The Yoga Tradition: Its History, Literature, Philosophy and Practice
Georg Feuerstein
Language: English
Pages: 550
ISBN: 1890772186
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
From the foremost living authority on Yoga comes the most comprehensive and reliable treatment of the subject available today. This is a work of impeccable scholarship by a person who has dedicated his life to the understanding and practice of yoga. The book offers a complete overview of every Yogic tradition, from the familiar to the lesser-known forms. It also covers all aspects of Hindu, Buddhist and Jaina Yoga, including history, philosophy, literature, psychology and practice. In addition, included are translations of twenty Yoga treatises and the first translation of the Goraksha Paddhati.
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extant: the Aitareya- and the Kaushîtaki-ranyaka (both belonging to the Rig-Veda); the Taittirîya-ranyaka (belonging to the Black Yajur-Veda); the Brihad-ranyaka (belonging to the White Yajur-Veda). No ranyakas for the Sâma-Veda and the Atharva-Veda are extant. These forest “books,” which were deemed too sublime or sacred to be imparted in the villages or towns, prepared the ground for the still more esoteric teachings of the Upanishads and also the subsequent Yoga tradition in its more ascetical
knowledge is bondage. (1.2) The source [of the manifest world together with its] collocation [of manifest effects] is embodied in [limited] activity (kalâ). (1.3) Comments: Kalâ (to be carefully distinguished from the word kâla or “time”) is finite or conditional activity, which is one of the five “coverings” or “jackets” (kancuka) of mâyâ, the power of world illusion. The others are vidyâ (limited knowledge), râga (attachment), kâla (time), and niyati (causality). By contrast to finite
constraint (samyama) [i.e., through ecstatic identification with] the innermost center of the nose, how [can the ultimate Reality not be realized] in the left, the right, and the central [channels of the life force]? (3.44) Comments: This is another obscure aphorism carrying a wealth of esoteric information. The innermost center (antar-madhya) of the nose (nâsikâ) is really the core of the life force or consciousness. By practicing successively concentration, meditation, and ecstasy relative to
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existence; manas; Reality; senses; thatness; Truth tattva-âkâsha, 322 Tattva-nanda-Taranginî, 53 Tattva-Artha-Adhigama-Sûtra, 150 Tattva-Artha-Sûtra, 142, 147, 149–150 tattva-avabodha, 422 tat tvam asi, 12, 311 Tattva-Sandarbha, 292 Tattva-Vaishâradî, 6, 8, 234, 235, 253, 367, 431n. 42 tattva-vidyâ-shâstra, 72 teachers: types of, 11–12. See also gurus technology, xxvii, xxviii, xxix, 3, 28, 30 teeth, 391. See also râja-danta Tejo-Bindu-Upanishad, 5, 16, 128, 257, 311, 317–318