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The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali - Table of Contents
Alice Bailey and Djwhal Khul - The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
(paraphrased by Djwhal Khul with commentary by Alice Bailey)
Introductory Remarks
Book I. The Problem of Union.
a. The higher and lower natures defined.
b. The obstacles and their removal considered.
c. A summation of the Raja Yoga system.
Topic: The versatile psychic nature.
Book II. The Steps to Union.
a. The five hindrances and their removal.
b. The eight means defined.
Topic: The means of attainment.
Book III. Union achieved and its Results.
a. Meditation, and its stages
b. Twenty-three results of meditation.
Topic: The powers of the soul.
Book IV. Illumination
a. Consciousness and form.
b. Union or at-one-ment.
Topic: Isolated unity.
Translations and commentaries used in the preparation of the present work:

M.J. Dvidedi, The Yoga-Sutra of Patanjali
Ganganatha Jha, The Yoga-Darsana
Charles Johnston, The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
W.Q. Judge, The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali
Rama Prasada, The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Tookaram Tatya, Yoga Philosophy
Rajaram Tookaram, A Compendium of Raja Yoga Philosophy
Swami Vivekananda, Raja Yoga
J.H. Woods, The Yoga System of Patanjali

Gratefully dedicated to Foster Bailey

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