Engaged Emancipation
Mind, Morals, and Make-Believe in the Mok?opaya (Yogavasi??ha)
Published on 1. December 2015
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325 pages
978-1-4384-5867-0 (ISBN)
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A wide-ranging analysis of the Mok?opaya, the Indian literary classic that teaches through storytelling how to enjoy an active, successful, worldly life in a spiritually enlightened way.
In the Mok?opaya (also known as the Yogavasi??ha), an eleventh-century Sanskrit poetic text, the great Vedic philosopher Vasi??ha counsels his young protege Lord Rama about the ways of the world through sixty-four stories designed to bring Rama from ignorance to wisdom. Much beloved, this work reflects the philosophy of Kashmir Saivism. 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 Rama as his melancholy and angst transform into connectivity, peace, and spiritual equipoise.
In the Mok?opaya (also known as the Yogavasi??ha), an eleventh-century Sanskrit poetic text, the great Vedic philosopher Vasi??ha counsels his young protege Lord Rama about the ways of the world through sixty-four stories designed to bring Rama from ignorance to wisdom. Much beloved, this work reflects the philosophy of Kashmir Saivism. 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 Rama as his melancholy and angst transform into connectivity, peace, and spiritual equipoise.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Albany, NY
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
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1 Tables, black and white; 3 Illustrations, color
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Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
590 gr
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978-1-4384-5867-0 (9781438458670)
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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: Patanjali'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 Manoa. His books include Mahabharata Now: Narration, Aesthetics, Ethics (coedited with Sibaji Bandyopadhyay).
Content
Introduction
Abbreviations
I. Flimsy Fixity: Reality Shifts
1. Radical Transformation in the Yogavasi??ha: A Phenomenological Interpretation
Matthew MacKenzie
2. Akasa and Jiva in the Story of Lila
Bruno Lo Turco
3. The Concept of Abhasa in the Yogavasi??ha
Sthaneshwar Timalsina
4. Is This a Dream? A Critique of Mok??opaya's Take on Experience, Objecthood, and the "External" World
Arindam Chakrabarti
5. The Existence of an Endless Number of Worlds: Jagadanantya in Mok??opaya and the Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Garth Bregman
6. Vasi??ha and Borges: In Quest of Postmodern Enlightenment
Sthaneshwar Timalsina
II. Human Agency and World Creation
7. Attitude of the Yogavasi??ha toward Human Endeavor
Pranati Ghosal
8. A Fabulous Rationality: Poetry, Reason, and Action in the Yogavasi??ha
Roddam Narasimha
9. Ethics and Psychology of the Yogavasi??ha in the Upasama Prakara?a
Christopher Key Chapple
10. Dreams, Fictions, and the Quest for Morality in the Yogavasi??ha
Menaha Ganesathasan
11. A Horrid Treehouse or a Charming City? Yogavasi??ha (Mok??opaya) on Spiritual Culture of the Body
Arindam Chakrabarti
III. Engaged Emancipation
12. Embodied Liberation (Jivanmukti) in the Yogavasi??ha
Andrew Fort
13. Liberation into Nature: Vasi??ha's Embrace of the Great Elements
Christopher Key Chapple
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
Abbreviations
I. Flimsy Fixity: Reality Shifts
1. Radical Transformation in the Yogavasi??ha: A Phenomenological Interpretation
Matthew MacKenzie
2. Akasa and Jiva in the Story of Lila
Bruno Lo Turco
3. The Concept of Abhasa in the Yogavasi??ha
Sthaneshwar Timalsina
4. Is This a Dream? A Critique of Mok??opaya's Take on Experience, Objecthood, and the "External" World
Arindam Chakrabarti
5. The Existence of an Endless Number of Worlds: Jagadanantya in Mok??opaya and the Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Garth Bregman
6. Vasi??ha and Borges: In Quest of Postmodern Enlightenment
Sthaneshwar Timalsina
II. Human Agency and World Creation
7. Attitude of the Yogavasi??ha toward Human Endeavor
Pranati Ghosal
8. A Fabulous Rationality: Poetry, Reason, and Action in the Yogavasi??ha
Roddam Narasimha
9. Ethics and Psychology of the Yogavasi??ha in the Upasama Prakara?a
Christopher Key Chapple
10. Dreams, Fictions, and the Quest for Morality in the Yogavasi??ha
Menaha Ganesathasan
11. A Horrid Treehouse or a Charming City? Yogavasi??ha (Mok??opaya) on Spiritual Culture of the Body
Arindam Chakrabarti
III. Engaged Emancipation
12. Embodied Liberation (Jivanmukti) in the Yogavasi??ha
Andrew Fort
13. Liberation into Nature: Vasi??ha's Embrace of the Great Elements
Christopher Key Chapple
Bibliography
Contributors
Index