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Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali
Attributed to Patañjali · Sanskrit Documents
Original Sanskrit; see 1.1–1.3, 2.29 and 4.34. Our English renderings are provisional editorial translations.
Visit source ↗Siddha Vedam: foreword
Siddha Samaj
A lineage account of Swami Sivananda Paramahamsa’s teaching. Religious and historical claims need to be read in that context.
Visit source ↗Tirumantiram · Tantra Seven
Tirumūlar · B. Natarajan translation, Himalayan Academy
See verse 1823 for the body-as-temple image. The linked modern translation is not reproduced here.
Visit source ↗Vallalar and the Thiru Arutpa
VallalarOrg Sanmarga Foundation
A devotional resource for Vallalar’s works and Sanmarga. Claims about deathlessness are religious teachings, not established biological outcomes.
Visit source ↗Arutperum Jyothi invocation
Vallalar Universal Mission
Traditional Tamil refrain, without an assigned verse number. The English interpretation on this site awaits language review.
Visit source ↗What is Vedanta?
Vedanta Society of Southern California
An Advaita-oriented introduction. Other Vedānta schools require their own commentarial sources; this introduction cannot represent them all.
Visit source ↗The Serpent Power
Arthur Avalon (John Woodroffe), 1919 · Internet Sacred Text Archive
A historical translation and commentary on selected tantric texts. One account of centres and channels, not a universal tantric system.
Visit source ↗Cosmology · Brahmacakra
Ananda Marga
The organization’s presentation of its metaphysical model; not an empirically demonstrated cosmology.
Visit source ↗The Way of the Golden Elixir
Fabrizio Pregadio · Golden Elixir Press
A scholarly introduction with translated primary material. Internal alchemy and modern qigong must be distinguished.
Visit source ↗Dao De Jing · chapter 1
Attributed to Laozi · Chinese Text Project
Original classical Chinese. Our opening-line rendering is an editorial draft; the text is not a manual of Neidan technique.
Visit source ↗Meditation and Mindfulness: Effectiveness and Safety
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health
An evidence overview. Research on meditation does not establish that traditional subtle-body maps are anatomical structures.
Visit source ↗Qigong: What You Need To Know
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health
An overview of varied movement, breath and attention practices, with research limitations. It does not establish qi as a measured substance or represent every lineage’s doctrine.
Visit source ↗Kriya Yoga — Royal Technique of God-Realization
Paramahansa Yogananda · Self-Realization Fellowship
A public account from Yogananda’s branch of the Lahiri Mahasaya stream. Spiritual and historical claims are the lineage’s own; other branches may explain the teaching differently.
Visit source ↗The Kriya Yoga Path of Meditation · Techniques
Self-Realization Fellowship
A public overview of preparation and initiation in this branch. Its subtle-body descriptions are religious teachings, not established anatomy. Restricted practice instructions are not reproduced here.
Visit source ↗Teaching Śāntideva’s text in Sarnath
The Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama
A public Tibetan Buddhist teaching report on the bodhisattva path and bodhicitta. It is a named teaching perspective, not an exhaustive account of every Tibetan school.
Visit source ↗Teaching Nāgārjuna’s Commentary on Bodhichitta
The Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama
A teaching report connecting the Perfection of Wisdom, selflessness and care for others. Interpretations of emptiness should remain attached to their particular school and commentary.
Visit source ↗Sun of Devotion, Stream of Blessings · Chapter 13
Lama Zopa Rinpoche · Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive
A lineage explanation of the place of Vajrayāna within Mahāyāna. Used here for that relationship, without reproducing advanced tantric instructions.
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