Hindu Spirituality: Postclassical and ModernK. R. Sundararajan, Bithika Mukerji The term hindu is referred to the religious life of the people of India, and Spirituality understood as wisdom about the way back into the ground of pluralism of religious forms. These two volumes are strucrtured along the division between the classical and the postclassical.Twenty seven scholars from around the world shed light on the spiritual beauty of Hinduisms poetry art and temples, festivals and music, as well as the contributions of modern pioneers such as Swami Vivekananda Sri Aurobindo, Mahatma Gandhi and others. |
Contents
The Four Spiritual Ways upāya | 3 |
The Spiritual Contribution of Maharashtra Saints | 23 |
Bengal Vaisnavism | 47 |
Devotional Poetry of Sūrdāsa and Tulasidāsa | 63 |
The Personal and Social Dimensions | 112 |
The Spiritual Quest of Andal | 127 |
The Rebel Saint | 141 |
Mysticism in the Saivāgamas | 186 |
The Spirituality of Swami Vivekananda | 299 |
Traveler in a Pathless Land | 321 |
The Spirituality of the Future | 370 |
Spirituality and the Music of India | 437 |
The Spirituality of Carnatic Music | 450 |
The Spiritual Dimension of Indian | 459 |
The Spirituality of Sahaja Sadhanā | 479 |
Indian Christian Spirituality | 507 |
Tantric Spirituality | 209 |
The Way of the Siddhas | 232 |
The Spiritual Vision of Ramalingar | 255 |
At Play in His Mothers Mansion | 283 |
The Spiritual Experience in Sikhism | 530 |
GLOSSARY | 562 |
CONTRIBUTORS | 570 |
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Abhinavagupta Advaita Āgamas ahimsā aspects ātman attained Aurobindo avatāras become Bhagavad Gītā bhakti bindu bliss body Brahman called Carnatic music Christian consciousness deity Delhi devotion dharma disciple divine eternal experience expressed Gandhi Gītā goal grace guru Gurū Granth Gurū Nānak Gurudev heart Hindu Hinduism human ideal incarnation Indian individual infinite jñāna Kabir Khand knowledge Krishnamurti Krsna liberation living Lord Madras Māņikkavācakar mantra māyā means meditation mind Mīrā Mīrā's mystical Nammālvār Nānak nature nondual one's path person philosophy poet Purāṇa Purāņas Purāņic Rādhā rāga Rāma Ramakrishna Ramalingar Rāmānuja Reality realization religion religious ritual sacred sahaja saints Sākhī śakti samādhi Sanskrit says scriptures sense Siddhas Sikh sings Śiva Sivānanda social songs soul Śrī stage Supreme Sūrdāsa Swami symbol Tamil Tantric temple tion Tirukkural Tiruppāvai tradition transcendent truth Tulasidāsa University Upaniṣads upāyas Vaisnava Vedānta Vedas Vedic Venkatesānanda verse Vivekananda words worship yoga yogi