The Philosophy of the Upanishads and Ancient Indian Metaphysics

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Psychology Press, 2000 - 268

The legendary Greek figure Orpheus was said to have possessed magical powers capable of moving all living and inanimate things through the sound of his lyre and voice. Over time, the Orphic theme has come to indicate the power of music to unsettle, subvert, and ultimately bring down oppressive realities in order to liberate the soul and expand human life without limits. The liberating effect of music has been a particularly important theme in twentieth-century African American literature.

The nine original essays in Black Orpheus examines the Orphic theme in the fiction of such African American writers as Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, James Baldwin, Nathaniel Mackey, Sherley Anne Williams, Ann Petry, Ntozake Shange, Alice Walker, Gayl Jones, and Toni Morrison. The authors discussed in this volume depict music as a mystical, shamanistic, and spiritual power that can miraculously transform the realities of the soul and of the world. Here, the musician uses his or her music as a weapon to shield and protect his or her spirituality. Written by scholars of English, music, women's studies, American studies, cultural theory, and black and Africana studies, the essays in this interdisciplinary collection ultimately explore the thematic, linguistic structural presence of music in twentieth-century African American fiction.

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CHAPTER I
1
The social antecedents of Brahmanism and Buddhism
7
First beginnings of cosmologic speculation in the Vedic hymns
14
The Katha Upanishad contrasts the life of illusion with
17
Revival of widowburning 19 86
20
Current in Egypt Adopted by Empedocles the Pythago
25
Brahman the impersonal Self
38
Brahman and Māyā eternally associated
47
All things one in the Self as partial sounds in a total sound
152
It is woven over the Self the principle that gives fixity
170
The Self is uniform characterless vision and thought
174
Liberation is perfect satisfaction and exemption from all fear
182
The unreality of the world implied in the sole reality of the Self
187
Śankarāchāryas statement of Buddhist sensationalism
190
The Sankhyas pervert the plain sense of the Upanishads
200
Sankaracharya maintains against them the existence of Ïývala
206

Iévara the first figment of the worldfiction
53
states of the soul
69
The soul is the Self but does not know itself to be the Self
75
the vital air is Brahman
83
Allegory of the sweet juices and the honey
90
The religion of rites prolongs the migration of the soul
96
He must repair to an accredited teacher
102
CHAPTER V
116
The path of release is fine as the edge of a razor
121
THE BRIHADARANYAKA UPANISHAD
143
Isvara the cycle of the universe
212
Fixation of the body and withdrawal of the senses
218
Fourth Section The world is a manifestation of Brahman
223
Sixth Section The world is an exhibition of Isvaras glory
230
Part of Colebrookes statement a glaning erior
237
The duality of subject and object has only a quasiexistence
245
The world is a dream the sage awakes to the truth
255
The belief in metempsychosis prevalent among the lower
260
religion for the recluses of the jungle
262
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