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Time-Steps of The Cosmic Horse

The Contemplative Philosophy of the Great Forest (Brhadaranyaka) Upanishad by: Debashish Banerji

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ISBN: 9788124612286
Year Of Publication: 2024
Edition: 1 st
Pages : xii,335
Bibliographic Details : Bibliography; Index
Language : English
Binding : Hardcover
Publisher: D.K. Printworld Pvt. Ltd.
Size: 22cm
Weight: 634 grams

Overview

The Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad is the earliest text in its genre, inaugurating the entire history of Indian philosophy. Commented on by numerous teachers of Vedantic schools, its fertility is not exhausted by any or all of them. Unlike later philosophy, it is not a work of explanation but of contemplative praxis towards cosmic and nondual self-realization. Locating it in a countercultural movement and relating it to the ontological vision of Sri Aurobindo, Time-Steps of the Cosmic Horse is a sustained contemplation on the first chapter of this Upaniṣad drawing attention to the phenomenology and rhetorical structure of its linguistic action.

Contents

Preface vii
Abbreviations xv
Introduction 1
1. The Image of the Horse 37
Adhyāya I: Brāhmaṇas 1 and 2
2. Gods, Demons and Immortality 69
Adhyāya I: Brāhmaṇa 3
3. Self and Self-Becoming 103
Adhyāya I: Brāhmaṇa 4
4. Food 135
Adhyāya I: Brāhmaṇa 5
5. Triplicity 171
Adhyāya I: Brāhmaṇa: 6
6. The Book of Honey 185
Adhyāya II: Madhu Kāṇḍa
Appendix – Br̥hadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad: Text, 229
Transliteration and Translation
Bibliography 297
Index 301

Meet the Author
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Debashish Banerji, PhD, is the Haridas Chaudhuri Professor of Indian Philosophies and Cultures and the Doshi Professor of Asian Art at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), San Francisco. He has authored and edited books on figures of "the Bengal Renaissance,” Critical Posthumanism, Integral Yoga Psychology and on several creative and art-related projects, including Seven Quartets of Becoming: A Transformative Yoga Psychology Based on the Diaries of Sri Aurobindo (2012) and Time-Steps of the Cosmic Horse: Meditations on the Contemplative Philosophy of the Great Forest Upanishad (2024). He has curated over fifteen exhibitions of Indian and Japanese art and has written and produced a documentary film, Darshan: The Living Art of India (2018).
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