Practitioner to Scholar
Advanced — The Schools and the Depths
Level 3 · Advanced
The deep water. The classical systems that answer the big questions in incompatible ways, the minds who built them, the disciplines aimed at the goal, and the door to the treatises.
By the end you will know the six darshanas, the three Vedāntas and their teachers, the eight limbs and the subtle body, and where the serious study of Tantra begins.
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The three Vedāntas
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The teachers and saints
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The science of practice
Meditation and the Eight LimbsThe Yamas and NiyamasPranayama: Working with the BreathThe Subtle Body: Nadis, Chakras, and Kundalini
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4 treatises extend this path
Book-length and chaptered, read in order. Start any of them once the readings above feel familiar.