"How To Be a Yogi" (like Christ)

Swami Abhedananda (amazon.com); Dhr. Seven (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit yoga

How to Be a Yogi, including a chapter titled: "Was Christ a Yogi?"

(Swami Abhedananda) The title’s introductory chapter describes the true province of religion in India and the full significance of the word "spirituality" as it is understood there.

Next follows a comprehensive definition of the term "yoga," with short chapters on each of the five paths to which it is applied and their respective practices.

An exhaustive exposition of the Science of Breathing (ecstatic breathwork or pranayama) and its bearing on the highest spiritual development (samadhi) shows the fundamental physiological principles on which the whole training of Yoga is based.

The concluding chapter, under the title "Was Christ a Yogi?" makes plain the direct relation existing between the lofty teachings of Vedanta (the best of the Vedas) and the religious faiths of the West.

• Paperback for $5.50 (with other formats and editions)
• Right samadhi ("stillness") in Buddhist Eightfold Path
• Don't "control" breath (prana, "lifeforce"); watch it
• Mindfulness of Breath Discourse: Ānāpānasati Sutra