Silence Unheard : Deathly Otherness in Pātañjala-Yoga.

Intro -- SILENCE UNHEARD -- Contents -- Foreword by David Shulman -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Challenges of an Oxymoronic Genre -- 1. Eight Characters in Search of the Yogasutra: The Lively Banalization of Yogic Deathly Silence -- 2. Daily Life in Samadhi: The Dying Yogin's Real Life and a Plea for Holistic Presentation of the Yogasutra -- 3. The Yogasutra and the Dying Yogin's "Lively Interior" -- 4. Causality, False Linearity, and the Silent Yogin's Presence in the Yogasutra -- 5. Untying the Knot of Existence: Liberation, Deathly Silence, and Their Interpretation in Patanjala-Yoga -- 6. The Dying Yogin's Challenge -- Homelessness and Truth -- The Essential Yogasutra -- An Exercise in Rereading as Rewriting -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Eight Characters in Search of the Yogasutra -- Chapter 2. Daily Life in Samadhi -- Chapter 3. The Yogasutra and the Dying Yogin's "Lively Interior" -- Chapter 4. Causality, False Linearity, and the Silent Yogin's Presence in the Yogasutra -- Chapter 5. Untying the Knot of Existence -- Chapter 6. The Dying Yogin's Challenge -- Bibliography -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Explores the experience of yoga in the Yogasutra of Patanjali.

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