Engaged Emancipation

Mind, Morals, and Make-Believe in the Mokṣopāya (Yogavāsiṣṭha)

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

AvChristopher Key Chapple,Arindam Chakrabarti

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A wide-ranging analysis of the Mokṣopāya, the Indian literary classic that teaches through storytelling how to enjoy an active, successful, worldly life in a spiritually enlightened way.In the Mokṣopāya (also known as the Yogavāsiṣṭha), an eleventh-century Sanskrit poetic text, the great Vedic philosopher Vasiṣṭha counsels his young protégé Lord Rāma about the ways of the world through sixty-four stories designed to bring Rāma from ignorance to wisdom. Much beloved, this work reflects the philosophy of Kashmir Śaivism. Precisely because all worldly pursuits are dreamlike and fiction-like, the human soul must first come to an experience of non-dualistic, mind-only metaphysics, and after attaining this wisdom, promote moral activism. Engaged Emancipation is a wide-ranging consideration of this work and the philosophical and spiritual questions it addresses by philosophers, Sanskritists, and scholars of religion, literature, and science. Contributors allow readers to walk with Rāma as his melancholy and angst transform into connectivity, peace, and spiritual equipoise.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-07-02
Mått152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor325
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9781438458663

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Christopher Key Chapple is Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology at Loyola Marymount University. He is the author or editor of many books, including Yoga and the Luminous: Patañjali's Spiritual Path to Freedom and Reconciling Yogas: Haribhadra's Collection of Views on Yoga, both also published by SUNY Press. Arindam Chakrabarti is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. His books include Mahābhārata Now: Narration, Aesthetics, Ethics (coedited with Sibaji Bandyopadhyay).

IntroductionAbbreviationsI. Flimsy Fixity: Reality Shifts 1. Radical Transformation in the Yogavāsiṣṭha: A Phenomenological InterpretationMatthew MacKenzie2. Ākāśa and Jīva in the Story of LīlāBruno Lo Turco3. The Concept of Ābhāsa in the YogavāsiṣṭhaSthaneshwar Timalsina4. Is This a Dream? A Critique of Mokṣopāya’s Take on Experience, Objecthood, and the "External" WorldArindam Chakrabarti5. The Existence of an Endless Number of Worlds: Jagadānantya in Mokṣopāya and the Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum MechanicsGarth Bregman6. Vasiṣṭha and Borges: In Quest of Postmodern EnlightenmentSthaneshwar TimalsinaII. Human Agency and World Creation 7. Attitude of the Yogavāsiṣṭha toward Human EndeavorPranati Ghosal8. A Fabulous Rationality: Poetry, Reason, and Action in the YogavāsiṣṭhaRoddam Narasimha9. Ethics and Psychology of the Yogavāsiṣṭha in the Upaśama PrakaraṇaChristopher Key Chapple10. Dreams, Fictions, and the Quest for Morality in the YogavāsiṣṭhaMenaha Ganesathasan11. A Horrid Treehouse or a Charming City? Yogavāsiṣṭha (Mokṣopāya) on Spiritual Culture of the BodyArindam ChakrabartiIII. Engaged Emancipation 12. Embodied Liberation (Jīvanmukti) in the YogavāsiṣṭhaAndrew Fort13. Liberation into Nature: Vasiṣṭha’s Embrace of the Great ElementsChristopher Key ChappleBibliographyContributorsIndex

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