[INDOLOGY] OM, Brahmans and early yoga

[Joanna Jurewicz]

Dear Finnian, Dear Mark,

I would be very grateful, if you could send me the pdf of your papers. My
thoughts go in the same direction and on Sunday I will talk a bit about it.

With best wishes,

Joanna

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Prof. dr hab. Joanna Jurewicz

Katedra Azji Południowej /Chair of South Asia Studies

Wydział Orientalistyczny / Faculty of Oriental Studies

Uniwersytet Warszawski /University of Warsaw

ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28

00-927 Warszawa , Poland

Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages

College of Human Sciences

UNISA

Pretoria, RSA

Member of Academia Europaea

https://uw.academia.edu/JoannaJurewicz


wt., 4 maj 2021 o 16:52 Mark McLaughlin via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> napisał(a):

> Dear Finnian,
>
> I am very excited to read your article. I cover some of the same territory
> (though likely much more broadly) in an article on *samādhi *burial
> practice coming out this month in *Journal of Hindu Studies*. I'm certain
> your work in this article will be very helpful as I push forward on the
> book project.
>
> All best to you and congrats on the article.
>
> Mark
>
>
> On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 10:07 AM Finnian Moore-Gerety via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
>> Dear colleagues—
>> I’d like to draw your attention to the new issue of *History of
>> Religions *(vol. 60, no. 3 February 2021), which features my article “Between
>> Sound and Silence in Early Yoga: Meditation on ‘Om’ at Death.”
>> <https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/711944> Pushing back
>> against Johannes Bronkhorst’s contention that Brahmans played no role in
>> the formation of early yoga, this article examines a mantra-based
>> contemplative praxis that was central to Brahmanical constructions of yoga
>> from the late Veda up through Patañjali and beyond. I hope my contribution
>> will be of interest to list-members—especially in light of the upcoming
>> online symposium at the University of Alberta on Bronkhorst’s Greater
>> Magadha hypothesis.
>>
>> Yours,
>> Finnian
>>
>> *Abstract*
>> This article examines the history of yoga with attention to mantras and
>> sacred sound. It argues that meditation on the syllable “*om*” at the
>> moment of death, which is central to the construction of early yoga, has
>> roots in a much older technique from Vedic sacrifice called the “yoking” (
>> *yukti*). In this rite, the practitioner employs a contemplative praxis
>> with *om* in order to ascend to the sun and attain immortality.
>> Sacrifice thus furnishes an ancient link in the chain of Indian
>> soteriologies associated with *om*, death, and solar ascent—a genealogy
>> that extends from the Vedas up through foundational yogic discourses. By
>> examining the interplay between sound and silence in contemplative
>> practices around the sacred syllable, this article aims to explain how
>> *om* first became integral to early yoga, to emphasize the importance of
>> mantra meditation in the formation of yogic traditions, and to invite a
>> reappraisal of the role of Brahmans in the formation of early yoga.
>>
>> Finnian M.M. Gerety
>> Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
>> [Affiliated] Faculty of Contemplative Studies and Center for
>> Contemporary South Asia
>> Brown University
>> www.finniangerety.com <http://finniangerety.com/>
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> *Senior Lecturer of South Asian Religions*
>
>
> *Department of Religious StudiesWilliam & MaryWilliamsburg, VA*
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