Sūtras, Stories and Yoga Philosophy: Narrative and Transfiguration

ISBN-13: 9780367876487 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 162 str.

Daniel Raveh

Opis

This book presents a close reading of four Indian narratives from different time periods (epic, Upaniṣadic, pre-modern and contemporary): Ekalavya's story from the Mahābhārata (MBh 1.123.1-39), the story of Prajāpati, Indra and Virocana from the Chāndogya Upaniṣad (CU 8.7.1-8.12.5), the story of Śaṅkara in the King's body from the

Spis treści

Introduction: Stories and Sūtras

1. Truth versus Truthfulness in the Mahābhārata Story of Ekalavya

2. Is Mokṣa Pleasant? An Alternative Discourse on Freedom in the 8th chapter of the Chāndogya-Upaniṣad

3. Shankara in the King's Body: Knowing by Living Through

4. Memory, Forgetting, Self-identity: Philosophical Inscriptions in A.R. Murugadoss' Ghajini

O autorze

Daniel Raveh is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Tel-Aviv University, Israel.