Engaged Emancipation : Mind, Morals, and Make-Believe in the Mokṣopāya (Yogavāsiṣṭha).

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Abbreviations -- I. Flimsy Fixity: Reality Shifts -- Chapter 1 Radical Transformation in the Yogavasi..ha -- Rama's Dispassion -- Concrete Lived Experience -- The Transformation -- The World within the Rock -- The Reengagement -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Akasa and Jiva in the Story of Lila -- Concordance -- Notes -- Chapter 3 The Concept of Abhasa in the Yogavasi..ha -- Introduction -- The Scholastic Advaita Concept of Abhasa -- Ābhāsa in Buddhist Literature -- Ābhāsa in the Mokṣopāyaśāstra/Yogavāsiṣṭha -- Ābhāsa as Pure Consciousness -- Cinmātra and Ābhāsa in Light of the Concept of Bhedābheda -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Is This a Dream? A Critique of Mokṣopāya's Take on Experience, Objecthood, and the "External" World -- The Ineliminable Possibility That the Current Experience Is a Dream -- Nyāyalīlāvatī on the Similarity and Dissimilarity between Dream and Waking -- The Alleged Unintelligibility of Objecthood -- Conclusion: Disillusionment -- Notes -- Chapter 5 The Existence of an Endless Number of Worlds: Jagadānantya in Mokṣopāya and the Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics -- Jagadānantya in Mokṣopāya -- The Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics -- Where Are These Other Worlds or Universes? -- Mental Force and Free Will -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 6 Vasi..ha and Borges: In Quest of Postmodern Enlightenment -- Behind the Screen of Metaphors -- The Labyrinth of Time and Space -- The Dreamer: In Quest of the Real Self -- Notes -- II. Human Agency and World Creation -- Chapter 7 Attitude of the Yogavāsiṣṭha toward Human Endeavor -- Notes -- Chapter 8 A Fabulous Rationality: Poetry, Reason, and Action in the Yogavāsiṣṭha -- Introduction -- Atoms -- Creation -- Life -- Consciousness -- Reality -- Knowledge -- The Law -- God -- Conclusion -- Notes.

Chapter 9 Ethics and Psychology of the Yogavāsiṣṭha in the Upaśama Prakaraṇa -- King Janaka -- Pu.ya and Pavana -- Bali -- Prahlada -- Gadhi -- Uddālaka -- Suraghu -- Bhāsa and Vilāsa -- Vītahavya -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 10 Dreams, Fictions, and the Quest for Morality in the Yogavāsiṣṭha -- I -- II -- III -- Step 1: The World as Story -- Vasiṣṭha's Possible Metaphysical Explanation for The Identity of World and Story -- Vasiṣṭha's Possible Metaphysical Argument for The Identity of World and Story -- Thus, the World Appearance is Just a Story -- The Creative Origins of the World Appearance and Story -- The Interdependence of Author, Reader, and Character -- The Relationship Between Author and Reader -- The Relationship Between Author and Character -- The Relationship Between Reader and Character -- Step 2: Imagination and Moral Development -- Shifting Perspectives -- Empathetic Identification and Compassion -- Step 3: Morality Justified -- IV -- V -- Notes -- Chapter 11 A Horrid Treehouse or a Charming City? Yogavāsiṣṭha (Mokṣopāya) on Spiritual Culture of the Body -- The Field and the Knower of the Field: Do I Find Myself in the World? -- The Touch of the Hand and Inner Thrill in Yogavāsiṣṭha -- Five Layers of Embodiment in Upaniṣads -- What Happens between the Heel and the Head: The Mahābhārata's Meditations on the Body and Senses -- The Gods in the Body: Sense Organs, Manas, and the Ego Maker -- Sibajiban Bhattacharya on the Ego's Occupation of the Body -- K. C. Bhattacharya on Bodily Subjectivity -- From Phenomenology to Ethics: How Should We Evaluate Our Bodies? -- The Yogavāsiṣṭha on the Body -- Divinification and Purification of Other Bodies: What Is It Like to Breathe Like a Sea-turtle? -- Notes -- III. Engaged Emancipation -- Chapter 12 Embodied Liberation (Jīvanmukti) in the Yogavāsiṣṭha -- The World and Human Bondage.

Knowledge Leads to Liberation -- The Utter Detachment of the Jīvanmukta -- The Jīvanmukta and Action in the World -- The Variety of Liberated Beings -- Bodiless Liberation (Videhamukti) -- The Nature of the Jīvanmukta's Mind -- Mental Impressions (Vāsanā) and the Jīvanmukta -- The Jīvanmukta's "State of Consciousness" -- Conclusion -- A Note on Yoga and Samādhi in the Jīvanmuktiviveka -- Notes -- Chapter 13 Liberation into Nature Vasiṣṭha's Embrace of the Great Elements -- Nature Literature -- Nature and the Elements in Indian Thought -- The Feminine and Nature -- Vasiṣṭha's Liberation: The World within the Rock -- The Earth -- The Waters -- Fire -- Air and Wind and Space -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.

A wide-ranging analysis of the Mokṣopāya, the Indian literary classic that teaches through storytelling how to enjoy an active, successful, worldly life in a spiritually enlightened way.

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