about TLAYT

Trevor Leggett Adhyatma Yoga Trust

Trevor Leggett studied Vedanta and the traditional Yoga of the Self for over sixty years until his death and for eighteen years was a pupil of Hari Prasad Shastri (1882-1956). Trevor lived for a number of years in Japan where he learnt Japanese and studied Judo and Zen.
He was the first foreigner to hold 6^th Dan from the Kodokan in Tokyo and he held 4^th Dan in Shogi, the fascinating Japanese version of chess.
From 1946 until his retirement in 1970 he was head of the Japanese Service of the BBC. In 1985 he received the award of the Order of the Sacred Treasure from the Japanese Government in recognition of his services to Japanese culture and in 1989 he was invited to give a paper on ‘The Complete Commentary by Shankara on the Yoga Sutras’ to the International Seminar on Shankara held in New Delhi.
Trevor Leggett was the author and translator of marvellous books on Yoga, Zen, Judo and Shogi and for many years he gave talks and wrote articles on these subjects. The copyright to all of his works was left to TLAYT in his will and the Trust has steadily worked, to bring them all back in print at affordable prices both in high quality softback editions and in a number of cases as eBooks and audiobooks.
Trevor Leggett made provision in his will for the establishment of a charitable trust to promote the knowledge of Adhyatma Yoga, Vedanta, Buddhism, Zen, Judo and Shogi. He died on 2^nd August 2000 in his 86^th year and on 8^th March 2001 TLAYT was formed and subsequently registered with the Charity Commission (No: 1086172).

 

Our Podcasts

The rationale of this site is to give focussed and frequently updated lectures and stories given and written by Trevor Leggett.

Our parent site, tlayt.org, can be bewildering to a newcomer and, as yet we have no recommended pathway through it, as there are so many options and classes of interest.

Our hope, with this site, is to enable people to contact us to have answers to question they have on any episodes of podcasts and stories which will appear on a fortnightly and weekly basis, respectively.

Please use our subscribe form to be appraised of details of upcoming stories and podcasts and use our contacts form to receive answers to any questions you may have.

We wish to be of help to people who wish to help themselves rather than being fodder for therapists and monetizing individuals.

We think that only a God-Realized teacher like Hari Prasad Shastri or God Himself can have direct access to the psyche of an individual and until direct contact with a real, not pseudo teachers, who abound like locust swarms, can a person get real help.

Paradoxically, people find that when they really talk to God, God talks back. This is done through Karma Yoga with its systems of mantra and meditation.

We hope you join the journey guided by yourselves and God. A famous composer said he had a partnership with God. His music, mainly in the form ofa Japanese flute, can be heard as an accompaniment to Trevor’s stories in his two albums ‘ Encounters in Yoga and Zen’ and ‘Lotus Lake, Dragon Pool’ which we will serialise on this site.

What will be covered

The Topics we may be addressing will, either be directly or indirectly, be those included in Trevor Leggett’s book, ‘Realization of the Supreme Self’, which is his interpretation and working experience of the Bhagavad Gita.

They will include: Yoga-s of the Gītā,  Arjuna’s Disbelief, Action , Knowledge , Meditation,  Yoga-Power,  Glories , Face to Face, Devotion , The Field and the knower of the Field, The Guṇa-s,  One and Many, Passion-Struggle, Faith , Worship, Gift, Austerity, Śaṅkara on Gītā Practice, The Two Paths, Sankara’s Presentation of the Gītā Paths, Illusion, Interpretation, Outline of Practice, Independence, Worship for Sceptics, Line of Light, Karma-Yoga Action, Samādhi, Purity of Being (Sattva-śuddhi), Knowledge, Samnyāsa, Throwing Off Action, Knowledge-stance, Jñāna-niṣṭhā, Freedom, Free-in-Life, The Experimental Basis, Mistakes, The Four Vocations, Uprush, Human Nature, The Spiritual Teacher, Rebirth, Play