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CONTENTS
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PART ONE
THE
DIVINE, THE COSMOS AND THE INDIVIDUAL
Section One
The Divine, Sachchidananda, Brahman and Atman
The Divine and Its Aspects
The Divine
The Divine Consciousness
The Divine: One in All
Aspects of the Divine
The Transcendent, Cosmic and Individual Divine
Personal and Impersonal Sides of the Divine
The Divine and the Atman
The Divine and the Supermind
Sachchidananda: Existence, Consciousness-Force and Bliss
Sachchidananda
Sat or Pure Existence
Chit or Consciousness
Outer Consciousness and Inner Consciousness
Consciousness and Force or Energy
Force, Energy, Power, Shakti
Ananda
Brahman
The Impersonal Brahman
The Inactive Brahman and the Active Brahman
Spirit and Life
The Self or Atman
The Self
The Cosmic Spirit or Self
The Atman, the Soul and the Psychic Being
The Self and Nature or Prakriti
Section Two
The Cosmos: Terms from Indian Systems
The Upanishadic and Puranic Systems
Virat
Visva or Virat, Hiranyagarbha or Taijasa,Prajna or Ishwara
Vaisvanara, Taijasa, Prajna, Kutastha
Karana, Hiranyagarbha, Virat
The Seven Worlds
The Worlds of the Lower Hemisphere
Tapoloka and the Worlds of Tapas
The Sankhya-Yoga System
Purusha
Purusha and Prakriti
Prakriti
Prakriti and Shakti or Chit-Shakti
Purusha, Prakriti and Action
The Gunas or Qualities of Nature
Transformation of the Gunas
Sattwa and Liberation
Transformation of Rajas and Tamas
Transformation of Tamas into
Sama
Mahat
Tanmatra
Section Three
The Jivatman and the Psychic Being
The Jivatman in the Integral Yoga
The Jivatman or Individual Self
The Jivatman, the Psychic Being and Prakriti
The Central Being and the Psychic Being
The Surrender of the Central Being
The Central Being after Liberation
The Karana Purusha
The Jivatman and the
Caitya Puruṣa
The Jivatman and the Mental Purusha
The Jivatman, Spark-Soul and Psychic Being
The Jivatman in a Supramental Creation
The Jivatman in Other Indian Systems
The Jivatman in Other Schools
The Jivatman and the Pure “I” of the Adwaita
PART TWO
THE PARTS OF THE
BEING AND THE PLANES
OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Section One
The Organisation of the Being
The Parts of the Being
Men Do Not Know Themselves
Many Parts, Many Personalities
Classification of the Parts of the Being
Different Categories in Different Systems
The Concentric and Vertical Systems
Section Two
The Concentric System: Outer to Inner
The Outer Being and the Inner Being
The Outer and the Inner Being and Consciousness
The Inner, the Outer and the Process of Yoga
The Inner Being
The Inner Being, the Antaratma and the Atman
The Inner Being and the Psychic Being
The Outer Being and Consciousness
The True Being and the True Consciousness
The True Being
The True Consciousness
The Psychic Being
The Psychic and the Divine
The Self or Spirit and the Psychic or Soul
The Atman, the Jivatman and the Psychic
The Words “Soul” and “Psychic”
The Psychic or Soul and Traditional Indian Systems
The Soul and the Psychic Being
The Form of
the Psychic Being
The Psychic Being and the Intuitive Consciousness
The Psychic Being and the External Being
The Psychic or Soul and the Lower Nature
The Psychic Being or Soul and the Vital or Life
The Psychic Being and the Ego
The Psychic World or Plane
The Vertical System: Supermind to Subconscient
The Planes or Worlds of Consciousness
The System of Planes or Worlds
The Planes and the Body
The Supermind or Supramental
Supermind and the Purushottama
Supermind and Sachchidananda
The Supracosmic, the Supramental,
the Overmind and Nirvana
Supermind and Other Planes
Supermind and Overmind
Knowledge and Will in the Supermind
The Overmind
Overmind and the Cosmic Consciousness
Planes of the Overmind
The Overmind, the Intuition and Below
The Overmind and the Supermind Descent
The Overmind and the
Kāraṇa Deha
The Dividing Aspect of the Overmind
The Overmind and the World
The Higher Planes of Mind
The Higher Planes and Higher Consciousness
The Plane of Intuition
The Plane of Intuition and the Intuitive Mind
Yogic Intuition and Ordinary Intuitions
Powers of the Intuitive Consciousness
The Illumined Mind
The Higher Mind
The Lower Nature or Lower Hemisphere
The Higher Nature and the Lower Nature
The Three Planes of the Lower Hemisphere
and Their Energies
The Adhara
The Mind
Mind in the Integral Yoga and in Other
Indian Systems
Manas and Buddhi
Chitta
Western Ideas of Mind and Spirit
The Psychic Mind
The Mind Proper
The Thinking Mind and the Vital Mind
The Thinking Mind and the Physical Mind
The Vital Mind
The Physical Mind
The Physical Mental or Physical Mind and
the Mental Physical or Mechanical Mind
The Mental World of the Individual
The Vital Being and Vital Consciousness
The Vital
The True Vital Being and Consciousness
Parts of the Vital Being
The Mental Vital or Vital Mind
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The Emotional Being or Heart
The Central Vital or Vital Proper
The Lower Vital, the Physical Vital and
the Material Vital
A Strong Vital
The Vital Body
The Vital Nature
The Vital Plane and the Physical Plane
The Life Heavens
The Physical Consciousness
The Physical Consciousness and Its Parts
Living in the Physical Consciousness
The Opening of the Physical Consciousness
The True Activity of the Senses
The Physical Parts of the Mind and Emotional Being
The Mental Physical or Mechanical Mind
The Vital Physical
The Material Consciousness or Body Consciousness
The Gross Physical and the Subtle Physical
The Physical Nerves and the Subtle Nerves
The Sheaths of the Indian Tradition
The Environmental Consciousness
The Environmental Consciousness around
the Individual
The Environmental Consciousness and
the Movements of the Lower Nature
The Environmental Consciousness and
the Subconscient
The Subconscient and the Inconscient
The Subconscient in the Integral Yoga
The Subconscient in Traditional Indian Terminology
The Subconscient and the Superconscient
The Subconscient and the Subliminal
The Subconscient Memory and Conscious Memory
The Subconscient and the Inconscient
Section Four
The Chakras or Centres of Consciousness
The System of the Chakras
The Functions of the Chakras or Centres
The Chakras in Reference to Yoga
The Centres and the Planes
The Mind Centres
The Sahasradala or Sahasrara or Crown Centre
The Ajnachakra or Forehead Centre
The Throat Centre
The Throat Centre and the Lower Centres
The Heart Centre
The Navel and Abdominal Centres
The Muladhara
No Subconscient Centre
The Parts of the Body and the Centres
The Parts of the Body in Yoga
The Cerebellum
The Ear, Nose, Face and Throat
The Chest, Stomach and Abdomen
The Legs and Feet
The Sides of the Body
PART THREE
THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS AND THE SUPERMIND
Section One
The Supramental Evolution
The Problem of Suffering and Evil
The Riddle of This World
The Disharmonies of Earth
Spiritual Evolution and the Supramental
Human History and Spiritual Evolution
Spiritual and Supramental
The Overmind and the Supramental
Involution and Evolution
The Supermind and the Lower Creation
Speculations about the Supramental Descent
Section Two
The Supramental Descent and Transformation
The Descent of the Supermind
Inevitability of the Descent
A Beginning, Not a Completion
Clarifications about the Supramental Descent
Descent and Transformation
A World-Changing Yoga
The Vital World and the Supramental Descent
The Nature and Scope of the Transformation
The Earth, the Earth Consciousness and
the Supramental Creation
The Supramental Change and the Ananda Plane
The Supramental Transformation
Preparatory Steps towards the Supramental Change
The Supramental Influence and Supramentalisation
Premature Claims of Possession of the Supermind
Transformation and the Body
The Transformation of the Body
The Transformation of the Body in Other Traditions
Transforming the Body Consciousness
Death and the Supramental Transformation
The Conquest of Death
The Reproductive Method of the Supramental
PART FOUR
PROBLEMS OF PHILOSOPHY, SCIENCE, RELIGION
AND SOCIETY
Section One
Thought, Philosophy, Science and Yoga
The Intellect and Yoga
Intellectual Truth and Spiritual Experience
Intellectual Arguments against Spirituality
The Valley of the False Glimmer
Doubt and Faith
Doubt and Yoga
Faith in Spiritual Things
Philosophical Thought and Yoga
Metaphysical Thinkers, East and West
World-Circumstances and the Divine
Intellectual Expression of Spiritual Experience
Comments on Thoughts of J.M.E. McTaggart
Comments on Terms Used by Henri Bergson
Metaphysics, Science and Spiritual Experience
Science and Yoga
Science, Yoga and the Agnostic
Science and Spirituality
Science and the Supernormal
Science and Superstition
The Limitations of Science
Physics and Metaphysics
Space and Time
Matter
Animals
Plants
Life on Other Planets
Section Two
Religion, Idealism, Morality and Yoga
Religion and Yoga
Religion and the Truth
Religion in India
Religious Ceremonies
Religious Fanaticism
Idealism and Spirituality
Human Perfection and Spirituality
The Collapse of Twentieth-Century Idealism
Morality and Yoga
The Spiritual Life and the Ordinary Life
Morality
Vice and Virtue
The Sattwic Man and the Spiritual Man
Selfishness and Unselfishness
Humility
Sacrifice
Ahimsa, Destruction and Violence
War and Conquest
Poverty
Natural Calamities
Social Duties and the Divine
Family, Society, Country and the Divine
Philanthropy
Humanitarianism
Social and Political Activism
PART FIVE
QUESTIONS OF SPIRITUAL AND OCCULT KNOWLEDGE
Section One
The Divine and the Hostile Powers
Terminology
The Dynamic Divine, the Gods, the Asuras
The Soul, the Divine, the Gods, the Asuras
Terms in
The Mother
The Gods
The Gods or Divine Powers
The Gods and the Overmind
Vedic Gods of the Indian Tradition
Post-Vedic Gods of the Indian Tradition
The Hostile Forces and Hostile Beings
The Existence of the Hostile Forces
The Nature of the Hostile Forces
The Conquest of the Hostile Forces
Asuras, Rakshasas and Other Vital Beings
Section Two
The Avatar and the
Vibhuti
The Meaning and Purpose of Avatarhood
The Avatar or Incarnation
The Divine and Human Sides of the Avatar
Human Judgments of the Divine
The Work of the Avatar
The Avatar: Historicity and Symbols
The Avatar and the Vibhuti
Specific Avatars and Vibhutis
The Ten Avatars as a Parable of Evolution
Rama as an Avatar
Krishna as an Avatar
Buddha as an Avatar
Mahomed and Christ
Ramakrishna
Augustus Caesar and Leonardo da Vinci
Napoleon
Human Greatness
Greatness
Greatness and Vices
Section Three
Destiny, Karma, Death and Rebirth
Fate, Free Will and Prediction
Destiny
Free Will and Determinism
Predictions and Prophecy
Astrology and Yoga
Karma and Heredity
Karma
Karma and Heredity
Evolution, Karma and Ethics
Death
Death and Karma
Death and Grieving
The After-Death Sojourn
Rebirth
The Psychic’s Choice at the Time of Death
Assimilation in the Psychic World
The Psychic Being and the Progression from
Life to Life
The New Birth
Reincarnation and Soul Evolution
What Survives and What Does Not
Lines of Force and Consciousness
Beings of the Higher Planes
Fragments of a Dead Person that Reincarnate
Connections from Life to Life
Lines of Sex in Rebirth
Asuric Births
Animals and the Process of Rebirth
Remembering Past Lives
Unimportance of Past-Life Experience in Yoga
Speculating about Past Lives
Traditional Indian Ideas about Rebirth and
Other Worlds
European Resistance to the Idea of Reincarnation
Section Four
Occult Knowledge and Powers
Occult Knowledge
Occultism and the Supraphysical
Occult Forces
The Play of Forces
The Place of Occult Knowledge in Yoga
Spiritism
S éances
Ghosts
Occult Powers or Siddhis
General Remarks
Occult Powers Not the Object of Our Yoga
Ethical Rules for the Use of Occult Powers
Thought Reception and Thought Reading
Occult Powers and Health
The Power of Healing
Miracles
Magic
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