The Serpent Power

The Serpent Power

Being the

Shat-Chakra-Nirūpana and Pādukā-Panchakā

Two works of Laya Yoga, translated from from the Sanskrit, with introductions and commentary

By Arthur Avalon (Sir John Woodroffe)

(Fourth Edition)

Contents

• Preface
• Note to Second Edition
• Introduction:
  • I. Introductory
  • II. Bodiless Consciousness
  • III. Embodied Consciousness (Jivātmā)
  • IV. Mantra
  • V. The Centres of Lotuses (Chakra and Padma)
  • Practice (Yoga: Laya-Krama)
  • Theoretical Bases of this Yoga
• Text (Translation):
  • Description of the Six Centres (Shat-Chakra-Nirūpana)
  • The Fivefold Footstool (Pādukā-Panchakā)
• Text (Sanskrit)