Great Yogic Upanishad of Sage Śvetāśvatara with Commentary by Swami Ayyappa Giri
Extracts from “Upanisads” by Patrick Olivelle. Swami Ayyappa Giri conducts annual courses on the Upanishads. Contact Yogini Ashram for details and registration. © E. Ayyappa, (Swami Ayyappa Giri), 2020. All Rights Reserved. The Śvetāśvatara Upanishad was composed at least a century, perhaps several, before Maitre Upanishad, in the later part of the 1st millennia BCE. Thus it preceded both Patanjali Yoga Sutras, and Bhagavad-Gita. It contains the oldest known articulation of a number of core concepts relating to Shiva Yoga,…