Edwin is a professor of Indology at Rutgers University, New Jersey. He is the author of seven books including a highly popular translation of The Yoga Sutras Of Patanjali. He is also, unusually for an academic, a devoted practitioner of Bhakti Yoga in the Vaishnite tradition. Originally British, he travelled extensively around India in the late 1979’s after leaving University after only 1 year of study. Now an established academic, he has lived in the US for many years, teaching internationally as well as being involved in many charitable projects.