Keith Edward Cantu (Research Affiliate, Research Affiliate, Center

Like a Tree Universally Spread

Sri Sabhapati Swami and Śivarājayoga

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the life of a nineteenth- to early twentieth-century Tamil yogin named Sri Sabhapati Swami (¿r¿ Sabh¿pati Sv¿m¿ or Cap¿pati Cuv¿mikä, ca. 1828-1923/4) and his unique English, Tamil, Hindi, and Bengali literature on a Sanskrit-based system of yogic meditation known as the "R¿jayoga for ¿iva" (Tamil: civar¿jay¿kam, Sanskrit: ¿ivar¿jayoga), the full experience of which is compared to being like a "tree universally spread."

Produktdetails

• OXFORD STU WESTERN ESOTERICISM SERIES
• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 165mm x 56mm
• Gewicht: 832g
• ISBN-13: 9780197665473
• ISBN-10: 0197665470
• Artikelnr.: 67733465

Autorenporträt

Keith Edward Cantú is a Research Affiliate at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School and a Visiting Assistant Professor at St. Lawrence University. He has previously held roles as a postdoctoral Visiting Fellow at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, in the DFG-funded project "CAS-E: Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective," Assistant Professor (Postdoc/Research Associate) at the Jagiellonian University, and was also a teaching assistant at University of California, Santa Barbara, where he received his doctoral degree in 2021. His previous publications include the chapter "Sri Sabhapati Swami: Forgotten Yogi of Western Esotericism" and (as co-editor) City of Mirrors: Songs of L¿lan S¿i, published with OUP's South Asia Series in 2017.

Inhaltsangabe

* List of Illustrations * Acknowledgments * Abbreviations * Introduction * From Hidden Roots to Outer Blossoms * A Treelike "Translocalization" of Yoga * The Chapters and Methodology of This Book * Chapter 1. Hagiographies and Old Diary Leaves * Extant Sources for Sabhapati's Life * Sabhapati's Childhood * A Quest for Religious Truth * A Visionary Experience in Velachery * A Southbound Quest * Lectures and a Himalayan Flight * A Splash on the Lahore Scene * Shrish Chandra Basu and the Theosophical "Founders" * John Campbell Oman and "Sadhuism" * A Vision of Agastya Once in Fifty Years * Sabhapati in Bombay * Agastya and the Konnur Meditation Hall * South Indians to the Fore * Om Prakash Swamigal * Konnur Ramalinga Swamigal * Sabhapati Swami's Death and Disappearance * Chapter 2. A Vast Forest of Printed Words * Textual Stemmata of Sabhapati's Works * The Alpha Stemma * Three Original Editions of vry * cpsps as Alpha Stemma * Detailed Contents of the Alpha Stemma * Bengali and German Translations * William Estep's Esoteric Cosmic Yogi Science * The Beta and Gamma Stemmata * Contextualizing Sabhapati's Vernacular Works * cpsps as Beta and Gamma Stemmata * ctcspv and the Gamma Stemma * ryb and the Beta Stemma * Pamphlets for Konnur Meditation Hall * Sabhapati's Literature in Telugu * Sabhapati's Tamil Work mcvts * Chapter 3. Seeds of a Cosmological Religion * Sabhapati's Two Gurus * Chidambara Swamigal and "Instructive Truth" * Shivajnana Bodha and the Tamil Siddhas * An Embodied Cosmos * Shiva as "Infinite Spirit" * A Cosmogonic Separation of "Faculties" * "Illustration by Examples" * The Tree Universally Spread * Emancipation and Transmigration * Household of the Body's Truth (dehatattva) * Connections with Tamil Saiva Discourse * Views on Other Religions and Movements * Sabhapati and Buddhism * Sabhapati and Christianity * Sabhapati and Islam * Sabhapati and Zoroastrianism, or "Parsism" * Sabhapati and "Samajees" * Sabhapati and the "Theosophical Societies" * Sabhapati and Atheism * Chapter 4. Breathing into
ivar
jayoga * Three Branches of Yoga * Hatha Yoga or "Yoga of Force" * Hähar
jayoga or "Royal Yoga of Force" *
ivar
jayoga or "Royal Yoga for Shiva" *
ivar
jayoga: From Purification to Nonbeing * Chapter 5. Singing Mantras and Visualizing Flowers * Lyrical Compositions and Musical Poems * Incantation of Tones and Mantras * Sabhapati's Visual Diagrams * Changing Visual Representations * Svar
pa and Yoga * Chapter 6. Dissecting the Nature of
ivar
jayoga * Spiritual and Physical Phenomena * The Pure Ethers * A Naturalistic Cosmology of Yoga * Chapter 7. Magical Fruits of Occult Yoga * Sabhapati and Theosophy * Franz Hartmann and Sabhapati in German Translation * Sabhapati and "Thelemic Magick" * William Estep and "Super Mind Science" * Epilogue: Parts of a Universal Tree * Appendix 1. A Translation of t2 (in mcvts) * Excerpt of t2 (English Translation) * Excerpt of t2 (Original Tamil) * Appendix 2. Lexicon of Common Terms and Variants * Appendix 3. A Passage from vry on the "Pole" of
ivar
jayoga * References * Index