Joga: al'fa i omega (Йога: альфа и омега) (series)

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This series is a collection of Osho's discourses on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, given over the course of several years. Patanjali's sutras, a classic of Indian spiritual lore for millennia, are now masterfully illuminated in a contemporary way.
In his previous long-running series of talks in English, The Book of the Secrets / Vigyan Bhairav Tantra, ended just a month before the Yoga series started, Osho had expounded on the value of "let-go", non-control and spontaneity, over what he characterized as yoga's focus on effort. Here, celebrating the strengths of Patanjali's approach, it is not effort but science.
He says that "all the techniques of Yoga have really one focus: how to use the mind. Rightly used it becomes no-mind and you are absolutely silent; wrongly, it becomes so divided you go insane. Through the sutras of Patanjali, Osho leads the reader step by step toward an understanding of the mind - that it is not something different from the body, and how to use it as an instrument".
Yoga was first published in English as a series of ten volumes of ten chapters each, then republished under other names (see Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega (series) for details). The table below shows the original English books and their corresponding Russian translations.
English discourses Russian translations
Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 1

Dec 25, 1973 to Jan 4, 1974

Joga: sila duha (Йога: сила духа), Ch.1-10. (This book also contains the translation of Vol. 8)
Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 2

Jan 1, 1975 to Jan 10, 1975

Joga: put' voina (Йога: путь воина)
Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 3

Mar 1, 1975 to Mar 10, 1975

Joga: nauka dushi (Йога: наука души)
Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 4

Apr 21, 1975 to Apr 30, 1975

Joga: al'fa i omega (Йога: альфа и омега)
Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 5

Jul 1, 1975 to Jul 10, 1975

Joga: poisk sily (Йога: поиск силы), Ch.1-10 of part II. (The book also contains the translation of Vol. 7)
Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 6

Sep 1, 1975 to Sep 10, 1975

Joga: vozvrashhenie k istoku (Йога: возвращение к истоку)
Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 7

Jan 1, 1976 to Jan 10, 1976

Joga: poisk sily (Йога: поиск силы), Ch.1-10 of part I. (The book also contains the translation of Vol. 5)
Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 8

Apr 11, 1976 to Apr 20, 1976

Joga: sila duha (Йога: сила духа), translation of ch.1-10 numbered here as ch.11-20. (The first ten chapters are the translation of Vol. 1)
Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 9

Apr 21, 1976 to Apr 30, 1976

Svet jogi (Свет йоги), Ch.1-10. (The book also contains the translation of Vol. 10)
Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 10

May 1, 1976 to May 10, 1976

Svet jogi (Свет йоги), translation of ch.1-10 numbered here as ch.11-20. (The book also contains the translation of Vol. 9)