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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of illustrations
Foreword
Glossary of Indian terms
1 Introduction
1.1 What do we mean by consciousness?
1.2 Western conception of internal states
1.3 Temporal scales associated with consciousness
1.4 Consciousness as the citta, Puruṣa, and the Indian model of the internal state
1.5 The ontological status of consciousness in the natural order
1.6 Phases of Indian thought: dualism – interactionism – monism
1.7 The status of first-person practices in the Indian systems
2 Dualism-Sāńkhya
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Puruṣa and Prakṛti
2.3 The evolutes of Prakṛti
2.4 Critical estimate of Sāńkhya
2.5 Sāńkhya and Pātañjala yoga
2.6 Yama, niyama, and āsana
2.7 Prāṇāyama
2.8 Worksheet 1
2.9 Worksheet 2
2.10 Worksheet 3
2.11 Worksheet 4
2.12 Worksheet 5
2.13 Worksheet 6
2.14 Worksheet 7
2.15 Worksheet 8
2.16 Worksheet 9
2.17 Worksheet 10
2.18 Pratyāhāra
2.19 Worksheet 11
2.20 Dhāraṇā – dhyāna – samādhi
2.21 Worksheet 12
2.22 Worksheet 13
2.23 Worksheet 14
2.24 Worksheet 15
2.25 Worksheet 16
3 Interactionism – the Abhidhamma
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Citta and cetasiks
3.3 Sańkhāras
3.4 The laws governing internal states
3.5 The first law of internal states: the principle of reciprocal dependence
3.6 The second law of internal states: the principle of roots
3.7 Akusala cittas
3.8 Kusala cittas of the sensual realm
3.9 The third law of internal states: the principle of resultants or karma
3.10 The fourth law of internal states: the principle of dominance
3.11 The principle of dominance and the eight-fold path
3.12 Worksheet 17
3.13 Worksheet 18
3.14 Worksheet 19
3.15 Worksheet 20
3.16 Worksheet 21
3.17 Worksheet 22
3.18 Worksheet 23
3.19 Samādhi and the jhāna cittas
3.20 Worksheet 24
3.21 The fifth law of internal states: the principle of contiguity, repetition, and pathways
3.22 The seventeen moment sense-door pathways
3.23 Mind-door pathway and the intuitive mind
3.24 The death experience
3.25 Vipassana
3.26 Purification of view
3.27 Worksheet 25
3.28 Worksheet 26
3.29 Worksheet 27
3.30 Purification by overcoming doubt
3.31 The sixth law of internal states: the principle of prāṇa-jīvitindriya
3.32 Purification by knowledge and vision of what is the path and what is not the path
3.33 Purification of knowledge and vision of the way
3.34 Nirvāṇa and lokuttara cittas
3.35 Critical estimate of the Abhidhamma
4 Monism – Sri Aurobindo
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Levels of consciousness
4.3 The Higher Mind
4.4 The Illumined Mind
4.5 The Intuitive Mind
4.6 The Overmind
4.7 The Supermind
4.8 Integral yoga
4.9 Karma yoga
4.10 Worksheet 28
4.11 Worksheet 29
4.12 Worksheet 30
4.13 Bhakti yoga
4.14 Worksheet 31
4.15 Faith and surrender to Śakti
4.16 Worksheet 32
4.17 Worksheet 33
4.18 The Intuitive Mind
4.19 Worksheet 34
4.20 The psychic being
4.21 Integral yoga and the earth consciousness
Appendix 1: the Upaniṣads and self-enquiry
Appendix 2: Jaina views on consciousness and Preksha meditation
Appendix 3: the bridging relations
Appendix 4: Śakti and Sri Ramakrishna
Index
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