An Introduction to Yoga

by Annie Wood Besant

• Foreword

• Lecture I: The Nature of Yoga
  • Chapter 1: The Meaning of the Universe
  • Chapter 2: The Unfolding of Consciousness
  • Chapter 3: The Oneness of the Self
  • Chapter 4: The Quickening of the Process of Self-Unfoldment
  • Chapter 5: Yoga is a Science
  • Chapter 6: Man a Duality
  • Chapter 7: States of Mind
  • Chapter 8: Samadhi
  • Chapter 9: The Literature of Yoga
  • Chapter 10: Some Definitions
  • Chapter 11: God Without and God Within
  • Chapter 12: Changes of Consciousness and Vibrations of Matter
  • Chapter 13: Mind
  • Chapter 14: Stages of Mind
  • Chapter 15: Inward and Outward-turned Consciousness
  • Chapter 16: The Cloud

• Lecture II: Schools of Thought
  • Chapter 1: Its Relation to Indian Philosophies
  • Chapter 2: Mind
  • Chapter 3: The Mental Body
  • Chapter 4: Mind and Self

• Lecture III: Yoga as Science
  • Chapter 1: Methods of Yoga
  • Chapter 2: To the Self by the Self
  • Chapter 3: To the Self through the Not-Self
  • Chapter 4: Yoga and Morality
  • Chapter 5: Composition of States of the Mind
  • Chapter 6: Pleasure and Pain

• Lecture IV: Yoga as Practice
  • Chapter 1: Inhibition of States of Mind
  • Chapter 2: Meditation with and without Seed
  • Chapter 3: The Use of Mantras
  • Chapter 4: Attention
  • Chapter 5: Obstacles to Yoga
  • Chapter 6: Capacities for Yoga
  • Chapter 7: Forthgoing and Returning
  • Chapter 8: Purification of Bodies
  • Chapter 9: Dwellers on the Threshold
  • Chapter 10: Preparation for Yoga
  • Chapter 11: The End