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Danger of Premature Awakening. The Spontaneous Awakening of Kundalini the serpent fire. Personal
Experience. The Etheric Web. The Effects of Alcohol and Drugs. The Effect of
Tobacco. The Opening of the Doors . . . . . . . 42

CHAPTER V

THE LAYA YOGA

The Hindu Books. The Indian List of Chakras. The Figures of the Chakras. The Heart
Chakra. The Petals and Letters. The Mandalas. The Yantras. The Animals. The
Divinities. The Body Meditation. The Knots. The Secondary Heart Lotus. Effects of
Meditation in the Heart. Kundalini the serpent fire. The Awakening of Kundalini. The Ascent of
Kundalini. The Goal of Kundalini. Conclusion . . . . . . 55

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PLATES

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	The Crown Chakra. Frontispiece.
I.	The Root Chakra	4
II.	The Spleen Chakra	6
III.	The Chakras according to Gichtel	10
IV.	The Navel Chakra	14
V.	The Heart Chakra	18
VI.	The Chakras and the Nervous System	22
VII.	The Throat Chakra	26
VIII.	The Streams of Vitality	30
IX.	The Brow Chakra	36

FIGURES

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1.	The Chakras	3
2.	Representations of the Crown Chakra	9
3.	The Three Outpourings	16
4.	The Spinal Channels	18
5.	The Forms of the Forces	20
6.	The Combined Form of the Forces	21
7.	The Ultimate Physical Atom	24
8.	The Composition of Oxygen	35
9.	The Pituitary Body and the Pineal Gland	43
10.	Hindu Diagram of the Heart Chakra	57

TABLES

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I.	The Chakras	4
II.	The Chakras and the Plexuses	23
III.	Prâna vitality and the Principles	34
IV.	The Five Prâna Vâyus vital breaths	35
V.	Colours of Lotus Petals	56
VI.	The Sanskrit Alphabet	59, 60
VII.	The Symbolic Forms of the Elements	61