1. The Path to Liberation through Yogic Mindfulness in Early Āyurveda

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. CONTENTS BY TRADITION vii
4. CONTENTS BY COUNTRY ix
5. Contributors xi
6. Yoga, Brief History of an Idea 1
7. Note for Instructors 24
8. Foundational Yoga Texts
9. 1. The Path to Liberation through Yogic Mindfulness in Early Āyurveda 31
10. 2. A Prescription for Yoga and Power in the Mahābhārata 43
11. 3. Yoga Practices in the Bhagavadgītā 58
12. 4. Pātañjala Yoga in Practice 73
13. 5. Yoga in the Yoga Upanisads: Disciplines of the Mystical OM Sound 97
14. 6. The Sevenfold Yoga of the Yogavāsistha 117
15. 7. A Fourteenth-Century Persian Account of Breath Control and Meditation 133
16. Yoga in Jain, Buddhist, and Hindu Tantric Traditions
17. 8. A Digambara Jain Description of the Yogic Path to Deliverance 143
18. 9 Saraha’s Queen Dohās 162
19. 10. The Questions and Answers of Vajrasattva 185
20. 11. The Six-Phased Yoga of the Abbreviated Wheel of Time Tantra (Laghukālacakratantra) according to Vajrapāni 204
21. 12. Eroticism and Cosmic Transformation as Yoga: The Ātmatattva of the Vaisnava Sahajiyās of Bengal 223
22. 13. The Transport of the Hamsas: A Śākta Rāsalīlā as Rājayoga in Eighteenth-Century Benares 242
23. Yoga of the Nāth Yogīs
24. 14. The Original Goraksaśataka 257
25. 15. Nāth Yogīs, Akbar, and the “Bālnāth Tillā” 15 273
26. 16. Yogic Language in Village Performance: Hymns of the Householder Nāths 289
27. Yoga in the Colonial and Post-Colonial Periods
28. 17. The Yoga System of the Josmanīs 309
29. 18. Songs to the Highest God (Īśvara) of Sāmkhya-Yoga 325
30. 19. Yoga Makaranda of T. Krishnamacharya 337
31. 20. Theos Bernard and the Early Days of Tantric Yoga in America 353
32. 21. Universalist and Missionary Jainism: Jain Yoga of the Terāpanthī Tradition 365
33. Glossary of Foreign Terms 383
34. Index 389