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Contemplative Mastery — Four Stages of Spiritual Development (Vols 1–4 + Appendices)
Contents — 25 chapters
- Stage 1 — The Practitioner (Prathamkalpika)
- Stage 2 — The Honey-Bearer (Madhupratika)
- Stage 3 — Master of Elements (Bhutendriyajay)
- Stage 4 — The Liberated Being (Atikrantabhavaniya)
- Volume 1: Foundations of Contemplative Mastery
- Stage 3: The Master of Elements (Bhutendriyajay)
- Neutral Constitution (Pitta/Fire-Water Dom
- PART III: CORE PRACTICES FOR ALL CONSTITUTIONAL TYPES
- PART IV: DAILY PRACTICE INTEGRATION
- Service Integration
- Constitution
- Sacred Sound and Mantra Science
- Introduction: From Practice to Living Realization
- Teaching Authorization Levels
- Establishing a Complete Practice Center
- Collaboration with Academic Institutions
- Proper Response to Advanced Experiences
- The Ultimate Recognition
- Contemplative Mastery Appendices
- Universal Principles for Magnetic Constitution
- Appendix B: Universal Safety and Contraindications
- Appendix E: Sanskrit and Traditional Terminology Glossary
- Research Validation Summary
- Appendix G: Research Bibliography
- Appendix J: Global Network Directory and Contacts
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Nath / Sahajiya tradition (sahaja doctrine)Indian tantric yoga · c. 8th–12th c. CE onwardgrounded in · high confidence
“O servant, where dost thou seek Me? Lo! I am beside thee. I am neither in temple nor in mosque: I am neither in Kaaba nor in Kailash: neither am I in rites and ceremonies, nor in Yoga and renunciation.”Read in full — in the Lycaeum →Songs of Kabir — trans. Rabindranath Tagore, with an introduction by Evelyn Underhill (1915)cited from Sacred Texts— Songs of Kabir, poem I, trans. Rabindranath Tagore (1915)
PlotinusNeoplatonism · 204–270 CEparallel to · medium confidence
“This is the life of the gods and of godlike and blessed men, a liberation from the alien that besets us here, a life taking no pleasure in the things of earth, a flight of the alone to the Alone.”Read in full — our archive →from the Internet Archive— Enneads VI.9.11, trans. Stephen MacKenna
The Bhagavadgita, with Sanatsugatiya & Anugita (SBE Vol. 8)Hindu / Vedanta (Smriti) · c. 200 BCE–200 CE; SBE 1882grounded in · high confidence
“Your business is with action alone, not by any means with fruit. Let not the fruit of action be your motive to action. Let not your attachment be (fixed) on inaction.”Read in full — our archive →from Sacred Texts— Bhagavadgîtâ, Ch. II.47 — trans. Kâshinâth Trimbak Telang, SBE Vol. 8
The Dhammapada & Sutta-Nipata (SBE Vol. 10)Buddhist / Theravada (Pali) · c. 300–100 BCE; SBE 1881grounded in · high confidence
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts.”Read in full — our archive →from Sacred Texts— The Dhammapada, Ch. I (The Twin-Verses), v. 1 — trans. F. Max Müller, SBE Vol. 10
Texts of Taoism, Part I — Tao Teh King & Kwang-tze I–XVII (SBE Vol. 39)Chinese / Taoist · Tao Te Ching c. 400–300 BCE; SBE 1891grounded in · high confidence
“The Tao that can be trodden is not the enduring and unchanging Tao. The name that can be named is not the enduring and unchanging name.”Read in full — our archive →from Sacred Texts— Tâo Teh King, Ch. 1 — trans. James Legge, SBE Vol. 39
Texts of Taoism, Part II — Kwang-tze XVIII–XXXIII (SBE Vol. 40)Chinese / Taoist · Zhuangzi c. 300 BCE; SBE 1891grounded in · high confidence
Read in full — our archive →from Sacred TextsYoga-Sutras of Patanjali (Vivekananda 1896 / Woods 1914)Hindu / Yoga (Patanjala Darsana) · c. 200 BCE–400 CE; PD translations 1896/1914grounded in · high confidence
“Yoga is restraining the mind-stuff (Chitta) from taking various forms (Vrittis).”Read in full — our archive →from Sacred Texts— Book I (Samadhi Pada), aphorism 2, trans. Swami Vivekananda (1896)