CONTENTS
Letters on Yoga - I. ::: Foundations of the Integral Yoga
PART ONE - THE DIVINE, THE COSMOS AND THE INDIVIDUAL
Section One - The Divine, Sachchidananda, Brahman and Atman
1.1.01 - The Divine and Its Aspects
1.1.02 - Sachchidananda
1.1.03 - Brahman
1.1.04 - The Self or Atman
Section Two - The Cosmos: Terms from Indian Systems
1.2.01 - The Upanishadic and Purancic Systems
1.2.02 - The Sankhya-Yoga System
Section Three - The Jivatman and the Psychic Being
1.3.01 - The Jivatman in the Integral Yoga
1.3.02 - The Jivatman in Other Indian Systems
PART TWO - THE PARTS OF THE BEING AND THE PLANES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Section One - The Organisation of the Being
2.1.01 - The Parts of the Being
2.1.02 - Classification of the Parts of the Being
Section Two - The Concentric System: Outer to Inner
2.2.01 - The Outer Being and the Inner Being
2.2.02 - The True Being and the True Consciousness
2.2.03 - The Psychic Being
Section Three - The Vertical System: Supermind to Subconscient
2.3.01 - The Planes or Worlds of Consciousness
2.3.02 - The Supermind or Supramental
2.3.03 - The Overmind
2.3.04 - The Higher Planes of Mind
2.3.05 - The Lower Nature or Lower Hemisphere
2.3.06 - The Mind
2.3.07 - The Vital Being and Vital Consciousness
2.3.08 - The Physical Consciousness
2.3.10 - The Subconscient and the Inconscient
Section Four - The Chakras or Centres of Consciousness
2.4.01 - The System of the Chakras
2.4.02 - The Parts of the Body and the Centres
PART THREE - THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS AND THE SUPERMIND
Section One - The Supramental Evolution
3.1.01 - The Problem of Suffering and Evil
3.1.02 - Spiritual Evolution and the Supramental
Section Two - The Supramental Descent and Transformation
3.2.01 - The Descent of the Supermind
3.2.02 - Descent and Transformation
3.2.03 - The Supramental Transformation
3.2.04 - Transformation and the Body
PART FOUR - PROBLEMS OF PHILOSOPHY, SCIENCE, RELIGION AND SOCIETY
Section One - Thought, Philosophy, Science and Yoga
4.1.01 - The Intellect and Yoga
4.1.02 - Doubt and Faith
4.1.03 - Philosophical Thought and Yoga
4.1.04 - Science and Yoga
Section Two - Religion, Idealism, Morality and Yoga
4.2.01 - Religion and Yoga
4.2.02 - Idealism and Spirituality
4.2.03 - Morality and Yoga
4.2.04 - Social Duties and the Divine
PART FIVE - QUESTIONS OF SPIRITUAL AND OCCULT KNOWLEDGE
Section One - The Divine and the Hostile Powers
5.1.01 - Terminology
5.1.02 - The Gods
5.1.03 - The Hostile Forces and Hostile Beings
Section Two - The Avatar and the Vibhuti
5.2.01 - The Meaning and Purpose of Avatarhood
5.2.02 - Specific Avatars and Vibhutis
5.2.03 - Human Greatness
Section Three - Destiny, Karma, Death and Rebirth
5.3.01 - Fate, Free Will and Prediction
5.3.02 - Karma and Heredity
5.3.03 - Death
5.3.04 - Rebirth
Section Four - Occult Knowledge and Powers
5.4.01 - Occult Knowledge
5.4.02 - Occult Powers or Siddhis
NOTE ON THE TEXTS
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Letters on Yoga - I. ::: Foundations of the Integral Yoga
PART ONE - THE DIVINE, THE COSMOS AND THE INDIVIDUAL
Section One - The Divine, Sachchidananda, Brahman and Atman
1.1.01 - The Divine and Its Aspects
The Divine, The Divine Consciousness, The Divine: One in All, Aspects of the Divine, The Transcendent, Cosmic and Individual Divine,
Personal and Impersonal Sides of the Divine, The Divine and the Atman, The Divine and the Supermind
1.1.02 - Sachchidananda: Existence, Consciousness-Force and Bliss
Sachchidananda, Sat or Pure Existence, Chit or Consciousness, Outer Consciousness and Inner Consciousness, Consciousness and Force or Energy, Force, Energy, Power, Shakti, Ananda
1.1.03 - Brahman
The Impersonal Brahman, The Inactive Brahman and the Active Brahman, Spirit and Life
1.1.04 - The Self or Atman
The Self, The Cosmic Spirit or Self, The Atman, the Soul and the Psychic Being, The Self and Nature or Prakriti
Section Two - The Cosmos: Terms from Indian Systems
1.2.01 - The Upanishadic and Puranic Systems
Virat, Visva or Virat, Hiranyagarbha or Taijasa, Prajna or Ishwara, Vaisvanara, Taijasa, Prajna, Kutastha, Karana, Hiranyagarbha, Virat,
The Seven Worlds, The Worlds of the Lower Hemisphere, Tapoloka and the Worlds of Tapas
1.2.02 - The Sankhya-Yoga System
Purusha, Purusha and Prakriti, Prakriti, Prakriti and Shakti or Chit-Shakti, Purusha, Prakriti and Action, The Gunas or Qualities of Nature,
Transformation of the Gunas, Sattwa and Liberation, Transformation of Rajas and Tamas, Transformation of Tamas into Sama, Mahat, Tanmatra
Section Three - The Jivatman and the Psychic Being
1.3.01 - The Jivatman in the Integral Yoga
The Jivatman or Individual Self, The Jivatman, the Psychic Being and Prakriti, The Central Being and the Psychic Being, The Surrender of the Central Being, The Central Being after Liberation,
The Karana Purusha, The Jivatman and the Caitya Purus.a, The Jivatman and the Mental Purusha, The Jivatman, Spark-Soul and Psychic Being, The Jivatman in a Supramental Creation
1.3.02 - The Jivatman in Other Indian Systems
The Jivatman in Other Schools, The Jivatman and the Pure "I" of the Adwaita
PART TWO - THE PARTS OF THE BEING AND THE PLANES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Section One - The Organisation of the Being
2.1.01 - The Parts of the Being
Men Do Not Know Themselves, Many Parts, Many Personalities
2.1.02 - Classification of the Parts of the Being
Different Categories in Different Systems, The Concentric and Vertical Systems
Section Two - The Concentric System: Outer to Inner
2.2.01 - The Outer Being and the Inner Being
The Outer and the Inner Being and Consciousness, The Inner, the Outer and the Process of Yoga, The Inner Being, The Inner Being, the Antaratma and the Atman, The Inner Being and the Psychic Being, The Outer Being and Consciousness
2.2.02 - The True Being and the True Consciousness
The True Being, The True Consciousness
2.2.03 - The Psychic Being
The Psychic and the Divine, The Self or Spirit and the Psychic or Soul, The Atman, the Jivatman and the Psychic, The Words "Soul" and "Psychic", The Psychic or Soul and Traditional Indian Systems, The Soul and the Psychic Being, The Form of the Psychic Being, The Psychic Being and the Intuitive Consciousness, The Psychic Being and the External Being, The Psychic or Soul and the Lower Nature, The Psychic Being or Soul and the Vital or Life, The Psychic Being and the Ego, The Psychic World or Plane
Section Three - The Vertical System: Supermind to Subconscient
2.3.01 - The Planes or Worlds of Consciousness
The System of Planes or Worlds, The Planes and the Body
2.3.02 - The Supermind or Supramental
Supermind and the Purushottama, Supermind and Sachchidananda, The Supracosmic, the Supramental, the Overmind and Nirvana, Supermind and Other Planes, Supermind and Overmind, Knowledge and Will in the Supermind
2.3.03 - The Overmind
Overmind and the Cosmic Consciousness, Planes of the Overmind, The Overmind, the Intuition and Below, The Overmind and the Supermind Descent, The Overmind and the Karan.a Deha, The Dividing Aspect of the Overmind, The Overmind and the World
2.3.04 - The Higher Planes of Mind
The Higher Planes and Higher Consciousness, The Plane of Intuition, The Plane of Intuition and the Intuitive Mind, Yogic Intuition and Ordinary Intuitions, Powers of the Intuitive Consciousness, The Illumined Mind, The Higher Mind
2.3.05 - The Lower Nature or Lower Hemisphere
The Higher Nature and the Lower Nature, The Three Planes of the Lower Hemisphere and Their Energies, The Adhara
2.3.06 - The Mind
Mind in the Integral Yoga and in Other Indian Systems, Manas and Buddhi, Chitta, Western Ideas of Mind and Spirit, The Psychic Mind, The Mind Proper, The Thinking Mind and the Vital Mind, The Thinking Mind and the Physical Mind, The Vital Mind, The Physical Mind, The Physical Mental or Physical Mind and the Mental Physical or Mechanical Mind, The Mental World of the Individual
2.3.07 - The Vital Being and Vital Consciousness
The Vital, The True Vital Being and Consciousness, Parts of the Vital Being, The Mental Vital or Vital Mind, The Emotional Being or Heart, The Central Vital or Vital Proper, The Lower Vital, the Physical Vital and the Material Vital, A Strong Vital, The Vital Body, The Vital Nature, The Vital Plane and the Physical Plane, The Life Heavens
2.3.08 - The Physical Consciousness
The Physical Consciousness and Its Parts, Living in the Physical Consciousness, The Opening of the Physical Consciousness, The True Activity of the Senses, The Physical Parts of the Mind and Emotional Being, The Mental Physical or Mechanical Mind, The Vital Physical, The Material Consciousness or Body Consciousness, The Gross Physical and the Subtle Physical, The Physical Nerves and the Subtle Nerves, The Sheaths of the Indian Tradition
2.3.09 - The Environmental Consciousness
The Environmental Consciousness around the Individual, The Environmental Consciousness and the Movements of the Lower Nature, The Environmental Consciousness and the Subconscient
2.3.10 - The Subconscient and the Inconscient
The Subconscient in the Integral Yoga, The Subconscient in Traditional Indian Terminology, The Subconscient and the Superconscient, The Subconscient and the Subliminal, The Subconscient Memory and Conscious Memory, The Subconscient and the Inconscient
Section Four - The Chakras or Centres of Consciousness
2.4.01 - The System of the Chakras
The Functions of the Chakras or Centres, The Chakras in Reference to Yoga, The Centres and the Planes, The Mind Centres, The Sahasradala or Sahasrara or Crown Centre, The Ajnachakra or Forehead Centre, The Throat Centre, The Throat Centre and the Lower Centres, The Heart Centre, The Navel and Abdominal Centres, The Muladhara, No Subconscient Centre
2.4.02 - The Parts of the Body and the Centres
The Parts of the Body in Yoga, The Cerebellum, The Ear, Nose, Face and Throat, The Chest, Stomach and Abdomen, The Legs and Feet, The Sides of the Body
PART THREE - THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS AND THE SUPERMIND
Section One - The Supramental Evolution
3.1.01 - The Problem of Suffering and Evil
The Riddle of This World, The Disharmonies of Earth
3.1.02 - Spiritual Evolution and the Supramental
Human History and Spiritual Evolution
Spiritual and Supramental
The Overmind and the Supramental
Involution and Evolution
The Supermind and the Lower Creation
Speculations about the Supramental Descent
Section Two - The Supramental Descent and Transformation
3.2.01 - The Descent of the Supermind
Inevitability of the Descent
A Beginning, Not a Completion
Clarifications about the Supramental Descent
3.2.02 - Descent and Transformation
A World-Changing Yoga
The Vital World and the Supramental Descent
The Nature and Scope of the Transformation
The Earth, the Earth Consciousness and the Supramental Creation
The Supramental Change and the Ananda Plane
3.2.03 - The Supramental Transformation
Preparatory Steps towards the Supramental Change
The Supramental Influence and Supramentalisation
Premature Claims of Possession of the Supermind
3.2.04 - Transformation and the Body
The Transformation of the Body
The Transformation of the Body in Other Traditions
Transforming the Body Consciousness
Death and the Supramental Transformation
The Conquest of Death
The Reproductive Method of the Supramental
PART FOUR - PROBLEMS OF PHILOSOPHY, SCIENCE, RELIGION AND SOCIETY
Section One - Thought, Philosophy, Science and Yoga
4.1.01 - The Intellect and Yoga
Intellectual Truth and Spiritual Experience
Intellectual Arguments against Spirituality
The Valley of the False Glimmer
4.1.02 - Doubt and Faith
Doubt and Yoga
Faith in Spiritual Things
4.1.03 - Philosophical Thought and Yoga
Metaphysical Thinkers, East and West
World-Circumstances and the Divine
Intellectual Expression of Spiritual Experience
Comments on Thoughts of J. M. E. McTaggart
Comments on Terms Used by Henri Bergson
Metaphysics, Science and Spiritual Experience
4.1.04 - Science and Yoga
Science, Yoga and the Agnostic
Science and Spirituality
Science and the Supernormal
Science and Superstition
The Limitations of Science
Physics and Metaphysics
Space and Time
Matter
Animals
Plants
Life on Other Planets
Section Two - Religion, Idealism, Morality and Yoga
4.2.01 - Religion and Yoga
Religion and the Truth
Religion in India
Religious Ceremonies
Religious Fanaticism
4.2.02 - Idealism and Spirituality
Human Perfection and Spirituality
The Collapse of Twentieth-Century Idealism
4.2.03 - Morality and Yoga
The Spiritual Life and the Ordinary Life
Morality
Vice and Virtue
The Sattwic Man and the Spiritual Man
Selfishness and Unselfishness
Humility
Sacrifice
Ahimsa, Destruction and Violence
War and Conquest
Poverty
Natural Calamities
4.2.04 - Social Duties and the Divine
Family, Society, Country and the Divine
Philanthropy
Humanitarianism
Social and Political Activism
PART FIVE - QUESTIONS OF SPIRITUAL AND OCCULT KNOWLEDGE
Section One - The Divine and the Hostile Powers
5.1.01 - Terminology
The Dynamic Divine, the Gods, the Asuras
The Soul, the Divine, the Gods, the Asuras
Terms in The Mother
5.1.02 - The Gods
The Gods or Divine Powers
The Gods and the Overmind
Vedic Gods of the Indian Tradition
Post-Vedic Gods of the Indian Tradition
5.1.03 - The Hostile Forces and Hostile Beings
The Existence of the Hostile Forces
The Nature of the Hostile Forces
The Conquest of the Hostile Forces
Asuras, Rakshasas and Other Vital Beings
Section Two - The Avatar and the Vibhuti
5.2.01 - The Meaning and Purpose of Avatarhood
The Avatar or Incarnation
The Divine and Human Sides of the Avatar
Human Judgments of the Divine
The Work of the Avatar
The Avatar: Historicity and Symbols
The Avatar and the Vibhuti
5.2.02 - Specific Avatars and Vibhutis
The Ten Avatars as a Parable of Evolution
Rama as an Avatar
Krishna as an Avatar
Buddha as an Avatar
Mahomed and Christ
Ramakrishna
Augustus Caesar and Leonardo da Vinci
Napoleon
5.2.03 - Human Greatness
Greatness
Greatness and Vices
Section Three - Destiny, Karma, Death and Rebirth
5.3.01 - Fate, Free Will and Prediction
Destiny
Free Will and Determinism
Predictions and Prophecy
Astrology and Yoga
5.3.02 - Karma and Heredity
Karma
Karma and Heredity
Evolution, Karma and Ethics
5.3.03 - Death
Death and Karma
Death and Grieving
The After-Death Sojourn
5.3.04 - Rebirth
The Psychic's Choice at the Time of Death
Assimilation in the Psychic World
The Psychic Being and the Progression from Life to Life
The New Birth
Reincarnation and Soul Evolution
What Survives and What Does Not
Lines of Force and Consciousness
Beings of the Higher Planes
Fragments of a Dead Person that Reincarnate
Connections from Life to Life
Lines of Sex in Rebirth
Asuric Births
Animals and the Process of Rebirth
Remembering Past Lives
Unimportance of Past-Life Experience in Yoga
Speculating about Past Lives
Traditional Indian Ideas about Rebirth and Other Worlds
European Resistance to the Idea of Reincarnation
Section Four - Occult Knowledge and Powers
5.4.01 - Occult Knowledge
Occultism and the Supraphysical
Occult Forces
The Play of Forces
The Place of Occult Knowledge in Yoga
Spiritism
Seances
Ghosts
5.4.02 - Occult Powers or Siddhis
General Remarks
Occult Powers Not the Object of Our Yoga
Ethical Rules for the Use of Occult Powers
Thought Reception and Thought Reading
Occult Powers and Health
The Power of Healing
Miracles
Magic
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