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swámi A. P. Mukerji

An early 20th-century yoga writer, this author presented yoga as both a practical discipline and a path of inner development. His surviving books are concise, earnest guides for readers interested in concentration, self-mastery, and spiritual practice.

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The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga Including the Practices and Exercises of Concentration, both Objective and Subjective, and Active and Passive Mentation, an Elucidation of Maya, Guru Worship, and the Worship of the Terrible, also the Mystery of Will-Force

The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga Including the Practices and Exercises of Concentration, both Objective and Subjective, and Active and Passive Mentation, an Elucidation of Maya, Guru Worship, and the Worship of the Terrible, also the Mystery of Will-Force

by swámi A. P. Mukerji

About the author

Swámi A. P. Mukerji is known today through a small body of early yoga writings that circulated in English in the early 1900s. Reliable catalog and ebook records confirm works including Yoga Lessons for Developing Spiritual Consciousness (1911) and The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga (1922), which helped introduce yogic ideas and exercises to Western readers.

In The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga, he is identified as a "Yogi of the South India Order," and the book focuses on concentration, mentation, will-force, and the philosophical side of yoga. An introduction to Yoga Lessons for Developing Spiritual Consciousness also presents him as a teacher in a living yogic tradition, though many personal details about his life are not clearly documented in the sources I could confirm.

Because so little biographical information is firmly established, his reputation rests mainly on the books themselves. They reflect a period when yoga was being explained to new audiences in accessible English, blending practical exercises with spiritual and philosophical reflection.