The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

The third installment in Bell Tower's attractively packaged Sacred Teachings series, The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali offers a modern translation of a 2,300-year-old Indian meditation text. Translator Alistair Shearer gives a somewhat ethereal introduction (""Yoga is the transformation into the Divine, and of the Divine into everything"") that is too long-winded at 80-odd pages. Still, the sutras are beautifully rendered. ( Jan. 8)