Silence unheard : deathly otherness in Ptanjala-yoga / Yohanan Grinshpon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grinshpon, Yohanan, 1948-

Series:

SUNY series in Hindu studies

SUNY series in Hindu Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Patañjali. Yogasūtra.

Patañjali.

Yoga.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (169 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Silence Unheard maintains that the reality of Patañjali's Yogasūtra is a profound silence barely and variously audible to the scholars and interpreters who approach it. Even the Yogasūtra itself is an "approach," a voice articulating an other-- a silent, beyond-speech yogin. Author Yohanan Grinshpon presents Patañjali as a Sāṅkhya-philosopher, who interprets silence in accordance with his own dualist metaphysics and Buddhistic sensibilities. The Yogasūtra 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 guṇa balance. The book provides a translation of the Yogasūtra 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 Yogasūtra.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Challenges of an Oxymoronic Genre

Eight Characters in Search of the Yogasūtra:The Lively Banalization of Yogic Deathly Silence

Daily Life in Samādhi: The Dying Yogin’s Real Life and a Plea for Holistic Presentation of the Yogasūtra

The Yogasūtra and the Dying Yogin’s “Lively Interior”

Causality, False Linearity, and the Silent Yogin’s Presence in the Yogasūtra

Untying the Knot of Existence: Liberation, Deathly Silence, and their Interpretation in Pātañjala-Yoga

The Dying Yogin’s Challenge; Homelessness and Truth

The Essential Yogasūtra; An Exercise in Rereading as Rewriting

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-151) and index.

ISBN:

9780791489949

0791489949

9780585444116

0585444110

OCLC:

61367496