Yoga: The Indian Tradition

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Notes on contributors......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
List of abbreviations......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
Classical foundations......Page 24
Yoga in the Mahabharata......Page 26
Practice makes perfect: the role of practice (abhyasa) in Patajala yoga......Page 38
The integration of spirit (purua) and matter (prakti) in the Yoga Stra......Page 64
Dueling with dualism: revisioning the paradox of purua and prakti......Page 83
Yoga and the luminous......Page 96
The expanding tradition......Page 110
Yoga in akaran Advaita Vedanta: a reappraisal......Page 112
Losing one\'s mind and becoming enlightened: some remarks on the concept of yoga in vetambara Jainism and its relation to the Nath Siddha tradition......Page 143
Yoga in early Hindu tantra......Page 156
Metaphoric worlds and yoga in the Vaiava Sahajiya Tantric traditions of medieval Bengal......Page 175
Bibliography......Page 198
Index......Page 212