India has a rich tradition of meditative practices designed to
study the phenomenon of consciousness. From the distant past to the
present, India has evolved a unique psychological culture with
grand unifying themes and universal modes of meditative practice.
This book provides a detailed analysis of classical and modern
Indian views on consciousness along with their related meditative
methods. It offers a critical analysis of three distinct trends of
Indian thought, viz., a dualistic mode of understanding and
realizing consciousness in Hindu Samkhya, an interactive mode in
early Buddhist abhidhamma, and the evolutionary transformational
mode in the teachings of the twentieth-century sage Sri Aurobindo.
This book explores the unifying features in Indian first person
practices with regard to consciousness and the importance of these
applied psychological practices and their associated understanding
of our conscious inner lives. The most striking feature of the work
is that side by side theoretical exposition of consciousness, it
includes a number of worksheets which explain how to use meditation
to achieve relaxation as well as cognitive 'maps' of the different
levels of conscious states and instruction and how one can traverse
from one state to another. The final chapter explores Sri Aurobindo
who introduced new and decisive Indian spiritual thought and
practice to India in the form of Integral Yoga. This innovative
book will be of interest to scholars studying Indian philosophy,
Indian religion and the emerging field of contemplation studies.
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