Yoga: Immortality and FreedomIn this landmark book, first published in English in 1958, renowned scholar of religion Mircea Eliade lays the groundwork for a Western understanding of Yoga. Drawing on years of study and experience in India, Eliade provides a comprehensive survey of Yoga in theory and practice from its earliest antecedents in the Vedas through the twentieth century. |
Contents
The Doctrines of Yoga | 3 |
Techniques for Autonomy | 47 |
Yoga and Brāhmanism | 101 |
127The Yogic Upanisads 128Brāhmanized Magic | 127 |
IX | 136 |
The Triumph of Yoga | 143 |
in the Mahābhārata 149Yogic Folklore in the Mahābhārata | 152 |
the Bhagavad Gitā | 159 |
Conclusions | 359 |
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On Tantrism and Iconography | 403 |
On the Literature of Hatha Yoga | 409 |
Nāgārjuna as Alchemist | 415 |
physicians 173The Miraculous Powers 177Knowledge | 191 |
Yoga and Tantrism | 200 |
Dhikr | 227 |
Yoga and Alchemy | 274 |
and Alchemy 278Chinese Alchemy 284Alchemy as a Spirit | 290 |
and Shamanism 318Ascent to Heaven Mystical Flight | 326 |
Gorakhnath Matsyendranath and the Eightyfour Siddhas | 421 |
TO CHAPTER | 431 |
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Index to the Addenda | 536 |