The Study and Practice of Yoga by Swami Krishnananda

The Study and Practice of Yoga

by Swami Krishnananda
The Divine Life Society - Sivananda Ashram, Rishikesh, India

Index

Publishers' Note

THE SAMADHI PADA

CHAPTERS

1	The Aim of Yoga
2	The Foundation of the Discipline in Yoga Practice
3	A Broad Outline of the Stages of Yoga
4	Individuality and Consciousness
5	The Practice of Being Alone
6	Spiritual Life is Positive, Not Punitive
7	Initial Steps In Yoga Practice
8	The Principle of Self-Affirmation
9	Perception and Reality
10	Self-Control: The Alpha and Omega of Yoga
11	The Integrality of the Higher Self
12	Sublimation - A Way to Reshuffle Thought
13	Defence Mechanisms of the Mind
14	The Indivisibility of All Things
15	Consonance with the Essential Make-up of Things
16	The Inseparability of Notions and the Mind
17	Objectivity is Experience Finally
18	The Dual Process of Withdrawal and Contemplation
19	Returning to Pure Subjectivity
20	The World and Our World
21	Returning to Our True Nature
22	Practice of Yoga: The Life and Goal of Our Existence
23	Internal Relationship of All Things
24	Affiliation With Larger Wholes
25	Sadhana - Intensifying a Lighted Flame
26	The Gunas of Prakriti
27	Problems are a State of Mind
28	Bringing About Whole-Souled Dedication
29	The Play of the Gunas
30	The Cause of Bondage
31	Intense Aspiration
32	Our Concept of God
33	What Divine Love Is
34	Surrender to God
35	The Recitation of Mantra
36	The Rise of Obstacles in Yoga Practice
37	Preventing the Fall in Yoga
38	Impediments in Concentration and Meditation
39	Concentrating the Mind on One Reality
40	Re-Educating the Mind
41	Becoming Harmonious with All
42	How Feelings and Sensation Work
43	Harmonising Subject and Object
44	Assimilating the Object
45	Piercing the Structure of the Object
46	The Barrier of Space and Time
47	The Rise from Savitarka to Nirvitarka
48	Encountering Troubles and Opposition
49	The Rise to Savichara and Nirvichara
50	The States of Sanada and Sasmita
51	Sat-Chit-Ananda or God-Consciousness

THE SADHANA PADA

CHAPTERS

52	Yoga Practice: A Series of Positive Steps
53	A Very Important Sadhana
54	Practice Without Remission of Effort
55	The Cause of Bondage
56	Lack of Knowledge is the Cause of Suffering
57	The Four Manifestations of Ignorance
58	Pursuit of Pleasure is Invocation of Pain
59	The Self-Preservation Instinct
60	Tracing the Ultimate Cause of Any Experience
61	How the Law of Karma Operates
62	The Perception of Pleasure and Pain
63	The Cause of Unhappiness
64	Disentanglement is Freedom
65	Karma, Prakriti and the Gunas
66	Understanding the Nature of Objects
67	Consciousness is Being
68	Cultivating Discriminative Understanding
69	Understanding World-Consciousness
70	The Seven Stages of Perfection
71	The Eight Limbs or Stages of Yoga
72	The Prepratory Disciplines of Yama and Niyama
73	Negative Check and Positive Approach
74	The Principles of Yama and Niyama
75	Self-Control, Study and Devotion to God
76	Asana is Fixity of Position
77	The Importance of Asana and Pranyama
78	Kumbhaka and Concentration of Mind
79	The Inclination of the Mind for Concentration
80	Pratyahara: The Return of Energy
81	The Application of Pratyahara

THE VIBHUTI PADA

CHAPTERS

82	The Effect of Dharana or Concentrating the Mind
83	Choosing an Object for Concentration
84	The Need for Caution When Stirring Inner Potencies
85	The Interrelatedness of All Things
86	The Hurdle of the Ego in Yoga Practice
87	Absorbing Space and Time Into Consciousness
88	Samyana: The Union of Dharna, Dhyana and Samadhi
89	The Levels of Concentration
90	Generating the Mood for Yoga
91	The Integrating Force
92	The Working of Nature's Law
93	Removing the Ego with the Process of Samyama
94	Understanding the Structure of Things
95	Liberation is the Only Aim of Yoga
96	Powers that Accrue in the Practice
97	Sublimation of Object-Consciousness
98	The Transformation from Human to Divine

THE KAIVALYA PADA

CHAPTERS

99	The Entry of the Eternal into the Individual
100	The Exhausion of All Karmas
101	The Wheel of Karma
102	Avoiding Karma That Has Not Yet Germinated
103	Putting an End to Rebirth
104	The Double Activity in Mental Cognition
105	Absorption Into Universal Subjectivity
106	The Dual Pull of Purusha and Objects
107	The Bestowal of a Divine Gift
108	Infinity Coming Back to Itself
109	The Condition Prior to Final Absorption
110	Recapitulation and Conclusion