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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cantú, Keith E., 1988- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
Series:Oxford studies in Western esotericism.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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"