K.M. Tripathi — Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.

In Astanga Yoga of Patanjali, the Antaranga Yoga (Interior Yoga), leading to meditation and transcendence, is treated as a mental practice for the attainment of spiritual experience, and is therefore a focal aspect of the yoga system. The cognitive or psychological part of the eightlimbic approach of yoga begins with pratayahara, which occupies a central conjunctive place in between the Bahiranga (Exterior Yoga) and the Antaranga Yoga. The present paper, based on observations of the author, points out the possibilities of application of pratayahara, as well as provokes new thoughts among the innovative and enthusiastic scholars.

Email the author: "Dr. K.M. Tripathi" <kmt@banaras.ernet.in>