Description
Book SynopsisThe SÄáƒkhyayoga institution of KÄpil Maáh is a religious organisation with a small tradition of followers which emerged in the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century in Bengal in India around the renunciant and yogin HariharÄnanda Äraáya. This tradition developed during the same period in which modern yoga was born and forms a chapter in the expansion of yoga traditions in modern Hinduism.
The book analyses the yoga teaching of HariharÄnanda Äraáya (1869-1947) and the KÄpil Maáh tradition, its origin, history and contemporary manifestations, and this traditionâs connection to the expansion of yoga and the YogasÅtra in modern Hinduism. The SÄáƒkhyayoga of the KÄpil Maáh tradition is based on the PÄtaÃjalayogaÅÄstra, on a number of texts in Sanskrit and Bengali written by their gurus, and on the lifestyle of the renunciant yogin living isolated in a cave. The book investigates HariharÄnanda Äraáyaâs connection to pre-modern y
Table of Contents
Introduction 1. Sāṃkhya, Yoga and Sāṃkhyayoga 2. Encounters with a living Sāṃkhyayoga tradition 3. Kapila as the originator of Yoga 4. The rebirth of Yoga and the emergence of the bhadralok yogin 5. Gurus, book printing and the Sāṃkhyayoga lineage 6. Textual tradition of the Kāpil Math institution 7. Sāṃkhyayoga meditation instructions of the Kāpil Maṭh tradition 8. Monastic life and recitation of Sanskrit stotras 9. The material religion of Sāṃkhyayoga 10. The Kāpil Maṭh tradition and modern scholarship on Yoga Conclusion
