An Introduction to Yoga
by Annie Besant
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Annie Besant (1 October 1847 - 20 September 1933) was a British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator and supporter of Irish and Indian self-rule. In 1867, Annie at age 20, married Frank Besant, a clergyman, and they had two children, but Annie's increasingly anti-religious views led to a legal separation in 1873 These lectures 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 translatio...
Chapters (43)(click to expand)
- An Introduction to Yoga
- Foreword
- 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
- Lecture II SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT
- Its Relation to Indian Philosophies
- Mind
- The Mental Body
- Mind and Self
- 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
- 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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