Shiva Samhita: A Classical Text on Yoga and Tantra Paperback – July 4, 2017

This book, aside from coming in a timely manner, being of great quality and new as described, has been an AMAZING read so far!I'm a voracious reader of Yogic, Hindu, and Vedic texts and this book is just fantastic! It has all my attention despite reading a multitude of books at the moment. All are out down to read Shiva Samhita!Fantastic to have the original Sanskrit, the transliteration and the English translation. It's a big help to have all three as I slowly am learning Sanskrit on my own. So I'm very grateful for this book and look forward to purchasing more texts translated by Swami Vishnuswaroop

Great addition to my other books on yoga. Very happy! Good shipping time and packing.

This is another one of Swami Vishnuswaroop's translations of ancient source texts on hatha yoga and kundalini yoga. This "Shiva Samhita" can also be considered a tantra and includes a philosophical and cosmogonic chapter. The text discusses the usual topics of pranyama, mudras, bandhas, chakras, kundalini arousal etc plus additional secretive techniques used by advanced practitioners.Unfortunately this is a poor translation with numerous grammatical errors, awkward phrasing and mis-translations of key words . A good thorough editing would have greatly improved the book.Nevertheless, the power and insight in the original comes through.However, there is a much better translation by James Mallinson available on Amazon at a reasonable rate.