Biography of a Yogi Paramahansa Yogananda and the Origins of Modern Yoga
160 Biography of a Yogi the two poles rest some more ambiguous characters, such as Gandha Baba, or the “Perfume Saint.” The enco ...
Hagiography of a Yogi 161 materialism of the Tiger Swami’s path, otherwise quite as ostentatious as that of the Perfume Saint, i ...
162 Biography of a Yogi to his conviction that superhuman displays were sometimes necessary to instill faith in the doubting hea ...
Hagiography of a Yogi 163 sage, whose identity remains hidden. The subsequent chapters are therefore filled with a sense of late ...
164 Biography of a Yogi told her, “Little mother, thy son will be a yogi. As a spiritual engine, he will carry many souls to God ...
Hagiography of a Yogi 165 personal sādhana that occasionally reached beyond the limits of social sanctions. However, not all of ...
166 Biography of a Yogi The second meeting, however, proves to be somewhat less harmonious than the first. Guru and disciple wra ...
Hagiography of a Yogi 167 The reference to powers is somewhat unexpected, given the tenor of Yogananda’s descriptions of his spi ...
168 Biography of a Yogi affection from the first hour to this, do you realize that once only, on the day of meeting, have you ev ...
Hagiography of a Yogi 169 meeting with an immortal guru rather than witness the passing of a mortal one. Retrospectively, Yogana ...
170 Biography of a Yogi room, Sri Yukteswar manifests himself before the awestruck Yogananda in his astrally resurrected form. I ...
Hagiography of a Yogi 171 contemporary concepts of electrodynamics— to provide a grounding for the sub- tle laws of nature that ...
172 Biography of a Yogi (ahaṃkāra), and mind (manas), to which Yogananda adds feeling. Below this are the five instruments of kn ...
Hagiography of a Yogi 173 traditions.^45 However, he lends to it inflections that are both traditionally Indian and modern scien ...
1 74 Biography of a Yogi described, like the haṭha yogic subtle body, as having an “astral brain,” which is in reality a “thousa ...
Hagiography of a Yogi 175 them back into physical rebirth, those who have achieved the state of nirvikalpa samādhi in their fina ...
176 Biography of a Yogi particles and not subject to karma or indeed any form of “universal economy.”^53 This liberated body cas ...
Hagiography of a Yogi 177 largely beside the point. From a non- enlightened being’s point of view, however, this distinction mak ...
Epilogue I’m beyond Superman. ... Because I have balls like atom bombs, two of them, 100 megatons each. Nobody fucks with me. — ...
Epilogue 179 and colonial representations, could hardly have entirely prepared him for the role he would have to play as a South ...
«
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
»
Free download pdf