[INDOLOGY] OM, Brahmans and early yoga

[François Voegeli]

Dear Finnian,

I would very much like to read your paper too. Could you send it to me also.
Thanks in advance.

Yours sincerely,

F. Voegeli

On 06.05.21 16:24, Joanna Jurewicz wrote:
> 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.
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> With best wishes,
>
> Joanna
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> Prof. dr hab. Joanna Jurewicz
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> Katedra Azji Południowej /Chair of South Asia Studies
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> UNISA
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> wt., 4 maj 2021 o 16:52 Mark McLaughlin via INDOLOGY 
> <indology at list.indology.info <mailto:indology at list.indology.info>> 
> napisał(a):
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>     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
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>     On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 10:07 AM Finnian Moore-Gerety via INDOLOGY
>     <indology at list.indology.info <mailto:indology at list.indology.info>>
>     wrote:
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>         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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>     -- 
>     Mark McLaughlin, PhD
>     /Senior Lecturer of South Asian Religions/
>     /Department of Religious Studies
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