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Georg Feuerstein

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Georg Feuerstein (27 May 1947 – 25 August 2012) was a German Indologist specializing in the philosophy and practice of Yoga. Feuerstein authored over 30 books on mysticism, Yoga, Tantra, and Hinduism. He translated, among other traditional texts, the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali and the Bhagavad Gita.

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  • In his India days, Rajneesh was a voracious reader, and he is known to have devoured all of Gurdjieff’s and Ouspensky’s books. In fact, Gurdjieff seems to have served him as a kind of role model in his interaction with devotees.
    • About Osho. Georg Feuerstein - Holy madness _ spirituality, crazy-wise teachers, and enlightenment- (2006)
  • The Aitareya-Aranyaka, which is more than three thousand years old, clearly refers to writing. Several Upanishads describe various aspects of the alphabet... Panini himself mentions a number of grammatical works prior to his date.
    • In Search of the Cradle of Civilization: New Light on Ancient India By Georg Feuerstein, Subhash Kak, David Frawley
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