Indian philosophy and meditation : perspectives on consciousness / Rahul Banerjee and Amita Chatterjee.

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English
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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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    "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.
    ISBN
    • 9781138308978 (hardback)
    • 1138308978 (hardback)
    LCCN
    2017036070
    OCLC
    1010580699
    Other standard number
    • 40027998517
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