Download or read book Renunciation written by Ross Posnock and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renunciation as a creative force in the careers of writers, philosophers, and artists is the animating idea behind Ross Posnock’s new book. Taking up acts of abandonment, rejection, and refusal that have long baffled critics, he shows how renunciation has reframed the relationship of artists and intellectuals to society in productive and unpredictable ways. In a work of remarkable synthesis that includes traditions and genres from antiquity to postmodernity, Posnock discovers connections among disparate figures ranging from Lao Tzu to Dave Chappelle and Bob Dylan. The thread running through these acts of renunciation, he argues, is an aesthetic and ethical resistance to the demand that one’s words and actions be straightforward and immediately comprehensible. Modern art in particular valorizes the nonconceptual and the intuitive, seeking to make silence articulate and incompletion fertile. Renouncers reject not only artistic and scholarly conventions but also the public roles that attend them. Wittgenstein, Rimbaud, and Glenn Gould brazenly flouted professional and popular expectations, demanding that philosophy, poetry, music play by new rules. Emerson and Nietzsche severed all institutional ties, while William James waged a guerrilla campaign from his post at Harvard against what all three considered to be the enemy: the pernicious philosophical insistence on rationality. Posnock also examines renunciations in light of World War II—the veterans J. D. Salinger and George Oppen, and the Holocaust survivor Paul Celan—while a fourth cluster includes the mystic Thomas Merton and the abstract painters Ad Reinhardt and Agnes Martin.
Download or read book Dimensional of Renunciation in Advaita written by Kapil N. Tiwari and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1998-12-31 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this dissertation is to present a systematic exposition of renunciation (Samnyasa) as a philosophico-religious category within Indian tradition with special reference to Advaita Vedanta of Samkaracarya. The author tried to justify this category as a spiritual technique systematically worked out and developed by Advaitins particularly Samkara with a view to classifying and systematizing values in terms of the different forms which renunciation and its object may be found to assume. This dissertation also highlights principles of human behaviour in the Indian tradition implicitly clarifying thereby such concepts as dharma (socio-religious duties), the good life, obligation and responsibility etc.
Download or read book Renunciation written by Ross Posnock and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-04 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renunciation as a creative force in the careers of writers, philosophers, and artists is the animating idea behind Ross Posnock’s new book. Taking up acts of abandonment, rejection, and refusal that have long baffled critics, he shows how renunciation has reframed the relationship of artists and intellectuals to society in productive and unpredictable ways. In a work of remarkable synthesis that includes traditions and genres from antiquity to postmodernity, Posnock discovers connections among disparate figures ranging from Lao Tzu to Dave Chappelle and Bob Dylan. The thread running through these acts of renunciation, he argues, is an aesthetic and ethical resistance to the demand that one’s words and actions be straightforward and immediately comprehensible. Modern art in particular valorizes the nonconceptual and the intuitive, seeking to make silence articulate and incompletion fertile. Renouncers reject not only artistic and scholarly conventions but also the public roles that attend them. Wittgenstein, Rimbaud, and Glenn Gould brazenly flouted professional and popular expectations, demanding that philosophy, poetry, music play by new rules. Emerson and Nietzsche severed all institutional ties, while William James waged a guerrilla campaign from his post at Harvard against what all three considered to be the enemy: the pernicious philosophical insistence on rationality. Posnock also examines renunciations in light of World War II—the veterans J. D. Salinger and George Oppen, and the Holocaust survivor Paul Celan—while a fourth cluster includes the mystic Thomas Merton and the abstract painters Ad Reinhardt and Agnes Martin.
Download or read book The Ethical Ideal of Renunciation written by Cordie Jacob Culp and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Salvation Through Renunciation written by Shree Anand Krishna and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Salvation through Renunciation - Based on Bhagavad Gita, Hindu Philosophy and Philosophy of Upanishads: True Appreciation of Salvation, Renunciation, Senses, Misery and Attachment, Greed and DesireWhy Let Your Darkness Sprout! O Mortal!Why Not Attain The Indestructible Bliss! O Mortal!Why Not Burn The Strings That Knit Your EgoWhy Not Explore The Quiescent AbsoluteWhy Not Silently Taste Your Ecstatic UnionWhy Not Taste The Finer Fare Of Your Soul! O Mortal!Alas! My Senses Have Drowned My Soul In Painful EmptinessAlas! My Senses Refuse To Ride The Chariot Of IntuitionBe Sure! I Can Feel The Invisible Guiding Of My DestinyBe Sure! I Can Feel The Joy Of Divine FragranceBe Sure! I Can Feel The Joy Of The Golden LightsBe Sure! I Can Feel The Vastness Of My SoulBe Sure! I Can Hear The Cosmic ThunderBe Sure The Lord Shall Relentlessly Pursue Your Soul! O Mortal!Have I Invited The Ire Of The Cosmos By Coveting More Than I NeedHave Thou Found Thy Enjoyment In Renunciation! O Mortal!Surely None Shall Realise Him, Unless They Know The Path Of LoveAlas! Why Do You Partition My Divine SoulAlas! Why Do You Allow My Garden To WhitherAlas! Why Do You Fragment My Unified SelfWhy Do You Make Me The Sacrificial LambBe Sure! It Is Greed That Blocks The Sea Of EcstasyBe Sure! It Was Greed That Created The Scarcity In ExistenceBe Sure! It Was Greed That Held Us From Drinking From The Divine CupBe Sure! It Was Greed That Made Us Hear The Evil WhispersBe Sure! It Was Greed That Made Us Spiritual PaupersRemember His True Design Shall Be Made Manifest! O Mortal!Why Does Your Soul Yet Remain Thirsty! O Mortal!Be Sure He Has Impregnated You With Hidden Mysteries! O Mortal!Be Sure There Is No God But He! O Mortal!Be Sure! "Death Shall Do You No Harm"Be Sure! "Time Has Come To Brave The Winds Of Frost"Be Sure! "Time Has Come To Distill Hope From Our Faith"Be Sure! "You Shall Discard Your Shadows! O Mortal!"Be Sure! "You Shall Live And Thrive Beyond The Shores Of Mortality"Be Sure! Gardens Of Perpetual Delight Awaits The MartyrBehold! "Time Has Come To Join The Battle Of Divinity" O Mortal!For They Shall Have The Mercy Of The Lord"Time Has Come To Join The Battle Of Prosperity" O Mortal!Did You Create The Temporary Darkness! O Mortal!Did You Not See The Sun And The Moon Prostrate Before You! O Mortal!Didn't You See The Stars Prostrate Before You! O Mortal!"Let Not Pride Be Your Undoing! O Mortal!"Why Have You Embraced The Darkness! O Mortal!Why Do You Seek Your Mortal Revenge! O Mortal!Why Does Darkness Consume Your World! O Mortal!
Download or read book Gandhi s Ascetic Activism written by Veena R. Howard and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2013-03-25 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than six decades after his death, Mohandas Gandhi continues to inspire those who seek political and social liberation through nonviolent means. Uniquely, Gandhi placed celibacy and other renunciatory disciplines at the center of his nonviolent political strategy, conducting original experiments with their possibilities to gain practical, moral, and even miraculous powers for social change. Gandhi's abstinence in marriage, eccentric views on sexuality, and odd ways of including his female associates in his practices continue to cause ambivalence among scholars and students. Through a comprehensive study of Gandhi's own words, select Indian religious texts and myths that he used, and the historical and cultural context of his activism, Veena R. Howard shows how Gandhi's ascetic disciplines helped him mobilize millions. She explores Gandhi's creative use of renunciation in challenging established paradigms of confrontational politics, passive asceticism, and oppressive social customs. Howard's book sheds new light on the creative possibilities Gandhi discovered in combining personal renunciation, sacrifice, ritual, and myth for modern day social action.
Download or read book The Socially Involved Renunciate written by Kamala Elizabeth Nayar and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Socially Involved Renunciate is an in-depth analysis and an original English translation of the Siddh Goṣṭ, a fundamental philosophical text of the Sikh tradition. The work reflects the distinctive worldview of Sikhism, the only major Indian religion that does not regard asceticism as a legitimate path to liberation. Composed by Guru Nānak, a medieval, north Indian saint-poet and venerated founder of the Sikh tradition, the Siddh Goṣṭ is a dialogue between Guru Nānak and several Nāth yogis who had been pursuing a rigorous path of hath-yoga as renunciates of the material world. Through their dialogue, Guru Nānak teaches the Nāth yogis a spiritual path that also includes involvement in the social world and offers a practical way to achieve liberation. In The Socially Involved Renunciate, Kamala Elizabeth Nayar and Jaswinder Singh Sandhu provide background on Sikhism, highlight the ethical teachings expounded in the Siddh Goṣṭ, and demonstrate how Guru Nānak reconciles the polarities of the ascetic and householder ideals.
Download or read book Renunciation and Untouchability in India written by Srinivasa Ramanujam and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume develops a historically informed phenomenology of caste and untouchability. It explores the idea of ‘Brahmin’ and the practice of untouchability by offering a scholarly reading of ancient and medieval texts. By going beyond the notions of purity and pollution, it presents a new framework of understanding relationships between social groups and social categories. An important intervention in the study of caste and untouchability, this book will be an essential read for the scholars and researchers of political studies, political philosophy, cultural studies, Dalit studies, Indology, sociology, social anthropology and Ambedkar studies.
Download or read book Reading Renunciation written by Elizabeth A. Clark and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1999-07-19 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of how asceticism was promoted through Biblical interpretation, Reading Renunciation uses contemporary literary theory to unravel the writing strategies of the early Christian authors. Not a general discussion of early Christian teachings on celibacy and marriage, the book is a close examination, in the author's words, of how "the Fathers' axiology of abstinence informed their interpretation of Scriptural texts and incited the production of ascetic meaning." Elizabeth Clark begins with a survey of scholarship concerning early Christian asceticism that is designed to orient the nonspecialist. Section Two is organized around potentially troubling issues posed by Old Testament texts that demanded skillful handling by ascetically inclined Christian exegetes. The third section, "Reading Paul," focuses on the hermeneutical problems raised by I Corinthians 7, and the Deutero-Pauline and Pastoral Epistles. Elizabeth Clark's remarkable work will be of interest to scholars of late antiquity, religion, literary theory, and history.
Download or read book Freedom through Inner Renunciation written by Roger Marcaurelle and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1999-11-04 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first full-length study of renunication in Sankara's Advaita Vedanta shows that Sankara's position has been misinterpreted by both traditional and modern commentators and brings his actual position to light.
Download or read book Freedom Through Inner Renunciation written by Roger Marcaurelle and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Is The First Full-Length Study Of Renunciation In Sankara`S Advaita Vedanta.
Download or read book Renunciation Through Wisdom written by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and published by The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-12-11 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renunciation Through Wisdom is a collection of essays originally written in Bengali and published by Srila Prabhupada in India during the 1940s. They were later translated into English by his disciples. In these essays Srila Prabhupada expands on themes found in the Bhagavad-gita, discussing such topics as why people are averse to God, the ultimate causes of suffering, and how the world’s troubles are extraordinarily fleeting when seen from the standpoint of eternity. Students of Srila Prabhupada will recognize the same common-sense writing style in Renunciation Through Wisdom as in his later, well-known works such as Srimad-Bhagavatam and Bhagavad-gita As It Is, as well as his expertise at distilling the essence of India's ancient Vedic wisdom into powerful, convincing, practical, and easily readable directives.
Download or read book Free Will Agency and Selfhood in Indian Philosophy written by Matthew R. Dasti and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the rich and variegated cluster of Indic philosophical traditions as they developed from the late Vedic period up to the pre-modern period, this book offers an understanding, according to each school, of the nature of free will and agency.
Download or read book The Renunciation written by Rahul Luther and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gautama Siddhartha was a prince who gave up all worldly pleasures to seek answers to eternal problems that plague man. After about six years in search of truth, he attained enlightenment and became the Buddha. According to legend, he left his palace secretly, leaving behind his wife and child. However, the conflict that must have gone on in the young princes mind is brought out as a dialogue between him and his wife, Yashodhara. This verse-play brings forth the eternal questions of love, life and the quest for meaning of existence.
Download or read book Presuppositions of India s Philosophies written by Karl H. Potter and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publishe. This book was released on 1991 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1963 Presuppositions of India`s Philosophies in intended as an introductory text for courses in the philosophical systems of classical Indian thought. A brief account of karma and transmigration is followed by an introduction to Indian ways of assessing arguments. The body of the work canvasses the systems of Nyaya Vaisesika, Buddhism, Jainism, Samkhya and Advaita Vedanta.
Download or read book The Places That Scare You written by Pema Chödrön and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of "When Things Fall Apart" comes a book that reveals that the secret to cultivating a compassionate heart and an enlightened mind lies in facing what we are most afraid of.
Download or read book Renunciation written by Tsenshab Serkong Rinpoche and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-11-18 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the fundamental Buddhist teachings is to renounce Samsara or reducing one's emotional attachment in the world. Giving up materialism and finding the true meaning of life lies at the core of finding one's way to enlightenment. But in a world that's increasingly becoming materialistic, how does one even go about beginning to renounce the world? Renunciation is Tsenshab Serkong Rinpoche's attempt at answering that and some other questions about the practice of giving up worldly pleasures. By talking about one's impermanence—'the only outcome of birth is death'—this guide will help you confront the reality of your existence and how one must live life without negativity to eliminate the fear of death, which eventually leads one on to the path of renunciation. Taken from one of the many teaching sessions from the early years at the Tushita Mahayana Meditation Centre in New Delhi, this detailed guide is a thought-provoking read on the idea of renunciation in a practical world.
