Osho dissects the causes of misery - our clinging to life and fear of death, egoism, attraction and repulsion...our lack of awareness. At the outset he puts the situation straight, that the austerity Patanjali is talking about has nothing to do with torturing the body: "Life is more if you are sensitive; life is less if you are less sensitive." Osho as always has the vision and understanding to bring everything, even the seemingly most complex to its simplest essence: "To me life in its totality is good. And when you understand life in its totality, only then can you celebrate... Celebration is my attitude, unconditional to what life brings." (Vol. 4)

Osho presents the eight steps of Yoga: self-restraint, fixed observation, posture, breath regulation, abstraction, concentration, contemplation and trance. With his rare understanding and compassion, he speaks on what meditative techniques are best for different types of people. There is no right or wrong, he says, but only the individual and his choice of what works best. (Vol. 5)

Osho discusses modern scientific research on four states of consciousness as reflected in brain wave activity (alpha, beta, theta and delta) and continues to expand on the significance of the "eight steps" of Yoga. "Patanjali's whole art is of how to attain to the state where you can die willingly, with no resistance," he says. And these precious sutras are a preparation - a preparation to die and a preparation to a greater life, and you can use this book and Patanjali's methodology to touch these very depths. (Vol. 6)