The Study and Practice of Yoga
Audios of Swami Krishnananda
VOLUME I
PART 1: THE SAMADHI PADA
Chapter 1. The Aim of Yoga
Chapter 2. The Foundation of the Discipline in Yoga Practice
Chapter 3. A Broad Outline of the Stages of Yoga
Chapter 4. Individuality and Consciousness
Chapter 5. The Practice of Being Alone
Chapter 6. Spiritual Life Is Positive, Not Punitive
Chapter 7. Initial Steps in Yoga Practice
Chapter 8. The Principle of Self-Affirmation
Chapter 9. Perception and Reality
Chapter 10. Self-Control: The Alpha and Omega of Yoga
Chapter 11. The Integrality of the Self
Chapter 12. Sublimation - A Way to Reshuffle Thought
Chapter 13. Defence Mechanisms of the Mind
Chapter 14. The Indivisibility of All Things
Chapter 15. Consonance with the Essential Make-up of Things
Chapter 16. The Inseparability of Notions and the Mind
Chapter 17. Objectivity is Experience Finally
Chapter 18. The Dual Process of Withdrawal and Contemplation
Chapter 19. Returning to Pure Subjectivity
Chapter 20. The World and Our World
Chapter 21. Returning to Our True Nature
Chapter 22. Practice of Yoga - The Life and Goal of Our Existence
Chapter 23. The Internal Relationship of All Things
Chapter 24. Affiliation with Larger Wholes
Chapter 25. Sadhana - Intensifying a Lighted Flame
Chapter 26. The Gunas of Prakriti
Chapter 27. Problems are a State of Mind
Chapter 28. Bringing About Whole-Souled Dedication
Chapter 29. The Play of the Gunas
Chapter 30. The Cause of Bondage
Chapter 31. Intense Aspiration
Chapter 32. Our Concept of God
Chapter 33. What Divine Love Is
Chapter 34. Surrender to God
Chapter 35. The Recitation of Mantra
Chapter 36. The Rise of Obstacles in Yoga Practice
Chapter 37. Preventing the Fall in Yoga Practice
Chapter 38. Impediments in Concentration and Meditation
Chapter 39. Concentrating the Mind on One Reality
Chapter 40. Re-Educating the Mind
Chapter 41. Becoming Harmonious with All
Chapter 42. How Feelings and Sensation Work
Chapter 43. Harmonising Subject and Object
Chapter 44. Assimilating the Object
Chapter 45. Piercing the Structure of the Object
Chapter 46. The Barrier of Space and Time
Chapter 47. The Rise from Savitarka to Nirvitarka
Chapter 48. Encountering Troubles and Opposition
Chapter 49. The Rise to Savichara and Nirvichara
Chapter 50. The States of Sananda and Sasmita
Chapter 51. Sat-Chit-Ananda or God-Consciousness
VOLUME II
PART 2: THE SADHANA PADA
Chapter 52. Yoga Practice: A Series of Positive Steps
Chapter 53. A Very Important Sadhana
Chapter 54. Practice Without Remission of Effort
Chapter 55. The Cause of Bondage
Chapter 56. Lack of Knowledge Is the Cause of Suffering
Chapter 57. The Four Manifestations of Ignorance
Chapter 58. Pursuit of Pleasure is Invocation of Pain
Chapter 59. The Self-Preservation Instinct
Chapter 60. Tracing the Ultimate Cause of Any Experience
Chapter 61. How the Law of Karma Operates
62. The Perception of Pleasure and Pain
Chapter 63. The Cause of Unhappiness
Chapter 64. Disentanglement is Freedom
Chapter 65. Karma, Prakriti and the Gunas
Chapter 66. Understanding the Nature of Objects
Chapter 67. Consciousness Is Being
Chapter 68. Cultivating Discriminative Understanding
Chapter 69. Understanding World-Consciousness
Chapter 70. The Seven Stages of Perfection
Chapter 71. The Eight Limbs or Stages of Yoga
Chapter 72. The Prepratory Disciplines of Yama and Niyama
Chapter 73. Negative Check and Positive Approach
Chapter 74. The Principles of Yama and Niyama
Chapter 75. Self-Control, Study and Devotion to God
Chapter 76. Asana is Fixity of Position
Chapter 77. The Importance of Asana and Pranyama
Chapter 78. Kumbhaka and Concentration of Mind
Chapter 79. The Inclination of the Mind for Concentration
Chapter 80. Pratyahara: The Return of Energy
Chapter 81. The Application of Pratyahara
VOLUME II
PART 3: THE VIBHUTI PADA
Chapter 82. The Effect of Dharana or Concentrating the Mind
Chapter 83. Choosing an Object for Concentration
Chapter 84. The Need for Caution When Stirring Inner Potencies
Chapter 85. The Interrelatedness of All Things
Chapter 86. The Hurdle of the Ego in Yoga Practice
Chapter 87. Absorbing Space and Time Into Consciousness
Chapter 88. Samyana: The Union of Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi
Chapter 89. The Levels of Concentration
Chapter 90. Generating the Mood for Yoga
Chapter 91. The Integraging Force
Chapter 92. The Working of Nature's Law
Chapter 93. Removing the Ego with the Process of Samyama
Chapter 94. Understanding the Structure of Things
Chapter 95. Liberation is the Only Aim of Yoga
Chapter 96. Powers that Accrue in the Practice
Chapter 97. Sublimation of Object-Consciousness
VOLUME II
PART 4: THE KAIVALYA PADA
Chapter 98. The Transformation of Human to Divine
Chapter 99. The Entry of the Eternal into the Individual
Chapter 100. The Exhaustion of All Karmas
Chapter 101. The Wheel of Karma
Chapter 102. Avoiding Karma That Has Not Yet Germinated
Chapter 103. Putting an End to Rebirth
Chapter 104. The Double Activity in Mental Cognition
Chapter 105. Absorption into Universal Subjectivity
Chapter 106. The Dual Pull of Purusha and Objects
107. The Bestowal of a Divine Gift
Chapter 108. Infinity Coming Back to Itself
Chapter 109. The Condition Prior to Final Absorption
Chapter 110. Recapitulation and Conclusion