Sayings of Gorakhnath presents translations of the two largest sections of the Gorakh Bani, an important collection of medieval vernacular Indian texts attributed to the legendary guru Gorakhnath, founder of the influential order of the Nath yogis, who are credited with the development of hatha yoga.

• Acknowledgments


• Introduction


• Sayings of Gorakhnath


• "Sabads"


• "Pads"


• "The Overview of Teaching"


• "The String of Breaths"


• "Instruction to a King"


• "Self-Understanding"


• "'Measure of Fearlessness' Yoga"


• "Fifteen Days"


• "Seven Days"


• "Machindra's Instruction to Gorakh"


• "A Line of Hair"


• "The Ornament of Wisdom"


• "The Five Measures"


• Appendix: "The Victory of Goraksa"


• Notes


• Glossary


• Bibliography


• Index

Gordan Djurdjevic holds a PhD from the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. He is co-editor, with Henrik Bogdan, of the collection of critical essays Occultism in a Global Perspective; and the author of Masters of Magical Powers, and India and the Occult. Djurdjevic teaches as a Sessional Instructor in the Department of Humanities at Simon Fraser University.