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Sayings of Gorakhnath - Annotated Translations from the Gorakh Bani (Hardcover)
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Sayings of Gorakhnath - Annotated Translations from the Gorakh Bani (Hardcover)
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The medieval vernacular (non-Sanskrit) traditions of yoga represent
an aspect of Hinduism that to date has received much less scholarly
attention than classical and contemporary Hinduism. Gordan
Djurdjevic here brings together a representative selection of
medieval Hindi poetry attributed to the legendary guru Gorakhnath.
Gorakhnath is famed as the founder of the influential order of the
Nath yogis, who are credited with the development of hatha yoga.
The poetry gathered in the collection, known as The Sayings of
Gorakh Bani, reflects this worldview. Its major thematic concerns
relate to the practice of yoga, engagement with the various chakras
within the body, and the attempts to reverse the flow of seminal
fluid, by which process yogis believe the state of immortality may
be reached. These often-enigmatic texts on the one hand provide a
criticism of religious authority based on bookish knowledge, while
on the other hand they celebrate yogic engagement with the subtle
body and its centers of occult energy and miraculous powers.
Sayings of Gorakhnath offers translations or the complete sabad and
pad sections from the Gorakh Bani, the two largest sections in the
collection. Some additional texts from the collection are also
provided. Translations are preceded by an introduction and
accompanied by notes, which contextualize and elucidate the subject
matter.
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