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The Yoga Sūtras is not a wellness manual. It is a precise philosophical architecture of consciousness. In this rigorous and expansive study, Dr Bhaskar Bora reconstructs Patañjali's system as a disciplined metaphysical project aimed at liberation through epistemic refinement. What is consciousness? Why does cognition bind the self? Can disciplined attention alter the structure of experience? The Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali has been widely simplified into posture, spirituality, or vague mysticism. This book restores its original depth. Yoga Sūtras of Patanjali: Architecture of Consciousness, Discipline, and Liberation presents a systematic, philosophically rigorous, and textually grounded exploration of: - The metaphysics of Puruṣa and Prakṛti - The ontology of citta and cognitive modification - The psychology of misidentification (saṃyoga) - The kleshas, karma, and saṃskāra architecture - The eightfold discipline as structural transformation - Samādhi taxonomy and epistemic precision - Viveka-khyāti and irreversible discriminative knowledge - Kaivalya as ontological isolation - Comparative dialogue with Advaita, Buddhism, and contemporary philosophy of mind - Neuroscience, meditation research, and limits of reductionism This is not a devotional paraphrase. It is not a modern self-help interpretation. It is not a casual introduction. It is an epic reconstruction of Yoga as a disciplined science of consciousness. Written in a structured yet deeply engaging voice, this work integrates classical commentarial traditions, metaphysical clarity, and contemporary intellectual dialogue - without collapsing Yoga into psychology or inflating it into mysticism. For serious practitioners, philosophers, scholars of Indian thought, and readers interested in the hard problem of consciousness, this volume offers something rare: A system that demands to be tested. Dr Bhaskar Bora is the author of The Complete Upanishads: Text, Context and Philosophy, widely appreciated for its clarity, rigor, and intellectual integrity. In this volume, he brings the same architectural discipline to the Yoga Sūtras - restoring its original philosophical force.

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