INTRODUCTION TO YOGA. In this context, Yoga refers to the ancient Indian philosophical and spiritual system aimed at the union of the individual soul with the universal divine, involving disciplines of the mind and body.

FOUR LECTURES DELIVERED AT THE 32ND ANNIVERSARY OF THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY An organization founded in 1875 to promote the study of comparative religion, philosophy, and science, and to investigate the unexplained laws of nature., HELD AT BENARES Modern-day Varanasi, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world and a major spiritual center in India., ON DEC. 27TH, 28TH, 29TH, 30TH, 1907.

ANNIE BESANT,