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An Introduction to Yoga

An Introduction to Yoga

by Annie Besant

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Author
Besant, Annie, 1847-1933
Credits
JC Byers
Language
English
LoC Class
B: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
Subject
Yoga
Category
Text
eBook-No.
4278
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4278
Release Date
July 1, 2003
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.An Introduction to Yoga — BY ANNIE BESANT, President of the Theosophical Society .
  2. 2.Contents
  3. 3.Foreword
  4. 4.Lecture I THE NATURE OF YOGA — The Meaning of the Universe — The Unfolding of Consciousness — The Oneness of the Self — The Quickening of the Process of Self-unfoldment — Yoga Is a Science — Man a Duality — States of Mind — Samadhi — The Literature of Yoga — Some Definitions — God Without and God Within — Changes of Consciousness and Vibrations of Matter — Mind — Stages of Mind — Inward and Outward-Turned Consciousness — The Cloud
  5. 5.Lecture II SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT — Its Relation to Indian Philosophies — Mind — The Mental Body — Mind and Self
  6. 6.Lecture III YOGA AS SCIENCE — Methods of Yoga — To the Self by the Self — To the Self Through the Not-self — Yoga and Morality — Composition of States of the Mind — Pleasure and Pain
  7. 7.Lecture IV YOGA AS PRACTICE — Inhibition of States of Mind — Meditation With and Without Seed — The Use of Mantras — Attention — Obstacles to Yoga — Capacities of Yoga — Forthgoing and Returning — Purification of Bodies — Dwellers on the Threshold — Preparation for Yoga — The End

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