232 IndexHarrison, George, 19
haṭha yoga
and Abhedananda, 45, 131
and Kriya Yoga, 93, 133– 135, 204n9
and Self- Realization Fellowship, 17
and Vivekananda, 41
and Yogananda, 4, 17, 113, 126– 135,
140– 143, 145, 147, 174, 189
and Yogi Ramacharaka, 131– 132
and Yogi Wassan, 47
healing
and Bikram Choudhury, 181, 182
and metaphysical religion, 10, 58, 65,
81, 144, 205n40
and Roman Ostoja, 118– 119
and Yogananda, 112, 113, 114,
151, 163
health
as goal of āsana, 129, 158
Progressive Era notions of, 130– 133
as reflection of power, 48
as salvific, 10, 153
and Self- Realization Fellowship
lessons, 120
and Vivekananda, 44– 45
yogic methods of, 28, 45
heart, stopping of, 115, 116, 121, 122,
132, 150, 172, 180
Heelas, Paul, 58, 144
Himalayas
Babaji in, 92, 173, 176
as imagined locus of Yogis, 47, 89, 95,
118, 188
and Yogananda, 96, 162, 163, 164, 166
Hindu(ism), 23, 34, 74, 129
and asceticism, 30– 31
and the Buddha, 38
neo- , 22, 38, 39, 45, 71, 99
and race in the United Stated, 46, 128
spiritual teachers in the United States,
50, 53, 103
unity with Christianity, 104, 151
and Vivekananda, 15, 39, 45, 75
yoga as, 5
and Yogananda, 126, 146, 150
Yogi as, 2, 31, 39, 40, 76, 152
Hiranyaloka, 173, 209n46
The Holy Science (1894), 95
Houdini, Harry, 33, 115
How to Be a Yogi (1902), 45, 131
hypnotism, 192n8, 201n17. See also
magnetism and Mesmerism
as definitive of Yogi, 6, 9, 15, 45
as distinct from Mesmerism/
magnetism, 65– 66, 112
as explanation for superpowers, 31,
33– 34, 57, 160
as malicious, 17, 52, 53, 66
and Pierre Bernard, 48
and Roman Ostoja, 116, 119
women as victims of, 53, 55
and Yogananda, 66, 97, 98, 108immigration, 12, 18, 46, 49, 54, 128,
188, 189
immortality
and Babaji, 88, 92, 93, 170, 176
and Bikram Choudhury, 184
as human destiny, 150, 151,
152, 177
of Yogis, 6, 16, 25
In Tune with the Infinite (1897),
58, 129, 144
Indian rope trick, 33– 34
Iwamura, Jane Naomi, 13– 14
Iyengar, B. K. S., 180, 189Jackson, Carl T., 78, 126
Jain, Andrea R., 4, 7, 133
jīvanmukta, 23, 175
Jobs, Steve, 19
Jyoti Mudra, 134