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Inspired by his time spent with wise sages in Asia in the 1930s, Paul Brunton (1898-1981) wrote The Hidden Teaching Beyond Yoga (and its companion volume The Wisdom of the Overself) at the request of these remarkable teachers, who recognized that he had a significant role to play in the transmission of Hindu Vedanta and Buddhism to the West. Bruntons books are a profound re-creation of the teachings of those two philosophical schools of thought, informed by the insights of deep meditation. Clearly written without the specialized vocabulary found in those traditions, the books speak directly to the contemporary spiritual seeker.
The Hidden Teaching Beyond Yoga is a step-by-step guide to actually experiencing the spiritual truth that reality is formed within our consciousness rather than outside us in the world of material things. Bruntons expert analysis of perception, grounded in science, is designed to awaken us to our sacred foundation and to transform our personality into a mirror of that reality. Brunton prepares us for this journey by describing the attitudes, mental disciplines, and character traits that are beneficial for success in this quest.
This new edition has been updated to incorporate the authors final revisions and includes an introduction by the Paul Brunton Philosophic Foundation.
Contents
Foreword by The Paul Brunton Philosophic Foundation
1.Beyond Yoga
2.The Ultimate Path
3.The Religious and Mystic Grades
4.The Hidden Philosophy of India
5.The Philosophical Discipline
6.The Worship of Words
7.The Search After Truth
8.The Revelation of Relativity
9.From Thing to Thought
10. The Secret of Space and Time
11. The Magic of the Mind
12. The Downfall of Materialism
Epilogue: The Philosophic Life
Appendix 1: Some Misconceptions Cleared Up
Appendix 2: Additional Resources from The Notebooks of Paul Brunton, Compiled by the Paul Brunton Philosophic Foundation Editors

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The Hidden Teaching Beyond Yoga
THE PATH TO SELF-REALIZATION AND PHILOSOPHIC INSIGHT
VOLUME ONE

PAUL BRUNTON

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North Atlantic Books

Berkeley, California

Copyright 2015 by The Paul Brunton Philosophic Foundation. All rights reserved. No portion of this book, except for brief review, may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any meanselectronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwisewithout the written permission of the publisher. For information contact North Atlantic Books.

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The Hidden Teaching Beyond Yoga: The Path to Self-Realization and Philosophic Insight, Volume 1 is sponsored and published by the Society for the Study of Native Arts and Sciences (dba North Atlantic Books), an educational nonprofit based in Berkeley, California, that collaborates with partners to develop cross-cultural perspectives, nurture holistic views of art, science, the humanities, and healing, and seed personal and global transformation by publishing work on the relationship of body, spirit, and nature.

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Brunton, Paul, 18981981, author.

The hidden teaching beyond yoga / Paul Brunton.

pages cm. (The path to self-realization and philosophic insight ; volume 1)

Includes .

Summary: A classic work on yoga philosophy, originally published in 1941 Provided by publisher.

ISBN 978-1-58394-910-8 (paperback) ISBN 978-1-58394-911-5 (ebook)

1. Metaphysics. 2. Knowledge, Theory of. 3. Yoga. 4. Philosophy, Modern. I. Title.

BD21.B75 2015

181'.45dc23 2014038090

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF PAUL BRUNTON

EARLY PUBLICATIONS

A Search in Secret India

The Secret Path

A Search in Secret Egypt

A Message from Arunachala

A Hermit in the Himalayas

The Quest of the Overself

The Inner Reality (Discover Yourself)

Indian Philosophy and Modern Culture

The Hidden Teaching Beyond Yoga

The Wisdom of the Overself

The Spiritual Crisis of Man

PUBLISHED POSTHUMOUSLY

The Notebooks of Paul Brunton

Volume 1: Perspectives

Volume 2: The Quest

Volume 3: Practices for the Quest; Relax and Retreat

Volume 4: Meditation; The Body

Volume 5: Emotions and Ethics; The Intellect

Volume 6: The Ego; From Birth to Rebirth

Volume 7: Healing of the Self; The Negatives

Volume 8: Reflections on My Life and Writings

Volume 9: Human Experience; The Arts in Culture

Volume 10: The Orient

Volume 11: The Sensitives

Volume 12: The Religious Urge; The Reverential Life

Volume 13: Relativity, Philosophy, and Mind

Volume 14: Inspiration and the Overself

Volume 15: Advanced Contemplation; The Peace Within You

Volume 16: Enlightened Mind, Divine Mind

Essays on the Quest

Paul Brunton: Essential Readings

Meditations for People in Charge

Meditations for People in Crisis

What Is Karma?

The Gift of Grace

The Short Path to Enlightenment

The more men study words, theories, and

Beyond Yoga intellections, the less they gather insight,

Revelation, and wisdom.

Look within.

Paul Bruntons summary of The Hidden Teaching Beyond Yoga, as dictated to a visitor

CONTENTS

The Hidden Teaching Beyond Yoga is more than another book of teachings designed to deepen or broaden spiritual pursuit: this book can fundamentally change ones orientation to life. Through a remarkable exploration of experience, The Hidden Teaching answers the question, What is the nature of reality and the relationship of mind, body, and world?

Paul Brunton (PB, as he referred to himself) begins this journey with a step-by-step analysis of ordinary perception. He deftly guides one down a path that demonstrates that an assumed dualismme and my worldis not what it seems. PB shows that one cannot go beyond or outside the ideas and images in awarenessthat these are all we ever know, not an outside world. This understanding of mind as the basis of experience is called mentalism by PB.

By mentalism we mean more precisely this: that all things in human experience without any exception are wholly and entirely mental things and are not merely mental copies of material things; that this entire panorama of universal existence is nothing but a mental experience and not merely a mental representation of a separate material existence; that we can arrive at such conclusions not only by a straight-line sequence of reasoned thinking but also by a reorientation of consciousness during advanced mystical meditation.

The Hidden Teaching is a guide to experiencing this truth for oneself. PBs masterful presentation delivers the realization of mentalism through expert analysis and examples of how perception happens. And he grounds these inquiries in the still-relevant twentieth-century science. Yet this is much more than an intellectual study; if pursued wholeheartedly, it is designed to awaken ones insight and to transform ones person into a mirror of reality.

If this truth is to become a living one, one needs to walk an independent path to question and discover for oneself the true nature of experience. PB is very familiar with the attitudes, mental disciplines, and character traits that are beneficial for success in this quest. The first part of The Hidden Teaching details the preparation needed for this inquiry. For without these disciplines and attitudes, one will likely stumble over oneself in the pursuit of truth.

Why does PB call this book The Hidden Teaching Beyond Yoga? Practicing to transcend our life situation in meditative trance is a mystical movement. Mysticism and many yoga practices work within the context of duality by controlling or refining that which are known as components of oneself, such as thoughts, the breath, and the body. This is only a stage along the way. To awaken to the fundamental nature of reality and to simultaneously know and live this truth in the world is something deeperphilosophy (as PB uses the term), which brings one insight into Mind as the final truth of self and world. While mysticism dives deep into ones own heart to relate to God therein, philosophy reaches beyond the personal into the collective heart of humanity and realizes the value in serving God in all.

PB holds a special place in the story of Eastern wisdom coming to the West. Before he traveled to Asia, PB was well equipped as both a mystic and an acute thinker. He was recognized by the teachers he met as someone with a destiny to re-create the timeless treasures of Eastern spirituality in a form suitable to the modern West. In his early writings (A Search in Secret India and A Search in Secret Egypt), he took the role of an inquiring skeptic so that Western readers unfamiliar with the mysteries of the East could sympathetically explore with him without having to leave the convenience of their armchairs. In his later works, PB takes off this guise and is the wise teacher who effectively guides students through the mystical and philosophic grades of spirituality.

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