Engaged Emancipation: Mind, Morals, and Make-Believe in the Mokṣopāya (Yogavāsiṣṭha)
Document Type
Book
Publication Date
2015
Abstract
In the Mokṣopāya (also known as the Yogavāsiṣṭha), an eleventh-century Sanskrit poetic text, the great Vedic philosopher Vasiṣṭha counsels his young protégé Lord Rāma about the ways of the world through sixty-four stories designed to bring Rāma from ignorance to wisdom. Much beloved, this work reflects the philosophy of Kashmir Śaivism. 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 Rāma as his melancholy and angst transform into connectivity, peace, and spiritual equipoise.
Original Publication Citation
Chapple, Christopher Key, and Arindam Chakrabarti, eds. Engaged Emancipation: Mind, Morals, and Make-Believe in the Moksopaya (Yogavasistha). Albany, New York: SUNY Press, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781438458687.
Digital Commons @ LMU & LLS Citation
Chapple, Christopher Key and Chakrabarti, Arindam, "Engaged Emancipation: Mind, Morals, and Make-Believe in the Mokṣopāya (Yogavāsiṣṭha)" (2015). Theological Studies Faculty Works. 677.
https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/theo_fac/677
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