Engaged Emancipation: Mind, Morals, and Make-Believe in the

Engaged Emancipation: Mind, Morals, and Make-Believe in the Mokopāya (Yogavāsiha)

A wide-ranging analysis of the Moká¹£opÄya, the Indian literary classic that teaches through storytelling how to enjoy an active, successful, worldly life in a spiritually enlightened way.

In the Moká¹£opÄya (also known as the YogavÄsiá¹£á¹ha), an eleventh-century Sanskrit poetic text, the great Vedic philosopher Vasiá¹£á¹ha counsels his young protÃ©gÃ© Lord RÄma about the ways of the world through sixty-four stories designed to bring RÄma from ignorance to wisdom. Much beloved, this work reflects the philosophy of Kashmir Åšaivism. 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 RÄma as his melancholy and angst transform into connectivity, peace, and spiritual equipoise.
Country USA
Brand State University of New York Press
Manufacturer State University of New York Press
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2016-07-02
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781438458663

Country	USA
Brand	State University of New York Press
Manufacturer	State University of New York Press
Binding	Paperback
ReleaseDate	2016-07-02
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781438458663

Engaged Emancipation: Mind, Morals, and Make-Believe in the Mokopāya (Yogavāsiha)