Indian Philosophy and Meditation Perspectives on Consciousness 1st Edition by Rahul Banerjee, Amita Chatterjee ISBN 9781138308978 1138308978

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ISBN 10:  1138308978 

ISBN 13: 9781138308978

Author: Rahul Banerjee,  Amita Chatterjee

India has a rich tradition of meditative practices designed to study the phenomenon of consciousness. From the distant past to the present, India has evolved a unique psychological culture with grand unifying themes and universal modes of meditative practice.

This book provides a detailed analysis of classical and modern Indian views on consciousness along with their related meditative methods. It offers a critical analysis of three distinct trends of Indian thought, viz., a dualistic mode of understanding and realizing consciousness in Hindu Sāṃkhya, an interactive mode in early Buddhist abhidhamma, and the evolutionary transformational mode in the teachings of the twentieth-century sage Sri Aurobindo. This book explores the unifying features in Indian first person practices with regard to consciousness and the importance of these applied psychological practices and their associated understanding of our conscious inner lives. The most striking feature of the work is that side by side theoretical exposition of consciousness, it includes a number of worksheets which explain how to use meditation to achieve relaxation as well as cognitive ‘maps’ of the different levels of conscious states and instruction and how one can traverse from one state to another. The final chapter explores Sri Aurobindo who introduced new and decisive Indian spiritual thought and practice to India in the form of Integral Yoga.

This innovative book will be of interest to scholars studying Indian philosophy, Indian religion and the emerging field of contemplation studies.

Table of contents: 

1. Introduction

2. Dualism – Sāńkhya

3. Interactionism – The Abhidhamma

4. Monism – Sri Aurobindo
   Appendix 1: The Upanishads & Self Enquiry
   Appendix 2: Jaina Views on Consciousness & Prekshā Meditation
   Appendix 3: The Bridging Relations
   Appendix 4: Shakti & Sri Ramakrishna

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