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India's Ancient Culture
by Swami Krishnananda

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Table of Contents

  • Chapters
  1. The Definition of Culture
  2. The Evolution of Culture
  3. The Vedas – the Foundation of Indian Culture
  4. The Fourfold Aim of Life and How to Achieve It
  5. Introduction to the Epics
  6. Similarities between the Ramayana and Mahabharata
  7. The Message of the Mahabharata
  8. India's Concept of Totality
  9. The Vision of Life which is the Culture of India
  10. The Development of the Concept of God
  11. The Universality of God
  12. The Soul Wanting God
  13. True Spiritual Devotion to God
  14. The Nine Forms of Worship of God
  15. Yoga is the State of At-one-ment
  16. Some Aspects of the Essentials of Meditation
  17. The Object of Meditation
  18. The Meditation Technique of Savitarka Samadhi
  19. Transcending the Tanmatras Through Samapatti
  20. The Culmination of Yoga Practice
  21. Siva's Trident of Yoga Practice

Publishers' Note

This book consists of a series of 21 discourses that Sri Swami Krishnanandaji Maharaj gave to students in The Divine Life Society's Yoga Vedanta Forest Academy from November 1989 to January 1990.

Swamiji Maharaj begins with the earliest stages of Indian culture, and discusses its evolution until the highest level of human achievement, which is liberation of the soul by the realisation of Brahman, the Absolute, through the stages of samadhi.