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Indian philosophy and meditation : perspectives on consciousness / Rahul Banerjee and Amita Chatterjee.
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Language
English
Published/Created
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.
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xvi, 147 pages ; 24 cm.
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B132.C6 I55 2018
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Consciousness
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Philosophy, Indic
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Meditation
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India
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Editor
Banerjee, Rahul, 1965-
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Chatterjee, Amita
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Series
Routledge studies in Asian religion and philosophy ; 21.
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Routledge studies in Asian religion and philosophy ; 21
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"India has a rich tradition of meditative practices designed to study the phenomenon of consciousness. From the distant past to the present, India has evolved a unique psychological culture with grand unifying themes and universal modes of meditative practice. This book provides a detailed analysis of classical and modern Indian views on consciousness along with their related meditative methods. It offers a critical analysis of three distinct trends of Indian thought, viz., a dualistic mode of understanding and realizing consciousness in Hindu Sāńkhya, an interactive mode in early Buddhist Abhidhamma, and the evolutionary transformational mode in the teachings of the twentieth-century sage Sri Aurobindo. This book explores the unifying features in Indian first person practices with regard to consciousness and the importance of these applied psychological practices and their associated understanding of our conscious inner lives. The most striking feature of the work is that side by side theoretical exposition of consciousness, it includes a number of worksheets which explain how to use meditation to achieve relaxation as well as cognitive `maps' of the different levels of conscious states and instruction and how one can traverse from one state to another. The final chapter explores Sri Aurobindo who introduced new and decisive Indian spiritual thought and practice to India in the form of Integral Yoga." -- Publisher's description
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Dualism-Sāńkhya
Interactionism the Abhidhamma
Monism Sri Aurobindo
Appendices: The Upanishads & self enquiry
Jaina views on consciousness & Preksha meditation
The bridging relations
Śakti & Sri Ramakrishna.
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ISBN
9781138308978 (hardback)
1138308978 (hardback)
LCCN
2017036070
OCLC
1010580699
Other standard number
40027998517
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