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YOGA
"It is by studying the microcosm that we can understand the
macocosm; it is though our own impermanent being that we can
reach the Universal Being. It is in the caven of our heart that we
can realize the immensity of spaces, and by controlling our own
vital rhythms that we can escape the power of time. It is by
reaching the source of life that we can escape the power of death.
It is by exploring the unknown spheres within ourselves that we
can visit the celestial and infenal worlds. "
- The Author
One of the most distinguished living Orientalists, Alain Danielou spent
more than twenty years in India studying music and philosophy with
eminent pandits of the Hindu tradition. In this book he gives a fully
authentic account - based entirely on original published and unpublished
Sanskrit sources -of the methods of Yoga in its diferent forms, including
techniques of the more challenging "let-hand" paths. Of special interest
is his insight into the unique requirements and and capacities of today's
aspirant and the specific practices appropriate to Western students.
Danielou is also the author of the acclaimed Gods of India, Shlva and
Dionysus, and While The Gds Play.
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MASTERING THE SECRETS OF
MATTER AND THE UNIVERSE
ALAIN
DANIELOU
Inner Traditions International
Rochester, Vermont
Inner Traditions Intenational
One Park Street
Rochester, Venont 05 767
Copyright
©
1991 by Alain Danielou
First published in 1949 under the title
Yoga: The Method of Re-integration
by
Johnson Publications, London
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any
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Danielou, Alain.
Yoga: mastering the secrets of matter and the universe I Alain Danielou.
p.cm.
Reprint. Originally published: London: Johnson Publications, 1949.
ISBN 0-8928 1-301 -6
1. Yoga. 2. Hatha yoga. I. Title.
BLl238.52.D361990
90-43831
294.5'43)c20
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Contents
1
Introduction
Part
I:
The Five Main Methods of Yoga
I:
Hatha Yoga-Reintegration trough Strength
31
33
II:
The Two First Steps of Hatha Yoga
III:
The Third Step of Hatha Yoga
40
IV:
The Muscular Contractions (Bandhas) and the
Gestures (Mudr�s)
52
63
V:
The Six Purificatory Acts (Shat Karma)
71
VI:
The Fourth Step of Hatha Yoga
VII:
The Fifth Step of Hatha Yoga
84
VIII:
The Last Three Steps, or Inner Stage, of Hatha
Yoga
86
90
IX:
R�ja Yoga, or the Royal Way to Reintegration
X:
Mantra Yoga, or Reintegration through
Hermetic Formulae
97
106
XI:
Laya Yoga, or Reintegration by Mergence
XII:
Shiva Yoga, or Reintegration into the Lord of
Sleep
110
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