THE PATH OF PERFECTION
This is a book about  yoga . It's not about what most people  think   yoga  is. For most of us, the term conjures in the mind an image of some skinny, half-naked fellow contorted into a human pretzel, or perhaps a room full of corpulent matrons in black leotards, struggling to stand on their heads in hopes of improving their health, losing weight, or increasing their waning sexual abilities. What has, in modern times, been reduced to a commercially exploited technique of bodily agility and pseudomeditation is, in reality, an ancient and profoundly transforming process of self-realization and spiritual development.
The original science of  yoga  is expounded in the most celebrated of India's ancient spiritual classics, the  Bhagavad-gitā . The  Gitā  takes the form of an extraordinary dialogue between Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and His disciple Arjuna, a warrior. In what has been described by one contemporary psychologist as "a remarkable psycho-therapeutic session," Lord Kṛṣṇa reveals to Arjuna how, through the practice of  yoga , one can live within this world yet be transcendental to it, completely free from illusion and anxiety, and attain a state of "boundless transcendental happiness."
The Path of Perfection  chronicles a historic series of talks on the science of  yoga  by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, one of the
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