TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tharakan, Anniyil
AU  - Tharakan,Anniyil
TI  - The Sacred Feminine in Indian Thought:  A Critique and a Rediscovery in the Light of Hindu Tantra Yoga of the Sacred Female in the Spiritual, Sexual and Aesthetic Paradigms of India
SN  - 9788130717968
U1  - R40 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Cosmo Publications
N1  - includes index and biblioraphy; The sacred feminine in the Paradigms of spirituality and sexuality in Indian Thought....20  The sacred feminine in the paradigms of Aesthetics in Indian thought....133  1. Agamic and vedic texts that point to a relationship between spirituality and art.......196  2. The same terms and symbols refer to spirituality and aesthetics in Indian discourse ...201   3. Abhyasa or practice is the same for the poet and the yogin to attain to Transcendence ..208  4. Kundalini yoga : High point of convergence between spirituality and creativity.212  5. Rasa : A participatory foretaste of bliss at liberation.............214  The sacred feminine in the paradigms of spirituality, sexuality and aesthetics in saundaryalahari..260  Part I . The cyclical Patterns of descent and ascent : The source of spirituality and sexuality...274  A. The spirituality of descent...274  B. The spirituality of Ascent.290  C. Heroic Spirituality.307  Part II. A. Cyclical Patterns of Sakti`s Descent to the universe of Saudaryalahari and the poet`s ascent to higher centres: the source of aesthetic vision....311  B. Saundaryalahari: An aesthetic theophany-an apparition of devi in the inner vision of the poet...329  Part III. Convergence between spirituality, Sexuality and aesthetics in Saundaryalahari....342  A. Convergence between the spiritual and the Aesthetic- A structural design in Saundaryalahari...343  B. Convergence between tantra-transformed sexuality and srngara rasa-caused Mystical Spirituality in saundaryalahari.....352  C. Saundaryalahari and the elements of Bhakti viewed as a Trend....364
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