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by Surendranath Dasgupta
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ISBN: 0486425053 Dover Publications Price: $9.95 |
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Practical guide promotes Rajayoga and compares its essential features with other systems. First of two parts deals with yoga metaphysics, delineating characteristics and functions of Prakrti and Purusa, reality of the external world, and process of evolution. Second part expounds yoga ethics and practice, with emphasis on yoga method, stages of samadhi, and related topics.
Unabridged republication of the edition published by Kegan, Paul, London, 1924.
Table of Contents for Yoga as Philosophy and Religion
| BOOK I. YOGA METAPHYSICS : | |||||||
| I. PRAKRTI | |||||||
| II. PURUSHA | |||||||
| III. THE REALITY OF THE EXTERNAL WORLD | |||||||
| IV. THE PROCESS OF EVOLUTION | |||||||
| V. THE EVOLUTION OF THE CATEGORIES | |||||||
| VI. EVOLUTION AND CHANGE OF QUALITIES | |||||||
| VII. EVOLUTION AND GOD | |||||||
| BOOK II. YOGA ETHICS AND PRACTICE | |||||||
| VIII. MIND AND MORAL STATES | |||||||
| IX. THE THEORY OF KARMA | |||||||
| X. THE ETHICAL PROBLEM | |||||||
| XI. YOGA PRACTICE | |||||||
| XII. THE YOGANGAS | |||||||
| XIII. STAGES OF SAMADHI | |||||||
| XIV. GOD IN YOGA | |||||||
| XV. MATTER AND MIND | |||||||
| APPENDIX | |||||||
| INDEX |