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| Yoga Sutras | |
| 1. What is Philosophy? |  |
| 2. Why Yoga? What are its sources? | |
| 3. What is Patanjalis scheme of the exposition of his subject? | |
| 4. What is the root cause of suffering? What is its outcome? | |
| 5. What is release from suffering? What is its primary means? | |
| 6. What is the way to acquire the primary means to liberation? | |
| 7. What is the mind? What is its operational setup? | |
| 8. How to control the mind? What are the aids to control? | |
| 9. What are the obstacles to control of the mind and how to overcome them? | |
| 10. What are the incidental achievements of Yoga and how does Yoga view them | |
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Baghavad Gita |
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| 1. What is the Bhagavad-gita ? | |
| 2. What is the background of the Bhagavad-gita ? | |
| 3. What are the goals of life and how does the BG handle them? | |
| 4. Where do we stand from the philosophical view-point? | |
| 5. What are the basic concepts of Indian philosophy? | |
| 6. What is the central theme of the BG? | |
| 7. The Yoga of Action:Action without Involvement | |
| 8. The Development of the Ideal of Renunciation | |
| 9. The Yoga of Renunciation | |
| 10. The Yoga of Spirit al Knowledge | |
| 11. The Yoga of Devotion | |
| 12. The Yoga of Meditation | |
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The Upanishads |
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| 1. Vedic literature and the place of Upanisads in it | |
| 2. The principal Upanisads: Extent, contents and style | |
| 3. The Ultimate Reality | |
| 4. The Embodied Soul | |
| 5. The World | |
| 6. Liberation and its means | |
| 7. An ana ysis of the soul’s personality | |
| 8. Mind-training in the Upanisads:The Upasanas | |
| 9. Literary images in the Upanisads | |
| 10. Upanisads and the later philosophical schools | |
| 11. Words as vehicles of abstract thinking | |
| 12. Upanisads: A cross section | |