1st Edition
Sutras, Stories and Yoga Philosophy Narrative and Transfiguration
By Daniel Raveh
Copyright 2016
172 Pages
by
Routledge
172 Pages
by
Routledge
172 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book presents a close reading of four Indian narratives from different time periods (epic, Upaniṣadic, pre-modern and contemporary): Ekalavya's story from the Mahābhārata (MBh 1.123.1-39), the story of Prajāpati, Indra and Virochana from the Chāndogya Upanisad (CU 8.7.1-8.12.5), the story of Śankara in the King's body from the Śankaradigvijaya , and A.R. Murugadoss's Hindi film Ghajini... Read more
Introduction: Stories and Sūtras
1. Truth versus Truthfulness in the Mahābhārata Story of Ekalavya
2. Is Mokṣa Pleasant? An Alternative Discourse on Freedom in the 8th chapter of the Chāndogya-Upaniṣad
3. Shankara in the King's Body: Knowing by Living Through
4. Memory, Forgetting, Self-identity: Philosophical Inscriptions in A.R. Murugadoss' Ghajini
Biography
Daniel Raveh is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Tel-Aviv University, Israel.
