Yoga and the quest for the true self
Millions of Americans know yoga as a superb form of exercise and as a potent source of calm in our stress-filled lives. Far fewer are aware of the full promise of yoga as a 4,000-year-old practical path of liberation--a path that fits the needs of modern Western seekers with startling precision. Now...
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New York :
Bantam Books,
2000.
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| Edition: | Bantam trade paperback edition |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: Viveka's tale
- The discovery of the royal secret
- Waking up is hard to do
- To the mountaintop
- Brahman: ecstatic union with the one
- Shakti: the play of the divine mother
- The self in exile
- You are not who you appear to be
- A house on fire: the identity project
- The suffering of the false self
- From the unreal to the real
- Encounters with the mother and the seer
- The twin pillars of the reality project
- Equanimity: on holding and being held
- Awareness: on seeing and being seen
- Awakening the witness
- The spontaneous wisdom of the body
- Riding the wave of breath
- Listening to the voice of the body
- Meditation in motion
- The royal road home
- The rose in the fire
- The triumph of the real
- Yoga metaphysics with a light touch.
