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Silence Unheard: Deathly Otherness in Patanjala-Yoga » (1st Edition)

Authors: Yohanan Grinshpon
ISBN-13: 9780791451021, ISBN-10: 079145102X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Date Published: November 2001
Edition: 1st Edition

Explores the experience of yoga in the Yogasuutra of Patanujali.

	Foreword
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: Challenges of an Oxymoronic Genre	1
1	Eight Characters in Search of the Yogasutra: The Lively Banalization of Yogic Deathly Silence	13
2	Daily Life in Samadhi: The Dying Yogin's Real Life and a Plea for Holistic Presentation of the Yogasutra	37
3	The Yogasutra and the Dying Yogin's "Lively Interior"	53
4	Causality, False Linearity, and the Silent Yogin's Presence in the Yogasutra	65
5	Untying the Knot of Existence: Liberation, Deathly Silence, and Their Interpretation in Patanjala-Yoga	79
6	The Dying Yogin's Challenge; Homelessness and Truth	91
	The Essential Yogasutra; An Exercise in Rereading as Rewriting	95
	Notes	123
	Bibliography	147
	Index	153