Integrity, 65, 108
Jainism, 23, 42
ethics, 106
Ka ́sm ̄ıra Íaivism, 34, 157–58
Knowledge
Anglo-European vs. Indian orienta-
tions to, 3–4
empirical self-knowledge, 21, 80
holistic, 173
in Yoga, 96–98, 98–99
discriminative, higher, liberative,
84, 97, 98–100, 105–6, 123,
130, 132, 154, 158
ordinary means (perception, infer-
ence, authority), 97–99
scientific, 4–5, 40. See also Medi-
cine, Western
Land and body, 39–40, 56, 71, 173
Language
and body, 173
Hindu view of, 166
meditative power of, 164
sacred, 158
Learning, 68–69
Liberation, 34, 78, 86, 132, 136–37.
See also Sanskrit terms index
Kaivalya
as healing, 5, 6, 7, 9, 29, 94, 105, 111,
130, 131–37, 153, 158, 159
Life
in Descartes, 55
in ̄Ayurveda, 36, 40, 50–52
Longevity, 36, 41, 50–52, 72
Love, 75, 172
in Tantra, 145
Mauja(Sufism: ‘free and joyous
activity’), 141
Medicine
affinity with Tantra, 154
etymological relation with medita-
tion, 45
Medicine, Western. See also Philoso-
phy of medicine
ancient (Greek), 17–18, 41
classical, 18–19
contemporary, 19–21, 40, 45, 47,
49–50, 53, 54, 81, 168
Meditation, 2, 9, 45, 88, 112–16,
124–25, 135. See also Sanskrit
terms index Yoga: dh ̄araÓn ̄a;
dhy ̄ana; sam ̄adhi
and b ̄ıja-mantras, 151
and sound, 158
on cakras, 146
on Yantra, 143
Mental clarity, 59, 66–69, 81. See also
Psychological health
Metabolism, 61, 116
Microcosm and macrocosm, 18, 35–
36, 63, 72, 117, 125, 142, 150,
151, 156, 158–59
in music, 164–65
Mind-body problem, 5, 22–23. See
also Dualism
Mindfulness, 91
Mi ̄ta ̄kuye Oyas’in ̧(Lakota: ‘All my
Relatives’), 171–72
Morality, 63, 65, 78, 171. See also
Sanskrit terms indexNiyama;
Yama
Mother Earth, 162. See alsoGrand-
mother Earth
Mother Goddess, 31
Music, 7–8, 9, 168
as a religious therapeutic, 153, 157
as manifestation of Íakti, 156
Music, breath, and healing, 160–61
Music, sacred, 155–57
body as instrument of, 161–62
therapeutic elements of, 159
Musical instruments, 158, 161–62.
See alsoDrum; Flute; Rattle
Mysticism, 30, 31, 33, 143, 150Native American traditions. SeeAmer-
ican Indian traditions
Natural history, 40
Nature, 8, 14, 30, 39, 75, 161, 165–
66, 168, 171, 172
relationality with, 169–70subject index 205