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