Sutras, Stories and Yoga Philosophy

This book presents a close reading of four Indian narratives from different time periods (epic, Upani adic, pre-modern and contemporary): Ekalavya's story from the Mahabharata (MBh 1.123.1-39), the story of Prajapati, Indra and Virocana from the Chandogya Upani ad (CU 8.7.1-8.12.5), the story of Säkara in the King's body from the Säkaradigvijaya, and A.R. Murugadoss's Hindi film Ghajini (2008), respectively.

Autorentext

Daniel Raveh is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Tel-Aviv University, Israel.

Inhalt

Introduction: Stories and Sutras

1. Truth versus Truthfulness in the Mahabharata Story of Ekalavya

2. Is Mok a Pleasant? An Alternative Discourse on Freedom in the 8th chapter of the Chandogya-Upani ad

3. Shankara in the King's Body: Knowing by Living Through

4. Memory, Forgetting, Self-identity: Philosophical Inscriptions in A.R. Murugadoss' Ghajini