Understanding yoga psychology indigenous psychology with global relevance 1st Edition Anand 1000883256 9781000883251

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• ISBN 10: 1000883256
• ISBN 13: 9781000883251
• Author: Anand C. Paranjpe

This book is an introduction to Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtras and its core concepts about the self, suffering and consciousness. It highlights its relevance to contemporary theories and applications in the fields of psychology and health. The book adopts sociology of knowledge as a broad framework as it delves into the core concepts of yoga psychology in the Yoga Sūtras in the context of worldviews and frameworks present in the Upanisads and the Sāṁkhya system. It provides an interpretation of Kriya Yoga and its practice in pursuit of spiritual upliftment, and concept of Samādhi or the transformation of consciousness using the language and idiom of contemporary psychology. It draws parallels between yoga psychology and the ideas of Husserl, Jung and Piaget while reconciling the seemingly disparate cultural, religious, spiritual, and intellectual traditions of eastern spirituality and schools of modern psychology.

Table of contents:

1. Introduction and context of inquiry

2. The worldview of the Veda and Upaniṣads: The background for Sāṁkhya and Yoga

3. Sāṁkhya system: The conceptual framework of Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtras

4. Patañjali’s eight-fold path (Aṣṭāṅga Yoga): General outline and basic concepts

5. The concept of afflictions (kleśas): and Kriyā Yoga to deal with them

6. The transformation of consciousness in Samādhi (I): An account from inside the texts

7. The transformation of consciousness in Samādhi (II): Looking from outside in

8. Yoga as Self-realization

9. Back to the context: Where does Yoga psychology stand in psychology today?

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