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YOGA
AS PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGIONS

BY

SURENDRANATH DASGUPTA

M.A., Ph.D.(Cal.), Ph.D.(Cantab.)

AUTHOR OF “A HISTORY OF INDIAN PHILOSOPHY”, ETC.

Professor of Philosophy, Presidency College, Calcutta

Late Professor of Sanskrit, Chittagong College

Late Lecturer in the University of Cambridge

LONDON:

KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRUBNER & CO., LTD

NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & CO.

1924

YOGA AS PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION

Printed in Great Britain at

The Mayflower Press, Plymouth, William Brendon & Son, Ltd.

AS A HUMBLE TOKEN

OF DEEPEST REGARD AND GRATEFULNESS

TO THE

MAHARAJA SIR MANINDRACHANDRA NUNDY

K.C.I.E

WHOSE NOBLE CHARACTER AND SELF-DENYING CHARITIES

HAVE ENDEARED HIM TO THE PEOPLE OF BENGAL

AND

WHO SO KINDLY OFFERED ME HIS WHOLE-HEARTED

PATRONAGE IN

ENCOURAGING MY ZEAL FOR LEARNING AT A TIME

WHEN I WAS IN SO GREAT A NEED OF IT