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The Sacred Book of the Hindus Translated by Various Sanskrit Scholars. Vol. XV. The Yoga Sastra

1914

The second part consits of the enumeration classification and definitions of the various faculties of the mind. [...] Pratydhara (Restraint) is the accommodation of the senses to the nature of the mind in the absence of the concernment with each one's own object. [...] For though the aim of the various systems of Yoga is the concentration of the mind yet some are more difficult than the others some lead to the attainment of Yoga earlier than the rest. [...] The fifth method mentioned by Patanjali is by fixing the attention on any object cognizable through the senses." The student may fix his attention on the tip of the nose the centre of the tongue &c. [...] The best of them in fact the teacher and discoverer of Yoga the very ideal of a Yogi--stands the sublime picture of Siva.
philosophy religion
Pages
74
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.143312
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-iv B.D. Basu view
Chapter I. Preliminary
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Chapter II. Definitions
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Chapter III
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Chapter IV
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Chapter V
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Chapter VI
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Chapter VII. 2.—Niyama
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Chapter VIII. 2.—Asana
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Chapter IX. 4—Pranayama
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Chapter X. 5—Pratayhara
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Chapter XI. (Pratayhara and Anaesthetics)
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Chapter XII. Antaranga Yoga
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Appendix I. A Brief Sketch of Vedanta and Yoga
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Appendix II. An Account of Sadhu Haridas
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