Yoga and Psychology: Language, Memory, and Mysticism

Index

active imagination, 64, 86 Adler, Gerhard, 57 Advaita Vedanta, 14, 16, 84, 85 āgama (verbal communication), 11ff., 17, 20, 23 archetype, 57, 58, 59, 60, 66, 68, 75 God archetype, 73–77, 86 Aristotle, 11 āsana, 37, 39, 47 Ātman, 16, 48 AUM, 17, 18, 19, 20, 23, 36, 78, 91 Aurobindo, Sri, 84 avidyā, 24, 25, 28, 32, 33, 43, 44, 95 Bhar .thari, 17, 21, 24, 41, 91, 95 as poet, 41ff. on hearing, 30–35 on speaking, 26–30 Vairāgya-Śataka, 41–48 Vākyapadīya, 21–40 Bhiksu, Vijñāna, 38 Brahman, 2, 16, 18, 23, 25, 82 Buddha, 6, 64, 77, 82, 92 Buddhist thought, 14, 77 Chapple, Christopher, 85 Chaudhuri, Haridas, 88 Christ, 74, 75, 76, 77, 81, 82 Christianity, 83, 86, 88 collective consciousness (buddhitattva), 27, 28, 29, 32 collective unconscious, 57, 58, 75 consciousness, 28, 29, 39, 43, 45, 48, 66, 68, 78, 83, 101 Copleston, Fredrick, 72 Crick, Francis, 54 Dasgupta, 27–28, 31, 95 dhāran .ā, 38, 39, 48 dharma, 16, 39 dhvani, 29, 30, 31, 32, 34, 39, 42 dhyāna, 38, 39, 48 dreams, 76 Eccles, Sir John, 53, 59, 91 ego, 2, 27, 28, 29, 34, 43, 58, 59, 60, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 81, 82, 84, 85, 86, 87 Eliade, Mircea, 1, 18, 20, 38, 83, 84 Evans-Wentz, W. Y., 56, 64 Fort, Andrew, 84, 85 freedom of choice, 53, 55, 56, 60, 91 Freud, S., 2, 7, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 59, 62, 86, 91, 92, 98 God, 73, 74, 75, 77, 81 guru, 3, 4, 78, 84, 92 113 index hearing, 30–40 Hick, John, 7, 89, 92, 105 Hubbard, A.M., 67 human nature, 2, 4, 7, 83–90, 91 perfectability of, 85 idea, 26, 34 individuation, 69, 86, 100 inference, 12 intuition, 65 Īśvara, 12–20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 35 I-tsing, 21, 41 Iyer, K. A. S., 22 James, William, 82 jīvan-mukti (living liberation), 84, 85, 92 Jīvan-Mukti-Viveka of Vidyaranya, 84 jñāna, 34, 79 Jung, Carl, 4, 6, 19, 56, 74, 79, 82, 83, 86, 89, 90, 91, 92, 98 acceptance of Patañjali’s Yoga, 61–69 and Karma, 56–60 and memory, 56–60, 63–64 and mysticism, 73–77 and perception, 65–67 The Holy Men of India, 74 Kale, M. R., 41 Kant, I., 83 karma, 1, 3, 15, 16, 23, 47, 51, 52, 53, 54, 56, 59, 84, 91, 98–99 Karma-sam .sāra, 19 knowledge, 67–69, 73 Kosambi, D. D., 41 language, 11ff., 23 power of ordinary words, 12–14 power of scriptural words, 14–20 See also psychological processes Leibniz, G. W., 52 Locke, John, 52 logos, 11 Maharshi, Ramana, 85 man .d .ala, 69, 76, 103 mantra, 3, 4, 18, 36, 37, 78, 91, 92 Manu, 13, 14, 36 meaning, 34, 38, 39, 67, 79 meditation, 58 memory, 51, 53, 54, 55, 57, 58, 59, 60, 91, 98 memory and the unconscious, 63–64 mescaline, 67 Miller, Barbara, 42 Mīmām . sā, 14 mind, 78 as active, 52 as passive, 52 See also consciousness moks .a, 1, 4, 6, 22, 23, 24, 35, 36, 39, 40, 45, 91 motivation, 54, 55, 60, 91 Mumme, Patricia, 84 mysticism, 71–82, 89 nāda, 30 Nietzsche, 11, 20 Nirvān .a, 2 niyamas, 36, 46–47 omniscience, 58, 59, 60, 64, 66, 83 Ornstein, Robert, 7, 88–89 Otto, Rudolf, 82 passion (rāga), 43, 44 Passmore, John, 89, 93 paśyanti vāk. See vāk Patañjali, 11, 12, 17, 21, 36, 40, 43, 45, 46, 51, 52, 54, 56, 58, 59, 60, 61, 63, 64, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 86, 89, 92 Pauli, Wolfgang, 65 perception, 12, 65–68, 80 extra-sensory (ESP), 67 supersensuous. See pratibhā phoneme, 31 Plato, 58 pleasure as pain in the making, 44 prajñā, 25, 39, 40, 67, 68, 69 prakti, 15, 24, 95 prān .a, 30, 34, 35, 37 prān .āyāma, 37, 38, 39, 47 pratibhā, 1, 7, 39, 40, 65, 66, 67, 77 pratyahāra, 37, 38, 47 Pribram, Karl, 53, 55 psychological processes in speaking, 26–30 in hearing, 30–35 114 INDEX Psychology, modern Western, 51, 83–92. See also Freud, Jung, Pribram...