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- Title
"Dharmamegha-samādhi" in the Yogasūtras of Patañjali: A Critique.
- Authors
Rukmani, T. S.
- Abstract
The concept of "dharmamegha-samādhi" that occurs in Patañjali's Yogasūtras, in the path to kaivalya, has not been easy to comprehend. Scholars working in the field of Yoga have explained the concept in many different ways. This essay tries to reach an understanding of "dharmamegha-samādhi" based on a careful reading of the Yogasūtras along with Vyāsa's commentary on it and the later well-known commentaries on Vyāsa's own commentary such as the "Tattvavaiśāradī," the "Yogavārttika," and so on. Whether "dharmamegha-samādhi" is in any way connected with the concept of "jīvanmukti" or liberation while embodied, and whether "jīvanmukti" can be reasonably understood as being part of Yoga philosophy also comes in for discussion toward the end of this essay.
- Subjects
DHARMA in Buddhism; SAMADHI; YOGA; HINDU doctrines; BUDDHIST doctrines
- Publication
Philosophy East & West: A Quarterly of Comparative Philosophy, 2007, Vol 57, Issue 2, p131
- ISSN
0031-8221
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1353/pew.2007.0024