Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom

meditation in managing, 80-81
yoga in managing, 79-80
Stretching, 33-38
Suffering, 52
Superiority, avoiding, 58
Supta Virasana (on bolster), 269, 269
Surrender to God, 263-64
Survival, 114-15
Sustained practice (tapas), 94, 102-3,
212,257-58, 263
Suzuki, D.T., 247
Svadhyaya (self-study and self­
knowledge), xxi-xxii, 3, 9, 94,
102-3,169, 175-76,178, 212,
257-58, 263
Svatmarama, 76
Synthesis (vicara), 39

T

Tadasana (mountain pose), 7, 108

Ta mas (mass or inertia), 45, 183, 207

Tapas (sustained practice), 94, 102-3,

212,257-58, 263

Ta smasic sleep, 154, 158

Technology, 78

Temptation, 101-2

Testimony, 161

Throat, 38, 74

Time,43-44, 57, 142,232-37

To tal abosorption. See Union

To xins, 25

Triangle pose (Trikonasana), 61-62, 223

Tr uth, 19, 252-53, 257

u

Understretching, 34

Union (samadhi)

concept of, 214-16

divine body and, 214 -25

experience of, 186

final integration of, xiv, 224-25

freedom and, 228-30

kaivalya and, 224-25

kundalini energy and, 222-23

manolaya and, 21 H

in petals of yo�a, I 0, l.l, 17-1 H

physil·:ll has is of, ll '1-lO

problems of, 217 -1 8

Ramakrishna and, 86

reaching, 201

sabija samadhi and, 218

seeking, 223-24

self and, 215

sleep and, 158

state of, 215-17

Universal consciousness, 169

Universal ethics, 246-50

Universal intelligence, 68

Universal moral commandments

(yama), 10, 176,247,250-57

Universal Reality, 8-9

Universal Soul, 9-10

Upavista Konasana, 269, 269

Upeksa (cultivation of indifference), 95

Uttanasana (resting head on chair), 267,

267

v

Va iragya (detachment), 93-94, 99,

244-4 5

Va naprasthasrama (third stage of life),

244-45

Vertical ascending, 44

Vertical descending, 44

Vertical dynamic extension, 35-36

Vibrancy (rajas), 45, 207

Vibration, 205

Vicara (reasoning), 93

Vicara (synthesis), 39

Vijnanamaya kosa. See Intelligent body;

Sheaths of being

Vikalpa (imagination or fantasy), 153,

156-57, 201

Viloma Pranayama, 269, 269

Viparita Dandasana (on two stools),

268, 268

Viparita Karani pose, 269, 269

Viparyaya (wrong knowledge or

misconception), 153, 164

Virtue, 86, 96, 101

Virya (courage), 94

Vishnu, 252

Vital energy, 102. See also Energy body

Vitarka (analysis), 39, 154

Vitruvius Man, 41

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