Preface
Introduction
List of Abbreviations
I. Consciousness and Body
Chapter 1
Reflections on Liberated Consciousness
Ian Whicher
Chapter 2
On Metaphysics and Imagination (bhāvanā);
a Note on Patañjali’s Siddhis as Yogic Visualization
Yohanan Grinshpon
Chapter 3
The Perfect Body in Classical Yoga Philosophy
Ana Laura Funes Maderey
II. Realism vs. Idealism
Chapter 4
The Purported Realism of Classical Yoga
Mikel Burley
Chapter 5
Realism and Omniscience in the Yogasūtra
Kevin Perry Maroufkhani and Arindam Charkrabarti
III. Pātañjala Yoga and Other Traditions
Chapter 6
Yoga and the Yogasūtra in Classical Darśana
Stephen Phillips
Chapter 7
Can there be a Science of Meditation?
Arindam Chakrabarti
IV. Suffering, Death, and Return to Origins
Chapter 8
The Making and Unmaking of the Self: Patañjali’s Yogasūtra and the Experience of Trauma
Stephanie Corigliano
Chapter 9
Abhiniveśa: Pātañjala-yoga on Death and Life
Daniel Raveh
Chapter 10
Activity, Cessation, and a Return to Origins in the Yoga Sūtra
Christopher Key Chapple
Bibliography
List of Contributors