Like a tree universally spread : Sri Sabhapati Swami and Śivarājayoga /
"This book reconstructs the tantalizing tale of Sri Sabhapati Swami (ca. 1828-1923/4), today a little-known swami who was originally from Tamil Nadu in southern India, and historically contextualizes a fascinating type of yoga that Sabhapati claimed would lead to an experience of being "li...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2023]
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| Series: | Oxford studies in Western esotericism.
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Like a Tree Universally Spread
- From Hidden Roots to Outer Blossoms
- A Treelike "Translocalization" of Yoga
- The Chapters and Methodology of This Book
- 1. Hagiographies and Old Diary Leaves
- Extant Sources for Sabhapati's Life
- Sabhapati's Childhood
- A Search for Spiritual Truth
- A Visionary Experience in Velachery
- A Southbound Quest
- Lectures and a Himalayan Flight
- A Splash on the Lahore Scene
- Shrish Chandra Basu and the Theosophical "Founders"
- John Campbell Oman and "Sadhuism"
- A Vision of Agastya Once in Fifty Years
- Sabhapati in Bombay
- Agastya and the Konnur Meditation Hall
- South Indians to the Fore
- Om Prakash Swamigal
- Konnur Ramalinga Swamigal
- Sabhapati Swami's Death and Disappearance
- 2. A Vast Forest of Printed Words
- Textual Stemmata of Sabhapati's Works
- The Alpha Stemma
- Three Original Editions of vry
- cpsps as Alpha Stemma
- Detailed Contents of the Alpha Stemma
- Bengali and German Translations
- William Estep's Esoteric Cosmic Yogi Science
- The Beta and Gamma Stemmata
- Contextualizing Sabhapati's Vernacular Works
- cpsps as Beta and Gamma Stemmata
- ctcspv and the Gamma Stemma
- ryb and the Beta Stemma
- Pamphlets for Konnur Meditation Hall
- Sabhapati's Literature in Telugu
- Sabhapati's Tamil Work mcvts
- 3. Seeds of a Cosmological Religion
- Sabhapati's Two Gurus
- Chidambara Swamigal and "Instructive Truth"
- Shivajnana Bodha and the Tamil Siddhas
- An Embodied Cosmos
- Shiva as "Infinite Spirit"
- A Cosmogonic Separation of "Faculties"
- "Illustration by Examples"
- The Tree Universally Spread
- Emancipation and Transmigration
- Household of the Body's Truth (dehatattva)
- Connections with Tamil Śaiva Discourse
- Views on Other Religions and Movements
- Sabhapati and Buddhism
- Sabhapati and Christianity
- Sabhapati and Islam
- Sabhapati and Zoroastrianism, or "Parsism"
- Sabhapati and "Samajees"
- Sabhapati and the "Theosophical Societies"
- Sabhapati and Atheism
- 4. Breathing into Śivarājayoga
- Three Branches of Yoga
- Haṭha yoga or "Yoga of Force"
- Haṭha Rājayoga or "Royal Yoga of Force"
- Śivarājayoga or "Royal Yoga for Shiva"
- Śivarājayoga: From Purification to Nonbeing
- 5. Singing Mantras and Visualizing Flowers
- Lyrical Compositions and Musical Poems
- Incantation of Tones and Mantras
- Sabhapati's Visual Diagrams
- Changing Visual Representations
- Svarūpa and Yoga
- 6. Dissecting the Nature of Śivarājayoga
- Spiritual and Physical Phenomena
- The Pure Ethers
- A Naturalistic Cosmology of Yoga
- 7. Magical Fruits of Occult Yoga
- Sabhapati and Theosophy
- Franz Hartmann and Sabhapati in German Translation
- Sabhapati and Thelemic "Magick"
- William Estep and "Super Mind Science"