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Engaged emancipation: mind, morals, and make-believe in the Moksopaya Yogavasistha

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York Suny Press 2015Description: xv, 309 pISBN:
  • 9781438458670
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 181.45 E6
Summary: 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. http://www.sunypress.edu/p-6139-engaged-emancipation.aspx
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Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Tracy Pintchman

1. The Icon of Yoga: Patañjali as Nagārāja in Modern Yoga
Stuart Ray Sarbacker

2. God’s Eyes: The Manufacture, Installation, and Experience of External Eyes on Jain Icons
John E. Cort

3. North Indian Materialities of Jesus
Mathew N. Schmalz

4. Celebrating Materiality: Garbo, a Festival Image of the Goddess in Gujarat
Neelima Shukla-Bhatt

5. The Goddess’s Shaligrams
Tracy Pintchman

6. The Camphor Flame in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction
James McHugh

7. Metal Hands, Cotton Threads, and Color Flags: Materializing Islamic Devotion in South India
Afsar Mohammad

8. Monastic Matters: Bowls, Robes, and the Middle Way in South Asian Theravāda Buddhism
Bradley Clough

9. Letting Holy Water and Coconuts Speak for Themselves: Tamil Catholicism and the Work of Selva Raj
Selva J. Raj and Corinne Dempsey

List of Contributors
Index

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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