Osho outlines how Yoga, when followed without austere practices and suppressed attitudes, can help people to become more natural and flowing, making it easier to move into meditation. Referring to the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, a logician, mystic and poet living in 400 AD, he introduces a form of Yoga evolved from ancient traditions that is of continuing relevance to contemporary life.

Osho takes the Gospel of Thomas out of their narrower Christian context, and blends their wisdom with the rich threads of Eastern traditions of mysticism, thereby showing the truly universal nature of Jesus′ teachings.

Osho introduces Bodhidharma as an outlandish enlightened one. The fragments Osho discusses are taken from notes made by an unknown disciple of Bodhidharma – the disciple asks, and the master responds, simply, bluntly, in his own matchless style.

Step by step, Osho explains what he calls “the central teaching of Patanjali” – a path of eight steps that leads finally to transformation. Osho describes the significance and meaning of each of Patanjali's steps of self-exploration.

Osho comments in depth on the framework of Patanjali’s system of Yoga. In an exploration that goes deeper than either science or religion, he opens a window into the mystery of life.

Osho examines the mind, desire, the ego, real love, and how meditation leads to understanding life and death. This is the seventh of ten volumes of commentary on Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, each clarifying a different aspect of Yoga.