Consciousness, Indian Psychology and Yoga
| Preface | xiii | Kireet Joshi & Matthijs Cornelissen | |||
| Foreword | xvii | D. P. Chattopadhyaya | |||
| Contributors | xix | D. P. Chattopadhyaya | |||
| General Introduction | xvii | D. P. Chattopadhyaya | |||
| 1 | Yoga: Science and Technology of Consciousness | 3 | Kireet Joshi | ||
| 2 | Sri Aurobindo’s Evolutionary Ontology of Consciousness | 11 | Matthijs Cornelissen | ||
| 3 | Centrality of Consciousness in Indian Psychology | 53 | K. Ramakrishna Rao | ||
| 4 | The Theme of Consciousness in Indian Culture | 76 | N. Veezhinathan | ||
| II. SCHOOLS OF YOGA–SĀDHANĀ | |||||
| 5 | The Vedic Seer’s Quest for the Supramental Consciousness | 91 | S.P. Singh | ||
| 6 | The Tradition of the Buddhist Yoga | 104 | Karunesh Shukla | ||
| 7 | Stages of Spiritual Development in Jainism | 117 | Mukul Raj Mehta | ||
| 8 | Nature of Consciousness and Yoga in Kaṣmīra Ṥaiva Tantra | 123 | Kailash Pati Mishra | ||
| 9 | Chakra Meditation in Achieving Altered States of Consciousness | 130 | B. Mukhopadhyay & S. Renukadevi | ||
| 10 | Sikhism and the Yoga Tradition | 137 | D.S. Dhillon | ||
| 11 | Spiritual Experiences of Ramakrishna-Vivekananda | 145 | Swami Jitatmananda | ||
| 12 | The Science of Kriyā Yoga | 177 | Keshav Sharma | ||
| 13 | Essentials of Transformative Psychology | 191 | Ananda Reddy | ||
| III. PSYCHOLOGY AND THE INDIAN TRADITION: IN SEARCH OF A MEETING GROUND | |||||
| 14 | Challenges and Opportunities for Indian Psychology in a Rapidly Globalizing Post-modern World | 205 | Anand C. Paranjpe | ||
| 15 | Psychology in India: Past Trends and Future Possibilities | 224 | Suneet Varma | ||
| 16 | Relativism and Its Relevance for Psychology | 238 | Kundan Singh | ||
| 17 | Personal Growth and Psychology in India | 248 | V. George Mathew | ||
| 18 | Rising up to the Supramental Consciousness: The Need for a New Psychology | 257 | R.C. Pradhan | ||
| 19 | Psychology in India: A Future Perspective | 264 | Aster Patel | ||
| IV. INDIAN PSYCHOLOGY: SOME THEORETICAL ISSUES | |||||
| 20 | Yoga and Knowledge | 271 | Kireet Joshi | ||
| 21 | Old Ideas of Mind | 278 | Ananda Wood | ||
| 22 | The Concept of Mind in Orthodox Indian Thought: Its Implications for Modern Psychology | 296 | K. Srinivas & K. Krishna Mohan | ||
| 23 | An Information Theoretic Approach to the Issues of the Collective Unconscious and the Superconscious | 307 | P.G. Vaidya | ||
| 24 | Emotion in Modern Psychology and Indian Thought | 314 | Girishwar Misra | ||
| 25 | Indian Concepts of Personality | 332 | Adhikari Srikanta Dash & Mamata Rout | ||
| 26 | The Meeting of East and West: The Fusion of Vedānta and Western Psychology in Integral Psychology | 342 | Brant Cortright | ||
| 27 | Revitalizing Developmental Psychology: Sri Aurobindo’s Theory of Human Development | 353 | Monica Gupta | ||
| V. INDIAN PSYCHOLOGY APPLIED | |||||
| 28 | The Yogic View of Life with Special Reference to Medicine | 371 | R.L. Bijlani | ||
| 29 | A Holistic Model of Sustainable Development: An Indian Approach to Environmental Psychology | 379 | R.S. Pirta | ||
| 30 | The Flowering of Aravind Eye Care System | 391 | Pravir Malik | ||
| 31 | Spiritual Health of Organizations: A New Vision of Organizational Change in Rural Bank Development | 404 | Susmita Mukhopadhyay & Debdulal Dutta Roy | ||
| 32 | An Indian Approach of Psychotherapy: Sattvāvajaya – Concept and Application | 419 | K.M. Tripathi | ||
| 33 | Sahya: The Concept in Indian Philosophical Psychology and Its Contemporary Relevance | 426 | L. Sam S. Manickam | ||
| 34 | Spiritual Depths of Admiration in Family Therapy: Gṛhastha – Family Life as a Spiritual Path | 436 | Stuart Sovatsky | ||
| 35 | Intervention for Cancer through Integral Psychotherapy | 444 | Annalakshmi Narayanan | ||
| 36 | Yoga as an Intervention Strategy for Augmenting Spiritual Intelligence | 461 | Anamika Sharma & Madhu Jain | ||
| Index | 471 | ||||