An Introduction to Yoga
by Annie Besant
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About this eBook
- 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.An Introduction to Yoga — BY ANNIE BESANT, President of the Theosophical Society .
- 2.Contents
- 3.Foreword
- 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.Lecture II SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT — Its Relation to Indian Philosophies — Mind — The Mental Body — Mind and Self
- 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.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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