Epistemology of Yoga

by Swami Krishnananda

This book consists of a series of eighteen lectures that Swami Krishnananda delivered to the students of the Yoga Vedanta Forest Academy from December 1981 to February 1982 on epistemology, which is the theory of knowledge, in regard to yoga and the attainment of the Ultimate Reality.

Table of Contents:

• Publisher's Note
• Preface
• The Need for Real Self-Analysis
• The Epistemological Predicament
• Self-knowledge is World-knowledge
• Knowledge of the World
• Yoga - The Science of Living
• The Character of the Ultimate Reality of the Universe
• Comparative Philosophy on the Ultimate Reality
• The Mystery of Moksha
• The Meaning of True Knowledge
• The Difficulty of the Mind
• The Importance of Self-control
• Movement Towards the Self
• The Obstacles and the Stages of Knowledge
• The Essentialities in the Stages of Meditation
• The Great Yoga of Meditation
• The Force of Reality
• True Yoga Begins with Samadhi
• Conclusion.

About the Author:

Swami Krishnananda was born on the 25th of April, 1922 into a highly religious and orthodox Brahmin family, and was given the name Subbaraya. At an early age, he had become very well versed in the Sanskrit language and its sacred texts. The longing for seclusion pulled him to Rishikesh, where he arrived in the summer of 1944 and met Swami Sivananda, who initiated the young Subbaraya into Sannyasa on the sacred day of Makara Sankranti, the 14th of January, 1946, and gave him the name Swami
Krishnananda.

Swami Krishnananda is a highly respected philosophical writer, especially on metaphysics, psychology and sociology. Swamiji's books are known the world over as excellent presentations of answers to the daily questions that arise in the day-to-day confrontations of a human being. Swami Krishnananda was the General Secretary of The Divine Life Society from 1961 until 2001. Swamiji was a direct disciple of His Holiness Swami Sivananda, founder of this Institution. Swamiji attained Mahasamadhi in 2001.