| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 156 pages) |
| Series |
SUNY series in Hindu studies |
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SUNY series in Hindu studies.
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| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Challenges of an Oxymoronic Genre -- 1. Eight Characters in Search of the Yogasutra: The Lively Banalization of Yogic Deathly Silence -- 2. Daily Life in Samadhi: The Dying Yogin's Real Life and a Plea for Holistic Presentation of the Yogasutra -- 3. Yogasutra and the Dying Yogin's "Lively Interior" -- 4. Causality, False Linearity, and the Silent Yogin's Presence in the Yogasutra -- 5. Untying the Knot of Existence: Liberation, Deathly Silence, and Their Interpretation in Patanjala-Yoga -- 6. Dying Yogin's Challenge; Homelessness and Truth -- Essential Yogasutra; An Exercise in Rereading as Rewriting |
| Summary |
"Silence Unheard maintains that the reality of Patanjali's Yogasutra is a profound silence barely and variously audible to the scholars and interpreters who approach it. Even the Yogasutra itself is an "approach," a voice articulating an other - a silent, beyond-speech yogin. Author Yohanan Grinshpon presents Patanjali as a Sankhya-philosopher, who interprets silence in accordance with his own dualist metaphysics and Buddhistic sensibilities. The Yogasutra represents an intellectual's conceptualization of utter otherness rather than the yogin's verbalization of silence. Silence Unheard focuses on the yogin's supra-normal experiences (siddhis) as well as on the classification of silences and the ultimate goal of disintegration through guna balance. The book provides a translation of the Yogasutra divided into two sections: an essential text, concerning the yoga practitioner, and a secondary text, concerning the philosopher. Grinshpon also surveys the encounters of intellectuals, scholars, seekers, devotees, and outsiders with the Yogasutra."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-151) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Patañjali. Yogasūtra.
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| SUBJECT |
Yogasūtra (Patañjali) fast |
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Yoga.
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Yoga
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Yoga (philosophy)
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PHILOSOPHY -- Hindu.
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Yoga
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0585444110 |
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9780585444116 |
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0791451011 |
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9780791451014 |
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079145102X |
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9780791451021 |
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9780791489949 |
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0791489949 |
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