Item Code: IDC342by P.J. SaherHardcover (Edition: 2004)Motilal Banarsidass Pvt. Ltd. ISBN 81-208-0809-6 Size: 8.8" X 6.0" Pages: 387 (B & W Illus: 25) |
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This fascinating and profound book of ancient, Eastern esoteric wisdom backed by the latest discoveries and experiments of modern science treats of the health of the soul by showing the relationship between soul and brain.
Here is a practical guide to Zen-Yoga, which can help to master suffering and harness latent powers. At a time when science is exploring outer space Zen-Yoga helps us to explore the inner space of the human psyche, to recognize within ourselves a new freedom - freedom to work out our destiny with integral consciousness or the divine supra-Self as the light within.
This book is a cybernetic exploration of mind's inner space leading to expanded cosmo-electronic consciousness.
Having shown the differences between Eastern and Western thought-processes, Saher explains how the sages of the East have acquired that source of wisdom and bliss which our misguided youth seeks vainly in hallucinogenic drugs.
About the Author:
P.J. Saher, best known for his book Eastern Wisdom and Western Thought, was born in Bombay and studied in England and Germany. He gave up a career at the Bar to take up research in mysticism, mastered yoga, and came under the influence of first of Heidegger, then of Radhakrishnan and Huxley. He has published several widely read books in German.
| FOREWORD | ix | |
| PREFACE | xi | |
| EXPLANATION OF ILLUSTRATIONS | xix | |
| PART I | ||
| INTRODUCTION | xix | |
| CHAPTERS | ||
| 1. | Mind and Thinking - and how both drift? | 1 |
| 2. | Drifts of the Mind and what they convey? | 7 |
| 3. | What is this Mind of Man | 16 |
| 4. | Do we think and how? | 20 |
| 5. | Must we sleep and how much? | 23 |
| 6. | The expanding Consciousness | 26 |
| 7. | Breathing and its relationship to Consciousness and Life | 28 |
| 8. | Spiritual Planes | 34 |
| 9. | Avoidable Mistakes | 38 |
| 10. | The Centres and their Mechanism | 43 |
| 11. | Use of Free Will in Trifles | 62 |
| 12. | Correct Methods in Daily Living | 65 |
| 13. | Progress on the Path | 73 |
| 14. | Will-Force | 77 |
| 15. | The Internal Non-equilibrium of Centres | 80 |
| 16. | How can we restore the Internal Equilibrium of the Centres? | 84 |
| 17. | What is the Purpose of Life and Birth? | 94 |
| PART II THE UNPUBLISHED SECRETS OF ZEN AND YOGA | ||
| 1. | Pratyahara | 101 |
| 2. | Self-conquest | 106 |
| 3. | Understanding of the Laws of Spiritual Success | 108 |
| 4. | The glamour of Liberation from Bondage to the Ego | 110 |
| 5. | Yoga Sutra in the Light of our Understanding | 113 |
| 6. | The Five Gospels | 119 |
| (i)     The sixty secret sacred Steps to salvation | 119 | |
| (ii)    The twentyfive Spiritual Sentences | 126 | |
| (iii)    Mysteries of the Higher Grades of Initiation | 130 | |
| (iv)    The Holy Concordat | 133 | |
| (v)    Devotion to Avatara surpasses all | 139 | |
| 7. | Recapitulation | 143 |
| APPENDICES | ||
| I. | A few Questions answered | 151 |
| II. | Practical Exercises | 182 |
| III. | Celestial Influence or Intensities of Celestial Bodies | 199 |
| IV. | What happens to the Resultant Intensity finally? | 220 |
| V. | The Neuro-physiological Basis of our Mind | 233 |
| VI. | Practical Exercises | 238 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 240 | |
| INDEX | 257 | |
| ILLUSTRATIONS | 1-25 | |