Shri Purohit Swami was born into a religious and wealthy family in Badners, India, in
1882. He studied philosophy and law, received his LL.B. from Decan College, Poona,
married and had three children. However, he did not practice law, and instead spent
his entire life in spiritual devotion. He wrote in his native Marathi, in Hindi, Sanskrit
and English \u2013 poems, songs, a play, a novel, a commentary on The Bhagavad Gita and an
autobiography. He left India in 1930 at the suggestion of his Master to interpret the
religious life of India for the West, and made his new home in England. It was here that
he produced beautiful translations of The Bhagavad Gita, Patanjali\u2019s Aphorisms of Yoga
and \u2013 in collaboration with his great friend, the Irish poet W.B. Yeats \u2013 The Ten Principal
ONE: THE DESPONDENCY OF ARJUNA................................................................................... 1 TWO: THE PHILOSOPHY OF DISCRIMINATION..................................................................... 4 THREE: KARMA-YOGA \u2013 THE PATH OF ACTION................................................................... 9 FOUR: DNYANA-YOGA \u2013 THE PATH OF WISDOM................................................................ 12 FIVE: THE RENUNCIATION OF ACTION................................................................................ 15 SIX: SELF-CONTROL.................................................................................................................... 17 SEVEN: KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE............................................................................. 20 EIGHT: LIFE EVERLASTING...................................................................................................... 22 NINE: THE SCIENCE OF SCIENCES AND
THE MYSTERY OF MYSTERIES.................................................................................... 24 TEN: THE DIVINE MANIFESTATIONS.................................................................................... 27 ELEVEN: THE COSMIC VISION................................................................................................. 30 TWELVE: BHAKTI-YOGA \u2013 THE PATH OF LOVE.................................................................. 34 THIRTEEN: SPIRIT AND MATTER............................................................................................ 36 FOURTEEN: THE THREE QUALITIES..................................................................................... 39 FIFTEEN: THE LORD-GOD......................................................................................................... 41 SIXTEEN: DIVINE AND DEMONIC CIVILIZATION............................................................... 43 SEVENTEEN: THE THREEFOLD FAITH................................................................................. 45 EIGHTEEN: THE SPIRIT OF RENUNCIATION....................................................................... 47
