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ESSAYS IN PHILOSOPHY AND YOGA

 

CONTENTS

 

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Part One

Essays from the Karmayogin (1909 – 1910)

 

The Ideal of the Karmayogin

Karmayoga

Man — Slave or Free?

Yoga and Human Evolution

Yoga and Hypnotism

The Greatness of the Individual

The Process of Evolution

Stead and the Spirits

Stead and Maskelyne

Fate and Free-Will

The Three Purushas

The Strength of Stillness

The Principle of Evil

The Stress of the Hidden Spirit

 

Part Two

The Yoga and Its Objects (circa 1912)

 

The Yoga and Its Objects

Appendix: Explanations of Some Words and Phrases

 

 

Part Three

Writings from the Arya (1914 – 1921)

 

Notes on the Arya

The “Arya’s” Second Year

Appendix: Passages Omitted from “Our Ideal”

The "Arya’s" Fourth Year

 

On Ideals and Progress

On Ideals

Yoga and Skill in Works

Conservation and Progress

The Conservative Mind and Eastern Progress

Our Ideal

 

The Superman

The Superman

All-Will and Free-Will

The Delight of Works

 

Evolution

Evolution

The Inconscient

Materialism

 

Thoughts and Glimpses

Aphorisms

Thoughts and Glimpses

 

Heraclitus

Heraclitus

 

The Problem of Rebirth

Section I: Rebirth and Karma

Rebirth

The Reincarnating Soul

Rebirth, Evolution, Heredity

Rebirth and Soul Evolution

The Significance of Rebirth

The Ascending Unity

Involution and Evolution

Karma

Karma and Freedom

Karma, Will and Consequence

Rebirth and Karma

Karma and Justice

 

Section II: The Lines of Karma

The Foundation

The Terrestrial Law

Mind Nature and Law of Karma

The Higher Lines of Karma

Appendix I: The Tangle of Karma

Appendix II: A Clarification

 

Other Writings from the Arya

The Question of the Month

The Needed Synthesis

“Arya” — Its Significance

Meditation

Different Methods of Writing

Occult Knowledge and the Hindu Scriptures

The Universal Consciousness

 

The News of the Month

The News of the Month

 

South Indian Vaishnava Poetry

Andal: The Vaishnava Poetess

Nammalwar: The Supreme Vaishnava Saint and Poet

 

Arguments to The Life Divine

Arguments to The Life Divine

 

Part Four

From the Standard Bearer (1920)

 

Ourselves

 

 

Part Five

From the Bulletin of Physical Education (1949 – 1950)

 

The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth

Message

Perfection of the Body

The Divine Body

Supermind and the Life Divine

Supermind and Humanity

Supermind in the Evolution

Mind of Light

Supermind and Mind of Light

 

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