In this chapter, Murty evaluates Mircea Eliade&s;s thesis that there are similarities and differences between Yoga and psychoanalysis, between Yogic insight and other types of intuition, between samādhi and hypnosis, Haṭha Yoga and athletics, and Yoga and Shamanism. Murty argues that in the Yoga philosophy, the subconscious is not merely libido; “it is the source of egoistic intentions and...