Index 237
and the Yogi, 4, 7, 9– 11, 16, 57– 58,
155, 178, 190
sūrya namaskār, 5
suṣumnā, 51, 174
Swedenborg, Emmanuel, 67
Swedenborgianism, 67– 68, 72, 172
Syman, Stefanie, 35
tālavya kriyā, 134
tantra
and ākāśa, 62
and Bikram Choudhury, 184
and Kriya Yoga, 93, 130, 134– 135,
144, 201n13, 204n24
and Pierre Bernard, 48– 49, 127
and Ramakrishna, 41
and sexuality, 16, 192n31
and Sri Yukteswar, 95
and textual sources, 11, 24– 26
and Yogananda, 96– 98, 128, 140,
164, 175
Tantrik Order, 48, 49
tattvas, 61, 62
Tesla, Nikola, 57, 78– 80, 82, 83,
186, 187
Theosophical Society, 14, 47, 60, 69– 74
Theosophy, 70– 74, 178, 209n43
and ākāśa, 60
and the astral, 85, 171, 208n40
and hypnotism, 66
and Mahatmas, 38, 44, 82, 152, 185
and mediumship, 68– 70
and metaphysical religion, 10, 59,
144, 172
and Vivekananda, 45, 62, 75– 78
Thind, Bhagat Singh, 2, 47, 128
Thomas, Wendell Marshall, 103,
104, 126
Thoreau, Henry David, 35– 36, 47, 89
Tibet, 13, 70, 132, 186
Tiger Swami, 160– 161
Traditional Knowledge Digital
Library, 182
Transcendentalism, 14, 35, 47, 144
travel narratives, 20, 26– 29, 39
Trine, Ralph Waldo. See In Tune with the
Infinite (1897)universalism, 4– 7, 10
and metaphysical religion, 59
and metaphysics, 64– 65, 67, 69, 78,
83, 85– 86, 145
religious, 15, 47, 99
and Theosophy, 38, 71– 74
and Vivekananda, 43, 74– 76, 81– 82
and yoga, 21– 22, 35, 45, 155, 182
and Yogis, 119, 125, 152, 178– 179,
186– 189Va iṣṇava, 24, 25, 28, 95, 99
vaudeville, 17, 47, 49, 115, 161, 178, 185
Vedānta, 41, 61, 62, 74– 76, 77, 78, 86,
109, 171, 174
Vedanta Society, 2, 22, 45, 46, 51, 126,
130, 132
Vedas, 5, 197n9
Vivekananda, Swami, 57– 62
and metaphysics, 11– 12, 74– 86
and modern yoga, 17– 18, 21, 51
and Orientalism, 15
and the Vedanta Society, 22, 130
and Yogananda, 99, 101, 120,
126–128, 141, 144
as a Yogi, 8, 18, 29, 34, 39– 47,
178, 184Walters, James Donald. See
Kriyananda, Swami
Wassan, Yogi, 12, 47, 143– 144
water cure, 130
White, David Gordon, 5– 6, 7, 8, 23, 26,
28, 177