Posted in -28-Letters-On-Yoga-I Index-000_Pre_content Index of Contents CONTENTS Pre-Content PART ONE THE DIVINE, THE COSMOS AND THE INDIVIDUAL Section One The Divine, Sachchidananda, Brahman and Atman 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 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 Brahman The Impersonal Brahman The Inactive Brahman and the Active Brahman Spirit and Life 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 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 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 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 Puruṣa The Jivatman and the Mental Purusha The Jivatman, Spark-Soul and Psychic Being The Jivatman in a Supramental Creation 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 The Parts of the Being Men Do Not Know Themselves Many Parts, Many Personalities 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 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 The True Being and the True Consciousness The True Being The True Consciousness 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 The Vertical System: Supermind to Subconscient The Planes or Worlds of Consciousness The System of Planes or Worlds The Planes and the Body 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 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 Kāraṇa Deha The Dividing Aspect of the Overmind The Overmind and the World 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 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 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 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 CONTENTS 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 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 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 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 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 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 The Problem of Suffering and Evil The Riddle of This World The Disharmonies of Earth 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 The Descent of the Supermind Inevitability of the Descent A Beginning, Not a Completion Clarifications about the Supramental Descent 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 The Supramental Transformation Preparatory Steps towards the Supramental Change The Supramental Influence and Supramentalisation Premature Claims of Possession of the Supermind 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 The Intellect and Yoga Intellectual Truth and Spiritual Experience Intellectual Arguments against Spirituality The Valley of the False Glimmer Doubt and Faith Doubt and Yoga Faith in Spiritual Things 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 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 Religion and Yoga Religion and the Truth Religion in India Religious Ceremonies Religious Fanaticism Idealism and Spirituality Human Perfection and Spirituality The Collapse of Twentieth-Century Idealism 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 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 Terminology The Dynamic Divine, the Gods, the Asuras The Soul, the Divine, the Gods, the Asuras Terms in The Mother 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 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 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 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 Human Greatness Greatness Greatness and Vices Section Three Destiny, Karma, Death and Rebirth Fate, Free Will and Prediction Destiny Free Will and Determinism Predictions and Prophecy Astrology and Yoga Karma and Heredity Karma Karma and Heredity Evolution, Karma and Ethics Death Death and Karma Death and Grieving The After-Death Sojourn 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 Occult Knowledge Occultism and the Supraphysical Occult Forces The Play of Forces The Place of Occult Knowledge in Yoga Spiritism Séances Ghosts 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 NOTE ON THE TEXTS