The Yoga of Snakes and Arrows: The Leela of Self-Knowledge [With Fold Out Gameboard] (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781594771781)

A guide to observation of the inner self through the ancient Indian game of Leela

- Comes complete with foldout game board and commentary for the 72 spaces

- Mirrors the path of obstacles and insights one encounters in self-development

- Repeated play offers lessons in self-understanding

Chutes and Ladders, the popular children's game, is derived from the ancient Hindu game Leela, or Snakes and Arrows, which charts the ups and downs of the soul's path toward reunion with the Infinite. Snakes and Arrows was designed by the seers and saints of India as a tool for understanding the relationship of the individual self to the Absolute Self. For thousands of years the 72 spaces on this game board have enabled players to chart the paths that represent the course of their lives. Each space represents a virtue or a vice, an aspect of consciousness, or a plane of reality and is accompanied by a commentary explaining its meaning. The player's progress on the board is dictated by the fall of a die corresponding to the forces of karma. Repeated encounters with the snakes and arrows on the board reveal the full meaning of the commentaries and can give shape to habitual patterns of the player, resulting in greater self-understanding and even a gradual detachment from the ego's delusions.

The Yoga of Snakes and Arrows assists the seeker through the stages and trials of self-development, mirroring both the obstacles of karma and the rewards of self-obtained insight. There is really only one game in life and that is Leela, the game of self-knowledge and the universal play of cosmic energies.

Author: Harish Johari
ISBN-10: 1594771782
ISBN-13: 9781594771781
Publisher: Destiny Books
Language: English
Published: 05/30/2007
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.50d

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