ABSTRACT
Less than a century has passed since yoga became known to the West. For several decades after that, knowledge of yoga in the West developed along two separate lines. On the one hand it was regarded as a strictly academic science, and on the other it became something very like a religion, though it did not develop into an organized Church despite the endeavours of Annie Besant and Rudolf Steiner. The peculiar product resulting from this Western development can hardly be compared with what yoga means in India. Western man has no need of more superiority over nature, whether outside or inside. He has both in almost devilish perfection. European has become so far removed from his roots that his mind was finally split into faith and knowledge, in the same way that every psychological exaggeration br.
