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Yoga in Modern Hinduism - Hariharananda Aranya and Samkhyayoga (Hardcover)
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Yoga in Modern Hinduism - Hariharananda Aranya and Samkhyayoga (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge South Asian Religion Series
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The Samkhyayoga institution of Kapil Math is a religious
organisation with a small tradition of followers which emerged in
the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first decades of
the twentieth century in Bengal in India around the renunciant and
yogin Hariharananda Aranya. This tradition developed during the
same period in which modern yoga was born and forms a chapter in
the expansion of yoga traditions in modern Hinduism. The book
analyses the yoga teaching of Hariharananda Aranya (1869-1947) and
the Kapil Math tradition, its origin, history and contemporary
manifestations, and this tradition's connection to the expansion of
yoga and the Yogasutra in modern Hinduism. The Samkhyayoga of the
Kapil Math tradition is based on the Patanjalayogasastra, on a
number of texts in Sanskrit and Bengali written by their gurus, and
on the lifestyle of the renunciant yogin living isolated in a cave.
The book investigates Hariharananda Aranya's connection to
pre-modern yoga traditions and the impact of modern production and
transmission of knowledge on his interpretations of yoga. The book
connects the Kapil Math tradition to the nineteenth century
transformations of Bengali religious culture of the educated upper
class that led to the production of a new type of yogin. The book
analyses Samkhyayoga as a living tradition, its current teachings
and practices, and looks at what Samkhyayogins do and what
Samkhyayoga is as a yoga practice. A valuable contribution to
recent and ongoing debates, this book will be of interest to
academics in the fields of Religious Studies, Anthropology, Asian
Studies, Indology, Indian philosophy, Hindu Studies and Yoga
Studies.
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