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.
Table of Content
Introduction
Abbreviations
I. Flimsy Fixity: Reality Shifts
1. Radical Transformation in the Yogavāsiṣṭha: A Phenomenological Interpretation
Matthew Mac Kenzie
2. Ākāśa and Jīva in the Story of Līlā
Bruno Lo Turco
3. The Concept of
Ābhāsa in the
Yogavāsiṣṭha
Sthaneshwar Timalsina
4. Is This a Dream? A Critique of
Mok̉ṣopāya’s Take on Experience, Objecthood, and the “External” World
Arindam Chakrabarti
5. The Existence of an Endless Number of Worlds:
Jagadānantya in
Mok̉ṣopāya and the Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Garth Bregman
6. Vasiṣṭha and Borges: In Quest of Postmodern Enlightenment
Sthaneshwar Timalsina
II. Human Agency and World Creation
7. Attitude of the
Yogavāsiṣṭha toward Human Endeavor
Pranati Ghosal
8. A Fabulous Rationality: Poetry, Reason, and Action in the
Yogavāsiṣṭha
Roddam Narasimha
9. Ethics and Psychology of the
Yogavāsiṣṭha in the
Upaśama Prakaraṇa
Christopher Key Chapple
10. Dreams, Fictions, and the Quest for Morality in the
Yogavāsiṣṭha
Menaha Ganesathasan
11. A Horrid Treehouse or a Charming City?
Yogavāsiṣṭha (
Mok̉ṣopāya) on Spiritual Culture of the Body
Arindam Chakrabarti
III. Engaged Emancipation
12. Embodied Liberation (
Jīvanmukti) in the
Yogavāsiṣṭha
Andrew Fort
13. Liberation into Nature: Vasiṣṭha’s Embrace of the Great Elements
Christopher Key Chapple
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
About the author
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).
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