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Product Details

  • Series: Ayp Enlightenment
  • Paperback: 112 pages
  • Publisher: AYP Publishing (December 20, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0980052203
  • ISBN-13: 978-0980052206
  • Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.3 x 0.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
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About the Author

Yogani is the author of the Advanced Yoga Practices (AYP) system, including more than a dozen Instructional Titles available in Paperback, Kindle eBook and AudioBook editions, covering all aspects of Full-Scope Yoga Practice. Since 1970, he has crossed the lines between many traditions, developing an effective integration of methods including Deep Meditation, Spinal Breathing Pranayama, Hatha, Kundalini, Tantra, Self-Inquiry, and more. It is a flexible, scientific approach rather than a rigid, arbitrary one, and open to public scrutiny, as all spiritual knowledge should be nowadays. He has no desire for guru status - only to have the joy of making a small contribution to helping the disciplines of spiritual practice become open to everyone. He wishes to remain anonymous, preserving a quiet life in practices. AYP is not about the author. It is about all who long for knowledge. 
 --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Yogani makes clear the importance of daily meditation in the development of the Witness for effective Self-Inquiry.
Elizabet A. Dawson
I found Yogani's insights incredibly helpful and think it is a must read for anyone who is truly dedicated to making lasting spiritual change in their lives.
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Whether you are a novice or experienced meditator and seeker of enlightenment in your lifetime, this book is a tremendous resource.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful By Shanti on February 26, 2008
Format: Paperback
Information on how to do self inquiry can be obtained from many sources. However in order for self inquiry to be effective it is necessary to go beyond the mind. It is almost impossible to "get" the mind with the mind (intellectually).

Yogani's book covers this aspect of self inquiry, emphasizing the importance of having a daily meditation practice in place that will help transcend the mind and increase inner silence (awaken the witness in you). Once the witness is awake, self inquiry becomes a way of life rather than something you have to work at to "get". He explains how self inquiry is not about running away from the world, but to be completely immersed in your world, filled with love and compassion, without being mentally and emotionally attached to it in a clingy way.

This book covers the five stages of mind on the way to spiritual maturity: Pre-Witnessing, Witnessing, Discrimination, Dispassion, and Merging of Subject and Object in Outpouring Divine Love. The stage of mind will determine what kind of self inquiry will work the best. Taking on more than you can handle will definitely slow down progress. Self Inquiry works best when the witness is present. In this book, Yogani calls self inquiry with the witness already established (through meditation), "relational self inquiry."

Two main kinds of self inquiry are covered in this book. There is self inquiry that arises in our every day life. We can inquire into things that worry us or bother us or make us unhappy, things that are considered "mental baggage" and how to free ourselves from this. The other kind of self inquiry is for the ultimate truth. These are questions that arise in us like "Who am I?" and "Who is doing this?" The answers to these questions are found by letting go into our silent witness.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful By David R. on January 21, 2008
Format: Paperback
In the "AYP Enlightenment Series", Yogani presents what is probably the most comprehensive and complete course in Yoga that is currently available. He covers all the bases, ranging from the popularly-known aspects of Yoga such as Asanas, through the controversial and largely secret, such as Tantra and Advanced Kecharimudra. His emphasis in the Series is on teaching Yoga practically, rather than in creating an academic understanding, and in this he succeeds very well.

Jnana Yoga is one aspect of Yoga that has always been notoriously difficult to teach -- and it has been taught, not necessarily under that name or even under the name of Yoga at all, by many teachers over time. It's essence is hard to capture but one short (though inadequate) definition is 'The Yoga of Understanding'. It has long histories of enthusiastic teachers and disappointed disciples. This book, 'Self-Inquiry - Dawn of the Witness and the End of Suffering', is a short and effective course on Jnana Yoga, or Self-Inquiry as Yogani calls it.

It will be effective because Yogani has understood and explained the pre-conditions for Self-Inquiry. The book invites you to Self-Inquiry, in the presence of its pre-conditions, and explains how to continually cultivate those pre-conditions. In conjunction with other books in his series, particularly Deep Meditation, this is a great book for anyone who wants to penetrate the spiritual reality within.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful By Jill Taylor on February 14, 2008
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For thousands of years the subject of Spirituality has been steeped in superstition and dogma. Yogani, in Self-Inquiry, and all of his other writings, is clear and no-nonsense about the practices of Yoga. I have studied the subject of Enlightenment for over 30 years and Yogani is one of the only people I have come across to offer his guidance, obviously drawn from first hand experience, in a way that both supports us on our Path as well encouraging each seeker to know for themselves the Truth. He states very clearly that each must find it within. Very good for those who know, in the end, we must be accountable to only ourselves and the inner teacher. Thanks Yogani for your diligence and caring.Self-Inquiry - Dawn of the Witness and the End of Suffering
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful By yb on February 11, 2008
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What I like about Yogani's model or conceptual framework is the wise selection of importances from all the different pieces of yoga data floating around out there that you could choose to emphasize. A slight shift in emphasis, a slight misunderstanding, can mean the difference between staying on the right course or veering off into the ditch or taking a wrong turn.

This is where Yogani excels. He cuts thru all the philosophical confusion and gives stable data which you can use to navigate and chart your course. In clear and simple language, he makes plain the requisite fundamental concepts and outlines the game plan of what needs to be done for steady progress into higher and higher states of consciousness.

The emphasis is on self pacing and maintaining a steady practice above all else because, as he says, it is practice that creates experiences, not vice versa. He creates the necessary map that will allow steady progress in the right direction and above all explains the nature and growth of the self in a way that has real world applicability.

It is a very useful little book, a little gem.
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