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Patanjali India @ 150 BCE Teachers: Paṇini; Kātyāyana; Students: Tirumular; Bhojadeva; Cakrapāṇidatta; Kofi Busia; Bhartrihari; Franz Kielhorn ; Maharishi Mahesh Yogi of TM or Transcendental Meditation; Sri Aurobindo; Krishnamurti; S.N. Dasgupta; Gavin Flood;, Vyasa, author of The Yogabhashya commentaries; Ganganath Jha; Swami Vivekananda; Swami Satchidananda; Swami Venkatesananda; Padmasambhava; Shri Shailendra Sharma of Kriya yoga; Ravi Shankar, musician; Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha'nish; BonGiovanni; Charles Johnston; Alanna GR****; Allan Bennett; Carl Kellner; J.F.C. Fuller; Aleister Crowley; William W. Atkinson; Isabel Cooper-Oakley; William De Laurence; Alice Bailey; Elisabeth Haich; Mircea Eliade; Mouni Sadhu; Otto William Barth; Oscar Schlag; Arthur Avalon; John C. Lilly; Samael Aun Weor; Sallie Ann Glassman; Michael Bertiaux; Anodea Judith; Art Kunkin; Pat Zalewski; Gavin Frost; Father Yod; Mantak Chia; Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh; Yogi Bhajan; Benjamin Walker; Robert E. Svoboda; Donald Michael Kraig; Nik Douglas; Rishi Singh Gherwal; John Schumacher of Unity Woods; Krishnamacharya; Organizations: Author: (compiled and edited ) Yoga Sūtras; Mahābhāṣya, a commentary on Kātyāyana's vārttikas (short comments) on Pāṇini's Aṣṭādhyāyī : lost and unspecified work of medicine (āyurveda);

Comments: compiler of the Yoga Sūtras; Royal or Raja Yoga ; inspired the Shaivite bhakti tradition; eight-limbed system (ashtānga) of Yoga; more Mind than Breath or Body centered; Samyama or Dhāraṇā (concentration), Dhyāna (meditation) & Samādhi (union); difficulty reading? - listen to him here - http://librivox.org/the-yoga-sutras-of-patanjali/ ; Quotes: When the object of meditation engulfs the meditator, appearing as the subject, self-awareness is lost. This is samādhi (enlightenment); Resources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patanjali ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga_Sutras_of_Patanjali ; read him here - http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/yogasutr.htm ; or listen here - http://librivox.org/author/3088 ;