The book of an outstanding historian and phenomenologist of religion Mirchi Eliade (1907-1986) “Yoga: Immortality and Freedom” has long become a classic in research on such a fundamental and unique phenomenon as Indian yoga. The author represents yoga as a holistic, multifaceted, comprehensive spiritual universe, different elements of which correspond to different cultural levels, states of consciousness and even layers of traditional society. Eliade traces the sources of yoga among the autochthonous, pre -Aryan population of India, focuses first of all on its “recocrying” and “non -classical” branches, concerns the yoga and the spiritual traditions of other regions of the world that is important in the context of his scientific work of yoga. Yoga from the specific school of Hindu philosophy becomes an initiative space in which the walking adept, passing through tests, is attached to the values of immortality and freedom and acquires the status of Jivanmousses – “liberated …
Author
Eliade Mirce
Translator
Pakhomov S.V.
Publisher
Academic Project, 2019
Series
Philosophical technologies
Genre
Spiritual yoga
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