This memoir details the story of a sadhak, once a dyed-in-the-wool agnostic, who came to the practice of the Integral Yoga after a life-altering spiritual experience in his twenty-fourth year. He continued to coast along as an agnostic for about a decade after this experience, blind to reality, simply because it did not 'fit' into the scheme of things that his rational mind could then construct. After several knocks from the Divine being, however, he came around and is now a firmly convinced believer, not in this or that particular god, but in the Supreme being and all that flows from Him.
Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Part One: The Call -- God Comes Knocking -- A Little Background -- Aftermath of Spiritual Experience -- Return to India and to Quiet -- Santa Barbara Again -- God Proposes, Man Disposes! -- Part Two: Reminder from God -- Panic Attack and Anxiety Disorder -- Gopi Krishna and Kundalini -- Return to Pondicherry -- Part Three: The Road to Integral Yoga -- Raja Yoga, or the ‘Royal’ Yoga -- Hewing Through the Raja Yoga -- The Dalai Lama and Shantideva -- Infatuation with Shantideva; Outgrowing Buddhism -- First Encounters with Sri Aurobindo and the Mother -- Transition to the Integral Yoga -- Perilous Outer Life -- Resolution -- Part Four: The Parts and Planes of the Being -- The Life of Sadhana Begins -- The Terms of the Integral Psychology -- The Parts and Planes of the Being -- Functions of the PPB - I -- Functions of the PPB - II -- Functions of the PPB - III -- Functions of the PPB - IV -- The Triple Transformation -- Summing Up -- Part Five: The Paraxes of the Integral Yoga -- The ‘Tools’ of the Integral Yoga -- Meditation in the Integral Yoga -- Work in the Integral Yoga -- Devotion in the Integral Yoga -- Aspiration, Rejection, Surrender -- Part Six: Wrapping Up -- The Experience in the Light of the Integral Yoga -- Spiritual Experience and Medical Conditions -- Philosophy and Spirituality -- Why the Integral Yoga? -- Further Reading -- Index
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