The Philosophy of the Upanishads and Ancient Indian MetaphysicsThe 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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... light that irradiates the mental modes Brahman is pure thought , eternal and objectless Brahman not to be confused with the personal absolute or Christian Deity Brahman the pure light of characterless knowledge Brahman that which being ...
... light of the world .. Third Mundaka , First Section Allegory of the two birds on one tree Mental purity required of the aspirant . A pure mind the only mirror that reflects the Self Third Mundaka , Second Section The Self manifests ...
... light .. • ⚫ 130 • 131 • 132 Fifth Valli . Various manifestations of Purusha Vedantic proofs of the existence of the Self . What becomes of the soul at death • • • 132 133 • 134 The Self is like a permeating fire or pervading ...
... light of man ?. • • 175 177 The true light is the light within the heart The three states of the migrating soul . In sleep the soul creates a dream - world . Simile of the fish . • • 179 · 179 180 • 181 Simile of the falcon . 181 ...
... light of the world Knowledge alone saves from the miseries of repeated lives . 231 • 232 233 CHAPTER IX . THE PRIMITIVE ANTIQUITY OF THE DOCTRINE OF MAYA . The world dissolves itself in the view of the meditating Yogin 235 The current ...
Contents
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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