The Philosophy of the Upanishads and Ancient Indian MetaphysicsPsychology Press, 2000 - 268 էջ The legendary Greek figure Orpheus was said to have possessed magical powers capable of moving all living and inanimate things through the sound of his lyre and voice. Over time, the Orphic theme has come to indicate the power of music to unsettle, subvert, and ultimately bring down oppressive realities in order to liberate the soul and expand human life without limits. The liberating effect of music has been a particularly important theme in twentieth-century African American literature. The nine original essays in Black Orpheus examines the Orphic theme in the fiction of such African American writers as Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, James Baldwin, Nathaniel Mackey, Sherley Anne Williams, Ann Petry, Ntozake Shange, Alice Walker, Gayl Jones, and Toni Morrison. The authors discussed in this volume depict music as a mystical, shamanistic, and spiritual power that can miraculously transform the realities of the soul and of the world. Here, the musician uses his or her music as a weapon to shield and protect his or her spirituality. Written by scholars of English, music, women's studies, American studies, cultural theory, and black and Africana studies, the essays in this interdisciplinary collection ultimately explore the thematic, linguistic structural presence of music in twentieth-century African American fiction. |
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... gods . Pain in paradise • 14 15 17 18 13 18 19 20 86 20 22 The intolerable prospect of life after life and death after death 23 The belief in metempsychosis prevalent among the lower races of mankind 24 Current in Egypt . Adopted by ...
... gods enjoy Second Valli . The pleasurable and the good The liturgic experts are blind leaders of the blind The seekers of the Self are few Renunciation and meditative abstraction the only path of safety The mystic syllable OM must be ...
... gods . Vidagdha fails to answer in turn , and perishes Yajnavalkya's parable . Man is a forest - tree : what root does he spring from again when cut down ? . • 174 • 174 The sum of the whole matter . Ecstatic union is the goal . 175 ...
... . 217 Second Section . Invocation of the sun - god , by the aspirant about to practise Yoga • Fixation of the body and withdrawal of the senses 218 • 219 Signs of approaching ecstatic vision The vision unites the soul CONTENTS . xxi.
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CHAPTER I | 1 |
The social antecedents of Brahmanism and Buddhism | 7 |
First beginnings of cosmologic speculation in the Vedic hymns | 14 |
The Katha Upanishad contrasts the life of illusion with | 17 |
Revival of widowburning 19 86 | 20 |
Current in Egypt Adopted by Empedocles the Pythago | 25 |
Brahman the impersonal Self | 38 |
Brahman and Māyā eternally associated | 47 |
All things one in the Self as partial sounds in a total sound | 152 |
It is woven over the Self the principle that gives fixity | 170 |
The Self is uniform characterless vision and thought | 174 |
Liberation is perfect satisfaction and exemption from all fear | 182 |
The unreality of the world implied in the sole reality of the Self | 187 |
Śankarāchāryas statement of Buddhist sensationalism | 190 |
The Sankhyas pervert the plain sense of the Upanishads | 200 |
Sankaracharya maintains against them the existence of Ïývala | 206 |
Iévara the first figment of the worldfiction | 53 |
states of the soul | 69 |
The soul is the Self but does not know itself to be the Self | 75 |
the vital air is Brahman | 83 |
Allegory of the sweet juices and the honey | 90 |
The religion of rites prolongs the migration of the soul | 96 |
He must repair to an accredited teacher | 102 |
CHAPTER V | 116 |
The path of release is fine as the edge of a razor | 121 |
THE BRIHADARANYAKA UPANISHAD | 143 |
Isvara the cycle of the universe | 212 |
Fixation of the body and withdrawal of the senses | 218 |
Fourth Section The world is a manifestation of Brahman | 223 |
Sixth Section The world is an exhibition of Isvaras glory | 230 |
Part of Colebrookes statement a glaning erior | 237 |
The duality of subject and object has only a quasiexistence | 245 |
The world is a dream the sage awakes to the truth | 255 |
The belief in metempsychosis prevalent among the lower | 260 |
religion for the recluses of the jungle | 262 |
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