Yoga for the West

by Swami Sivananda

The present work, Yoga for the West, is meant not only for the westerners, but also for all true seekers in the path of Yoga. This book is bound to quench the spiritual thirst in thousands of souls all over the world. It will be observed from a glance through theses pages that this book brings Yoga within the reach of all, dispels wrong notions of Yoga as a Mystery of the Recluse, and awakens every man and woman to the truth that Yoga is the way of life.

Table of Contents:

• Publishers Note
• This Is Yoga
• God Exists: the Proofs
• Nature of God
• The Goal of Life
• What Does Yoga Teach You?
• The First Part of Yoga-Practice
• Guiding Lights
• Key to Peace
• Yogic Home Exercises
• The Science of Pranayama
• Self-Culture
• Meditation
• Yoga Meditations-I
• Yoga Meditations-II
• Guide to Meditation
• Cosmic Consciousness
• The State of a Realised Yogi
• Mystic Experience
• Marks of Spiritual Progress
• Appendix: Wisdom of Sivananda.

About the Author:

Sri Swami Sivananda, born on the 8th September, 1887, in the illustrious family of Sage Appayya Dikshita and several other renowned saints and savants, Sri Swami Sivananda had a natural flair for a life devoted to the study and practice of Vedanta.

He was an inborn eagerness to serve all and an innate feeling of unity with all mankind. He is the author of over 300 volumes and has disciples all over the world, belonging to all nationalities, religions and creeds. To read his works is to drink at the Fountain of Wisdom Supreme.