Index for Course Packet, Spring 2006

A table of contents with page numbers is included in the packet, which is available at Speedway in the Dobie Mall.

(1) from B. K. S. Iyengar's Tree of Yoga (pp. 7-9), on the first two "limbs" of yoga (the yama-s, "ethical or social restraints," and the niyama-s, "personal disciplines")

(2) chart delineating classical Samkhya (the Sanskrit words on the chart are important for the Yoga-sutra as well as the Gita)

(3) G. Feuerstein, "Patanjali and the Exegetical Literature" included in (his YS translation) The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

(4) G. Feuerstein, "Preface" (to his YS translation) (recommended, not required)

(5) S. Phillips, "The Conflict of Voluntarism and Dualism in the Yoga-sutra (or How to Get Mukti from Metaphysics)," Journal of Indian Philosophy 13 (1985), 399-414 (recommended, not required)

(6) from Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, "Standards of Conduct and Spiritual Freedom," pp. 190-93

(7) "Jainism" and from the Acaranga Sutra on "non-violence."

(8) from Swami Satyananda Saraswati, A Systematic Course in the Ancient Tantric Techniques of Yoga and Kriya (pp. 47-50), in particular "Codes 1-10" (a slightly different list of practices and rules in comparison with the yama-s and niyama-s of the Yogasutra; cf., the Noble Eightfold Path of Buddhism).

(9) Rg Veda 3.42.10, 2.1.3-7, 9.74, & 10.129 and Atharva Veda 10.4

(10) Swami Vivekananda, "Religious Inclusivism"

(11) from William Wainwright, Mysticism

(12) Roger Walsh, "The Consciousness Disciplines and Behavioral Sciences: Questions of Comparison and Assessment," American Journal of Psychiatry 137:663-673 (June 1980) (recommended, not required)

(13) e-mails from Paul Muller-Ortega and Ellen Briggs on the commercialization of yoga

(14) from C. J. Ducasse, Mind, Nature and Death

(15) from Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion

(16) Rosch, Eleanor (1999). “Is Wisdom in the Brain?” Review of James Austin, Zen and the Brain, American Psychological Society 10.3 (May): 222-23

(17) Bordia, A., O. P. Gupta and L. K. Kothari (1973), "Studies on a Yogi During an Eight-day Confinement in a Sealed Underground Pit." Indian Journal of Medicine 61 (November): 1645-55 (recommended, not required)

(18) "Early Buddhism" and two Sermons of the Buddha ("First Sermon'' laying out the Four Noble Truths and a sermon with parables interpreted as "anti-intellectual")

(19) from Shantideva, Bodhicaryavatara

(20) from the Large Sutra on Perfect Wisdom

(21) from W. Y. Evans-Wentz, Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines , "The Doctrine of the Psychic Heat," pp. 172-209 (recommended, not required)

(22) from P. Muller-Ortega, The Triadic Heart of Siva, "The Heart as Ultimate Reality," pp. 82-83, along with his translation of the Anubhava-nivedana-stotra of Abhinavagupta

(23) K. C. Pandeya, "Introduction to the Second Edition," Abhinava: An Historical and Philosophical Study (along with a drawing depicting Abhinava and his followers), pp. vii-viii

(24) J.N. Mohanty, Classical Indian Philosophy (on rasa)

(25) Aurobindo, "Sri Aurobindo's Teaching and Method of Sadhana''

(26) from Aurobindo, The Life Divine, ch. 23, bk. one, "The Double Soul in Man"

(27) appendix to Swami Satyananda Saraswati, A Systematic Course in the Ancient Tantric Techniques of Yoga and Kriya, "Table of Chakra Characteristics"

Final page: drawing of nadi-s etc. by G. Feuerstein