: A TAMIL CLASSIC ON TANTRIC KUNDALINI-YOGA
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