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Yoga in Modern Hinduism

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  • Title: Yoga in Modern Hinduism
  • Author : Knut A. Jacobsen
  • Release Date : January 28, 2017
  • Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
  • Pages : * pages
  • Size : 5013 KB

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The Sāį¹ƒkhyayoga institution of Kāpil Maį¹­h is a religious organisation with a small tradition of followers which emerged in the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century in Bengal in India around the renunciant and yogin Hariharānanda Āraį¹‡ya. This tradition developed during the same period in which modern yoga was born and forms a chapter in the expansion of yoga traditions in modern Hinduism.

The book analyses the yoga teaching of Hariharānanda Āraį¹‡ya (1869-1947) and the Kāpil Maį¹­h tradition, its origin, history and contemporary manifestations, and this tradition’s connection to the expansion of yoga and the YogasÅ«tra in modern Hinduism. The Sāį¹ƒkhyayoga of the Kāpil Maį¹­h tradition is based on the PātaƱjalayogaśāstra, on a number of texts in Sanskrit and Bengali written by their gurus, and on the lifestyle of the renunciant yogin living isolated in a cave. The book investigates Hariharānanda Āraį¹‡ya’s connection to pre-modern yoga traditions and the impact of modern production and transmission of knowledge on his interpretations of yoga. The book connects the Kāpil Maį¹­h tradition to the nineteenth century transformations of Bengali religious culture of the educated upper class that led to the production of a new type of yogin. The book analyses Sāį¹ƒkhyayoga as a living tradition, its current teachings and practices, and looks at what Sāį¹ƒkhyayogins do and what Sāį¹ƒkhyayoga is as a yoga practice.

A valuable contribution to recent and ongoing debates, this book will be of interest to academics in the fields of Religious Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Indology, Indian philosophy, Hindu Studies and Yoga Studies.


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