ESSAYS IN PHILOSOPHY AND YOGA
CONTENTS
Pre-content
Part One
Essays from the Karmayogin (1909 – 1910)
The Ideal of the Karmayogin
Karmayoga
Man — Slave or Free?
Yoga and Human Evolution
Yoga and Hypnotism
The Greatness of the Individual
The Process of Evolution
Stead and the Spirits
Stead and Maskelyne
Fate and Free-Will
The Three Purushas
The Strength of Stillness
The Principle of Evil
The Stress of the Hidden Spirit
Part Two
The Yoga and Its Objects (circa 1912)
The Yoga and Its Objects
Appendix: Explanations of Some Words and Phrases
Part Three
Writings from the Arya (1914 – 1921)
Notes on the Arya
The “Arya’s” Second Year
Appendix: Passages Omitted from “Our Ideal”
The "Arya's" Fourth Year
On Ideals and Progress
On Ideals
Yoga and Skill in Works
Conservation and Progress
The Conservative Mind and Eastern Progress
Our Ideal
The Superman
All-Will and Free-Will
The Delight of Works
Evolution
The Inconscient
Materialism
Thoughts and Glimpses
Aphorisms
Heraclitus
The Problem of Rebirth
Section I: Rebirth and Karma
Rebirth
The Reincarnating Soul
Rebirth, Evolution, Heredity
Rebirth and Soul Evolution
The Significance of Rebirth
The Ascending Unity
Involution and Evolution
Karma
Karma and Freedom
Karma, Will and Consequence
Rebirth and Karma
Karma and Justice
Section II: The Lines of Karma
The Foundation
The Terrestrial Law
Mind Nature and Law of Karma
The Higher Lines of Karma
Appendix I: The Tangle of Karma
Appendix II: A Clarification
Other Writings from the Arya
The Question of the Month
The Needed Synthesis
“Arya” — Its Significance
Meditation
Different Methods of Writing
Occult Knowledge and the Hindu Scriptures
The Universal Consciousness
The News of the Month
South Indian Vaishnava Poetry
Andal: The Vaishnava Poetess
Nammalwar: The Supreme Vaishnava Saint and Poet
Arguments to The Life Divine
Part Four
From the Standard Bearer (1920)
Ourselves
Part Five
From the Bulletin of Physical Education (1949 – 1950)
The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth
Message
Perfection of the Body
The Divine Body
Supermind and the Life Divine
Supermind and Humanity
Supermind in the Evolution
Mind of Light
Supermind and Mind of Light
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