Silence Unheard
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-0-7914-5102-1 (ISBN)
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.
Yohanan Grinshpon is Lecturer in Indian Studies at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Foreword by David Shulman Acknowledgments
Introduction: Challenges of an Oxymoronic Genre
1. Eight Characteristics 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. The 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 Patañjala-Yoga
6. The Dying Yogin's Challenge; Homelessness and Truth
The Essential Yogasutra; An Exercise in Rereading as Rewriting
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Reihe/Serie | SUNY series in Hindu Studies |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Total Illustrations: 0 |
| Verlagsort | Albany, NY |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 236 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7914-5102-X / 079145102X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7914-5102-1 / 9780791451021 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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