Sutras of the Inner Teacher : The Yoga of the Centre of Consciousness

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ISBN: 9781588320292 | 1588320294
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 7/1/2001

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The Yoga of the Centre of Consciousness describes the awakening and practices of the Inner Teacher. As a physician-scientist and a clinical psychologist the authors are initiates in the Himalayan Tradition of Yoga and students of the late Swami Rama.

Preface	p. 11
Introduction	p. 15
The Foundation	p. 33
The Centre of Consciousness	p. 33
Now begins instruction on how to work with the Centre of Consciousness	p. 33
The Centre of Consciousness is the Inner Teacher, the Inner Guru	p. 34
It is awakened through the grace of one's Spiritual Preceptor by initiation	p. 35
The Spiritual Preceptor is a messenger whose task is to deliver the wisdom of the sages of the Himalayan Tradition	p. 35
His or her task is also to introduce the qualified student to the teacher within	p. 35
Adhikara: Qualification	p. 38
The Centre of Consciousness awakens only in the qualified student	p. 38
Strict commitment to moral behaviour is assumed, both for qualification and even after the awakening of the Centre of Consciousness	p. 41
Otherwise there is risk of a fall	p. 41
The restraints (yamas) and observances (niyamas) of Raja Yoga form the core of morality	p. 43
Ahimsa (non-injury), satya (truthfulness), asteya (non-stealing), brahmacharya (continence) and aparigraha (nonpossessiveness) are the yamas (restraints)	p. 44
Shaucha (purity), santosha (contentment), tapas (austerity - physical and mental discipline), svadhyaya (scriptural study and mantra repetition) and Ishvara pranidhana (devotion to God) are the niyamas (observances)	p. 47
Tapas, svadhyaya and Ishvara pranidhana when practised together constitute Kriya Yoga, which makes up the core of yoga at this stage of the Spiritual Path by providing the practice itself, the map to guide the journey, and the goal and guidance from the Centre of Consciousness	p. 48
Ishvara Pranidhana, surrender to God, awakens with the Centre of Consciousness	p. 50
The Personality	p. 51
The aspirant is body, breath, mind and soul or spirit	p. 51
Manifested reality (the universe or the individual personality) is consciousness enrobed in energy arranged in layers within a vibrational spectrum ranging from matter through the subtle (pranic) body (which is accessed by breath), to several layers of mind	p. 53
These interpenetrating energy fields of higher and higher vibrational frequency constitute the personality which is suffused with consciousness emanating from the core	p. 53
The experience of physical matter is a construction of the five senses	p. 55
Prana (subtle energy fields) is the missing link between mind and body	p. 56
Breath is the gateway to control of the psychoneuroimmune system and host resistance	p. 58
Svara yoga is the science of breath rhythms	p. 60
All of the body is in the mind, but not all of the mind is in the body	p. 62
Mind continuously constructs your experience of reality through models of the world	p. 66
Manifested reality is holographic. There is both a cosmic and an individual person. The microcosm reflects the macrocosm	p. 68
The Centre of Consciousness from which consciousness flows in various degrees and grades lies at the core of the personality	p. 70
The Atman or Self at the core is pure Consciousness. The ultimate reality is Consciousness or Spirit	p. 71
The scientific study of spirituality is the scientific study of Consciousness	p. 72
Yoga is the science of spirituality	p. 73
The Experience	p. 76
Mystical Experience of the Centre of Consciousness	p. 76
We are citizens of two worlds	p. 76
The awakening of the Centre of Consciousness is a qualitatively new and unique experience in the inner world	p. 77
It is possible to experience Spirit and not to recognize It	p. 78
The initial experience of the Centre of Consciousness can be disturbing	p. 79
The universe of manifestation is like one's own dream-creation, like an image reflected in a mirror	p. 80
It is a secret that once revealed remains a secret	p. 81
The Sages describe It as That. There is no substitute for direct Realization	p. 81
The Centre of Consciousness is Consciousness-Without-an-Object	p. 82
The Centre of Consciousness is a still, but effulgent, Conscious Presence, Silence or "Thatness". It is a Void or Emptiness that paradoxically is also a Plenum or Fullness. It pervades all of inner space and holds all manifestation, all inner mental content, within Itself like space pervades and holds the contents of a room, and yet is unaffected by them	p. 82
Space is Self and Self is Space. In inner space the wise find the Intelligence of pure Consciousness, and ultimate Truth in the effulgent Void	p. 84
From the Centre of Consciousness comes the gentle whispering of the Inner Teacher. Love whispers	p. 86
The Warrior Within	p. 88
In consciousness the Inner and the Outer teachers are One and the Same	p. 88
The Voice of the Master is the Voice of the Silence	p. 89
The Inner Ashram has opened	p. 90
Having been tested and found to be qualified, the student is accepted as a disciple. The Inner Teacher has responded with the grace of a Master	p. 90
The relationship is eternal	p. 90
The entry to the Path has at last been found	p. 91
The Centre of Consciousness calls the student to discipleship	p. 91
To cross over the threshold the student must die to the world	p. 92
Total surrender and commitment are required, for the Inner Teacher ultimately is one's own Self	p. 92
The Curriculum	p. 93
The First Curriculum	p. 93
Learn to walk in joy	p. 94
Learn integrity in all things	p. 95
Learn unconditional love	p. 97
Learn the lesson of surrender	p. 99
Learn that wherever you go, you carry the Light within	p. 101
Learn to live with high inner energy flows	p. 102
Learn the art of intuition. Herein lies the seed of Jnana Yoga	p. 104
Intuition is the Voice of the Silence	p. 106
One becomes a spiritual guide spontaneously	p. 108
Learn to be selfish! Share what you have been given that you may receive more	p. 110
Learn the art of conscious death	p. 113
Learn the importance of positive thoughts and emotions	p. 115
Learn the art of creativity and effective action	p. 118
Accept that the disciple is protected by the Tradition. All is well; it really is!	p. 120
Learn discrimination in all things. Common sense is rather uncommon	p. 120
Learn to accept responsibility for Who you really are. Claim your power	p. 120
In learning to act from the Centre, use the power of "as if"	p. 122
Learn the art of unceasing worship. This is the essence of Bhakti Yoga	p. 124
Learn never to take the Inner Teacher for granted. Learn to take the Inner Teacher for granted!	p. 128
Working with the Centre of Consciousness is practical	p. 129
The Attunement	p. 133
Attaining Spiritual Devotion	p. 133
Attainment of the Centre of Consciousness is threefold	p. 133
One is purification through detachment	p. 134
One is unceasing worship with a still, one-pointed mind	p. 134
Most important is the grace of God through the blessing of a great soul	p. 134
Spiritual devotion is also Ishvara Pranidhana	p. 136
The experience of Ishvara is both personal and transpersonal	p. 137
Enlightened Masters are manifestations of Ishvara	p. 138
Hiranyagarbha alone is the teacher of yoga	p. 138
Transpersonal Visioning: The Art of Loving Wisdom in Action	p. 139
Understand the creative power of paradigms	p. 140
To radically change your life the most powerful thing you can do is to change your models of reality	p. 140
Generate a life vision of extraordinary beingness under the guidance of the Centre of Consciousness	p. 142
Perform actions established in yoga	p. 143
You can only create what you can imagine	p. 145
Recreate yourself under the guidance of Spirit in increments until your life vision of extraordinary beingness is fully manifested	p. 147
Transform your identity	p. 147
Recreate your life context	p. 150
Alter your way of evaluating what is real	p. 153
The universe restructures itself to fit your new models of reality	p. 156
Follow your Centre without wavering	p. 157
Karma Yoga is action flowing from the Centre of Consciousness	p. 158
Meditation	p. 161
With the opening of the Centre of Consciousness meditation moves from method to experience, from doing to being, from effort to absorption	p. 161
With the opening of the Centre of Consciousness meditation moves from activity to communion, to at-one-ment	p. 163
The three-fold distinctions of subject-object consciousness collapse into the unity of absorption	p. 165
Meditation gradually becomes spontaneous	p. 167
There are yogas of life and yogas of discipline	p. 167
Meditation is the beginning and the end of all of these	p. 168
There are as many Paths as there are Pilgrims	p. 171
The mantram comes from and goes back to the Centre of Consciousness	p. 173
In the Centre of Consciousness, love, wisdom and action are unified	p. 174
From the Centre of Consciousness flow both witnessing awareness and awareness with intent	p. 174
Surrender all practice to the Centre of Consciousness	p. 176
Life becomes a living meditation	p. 176
The Blessing	p. 180
The Opportunity	p. 180
To come under the guidance of a Master is a blessing rare, and of the Inner Teacher, rarer still	p. 180
Learn to take the essence of such a life	p. 181
The Essential Path	p. 182
The core practices for the Path are now five	p. 182
Act with unyielding integrity and discrimination through moral behaviour as guided by Spirit, as though death were looking over your shoulder	p. 182
Develop quietness, calmness, stillness, tranquillity and equanimity of mind, breath and body	p. 182
Purify the personality through worldly detachment and surrender to the Centre	p. 182
Develop a one-pointed mind	p. 182
In all conditions and through all experiences meditate with unceasing worship of the Centre of Consciousness	p. 183
But foremost is the grace of the Master, the Inner Teacher	p. 183
End Notes	p. 185
The neurophysiology of emotions	p. 185
Psychoneuroimmunology	p. 190
Neurocardiology	p. 191
The holographic universe	p. 193
The scientific study of consciousness	p. 195
Consciousness in Advaita Vedanta	p. 208
Subpersonalities	p. 209
Death	p. 211
Life Planning	p. 216
Background Visioning	p. 221
Glossary	p. 225
Bibliography	p. 231
Index	p. 239
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