Talk:The Holy Science
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Someone who is familiar with this book -- PLEASE explain which Hindu sutras this book translates + discusses! It's a major, major omission from the book itself. The sutras are not Patanjali's. They must be some other branch of Yoga.
- The book itself states that they are slokas. Someone wrongly edited the article here to sutras. They clearly are not Patanjali. In the forward, Sri Yukteswar quotes from Manu, and says that he describes "in his Samhita these Yugas more clearly in the following slokas..." followed by the slokas from the Samhita. But the source for the slokas in the main body of the book are not given by Sri Yukteswar. It would probably take a Sanskrit scholar knowledgeable with slokas to answer this question. ॐ Priyanath talk 17:37, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
Primary source: I discovered this passage in a Bengali book translated into English, which is a biography of Sri Yukteswar. http://web.archive.org/web/20070228104314/http://www.yoganiketan.net/sriyukteswar/sriyukteswar.pdf This suggests there is no source for the sutras/slokas but that SY created them himself. This could be used in the article.
Quote: One night at an auspicious time, he meditated upon the blessings of the spiritual lineage, especially the beneficent wish, directive and encouragement of Paramgurudev, and while going through the process of analyzing the essence of the spiritual treatises of the east and west, he arrived at a framework of the substantial elements for the composition of the new book. He began to create Sanskrit sutras based on the unifying conclusions of eastern philosophy and sadhana, and alongside those sutras, he wrote down the corresponding western spiritual material that expressed the same understanding, using quotations from the Bible and explaining their underlying meaning in English. Swamiji Maharaj's disciples, Howrah's prominent barristers Sri Narayan Chandra Ganguly and Sri Nilananda Chattopadhyay Mahasaya especially helped in the writing of the English part of this book. The name of the book became "Holy Science" or "Kaivalya Darshanam." From having had discussions with His Holiness Swamiji Maharaj, I came to know that some of the gist of the previous book in French was in this "Kaivalya Darshanam." The publisher of "Kaivalya Darshanam," who was a disciple of Maharajji and an executive of Sadhu Sabha, as well as a landlord of Bhandarhati and a native of Khidirpur, Roy Atul Chandra Choudhury Mahasaya wrote in the dedication section: "This Book is the true Philosophy of Religion. It was compiled...to establish the truth that there is an essential unity in the basis of all religion,...the teachings of the Bible itself...are perfectly non-sectarian. To show that the Holy Bible wholly teaches pure Sanatan Dharma, the Eternal Religion of the Indian Sadhus, I have collected these parts and published it in book form so that the religious public may not be misguided by the mistaken ideas of sectarianism which we think is the curse of Religion in its true sense. "The Sanskrit sutras of the book, having reconciled all the different schools of Indian philosophy, will be also a great help in the study of Bhagabat Gita, the highest book in philosophy and theology in the present world."*
- The quoted material is written in English in the original book of
Swami Satyananda (probably copied from the "Holy Science" manually), followed by a Bengali translation. Only some spelling mistakes of English words (the Sanskrit untouched ) have been corrected and some commas have been added. The ellipses were indicated in the original by asterisks. Otherwise, the text is literally the same as what is in the original, including the capitalization of words etc.
