THE COMPLETE ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF YOGA
The Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga is a 1959 publication by Swami Vishnu-devananda, the founder of the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres and Ashrams. It is an introduction to yoga and its practices, describing the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali and the classical Hatha Yoga Pradipika. It provides a training programme for tapping yoga’s power, seeking to relax and rejuvenate the mind, improve concentration, prevent illness, and to increase physical strength and flexibility. (More from Wikipedia)
George Harrison was the most spiritual of the Beatles. Along with the other Beatles, the Beach Boys, and many other celebrities, George Harrison spent time in 1968 with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi; but his interest in Hinduism predated that experience by several years. Wikipedia mentions several earlier encounters: “During the filming of Help! in the Bahamas [in 1965], [the Beatles] met the founder of Sivananda Yoga, Swami Vishnu-Devananda, who gave each of them a signed copy of his book, The Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga.”
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