A Study of Pleasure and PainTheosophical Press, 1962 - 97 من الصفحات The theme of this book is that pain is functional in the advancement and enrichment of life in nature and in man, therefore it should be received with understanding and consideration. The arguments found within are purely scientific and illustrated by examples in the lives of common people. Fully discussed are the topics of how pain arises and ceases and the different kinds of pain. |
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الصفحة 56
... Patanjali , the purpose of the Raja Yoga philosophy and practice of meditation is to control the ideas in the mind , especially this one , whereby the Looker ( the self ) will reside in his own proper nature , failing which he remains ...
... Patanjali , the purpose of the Raja Yoga philosophy and practice of meditation is to control the ideas in the mind , especially this one , whereby the Looker ( the self ) will reside in his own proper nature , failing which he remains ...
الصفحة 70
... upon words , but I reflect that reality means royalty , and royalty is what is above the law , above restrictions , somewhat as Patanjali dared to offer a definition of God as - to put the idea in modern words - that being who 70.
... upon words , but I reflect that reality means royalty , and royalty is what is above the law , above restrictions , somewhat as Patanjali dared to offer a definition of God as - to put the idea in modern words - that being who 70.
الصفحة 90
... Patanjali added that ad- vanced man has also an instinct to fulfilment ( apavarga ) . The two things - the dead and the alive - are both obviously necessary to this business of living . One of them cannot be de- rived from the other ...
... Patanjali added that ad- vanced man has also an instinct to fulfilment ( apavarga ) . The two things - the dead and the alive - are both obviously necessary to this business of living . One of them cannot be de- rived from the other ...
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Pain Among the Animals | 7 |
Plants Animals and Babies | 13 |
Old Age and the Stages of Life | 19 |
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action activity animal antelope anxiety attention awakening better Bhagavad Gita bodily body Buddha called cause Chapter coherence comes consciousness death desires doctrine emotional pains enhancement enjoying enjoyment Epictetus Epicurean evolution example experience extent eyes fact faculties Father feeling function further give grow Hindu human hunger ice-cream idea impulse individual intellect intelligence interest Jesus Julian Huxley kind knowledge law of karma legs living look lower mind material forms matter means meditation memory ment mental merely modern nature nirvana object observed old age one's organs ovum paramecium Patanjali perhaps person philosopher picture pleasure present psychosis purusha realization reason regard Sankhya Sanskrit seen self-image sense sexual selection Sir Edwin Arnold sometimes speak stages Stoic Theosophical Society Theosophists things thinking thought tion tree trouble true truth uncon unity word Yoga Yoga Sutras