Table of Contents

Part I: The Highest Good

I: The Meeting of East and West

The Roar of Awakening

The Steely Barb

The Claims of Science

The Four Aims of Life

Release and Progress

II: The foundations of Indian Philosophy

Philosophy as Way of Life

The Qualified Pupil

Philosophy as Power

"The Dying round the Holy Power"

Brahman

Part II: The Philosophies of Time

I: The Philosophy of Success

The World at War

The Tyrant State

Valor Against Time

The Function of Treachery

Political Geometry

The Seven Ways to Approach a Neighbour

The Universal King

II: The Philosophy of Pleasure

III: The Philosophy of Duty

Caste and the Four Life-Stages

Satya

Satyagraha

The Palace of Wisdom

Part II: The Philosophies of Eternity

I: Jainism

Parsva

Jaina Images

The Makers of the Crossing

The Qualities of Matter

The Mask of the Personality

The Cosmic Man

The Jaina Doctrine of Bondage

The Doctrine of Maskarin Gosala

Man Against Nature

II: Sankhya and Yoga

Kapila and Patanjali

Introvert-Concentration

The Hindrances

Integrity and Integration

Sankhya Psychology

III: Brahmanism

Veda

Upanisad

Bhagavad Gita

Vedanta

IV: Buddhism

Buddhahood

The Great Buddhist Kings

Hinayana and Mahayana

The Way of the Bodhisattva

The Great Delight

V: Tantra

Who Seeks Nirvana?

The Lamb, the Hero and the Man-God

All the Gods within Us

About the Author

Heinrich Zimmer