02102nam a22002777a 4500 51537 51537 20190731152940.0 190731b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9789381406656 :International Book Distributors Flat No 14, Prakash Apartment 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi :114146 20/07/2019 181.45 PHI Phillips, Stephen H Yoga, karma, and rebirth : a brief history and philosophy / Stephen H Phillips New York : Columbia University Press, ©2009. viii, 358 pages 24cm. 1399 Theory and practice -- Principles of yoga practice and types of yoga theory -- The yoga class -- Yoga literature and classical philosophies -- Yoga and metaphysics -- Yogic self-monitoring -- Yoga on philosophy's mind-body problem -- Mind-body interactive dualism -- Yogic control and integration: spiritual holism -- Karma -- Dispositions -- Ahimsa, nonharmfulness -- Karma yoga -- Karmic justice -- Rebirth -- Personal identity -- Translife consciousness -- Arguments for and against -- Powers -- Holistic health -- Extraordinary emotion: Bhakti (devotional love), rasa (relish), and anada (bliss -- Psychic transformation. For serious yoga practitioners curious to know the ancient origins of the art, Stephen Phillips, a professional philosopher and sanskritist with a long-standing personal practice, lays out the philosophies of action, knowledge, and devotion as well as the processes of meditation, reasoning, and self-analysis that formed the basis of yoga in ancient and classical India and continue to shape it today. In discussing yoga's fundamental commitments, Phillips explores traditional teachings of hatha yoga, karma yoga, bhakti yoga, and tantra, and shows how such core concepts as s Philosphy Ancient, medieval, & Eastern philosophy Eastern philosophy Yoga. Karma Wiedergeburt Phillips, Stephen H BOOK 0 0 ddc 0 1 SNUL SNUL 2019-07-31 International Book Distributors 1399.00 0 181.45 PHI 26501 2019-07-31 00:00:00 2019-07-31 BOOK