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1. What is yoga? -- 2. Mapping yoga -- 3. Yoga: what for? -- 4. Yoga: for whom? -- 5. Guidelines for selecting a yoga teacher, yoga therapist, or class -- 6. Ten fundamental principles of yoga -- 7. Is yoga a religion? -- 8. Yoga as art and science -- 9. The yoga of science -- 10. Traditional definitions of yoga -- 11. Yoga in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism -- 12. Forty types of Hindu yoga -- 13. The tree of Hindu yoga -- 14. Styles of hatha-yoga -- 15. Crossing the boundary between Hinduism and Buddhism via tantra-yoga -- 16. Vajrayana Buddhist yoga -- 17. Introducing the great literary heritage of Hindu yoga -- 18. Yoga symbolism -- 19. Approaching spiritual practice -- 20. The twelve steps of spiritual recovery -- 21. Happiness, well-being, and reality -- 22. The quest for happiness -- 23. Spiritual discipline -- 24. Life is an earthquake -- 25. Samsara means running around in circles -- 26. Spiritual friendship -- 27. The guru: dispeller of darkness -- 28. The guru function: broadcasting reality -- 29. Understanding the guru -- 30. Holy madness -- 31. Grace has a place in yoga -- 32. Tapas, or voluntary self-change -- 33. The art of purification -- 34. Obstacles on the path according to Patanjali -- 35. In praise of study -- 36. Silence is golden: the practice of Mauna -- 37. Die while you live and last-hour yoga -- 38. Living in the dark age (Kali-Yuga) -- 39. Yoga and terrorism -- 40. Yoga begins and ends with virtuous action -- 41. Is nonharming (Ahimsa) an old-fashioned value? -- 42. Nonharming according to Jaina yoga -- 43. Yoga and vegetarianism -- 44. The practice of eco-yoga -- 45. Overcoming greed -- 46. Authenticity, integrity, unity -- 47. The power of truth -- 48. Compassion -- 49. Ethical guidelines for yoga teachers -- 50. Asanas for the body and the mind -- 51. Shava-asana, or corpse posture -- 52. The breath of life -- 53. Cultivating wisdom -- 54. Buddhi-yoga -- 55. Jnana-yoga: the path of wisdom -- 56. That art thou -- the essence of nondualist yoga -- 57. Discernment and self-transcendence -- 58. Karma-yoga: the way of self-transcending action -- 59. Bhakti-yoga: Worship me with love -- 60. Degrees of love -- 61. The Kriya-yoga of Patanjali -- 62. Faith and surrender: a new look at the Eightfold Path -- 63. Mantra-yoga: Sounding out the depth within -- 64. The Gayatri-mantra -- 65. The sacred syllable Om -- 66. Mudras: gestures of wholeness -- 67. Taraka-yoga: seeing the light -- 68. Yantra-yoga: divine geometry -- 69. What is tantra? -- 70. Sex, asceticism, and mythology -- 71. Pathways to relaxation and meditation -- 72. What is meditation? -- 73. Prayer in yoga -- 74. The ecstatic state -- 75. The serpent power and spiritual life -- 76. Who or what is the self in self-realization? -- 77. Emptiness -- 78. Liberation -- Glossary: key Sanskrit terms of Hindu yoga.;Here is a comprehensive survey of the full breadth and depth of the 5,000-year-old Yoga tradition, emphasizing its potent philosophy and spiritual vision. Georg Feuerstein demonstrates that Yoga is much more than a system of physical exercises-it is a profound path of self-transformation that encompasses a range of teachings, practices, and sacred texts that can help us cultivate wisdom, balance, and inner freedom, as well as physical health. Feuerstein is one of the few Western scholar-teachers of Yoga whose writing and teaching penetrate the full richness and depth of this ancient tradition. Here he offers a collection of essays touching on all facets of the discipline. Topics include:

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George Feuerstein ably demonstrates the depth and profundity of Yoga as a spiritual discipline.

Spirituality & Health

His writing is lucid and accessible, without sacrificing any of the scholarly substance earned through three decades of intensive study, practice, research, and writing.

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ABOUT THE BOOK

Here is a comprehensive survey of the full breadth and depth of the 5,000-year-old Yoga tradition, emphasizing its potent philosophy and spiritual vision. Georg Feuerstein demonstrates that Yoga is much more than a system of physical exercisesit is a profound path of self-transformation that encompasses a range of teachings, practices, and sacred texts that can help us cultivate wisdom, balance, and inner freedom, as well as physical health.

Feuerstein is one of the few Western scholar-teachers of Yoga whose writing and teaching penetrate the full richness and depth of this ancient tradition. Here he offers a collection of essays touching on all facets of the discipline.

Topics include:

  • The different branches and styles of Yoga
  • The ethical teachings of Yoga
  • Yoga and vegetarianism
  • Meditation and mantras
  • Choosing a teacher
  • Tantric Yoga
  • The experience of ecstasy

GEORG FEUERSTEIN, Ph.D., is internationally respected for his work on Yoga and is the author of over fifty books. He has designed and taught several distance-learning courses on Yoga philosophy for Traditional Yoga Studies. For more information, go to www.traditionalyogastudies.com.

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THEORY AND PRACTICE Georg Feuerstein SHAMBHALA BOSTON LONDON 2011 - photo 2

THEORY AND PRACTICE

Georg Feuerstein

SHAMBHALA

BOSTON & LONDON

2011

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2003 by Georg Feuerstein

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

Library of Congress Catologing-in-Publication Data

Feuerstein, Georg.

The deeper dimension of Yoga: theory and practice / Georg Feuerstein.

p. cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

eISBN 978-0-8348-2208-5

ISBN 1-57062-935-8

1. Yoga. I. Title.

B132.Y6 F48752003

181.45dc21

2002014201

Dedication

I dedicate this volume to everyone who, over the years, has contributed to my efforts in effecting a more profound public understanding of the traditional moorings of Yoga. May everyone be blessed with a joyous heart and peaceful mind!

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I would like to wholeheartedly thank the many friends who directly or indirectly have contributed to the creation of this work. May all be blessed with peace and happiness!

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P OSSIBLY 30 MILLION to 40 million people around the world practice Yoga today. By and large, they approach Yoga as physical fitness training. As one Yoga teacher observed: Yoga has been reduced to fitness, more specifically stretching, and yet more specifically stretching of the hamstrings. This comment would be funny if it were not sadly true. While any approach to Yoga practice is a potential gateway to the real thing, there is clearly a continued need to emphasize that Yoga is a spiritual tradition, which seeks to bestow happiness and inner freedom rather than merely physical fitness and health.

For the past thirty or more years, I have championed traditional Yoga. This book is yet another effort in the same direction. It consists of 78 essayslong and short27 of which stem from my long-out-of-print Sacred Paths, with the rest either taken from the website of the Yoga Research and Education Center (YREC) or newly written especially for this volume. All of them are concerned with various aspects of Yogas magnificent heritage extending over a span of 5,000 years. This translates into about 200 generations, as compared to the ten generations that make up the history of the United States. We can readily see how Yoga is a condensate of massive experience and knowledge. It is undoubtedly the greatest product of the genius of the Indic people, who have created the oldest continuous spiritually based civilization on Earth. Nowadays India is groaning under the growing burden of its 1 billion citizens and the onslaught of Western capitalism and consumerism, which clash with the Indic spiritual heritage. But there are still many noble individuals who, like the world-famous Mahatma Gandhi, look to the inherited ideals of wisdom for guidance and inspiration. They are never disappointed. For the ancient wisdom passed down from the Vedic seers and sages to modern seekers is as valid today as it was then.

Even today, despite widespread industrialization, India is still a land of religion and spirituality. It is rich in temples, shrines, saints, sages, yogins, and pious folk. The sacred festival of the kumbha-mel, celebrated in Allahabad in February 2001, attracted no fewer than 100 million. Skepticism and cynicism are rampant mostly in the sprawling urban environments. But increasingly those Indians who have received a Western-type education are ignorant and even dismissive of their spiritual heritage. Little is being done to preserve either the temples or the sacred literatures written in Sanskrit, Tamil, Marathi, and other Indic languages. Thus every year, many treasures are destroyed and lost forever. In 2000, in conjunction with Babajis Kriya Yoga Ashram in Montreal, YREC launched a project that will help preserve, edit, translate, and publish in book form as many Tamil Siddha Yoga manuscripts as can be found in South India. Swami Veda Bharati, the spiritual head of the Rama Ashrama in Rishikesh, is endeavoring to do the same relative to Sanskrit Yoga manuscripts. There are a sporadic few other efforts, but these all fall short of what ought to be done to preserve Indias spiritual heritage.

On the other hand, it is encouraging to see so many Westerners turning to Yoga and experiencing its benefits. Current estimates suggest that there are up to 20 million Yoga practitioners in the United States alone. In at least 99 percent of cases, their Yoga practice consists of doing Hatha-Yoga postures one or more times per week. Clearly, even this limited approach is producing some good results. According to a report by Intersurvey Inc. dated May 12, 2000, 9 percent of Americans (that is, some 25 million people) have tried Yoga, as opposed to 14 percent who have experimented with meditation of an unspecified nature and 3 percent who have tried Tai Chi. Yogas effectiveness has been rated 87 percent, as opposed to meditation, which came in at 85 percent, and Tai Chi at 73 percent, though it is not clear what criteria were used to determine this. Presumably Yoga stands here for the yogic postures (sana).

Yoga, of course, is so much more than postures, and its real power lies in the domain of mind training and self-transformation. It has been said that contemporary Yoga is highly reductionistic. This is true enough, yet I also see fitness Yoga as an opportunity for discovering Yogas deeper side. That deeper side is concerned with our spiritual destiny. The postures, if done correctly, will calm our nervous system and perhaps create sufficient space in our psyche to explore breath control. Then, when yogic breathing has put us in touch with the bodys life force (

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