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William Walker Atkinson
The Complete Works of Yogy Ramacharaka
The Inner Teachings of the Philosophies and Religions of India
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2017 OK Publishing
ISBN 978-80-7583-645-8
Table of Contents
Fourteen Lessons in Yogi Philosophy and Oriental Occultism
Advanced Course in Yogi Philosophy and Oriental Occultism
Hatha Yoga or the Yogi Philosophy of Physical Well-Being
The Science of Psychic Healing
Raja Yoga or Mental Development (A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga)
Gnani Yoga (A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga)
The Inner Teachings of the Philosophies and Religions of India
Mystic Christianity; Or, The Inner Teachings of the Master
The Practical Water Cure (As Practiced in India and Other Oriental Countries)
The Spirit of the Upanishads or the Aphorisms of the Wise
Bhagavad Gita or The Message of the Master
The Hindu-Yogi Science Of Breath (A Complete Manual of the Oriental Breathing Philosophy of Physical, Mental, Psychic and Spiritual Development)
CHAPTER III. THE EXOTERIC THEORY OF BREATH
CHAPTER IV. THE ESOTERIC THEORY OF BREATH
CHAPTER VI. NOSTRIL BREATHING VS. MOUTH BREATHING
CHAPTER VII. THE FOUR METHODS OF RESPIRATION
CHAPTER VIII. HOW TO ACQUIRE THE YOGI COMPLETE BREATH
CHAPTER IX. PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECT OF THE COMPLETE BREATH
CHAPTER X. A FEW BITS OF YOGI LORE
CHAPTER XI. THE SEVEN YOGI DEVELOPING EXERCISES
CHAPTER XII. SEVEN MINOR YOGI EXERCISES
CHAPTER XIII. VIBRATION AND YOGI RHYTHMIC BREATHING
CHAPTER XIV. PHENOMENA OF YOGI PSYCHIC BREATHING
CHAPTER XV. MORE PHENOMENA OF YOGI PSYCHIC BREATHING
CHAPTER XVI. YOGI SPIRITUAL BREATHING
CHAPTER I.
SALAAM
The Western student is apt to be somewhat confused in his ideas regarding the Yogis and their philosophy and practice. Travelers to India have written great tales about the hordes of fakirs, mendicants and mountebanks who infest the great roads of India and the streets of its cities, and who impudently claim the title "Yogi." The Western student is scarcely to be blamed for thinking of the typical Yogi as an emaciated, fanatical, dirty, ignorant Hindu, who either sits in a fixed posture until his body becomes ossified, or else holds his arm up in the air until it becomes stiff and withered and forever after remains in that position, or perhaps clenches his fist and holds it tight until his fingernails grow through the palms of his hands. That these people exist is true, but their claim to the title "Yogi" seems as absurd to the true Yogi as does the claim to the title "Doctor" on the part of the man who pares one's corns seem to the eminent surgeon, or as does the title of "Professor," as assumed by the street corner vendor of worm medicine, seem to the President of Harvard or Yale.
There have been for ages past in India and other Oriental countries men who devoted their time and attention to the development of Man, physically, mentally and spiritually. The experience of generations of earnest seekers has been handed down for centuries from teacher to pupil, and gradually a definite Yogi science was built up. To these investigations and teachings was finally applied the term "Yogi," from the Sanscrit word "Yug," meaning "to join." From the same source comes the English word "yoke," with a similar meaning. Its use in connection with these teachings is difficult to trace, different authorities giving different explanations, but probably the most ingenious is that which holds that it is intended as the Hindu equivalent for the idea conveyed by the English phrase, "getting into harness," or "yoking up," as the Yogi undoubtedly "gets into harness" in his work of controlling the body and mind by the Will.
Yoga is divided into several branches, ranging from that which teaches the control of the body, to that which teaches the attainment of the highest spiritual development. In the work we will not go into the