An Introduction to YogaPurchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - These lectures [FN#1: Delivered at the 32nd Anniversary of the Theosophical Society held at Benares, on Dec. 27th, 28th, 29th, and 30th, 1907.] are intended to give an outline of Yoga, in order to prepare the student to take up, for practical purposes, the Yoga sutras of Patanjali, the chief treatise on Yoga. I have on hand, with my friend Bhagavan Das as collaborateur, a translation of these Sutras, with Vyasa's commentary, and a further commentary and elucidation written in the light of Theosophy. [FN#2: These have never been finished or printed.] To prepare the student for the mastering of that more difficult task, these lectures were designed; hence the many references to Patanjali. They may, however, also serve to give to the ordinary lay reader some idea of the Science of sciences, and perhaps to allure a few towards its study. |
Contents
The Nature of Yoga 1 The Meaning of the Universe | 1 |
The Unfolding of Consciousness | 3 |
The Oneness of the Self 4 The Quickening of the Process of SelfUnfoldment 5 Yoga is a Science | 5 |
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activity Ahamkara astral and mental astral body astral plane astral world become begin belonging Bhagavad-Gita bliss Buddhi Buddhic plane called change in consciousness cognition colour comes deal dispassion Divine eternity evolution existence faculty fivefold universe forms gunas happiness Hence Hindu human idea imagination intelligence Isvara Jagrat laws limited LOGOS Manas manifest mantra means meditation mental body mental plane methods mind Monad moral nature ness Not-Self objects of desire obstacles ordinary outer world outward-turned pain Patanjali Path of Forthgoing Path of Return philosophy phrase physical body pleasure practice of Yoga Prakriti Prana propinquity purify Purusha qualities reach realise reason reflected relation rhythmic Root Race Samadhi Samkhya Sanskrit says sciousness seeking senses Siddhis Spirit stage Sushupti Sutras Svapna Theosophy thing thought tion understand unfolding of consciousness unity Upanishad Vedanta vehicles vrittis waking consciousness whole word yoga yogi