The Buddhist, Taoist, Yoga and Hindu traditions are usually taken as the primary guides to enlightenment training and theory, yet all genuine religions share cultivation theory and practices which will take practitioners to the same spiritual body attainments that constitute spiritual enlightenment. This is the only book of its kind that explains this spiritual path completely. Much of the contents will seem revolutionary, including: a comprehensive description of "interdependent origination" including the creation of the universe and sentient life that incorporates the Hua Yen view; the Diamond Sutra enlightenment view of what we are and our origins; an explanation of the spiritual goal of sat, chit, ananda and how this necessitates a dualistic mind-body cultivation system that entails physical exercise and inner energy work to achieve physical health and bliss, and meditation practice to achieve the flow state of pristine awareness; how we must cultivate our minds and behavior towards virtuous ways and improving society in order to merit the Twelve Year kundalini transformation period required for enlightenment; revelation of the five spiritual body attainments within the sambhogakaya along with their properties; the five stages scheme of spiritual progress; and the principles of Yin and Yang Qi cultivation inherent in yoga, martial arts and all spiritual cultivation practices. This will be a perennial guide to the spiritual cultivation efforts you undertake in your life.

An anthology of primary texts drawn from the diverse yoga traditions of India, greater Asia, and the West. Focuses on the lived experiences in the many world of yoga.

First published in English in 1958, the author lays the groundwork for a Western understanding of Yoga, providing a comprehensive survey of Yoga in theory and practice from its earliest antecedents in the Vedas through the twentieth century.

A unique reference work from the foremost writer on Yoga today, THE YOGA TRADITION surveys the 5,000-year history of Hindy, Buddhistm, Jaina, and Sikh Yoga, featuring full and partial translations of numerous key scriptures and over 200 illustrations. It is considered the CLASSIC text on Yoga practice and history.

How to Cultivate Internal Spiritual Energy

Following the Second World War, yoga has asserted its presence in America and impacted the American culture, arts, and literature. This book offers extensive explications of Saul Bellow’s Mr. Sammler’s Planet, J.D. Salinger’s “Teddy,” John Updike’s S.: A Novel, and Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five in the light of the four different yoga philosophies interwoven into their respective narrative structures. The comparative analyses of these four contemporary American fictions unveil the deeper mystical motifs implicit in their plots, stories, themes, and characters’ behavioural patterns. The exhaustive interpretations of texts in the five successive chapters put forth an exposition of how the ancient Indic philosophy and contemporary American fiction interact to explicate and enrich each other. The book adds a unique, unconventional dimension to the comparative and interdisciplinary investigation into contemporary American fiction and thereby opens up new vistas of an off-beat interface between the Eastern philosophy and Western literature.