Yoga: Immortality and FreedomIn this landmark book, first published in English in 1958, renowned scholar of religion Mircea Eliade lays the groundwork for a Western understanding of Yoga. Drawing on years of study and experience in India, Eliade provides a comprehensive survey of Yoga in theory and practice from its earliest antecedents in the Vedas through the twentieth century. |
Contents
The Doctrines of Yoga
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3 |
Techniques for Autonomy
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47 |
Yoga and Brāhmanism
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101 |
127The Yogic Upanisads 128Brāhmanized Magic
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127 |
IX
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136 |
The Triumph of Yoga
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143 |
in the Mahābhārata 149Yogic Folklore in the Mahābhārata
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152 |
the Bhagavad Gitā
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159 |
Conclusions
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359 |
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381 |
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On Tantrism and Iconography
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403 |
On the Literature of Hatha Yoga
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409 |
Nāgārjuna as Alchemist
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415 |
physicians 173The Miraculous Powers 177Knowledge
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191 |
Yoga and Tantrism
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200 |
Dhikr
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227 |
Yoga and Alchemy
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274 |
and Alchemy 278Chinese Alchemy 284Alchemy as a Spirit
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290 |
and Shamanism 318Ascent to Heaven Mystical Flight
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326 |
Gorakhnath Matsyendranath and the Eightyfour Siddhas
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421 |
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Index to the Addenda
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536 |