Ernest Wood

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He was born in England and educated at Manchester College of Technology, where he studied chemistry, physics and geology. Due to an early interest in Buddhism and yoga, he also began to learn Sanskrit.
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For theosophy, he became interested as a young man when he listened to lectures of theosophist Annie Besant, whose personality impressed him greatly. Therefore, he joined the Lodge Society in Manchester in 1908 with Besant, who became President of the Theosophical Society Adyar, traveled to India, where he became one of her assistants and had the opportunity to work with C. W. Leadbeater.
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On a proposal of Besant, Wood devoted himself to teaching and after 1910 served as headmaster at several schools and colleges, established by the Theosophical Society. He promoted the theosophical ideas in their teaching tours and published numerous articles, essays and books on various theosophical topics. At the end of the 2nd World War he moved to the United States. He became desperated about the future of the Theosophical Society and began studying classical yoga. According to Krishnamurti affair, which has led to the division of the Society, he in 1933 after the death of Annie Besant became candidat for president of the Theosophical Society. He was defeated by one of close allies of C. W. Leadbeater. Disappointed with the leadership of the Society, but impressed with the maturity and independence of Krishnamurti, Ernest turned to yoga.
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Formally he has never been a disciple of one of the Indian Masters, but the reunion with Krishnamurti in 1928 (who left the Theosophical Society because of occult hirahije by the Society ‘s leadership to become a teacher) in New York, it affected him so much the he returned to the literature of classical yoga as a source of his inspiration. The rest of the year, he has both written and posted on topic of yoga. Shortly after his arrival in India, Wood has started to translate Indian classic works, such as the Garuda Purana and in the late 1920s began extensive study of classical yoga with the help of many Hindu scholars. This has led to the publication of a large number of translations of well-known texts of yoga, such as the Bhagavad Gita, Patanjali Yoga Sutra and others. In these translations Wood tryed to make the philosophical ideas of these texts usable for modern life.