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SATTVAVAJAYA CHIKITSA
Introduction. Why a Modern Student Should Study Sattvavajaya Chikitsa
How to Use This Textbook
Chapter 1. What Is Sattvavajaya Chikitsa?
Review Questions
Brief Summary
Chapter 2. The History of Psychology as the History of the Search for Wholeness
2.1. Why the History of Psychology Cannot Begin Only with the Nineteenth Century
2.2. History as the Restoration of Just Continuity
2.3. Ancient India as a Civilization of Inner Knowledge
2.4. India, Greece, and the Question of Medical Continuity
2.5. From Wholeness to Fragmentation
2.6. Sattvavajaya as the Restoration of Holistic Psychology
2.7. The History of Psychology as the History of Forgetting and Return
2.8. What Historical Understanding Gives the Student
2.9. Conclusion of the Chapter
Practical Assignment for Chapter 2
Review Questions
Brief Summary
Chapter 3. Ancient India as a Civilization of Knowledge about the Human Being
3.1. Why India Is Important for the History of Psychology
3.2. Veda as Knowledge, Not Only as Religious Text
3.3. Shastra as a Form of Systemic Knowledge
3.4. Ayurveda as the Science of Life and the Human Being
3.5. Darshanas as Maps of Reality
3.6. Sanskrit as a Language of Precise Distinctions
3.7. Sattvavajaya as the Heir to the Holistic Indian Science of the Human Being
3.8. The Practical Significance of the Topic
Practical Assignment for Chapter 3
Review Questions
Brief Summary
Chapter 4. Sattvavajaya within the System of Ayurveda
4.1. The Brihat-trayi and the Laghu-trayi as the Classical Foundation of Ayurveda
4.2. Three Directions of Therapy in Ayurveda
4.3. Why Sattvavajaya Does Not Replace All of Ayurveda
4.4. What Exactly Sattvavajaya Treats
4.5. Sattvavajaya and Psychosomatics
4.6. Sattvavajaya as Therapy for Prajnaparadha
4.7. Why Work with the Mind Must Be Systemic
4.8. Sattvavajaya and the Role of the Specialist
4.9. Sattvavajaya as the Foundation of Integrative Practice
4.10. Conclusion of the Chapter
Practical Assignment for Chapter 4
Review Questions
Brief Summary
Chapter 5. Darshanas as the Philosophical Foundation of Sattvavajaya
5.1. Why a Psychologist Needs the Darshanas
5.2. Nyaya: Logic, Cognition, and Error
5.3. Vaisheshika: Categories and the Distinction of Levels of Reality
5.4. Samkhya: Purusha, Prakriti, and the Map of the Manifested Human Being
5.5. Yoga: Discipline of the Mind and the Cessation of Fluctuations
5.6. Mimamsa: Action, Dharma, and the Power of Proper Performance
5.7. Vedanta: Atman, Brahman, and the Removal of Adhyasa
5.8. How the Darshanas Are United in Sattvavajaya
5.9. Practical Significance for the Student
Practical Assignment for Chapter 5
Review Questions
Brief Summary
Chapter 6. From Soul to Behavior: How Western Psychology Lost the Whole
6.1. From Psyche to Psychology without the Soul
6.3. Objectivity without the Subject as a Methodological Trap
6.4. Behaviorism: The Human Being as Behavior
6.5. Psychoanalysis: The Return of Depth, but without Final Wholeness
6.6. Cognitive Psychology and CBT: The Power of Working with Thought and Its Limit
6.7. Humanistic and Existential Psychology: The Return of Meaning
6.8. Neuropsychology and Cognitive Sciences: The Brain as Instrument, Not Final Explanation
6.9. The Main Error of Fragmentation
6.10. Why Sattvavajaya Does Not Reject Western Psychology, but Puts It in Its Proper Place
6.11. Conclusion of the Chapter
Practical Assignment for Chapter 6
Review Questions
Brief Summary
Chapter 7. The Human Being as a Multi-Level System
7.1. Why Holistic Anthropology Is Needed
7.2. The Body: Sharira as the Field of Experience
7.3. The Indriyas: The Gates of Perception
7.4. Manas: The Mind as the Center of Impressions and Fluctuations
7.5. Buddhi: Discriminating Reason
7.6. Ahamkara: The Sense of “I” and the Mechanism of Appropriation
7.7. Chitta: The Field of Memory, Samskaras, and Vasanas
7.8. Atman and the Question of the Deep Foundation
7.9. Pancha-kosha: The Five Sheaths of the Human Being
7.10. The Gunas as the Quality of the Whole System
7.11. Disturbance of Hierarchy as a Cause of Suffering
7.12. Practical Significance for Diagnosis
7.13. Conclusion of the Chapter
Practical Assignment for Chapter 7
Review Questions
Brief Summary
Chapter 8. The Body and the Indriyas: The Gates of Experience
8.1. The Body as the Meeting Place of the Inner and the Outer
8.2. The Indriyas as Channels of Perception
8.3. Vishaya: The Object of the Senses as the Beginning of the Chain
8.4. Sparsha: Contact as a Psychic Event
8.5. Psychohygiene of the Indriyas
8.6. The Digital Environment as a New Test of the Indriyas
8.7. Pratyahara as the Return of the Senses under the Guidance of Buddhi
8.8. The Body as a Mirror of the State of the Mind
8.9. Sexuality as a Powerful Field of the Indriyas
8.10. Holding the Mind Back from Harmful Objects
8.11. How the Student Should Observe the Body and the Indriyas
8.12. Conclusion of the Chapter
Practical Assignment for Chapter 8
Review Questions
Brief Summary
Chapter 9. Manas: The Mind That Runs After Objects
9.1. Manas as the Inner Mediator
9.2. Sankalpa and Vikalpa: The Movement of Choice and Doubt
9.3. Bhavana: How the Mind Cultivates a State
9.4. Pratipaksha-bhavana: Cultivating the Opposite
9.5. Manas and Objects: Why the Mind Is Easily Captured
9.6. Manas in Rajas
9.7. Manas in Tamas
9.8. Manas in Sattva
9.9. Manas, Ahamkara, and Personal Drama
9.10. Manas and Chitta: Why the Mind Repeats the Old
9.11. Manas and Buddhi: Who Should Govern
9.12. Manas and Smriti: Why a Person Forgets What Is Right
9.13. Manas and Speech
9.14. How to Calm Manas
9.15. Diagnosis of the State of Manas
9.16. Conclusion of the Chapter
Practical Assignment for Chapter 9
Review Questions
Brief Summary
Chapter 10. Buddhi: Discriminating Reason
10.1. Buddhi and Manas: Who Should Lead
10.2. Buddhi as the Organ of Viveka
10.3. Prajnaparadha: When Reason Betrays Knowledge
10.4. Buddhi and Smriti: Remembering What Is Right at the Moment of Pressure
10.5. Buddhi and Ahamkara: When Reason Serves the Ego
10.6. Buddhi and Raga: How Desire Distorts Discrimination
10.7. Buddhi and Dvesha: How Aversion and Fear Distort Choice
10.8. Buddhi and the Gunas
10.9. Buddhi and Dharma
10.10. Strengthening Buddhi
10.11. Errors in Developing Buddhi
10.12. Buddhi in the Work of the Specialist
10.13. Conclusion of the Chapter
Practical Assignment for Chapter 10
Review Questions
Brief Summary
Chapter 11. Ahamkara: The Sense of “I” and the Mechanism of Appropriation
11.1. Ahamkara as a Necessary Function of Personality
11.2. When Ahamkara Becomes a Source of Suffering
11.3. Ahamkara and Adhyasa
11.4. Ahamkara and Mamata: “I” and “Mine”
11.5. Ahamkara and Role
11.6. Ahamkara and Trauma
11.7. Ahamkara and Spiritual Pride
11.8. Ahamkara and Social Evaluation
11.9. Ahamkara and the Sense of Doership
11.10. Ahamkara and Relationships
11.11. Ahamkara and Defensive Reactions
11.12. Weakening the Power of Ahamkara
11.13. Diagnosis of Ahamkara
11.14. Ahamkara on the Empirical and Highest Levels
11.15. Conclusion of the Chapter
Practical Assignment for Chapter 11
Review Questions
Brief Summary
Chapter 12. Chitta, Samskaras, and Vasanas: The Memory That Governs the Present
12.1. Chitta as a Field of Traces
12.2. Samskara: The Imprint of Experience
12.3. Vasana: The Tendency That Pulls Toward Repetition
12.4. Why Attention Slips Away
12.5. Chitta and the Repetition of Fate
12.6. Chitta, Trauma, and Protective Traces
12.7. Chitta and Raga: Memory of Pleasure
12.8. Chitta and Dvesha: Memory of Pain
12.9. Chitta and the Gunas
12.10. Chitta and Karma: The Trace of Action
12.11. Purification of Chitta
12.12. Chitta and Modern Psychotherapy
12.13. Diagnosis of Chitta
12.14. Working with Chitta in the Student’s Training
12.15. Conclusion of the Chapter
Practical Assignment for Chapter 12
Review Questions
Brief Summary
Chapter 13. Pancha-kosha: The Five Sheaths of the Human Being
13.1. Why Sattvavajaya Needs the Model of the Sheaths
13.2. Annamaya-kosha: The Bodily Sheath
13.3. Pranamaya-kosha: The Energetic Sheath
13.4. Manomaya-kosha: The Mental-Emotional Sheath
13.5. Vijnanamaya-kosha: The Sheath of Discriminating Knowledge
13.6. Anandamaya-kosha: The Sheath of Deep Fullness
13.7. How the Sheaths Influence One Another
13.8. Pancha-kosha and the Diagnosis of Anxiety
13.9. Pancha-kosha and Depressive-Tamasic States
13.10. Pancha-kosha and Dependence on an Object
13.11. Why a Symptom May Manifest Not Where the Cause Is Located
13.12. Pancha-kosha and Modern Integrative Practice
13.13. Errors in Using the Pancha-kosha Model
13.14. A Practical Algorithm for Working through Pancha-kosha
13.15. Conclusion of the Chapter
Practical Assignment for Chapter 13
Review Questions
Brief Summary
Chapter 14. The Gunas: The Language of Mental States
14.1. The Gunas as a Language of Quality, Not Morality
14.2. Sattva: Clarity, Purity, and the Capacity to See
14.3. Rajas: Movement, Desire, and Restlessness
14.4. Tamas: Inertia, Heaviness, and Obscuration
14.5. How the Gunas Mix
14.6. The Gradient of the Gunas: From Tamas to Sattva
14.7. The Gunas and the Antahkarana
14.8. Ten Agents of the Gunas: How They Enter the Human Being and How Sattva Is Increased through Them
14.9. Practical Work with the Gunas: Rajas, Tamas, Speech, Study, and Therapeutic Strategy
Practical Assignment for Chapter 14
Review Questions
Brief Summary
Chapter 15. What Suffering Is in Sattvavajaya Chikitsa
15.1. Pain and Suffering: An Important Distinction
15.2. Avidya as the Root of Suffering
15.3. Adhyasa: False Superimposition
15.4. Raga and Dvesha: Two Forces of Bondage
15.5. Pancha Klesha, Shadripu, and Tapa-Traya as Classical Maps of Suffering
15.6. Loss of Smriti
15.7. Weakening of Buddhi
15.8. Suffering as a Disturbance of Inner Hierarchy
15.9. Why the Symptom Is Not the Root
15.10. The Therapeutic View of Suffering
15.11. A Practical Scheme of the Arising of Suffering
15.12. Manasa Roga and Samprapti of Manasa Roga
15.13. Conclusion of the Chapter
Practical Assignment for Chapter 15
Review Questions
Brief Summary
Chapter 16. Avidya: Ignorance as the Root of Inner Fragmentation
16.1. Avidya as the Root of Incorrect Seeing
16.2. How to Recognize Avidya in Practice
16.3. How Sattvavajaya Works with Avidya
16.4. Vidya as the Opposite of Avidya
16.5. Conclusion of the Chapter
Practical Assignment for Chapter 16
Review Questions
Brief Summary
Chapter 17. Adhyasa: False Superimposition and the Mechanism of Psychological Illusion
17.1. What Adhyasa Is in Simple Terms
17.2. Adhyasa: How False Superimposition Becomes Personality, Relationships, and Fate
17.3. Apavada: The Removal of Superimposition
17.4. A Practical Scheme for Working with Adhyasa
17.5. Adhyasa in the Work of the Specialist
17.6. Adhyasa at the Level of Vyavaharika and Paramarthika
17.7. Conclusion of the Chapter
Practical Assignment for Chapter 17
Review Questions
Brief Summary
Chapter 18. Prajnaparadha: The Error of Reason as a Cause of Suffering and Disease
18.1. What Prajnaparadha Is
18.2. Prajnaparadha and Buddhi
18.3. Prajnaparadha and Smriti
18.4. Prajnaparadha and Dhriti
18.5. Prajnaparadha and Cognitive Distortions
18.6. Prajnaparadha as a Cause of Disease
18.7. Prajnaparadha and Habit
18.8. Prajnaparadha and Self-Deception
18.9. Prajnaparadha and Raga
18.10. Prajnaparadha and Dvesha
18.11. Prajnaparadha and Tamas
18.12. Prajnaparadha and Rajas
18.13. Prajnaparadha and Sattva
18.14. Therapy of Prajnaparadha
18.15. A Practical Scheme for Analyzing Prajnaparadha
18.16. Conclusion of the Chapter
Practical Assignment for Chapter 18
Review Questions
Brief Summary
Chapter 19. Raga and Dvesha: Attraction and Repulsion
19.1. What Raga Is
19.2. What Dvesha Is
19.3. Raga and Dvesha as Two Forms of Dependence
19.4. How Raga Arises
19.5. How Dvesha Arises
19.6. Raga, Dvesha, and the Gunas
19.7. Raga and Anger
19.8. Dvesha and Procrastination
19.9. Raga, Dvesha, and Relationships
19.10. Raga, Dvesha, and Self-Esteem
19.11. Raga, Dvesha, and Spiritual Practice
19.12. How to Distinguish Healthy Desire from Raga
19.13. How to Distinguish a Healthy “No” from Dvesha
19.14. Therapy of Raga
19.15. Therapy of Dvesha
19.16. Raga, Dvesha, and Freedom
19.17. Conclusion of the Chapter
Practical Assignment for Chapter 19
Review Questions
Brief Summary
Chapter 20. Smriti: Memory of What Is Right
20.1. Smriti as Memory of Oneself
20.2. Smriti and the Bhagavad Gita
20.3. Smriti and Chitta
20.4. Smriti and Buddhi
20.5. Smriti and Dhriti
20.6. Loss of Smriti as an Everyday Mechanism of Suffering
20.7. Smriti and the Objects of the Senses
20.8. The Practice of Smriti in Speech, Body, Dharma, and Everyday Life
20.9. Conclusion of the Chapter
Practical Assignment for Chapter 20
Review Questions
Brief Summary
Chapter 21. Dhriti and Dhairya: The Power of Holding Steady
21.1. Why Knowledge Is Not Enough
21.2. Dhriti as the Ability to Endure the Interval
21.3. Dhairya as the Courage Not to Run Away
21.4. Dhriti: Holding What Is Right in Action
21.5. Conclusion of the Chapter
Practical Assignment for Chapter 21
Review Questions
Brief Summary
Chapter 22. Jnana and Vijnana: Knowledge That Heals
22.1. Jnana as Correct Knowledge
22.2. Why Knowledge Heals
22.3. Jnana and Information: An Important Distinction
22.4. Vijnana as Lived and Discriminating Knowledge
22.5. The Path from Jnana to Vijnana
22.6. Jnana, Vijnana, and Buddhi
22.7. Jnana and Ahamkara: The Danger of Appropriating Knowledge
22.8. Vijnana and the Experience of Error
22.9. Jnana and Vijnana in Working with Anxiety
22.10. Jnana and Vijnana in Working with Desire
22.11. Jnana and Vijnana in Working with the Body
22.12. Vijnana and Modern Science
22.13. Jnana, Vijnana, and Three Levels of Knowing
22.14. Errors on the Path of Knowledge
22.15. How to Develop Jnana
22.16. How to Develop Vijnana
22.17. Jnana and Vijnana in Professional Training
22.18. Conclusion of the Chapter
Practical Assignment for Chapter 22
Review Questions
Brief Summary
Chapter 23. Why Psychology Needs Axioms
23.1. What an Axiom Is
23.2. Why Psychology Especially Needs Axioms
23.3. The Axiom as Protection against Fragmentation
23.4. The First Task of Axiomatics: To Define the Subject of Psychology
23.5. The Second Task of Axiomatics: To Define the Norm
23.6. Why “0” Is Not Nothing
23.7. The Third Task of Axiomatics: To Explain Deviation from the Norm
23.8. The Formula X = 0 + A
23.9. The Fourth Task of Axiomatics: To Define the Aim of Therapy
23.10. Why This Is Not a Denial of Ordinary Psychology
23.11. Axiomatics and Levels of Reality
23.12. An Axiom Does Not Replace Experience
23.13. Example: Dependence on Evaluation
23.14. Example: Fear of Error
23.15. Example: Bodily Adhyasa
23.16. Axiomatics and Diagnosis
23.17. Axiomatics and Therapy
23.18. Why Sattvavajaya Is Not Eclecticism
23.19. Dangers of Incorrect Axiomatics
23.20. Conclusion of the Chapter
Practical Assignment for Chapter 23
Review Questions
Brief Summary
Chapter 24. The Psyche in Its Norm = 0
24.1. Why Norm Cannot Be Reduced to Social Adaptation
24.2. What 0 Means
24.3. Why 0 Does Not Mean Emptiness
24.4. 0 and the Experience “I Am”
24.5. 0 and Antahkarana
24.6. 0 and Sattva
24.7. 0 and Smriti
24.8. 0 and Buddhi
24.9. 0 and Ahamkara
24.10. 0 and the Experience of Sleep, Dreaming, and Waking
24.11. 0 and the Metaphor of the Chariot
24.12. How the Psyche Moves Away from 0
24.13. 0 and A: What Exactly Is Added
24.14. Norm as the Absence of False Addition
24.15. Why 0 Does Not Need to Be “Achieved” as a New Object
24.16. 0 and Modern Psychology
24.17. 0 and Therapeutic Practice
24.18. 0 and the Education of the Student
24.19. 0 and the Danger of Spiritual Bypassing
24.20. Conclusion of the Chapter
Practical Assignment for Chapter 24
Review Questions
Brief Summary
Chapter 25. X = 0 + A: How the Conditioned “I” Appears
25.1. Why the Formula X = 0 + A Is Needed
25.2. What 0 Designates in the Formula
25.3. What A Designates
25.4. What X Designates
25.5. How X Is Formed
25.6. The Role of Ahamkara in the Formula
25.7. Layers of A: From Gross to Subtle
25.8. Language as a Way of Consolidating X
25.9. X and the Body
25.10. X and Role
25.11. X and Trauma
25.12. X and the Fruit of Action
25.13. X and the Evaluation of Others
25.14. X and Spiritual Identity
25.15. Samskaras and Vasanas as Support for X
25.16. X and Suffering
25.17. Diagnosis of X
25.18. The Therapeutic Conclusion from the Formula
25.19. Why X Must Not Be Prematurely Denied
25.20. Conclusion of the Chapter
Practical Assignment for Chapter 25
Review Questions
Brief Summary
Chapter 26. Apavada: The Removal of Superimpositions
26.1. What Apavada Is
26.2. Apavada and Denial: An Important Distinction
26.3. Why Apavada Is Therapy
26.4. Apavada as Reverse Movement
26.5. The First Step of Apavada: Seeing the Superimposition
26.6. The Second Step: Separating the Observed from the Observer
26.7. The Third Step: Restoring Smriti
26.8. The Fourth Step: Weakening Raga and Dvesha
26.9. The Fifth Step: Confirming Apavada through Action
26.10. Apavada and the Body
26.11. Apavada of Role
26.12. Apavada of Trauma
26.13. Apavada of the Fruit
26.14. Apavada of Spiritual Identity
26.15. Apavada and Levels of Reality
26.16. Apavada and Western Psychological Bridges
26.17. The Algorithm of Apavada
26.18. Why Apavada Happens in Layers
26.19. Apavada as a Pedagogy of Freedom
26.20. Conclusion of the Chapter
Practical Assignment for Chapter 26
Review Questions
Brief Summary
Chapter 27. The Laws of the Psyche in the Shastras
27.1. What “Law of the Psyche” Means
27.2. The First Law: Attention Creates an Inner Bond with the Object
27.3. The Second Law: Attachment Gives Birth to Desire
27.4. The Third Law: An Obstacle to Desire Gives Birth to Anger
27.5. The Fourth Law: Anger Obscures Perception
27.6. The Fifth Law: Loss of Smriti Leads to the Destruction of Buddhi
27.7. The Sixth Law: The Destruction of Buddhi Leads to the Fall of Action
27.8. The Seventh Law: A Single Sense Can Carry Away Reason
27.9. The Eighth Law: Governed Senses Bring Prasada of the Mind
27.10. The Ninth Law: The Mind Can Be a Friend or an Enemy
27.11. The Tenth Law: The Gunas Bind Consciousness to Nature
27.12. The Eleventh Law: Karma Consolidates the Psychic State
27.13. The Twelfth Law: Ahamkara Appropriates Action
27.14. Three Types of Laws of the Psyche
27.15. The Law of Chain Reaction
27.16. The Law of Reversibility
27.17. The Law of Environment
27.18. The Law of Repetition
27.19. The Law of Discrimination: Buddhi Changes the Trajectory
27.20. Conclusion of the Chapter
Practical Assignment for Chapter 27
Review Questions
Brief Summary
Chapter 28. Diagnosis of the Gunas
28.1. Why Diagnosis of the Gunas Is Needed
28.2. The Gunas as Qualities of Prakriti
28.3. Sattva: Signs of a Clear Mind
28.4. Rajas: Signs of an Excited Mind
28.5. Tamas: Signs of an Obscured Mind
28.6. The Guna of the State and the Guna of Personality
28.7. Sattva Pariksha: Assessment of Mental Strength
28.8. Ashtavidha Sattva Pariksha: Eightfold Examination of the Mental State
28.9. Chitta-Bhumi as an Additional Map
28.10. Diagnosis of Sattva
28.11. Diagnosis of Rajas
28.12. Diagnosis of Tamas
28.13. Mixed States
28.14. Diagnosing the Gunas through the Body
28.15. Diagnosing the Gunas through Speech
28.16. Diagnosing the Gunas through the Relation to Knowledge
28.17. Diagnosing the Gunas through the Relation to Action
28.18. Diagnosing the Gunas through the Relation to Fruits
28.19. Diagnosing the Gunas through Environment
28.20. Rapid Diagnosis of the Gunas
28.21. Diagnostic Errors
28.22. Therapeutic Meaning of Guna Diagnosis
28.23. The Gunas of the Specialist
28.24. A Simple Map for Diagnosing the Gunas
28.25. Conclusion of the Chapter
Practical Assignment for Chapter 28
Review Questions
Brief Summary
Chapter 29. Diagnosis of Adhyasa
29.1. What It Means to Diagnose Adhyasa
29.2. Adhyasa as False Appropriation
29.3. How Diagnosis of Adhyasa Differs from Diagnosis of the Symptom
29.4. The Main Diagnostic Question
29.5. Diagnosing Adhyasa through Language
29.6. Diagnosing Adhyasa through the Pain of Disproportionate Reaction
29.7. Diagnosing Adhyasa through Fear of Loss
29.8. Diagnosing Adhyasa through Defense
29.9. Diagnosing Bodily Adhyasa
29.10. Diagnosing Emotional Adhyasa
29.11. Diagnosing Role-Based Adhyasa
29.12. Diagnosing the Adhyasa of the Fruit
29.13. Diagnosing the Adhyasa of Evaluation
29.14. Diagnosing the Adhyasa of Relationships
29.15. Diagnosing Traumatic Adhyasa
29.16. Diagnosing Spiritual Adhyasa
29.17. Diagnosing Adhyasa through Pancha-Kosha
29.18. Diagnosing Adhyasa through Subject-Object Adhesion
29.19. Diagnosis of Adhyasa and Modern Psychology
29.20. Errors in Diagnosing Adhyasa
29.21. Algorithm for Diagnosing Adhyasa
29.22. Conclusion of the Chapter
Practical Assignment for Chapter 29
Review Questions
Brief Summary
Chapter 30. Diagnosis of the Loss of Buddhi
30.1. What Buddhi Is
30.2. What the Loss of Buddhi Means
30.3. Loss of Buddhi and Prajnaparadha
30.4. Buddhi and Smriti
30.5. How Buddhi Loses Strength
30.6. Early Signs of Weakening Buddhi
30.7. Buddhi and Manas
30.8. Buddhi and Ahamkara
30.9. Buddhi and Chitta
30.10. Buddhi and Raga
30.11. Buddhi and Dvesha
30.12. Buddhi and Tamas
30.13. Buddhi and Rajas
30.14. Loss of Buddhi and Cognitive Distortions
30.15. Diagnosis of the Loss of Buddhi through Repeated Error
30.16. Diagnosis of the Loss of Buddhi through Justification
30.17. Diagnosis of the Loss of Buddhi through Speech
30.18. Diagnosis of the Loss of Buddhi through the Relation to Consequences
30.19. Buddhi and Moral Discrimination
30.20. Loss of Buddhi in the Specialist
30.21. Algorithm for Diagnosing the Loss of Buddhi
30.22. How to Restore Buddhi
30.23. Conclusion of the Chapter
Practical Assignment for Chapter 30
Review Questions
Brief Summary
Chapter 31. Diagnosis of Desire, Fear, and Dependence
31.1. Why Desire Is Not an Enemy
31.2. Healthy Desire
31.3. Sankalpa as Mature Desire
31.4. The Hook of Desire
31.5. Vikalpa — Vasana — Vega — Action
31.6. How the Object Becomes the Bearer of Salvation
31.7. Raga as a Diagnostic Principle
31.8. Dvesha as the Reverse Side of Desire
31.9. Fear as a Form of Dvesha
31.10. Abhinivesha: Clinging to Support
31.11. Dependence as the Loss of Freedom before an Object
31.12. Dependence on Evaluation
31.13. Dependence on Relationships
31.14. Dependence on the Future Fruit
31.15. Dependence on Suffering
31.16. Desire, Fear, and Dependence as One Loop
31.17. The Role of Smriti in Diagnosing Dependence
31.18. The Role of Dhriti
31.19. Diagnostic Scheme of Desire
31.20. Diagnostic Scheme of Fear
31.21. Diagnostic Scheme of Dependence
31.22. Diagnostic Errors
31.23. Conclusion of the Chapter
Practical Assignment for Chapter 31
Review Questions
Brief Summary
Chapter 32. The Five Powers of Healing: Jnana, Vijnana, Dhairya, Smriti, Samadhi
32.1. Why Therapy Begins Not with a Technique, but with Power
32.2. Jnana: Correct Knowledge
32.3. False Jnana: Knowledge as an Ornament of Ahamkara
32.4. Vijnana: Knowledge That Has Become Experience
32.5. Vijnana and the Honesty of Experience
32.6. Dhairya: Steadiness and the Courage of the Path
32.7. False Steadiness and True Dhairya
32.8. Smriti: Memory of What Is Right
32.9. Smriti and Anti-Mantras
32.10. Samadhi: Inner Collectedness
32.11. Why Smriti Drowns in Noise without Samadhi
32.12. How the Five Powers Work Together
32.13. The Five Powers and the Formula X = 0 + A
32.14. The Five Powers in Rajas
32.15. The Five Powers in Tamas
32.16. The Five Powers in Sattva
32.17. Jnana in the Practice of the Specialist
32.18. Vijnana in the Practice of the Specialist
32.19. Dhairya in the Practice of the Specialist
32.20. Smriti in the Practice of the Specialist
32.21. Samadhi in the Practice of the Specialist
32.22. The Five Powers and Ethics
32.23. The Five Powers and Modern Psychology
32.24. Errors in Applying the Five Powers
32.25. Conclusion of the Chapter
Practical Assignment for Chapter 32
Review Questions
Brief Summary
Chapter 33. Strengthening Buddhi
33.1. A Life Situation: A Person Understands Everything, but Makes the Same Mistake Again
33.2. What Buddhi Is in the Therapeutic Sense
33.3. Buddhi and Intellect: Why an Intelligent Person Can Live Unwisely
33.4. Buddhi, Viveka, and Prajna
33.5. Hita and Ahita: The Simplest School of Buddhi
33.6. Dharma as the Direction of Buddhi
33.7. The First Practice for Strengthening Buddhi: A Pause before Action
33.8. The Second Practice: Evening Discrimination of Hita and Ahita
33.9. The Third Practice: A Map of Buddhi
33.10. The Fourth Practice: The Question “What Is the Fact Here?”
33.11. The Fifth Practice: Distinguishing Desire from Sankalpa
33.12. The Sixth Practice: Studying Correct Sources
33.13. The Seventh Practice: Satya as the Purification of Buddhi
33.14. The Eighth Practice: Mentor, Dialogue, and Feedback
33.15. The Ninth Practice: Working with Consequences
33.16. The Tenth Practice: Small Decisions
33.17. Strengthening Buddhi in Rajas
33.18. Strengthening Buddhi in Tamas
33.19. Strengthening Buddhi in Sattva
33.20. Modern Commentary: Buddhi and Metacognition
33.21. Therapeutic Analysis
33.22. Errors in Strengthening Buddhi
33.23. Conclusion of the Chapter
Practical Assignment for Chapter 33
Review Questions
Brief Summary
Chapter 34. Restoration of Smriti
34.1. What Smriti Is
34.2. Smriti and Smriti-Bhramsha
34.3. Why a Person Forgets What Is Right
34.4. Smriti as Memory of Oneself
34.5. Smriti as Memory of Dharma
34.6. Smriti as Memory of Consequences
34.7. Smriti and Repetition
34.8. Morning Practice of Smriti
34.9. Evening Practice of Smriti
34.10. Phrases of Smriti
34.11. Mantra and Smriti
34.12. Smriti and the Body
34.13. Smriti and Place
34.14. Smriti and Communication
34.15. Smriti and the Digital Environment
34.16. Smriti and Study
34.17. Smriti and Traumatic Memory
34.18. Smriti and Sankalpa
34.19. Smriti and Vairagya
34.20. Smriti and Samadhi
34.21. The Specialist’s Smriti
34.22. Errors in Restoring Smriti
34.23. Algorithm for Restoring Smriti
34.24. Practical Example
34.25. Conclusion of the Chapter
Practical Assignment for Chapter 34
Review Questions
Brief Summary
Chapter 35. Working with Manas and the Indriyas
35.1. A Life Situation: The Mind Is Not Sick; It Is Simply Untrained
35.2. What Manas Is
35.3. The Indriyas as the Gates of Experience
35.4. Why Contact with an Object Is Not Neutral
35.5. Pratyahara: Not Escape from the World, but Management of the Entrances
35.6. Pratyahara and Freedom
35.7. Manas and the Digital Environment
35.8. A Map of Manas
35.9. Pranayama as Work with the Bridge between Body and Mind
35.10. A Simple Breathing Practice before Reaction
35.11. Mantra as the Re-Tuning of Inner Speech
35.12. Mantra and the Psychological Formula of Smriti
35.13. Manas and Vega: Inner Impulses
35.14. Governing the Indriyas through Changing the Environment
35.15. Replacing the Object
35.16. Working with the Food of Impressions
35.17. Manas and Speech
35.18. Manas and Sleep
35.19. Manas and Prana
35.20. Manas and Dhyana
35.21. Working with Manas in Rajas
35.22. Working with Manas in Tamas
35.23. Working with Manas in Sattva
35.24. Comparison with Modern Approaches
35.25. Practical Protocol for Working with Manas and the Indriyas
35.26. Errors in Working with Manas and the Indriyas
35.27. Conclusion of the Chapter
Practical Assignment for Chapter 35
Review Questions
Brief Summary
Chapter 36. The Sattvic Way of Life as a Therapeutic Environment
36.1. A Life Situation: A Person Wants Clarity, but Lives against Clarity
36.2. What a Sattvic Way of Life Is
36.3. Ahara: Food for the Body and Food for the Mind
36.4. Vihara: Rhythm of Life, Movement, and Rest
36.5. Achara: Behavior, Speech, and Ethics
36.6. Regimen as Therapy
36.7. The Ten Agents of the Influence of the Gunas
36.8. Agama: What a Person Considers Knowledge
36.9. Praja: Environment as a Therapeutic Power
36.10. Desha: The Place That Holds the Mind
36.11. Kala: Time as Medicine or Poison
36.12. Karma: Repeated Actions Create the Psyche
36.13. Dhyana: What a Person Contemplates, He Becomes
36.14. Mantra and Anti-Mantra as Part of the Way of Life
36.15. Samskara: Why a Way of Life Must Be Repeated
36.16. Ahara, Vihara, and Achara as Three Supports of the Therapeutic Environment
36.17. The Sattvic Day of a Student
36.18. How Not to Turn a Sattvic Way of Life into a New Ahamkara
36.19. The Individuality of a Sattvic Regimen
36.20. A Sattvic Environment in Therapy and Education
36.21. Modern Comparison: The Environmental Approach and Behavioral Psychology
36.22. A Practical One-Week Plan for Increasing Sattva
36.23. Diagnostic Map of a Sattvic Environment
36.24. Journal of the Gunas and the Ten Factors of Sattva
36.25. Errors in the Topic of the Sattvic Way of Life
36.26. Conclusion of the Chapter
Practical Assignment for Chapter 36
Review Questions
Brief Summary
Chapter 37. Sattvavajaya and Psychotherapy
37.1. Why Compare Sattvavajaya with Psychotherapy at All
37.2. What Psychotherapy Is in the Broad Sense
37.3. The Problem of Many Schools
37.4. A General Grid of Comparison
37.5. Psychoanalysis and Sattvavajaya
37.6. Behaviorism and Sattvavajaya
37.7. Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and Sattvavajaya
37.8. Humanistic Psychology and Sattvavajaya
37.9. Existential Therapy and Sattvavajaya
37.10. Transpersonal Psychology and Sattvavajaya
37.11. Body-Oriented Approaches and Sattvavajaya
37.12. Trauma Therapy, EMDR, and Sattvavajaya
37.13. Mindfulness Approaches and Sattvavajaya
37.14. Family and Systemic Therapy in the Light of Sattvavajaya
37.15. Where Sattvavajaya Is Similar to Psychotherapy
37.16. Where Sattvavajaya Differs in Principle
37.17. Why Sattvavajaya Does Not Need to Be “Completed” by Western Schools
37.18. Sattvavajaya as a Meta-Map
37.19. Modern Foreign Research on Sattvavajaya Chikitsa
37.20. Limitations of Sattvavajaya in Modern Practice
37.21. Therapeutic Analysis: Dependence on Evaluation
37.22. How the Student Should Use Modern Schools
37.23. A Practical Comparison Table in Prose
37.24. What Sattvavajaya Can Give to Modern Psychotherapy
37.25. Conclusion of the Chapter
Practical Assignment for Chapter 37
Review Questions
Brief Summary
Chapter 38. Sattvavajaya in Counseling
38.1. How Counseling Differs from a Lecture
38.2. Who the Sattvavajaya Specialist Is
38.3. The Main Task of the Counseling Conversation
38.4. The First Phase of Consultation: Sattvic Listening
38.5. The Second Phase: Clarifying the Facts
38.6. The Third Phase: Diagnosis of the Gunas
38.7. The Fourth Phase: Searching for Adhyasa
38.8. The Fifth Phase: Restoring Smriti
38.9. The Sixth Phase: A Small Action
38.10. The Structure of One Consultation
38.11. What Questions the Sattvavajaya Specialist Asks
38.12. What the Specialist Must Not Do
38.13. Sattvavajaya and the Boundaries of Psychotherapy
38.14. The Role of the Vaidya
38.15. The Mentor and the Danger of Power
38.16. Therapeutic Speech
38.17. Working with Resistance
38.18. Consultation in Rajas
38.19. Consultation in Tamas
38.20. Consultation in Sattva
38.21. Example of a Counseling Analysis
38.22. Homework Assignments
38.23. Completing the Consultation
38.24. Modern Commentary: Counseling without Reduction
38.25. Errors of the Specialist in Counseling
38.26. Conclusion of the Chapter
Practical Assignment for Chapter 38
Review Questions
Brief Summary
Chapter 39. Sattvavajaya in Education
39.1. A Life Situation: The Student Knows, but Does Not Change
39.2. Education as the Restoration of Buddhi
39.3. Education as the Restoration of Smriti
39.4. Education and the Dharma of the Student
39.5. Discipline as the Protection of Freedom
39.6. Learning through the Gunas
39.7. The Teacher as a Bearer of Sattva
39.8. An Educational Error as Material, Not a Sentence
39.9. Evaluation as an Instrument, Not the Source of the Self
39.10. The Textbook as an Instrument of Smriti
39.11. Practices in the Educational Process
39.12. Education and the Digital Environment
39.13. The Role of the Curator
39.14. Upbringing as the Formation of Inner Hierarchy
39.15. Discipline without Violence
39.16. Education and the Fruit
39.17. The Education of a Specialist in a Helping Profession
39.18. The Group as a Field of the Gunas
39.19. Education as Prevention of Suffering
39.20. Modern Comparison: Competency-Based Pedagogy and Sattvavajaya
39.21. A Practical Model of a Sattvavajaya Lesson
39.22. An Exam in the Spirit of Sattvavajaya
39.23. Errors in Applying Sattvavajaya in Education
39.24. Conclusion of the Chapter
Practical Assignment for Chapter 39
Review Questions
Brief Summary
Chapter 40. The Ethics of the Sattvavajaya Specialist
40.1. A Life Situation: Correct Words Can Become Harm
40.2. The Dharma of the Specialist
40.3. Ahimsa: Not Harming through Word, Method, or Presence
40.4. Satya: Truthfulness without Cruelty
40.5. Responsibility: Knowing the Power of One’s Word
40.6. Boundaries as a Form of Sattva
40.7. Confidentiality and Trust
40.8. Competence and the Limits of the Method
40.9. Not Imposing a Worldview
40.10. Not Creating Dependence
40.11. Not Using Spirituality for Power
40.12. Money, Exchange, and Purity of Motive
40.13. Sexual and Emotional Boundaries
40.14. Working with Transference and Idealization
40.15. Ethical Work with a Group
40.16. Ethical Diagnosis
40.17. Ethical Application of Apavada
40.18. The Specialist and His Own Ahamkara
40.19. The Professional Smriti of the Specialist
40.20. Ethical Advertising and Public Speech
40.21. Working with the Client’s Religious Worldview
40.22. Ethical Relations with Other Specialists
40.23. The Limits of Competence of the Sattvavajaya Specialist
40.24. Ethical Analysis of a Specialist’s Error
40.25. A Mini-Code for the Sattvavajaya Specialist
40.26. Therapeutic Analysis: When the Specialist Wants to Save
40.27. Conclusion of the Chapter
Practical Assignment for Chapter 40
Review Questions
Brief Summary
Chapter 41. Practicum: Case Analyses
41.1. General Scheme of Case Analysis
41.2. Protocol of the First Consultation in the Logic of Sattvavajaya
41.3. Case One: Anxiety about the Future
41.4. Case Two: Dependence on Evaluation
41.5. Case Three: The Hook of Desire
41.6. Case Four: Anger in Relationships
41.7. Case Five: Tamas and Procrastination
41.8. Case Six: Digital Overload
41.9. Case Seven: Attachment in Relationships
41.10. Case Eight: Loss of Meaning
41.11. Case Nine: Psychosomatic Tension
41.12. Case Ten: The Conflict between Dharma and Desire
41.13. How an Educational Case Analysis Is Built
41.14. Typical Errors in Case Analysis
41.15. Comparison with the Modern Case Method
41.16. Practice of Independent Analysis
41.17. Conclusion of the Chapter
Practical Assignment for Chapter 41
Review Questions
Brief Summary
Chapter 42. The Final Map of Sattvavajaya
42.1. A Life Situation: After Studying the Material, It Is Important to See the Whole
42.2. The Main Scheme of the Whole System
42.3. Two Levels: Paramarthika and Vyavaharika
42.4. The Map of the Human Being
42.5. The Map of Suffering
42.6. The Map of the Fall of the Mind
42.7. The Map of Restoration
42.8. The Diagnostic Map of Sattvavajaya
42.9. The Therapeutic Map of Sattvavajaya
42.10. The Five Powers as the Core of the Method
42.11. Sattva as a Therapeutic Environment
42.12. Viveka as the Main Skill
42.13. Smriti as Holding the Path
42.14. Apavada as the Result of Therapy
42.15. The Wholeness of Sattvavajaya
42.16. Sattvavajaya as the Path of the Student
42.17. Sattvavajaya as the Path of the Specialist
42.18. Sattvavajaya as a Path for Society and Education
42.19. A One-Page Mini-Algorithm of Sattvavajaya
42.20. Three Questions of Mature Sattvavajaya
42.21. Modern Commentary: Why This Map Is Needed Today
42.22. Main Errors after Studying the Textbook
42.23. Final Practical Map of the Student’s Competencies
42.24. Final Map of the Therapeutic Process
42.25. Completion of the Main Part of the Textbook
Practical Assignment for Chapter 42
Review Questions
Brief Summary
Glossary of Sattvavajaya Terms
Final Examination Questions
Diagnostic Maps
Map 1. Diagnosis of the Gunas
Map 2. Diagnosis of Adhyasa
Map 3. Diagnosis of the Loss of Buddhi
Map 4. Diagnosis of Desire, Fear, and Dependence
Map 5. Brief Therapeutic Algorithm
Map 6. Manobala Pariksha: Educational Self-Test
Bibliography and Sources
Epilogue. Beyond the Interface