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180035 VO-L 7 Quarters of Becoming (2025S)
Indian philosophy read interculturally
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Aims, contents and method of the course
Assessment and permitted materials
4 written examination dates:
1st examination date: First written examination date in the last lecture unit on 24.06.2025, 18:30-20:00
2nd examination date: First week of October 2025
3rd examination date: End of November 2025
4th examination date: End of January 2026
No AI, smartphones, computers or other aids may be used in the written examinations.
1st examination date: First written examination date in the last lecture unit on 24.06.2025, 18:30-20:00
2nd examination date: First week of October 2025
3rd examination date: End of November 2025
4th examination date: End of January 2026
No AI, smartphones, computers or other aids may be used in the written examinations.
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
Written examinations will comprise of four main questions with sub-questions (max. 40 points)
0-20 points = insufficient, 21-25 points = sufficient, 26-30 points: satisfactory, 31-35 points = good, 36-40 points = very good. At the written exam, one needs to reach > 50% of the points in order to pass the exam.
0-20 points = insufficient, 21-25 points = sufficient, 26-30 points: satisfactory, 31-35 points = good, 36-40 points = very good. At the written exam, one needs to reach > 50% of the points in order to pass the exam.
Examination topics
Only texts that will be explicitly discussed in the lecture during the course of the semester, will be relevant for the exam. These texts will be part of the power point slides which will be made accessible on Moodle.
Reading list
Main literature, regularly referred to in the course:
Aurobindo, Sri Ghose (2001): Record of Yoga. VOLUMES 10 and 11 THE COM-PLETE WORKS OF SRI AUROBINDO, Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust. Pondicherry.
Banerji, Debashish, (ed.) (2020): Integral Yoga Psychology: Metaphysics & Transformation as Taught by Sri Aurobindo. Twin Lakes: Lotus Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42240-021-00091-5.Additional Literature:
The Aphorisms of Shiva (1992): The SivaSūtra with Bhāskara’s Commentary, the Vārttika Translated with Exposition and Notes by Mark S. G. Dyczkowski. Foreword by Pual E. Mul-ler-Ortega, SUNY Series in Tantric Studies. State University of New York Press: New York.
Böhler, Arno (2022): Sri Aurobindo Ghose: Vom Herz des Integralen Yoga. In: Mascha, Andreas und Seubert, Harald (2022): Integrale Anthropologie. Band 1: Grundlagen. München: Verlag Andreas Mascha, S. 57-89.
Bäumer, Bettina (2023): Vijñana Bhairava, Verlag der Weltreligionen, 7. Auflage. Suhrkamp Verlag: Frankfurt am Main.
Desikachar, TKV (2005): Yoga. Tradition und Erfahrung. Die Praxis des Yoga nach dem Yoga Sutra des Patanjali, 3. Auflage. Via Nova: Petersberg.
Lakshmanjoo, Swami (2000): Kashmir Shaivism: The Secret Supreme. Lakshmanjoo Academy.
Patañjali (2007): Die Wurzeln des Yoga. Die klassischen Lehrsprüche des Patañjali mit einem Kommentar von P. Y. Deshpande, mit einer neuen Übertragung der Sûtren aus dem Sanskrit, herausgegeben von Bettina Bäumer, 12. Auflage. O. W. Barth Verlag: Bern.
Skora, Kerry Martin (2007): The Pulsating Heart and Its Divine Sense Energies: Body and Touch in Abhinavagupta's Trika. In: Numen , 2007, Vol. 54, No. 4, Religion through the Senses (2007), Leiden/ Bosten: Brill. pp. 420-458.
Bryant, Edwin F. (2009): The Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali. New York: North Point Press.
Deshpande G.T. (19922): Abhinavagupta. Sahitya Akademi: Delhi
De Michelis, Elizabeth (2008): Modern Yoga. History and Forms. In: Byrne, Jean (Hg.): Yoga in the Modern World. Contemporary Perspectives. Rutledge: London / New York.
Dyczkowski, Mark S. G. (ed., 1992): The Stanzas on Vibration, Suny Series in the Shaiva Tradition of Kashmir. New York: State University of New York Press.
Dyczkowski, Mark S. G. (ed., 1992): The Siva-Sūtra with Bhāskara's Commentary, the Vārttika Translated with Explanations and Notes by Mark S. G. Dyczkowski. Foreword by Paul E. Muller-Ortega, SUNY Series in Tantric Studies. New York: State University of New York Press.
Eliade, Mircea: Yoga. Unsterblichkeit und Freiheit, Suhrkamp Verlag: Frankfurt am Main 1985
Gnoli, Raniero (1985): The Aesthetic Experience According to Abhinavagupta. Varanasi: Chowkhamba Sanskrit Series Office.
Gonda, Jan (1977): A History of Indian Literature. Vol. 2, fasc. 1, Medieval Religious Literature in Sanskrit. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowi
Heehs, Peter (2006): Sri Aurobindo and Hinduism. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram Archives and Research Library.
Lakshmanjoo, Swami (2000): Kashmir Shaivism: The Secret Supreme. Lakshmanjoo Academy.
Maharaj, Ayon (2018): Infinite Paths to Infinite Reality. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Muller-Ortega, Paul Eduardo (1989): The Triadic Heart of Siva. Kaula Tantricism of Abhinavagupta in the Non-Dual Shaivism of Kashmir. New York: State University of New York Press.
for more: see Moodle
Aurobindo, Sri Ghose (2001): Record of Yoga. VOLUMES 10 and 11 THE COM-PLETE WORKS OF SRI AUROBINDO, Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust. Pondicherry.
Banerji, Debashish, (ed.) (2020): Integral Yoga Psychology: Metaphysics & Transformation as Taught by Sri Aurobindo. Twin Lakes: Lotus Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42240-021-00091-5.Additional Literature:
The Aphorisms of Shiva (1992): The SivaSūtra with Bhāskara’s Commentary, the Vārttika Translated with Exposition and Notes by Mark S. G. Dyczkowski. Foreword by Pual E. Mul-ler-Ortega, SUNY Series in Tantric Studies. State University of New York Press: New York.
Böhler, Arno (2022): Sri Aurobindo Ghose: Vom Herz des Integralen Yoga. In: Mascha, Andreas und Seubert, Harald (2022): Integrale Anthropologie. Band 1: Grundlagen. München: Verlag Andreas Mascha, S. 57-89.
Bäumer, Bettina (2023): Vijñana Bhairava, Verlag der Weltreligionen, 7. Auflage. Suhrkamp Verlag: Frankfurt am Main.
Desikachar, TKV (2005): Yoga. Tradition und Erfahrung. Die Praxis des Yoga nach dem Yoga Sutra des Patanjali, 3. Auflage. Via Nova: Petersberg.
Lakshmanjoo, Swami (2000): Kashmir Shaivism: The Secret Supreme. Lakshmanjoo Academy.
Patañjali (2007): Die Wurzeln des Yoga. Die klassischen Lehrsprüche des Patañjali mit einem Kommentar von P. Y. Deshpande, mit einer neuen Übertragung der Sûtren aus dem Sanskrit, herausgegeben von Bettina Bäumer, 12. Auflage. O. W. Barth Verlag: Bern.
Skora, Kerry Martin (2007): The Pulsating Heart and Its Divine Sense Energies: Body and Touch in Abhinavagupta's Trika. In: Numen , 2007, Vol. 54, No. 4, Religion through the Senses (2007), Leiden/ Bosten: Brill. pp. 420-458.
Bryant, Edwin F. (2009): The Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali. New York: North Point Press.
Deshpande G.T. (19922): Abhinavagupta. Sahitya Akademi: Delhi
De Michelis, Elizabeth (2008): Modern Yoga. History and Forms. In: Byrne, Jean (Hg.): Yoga in the Modern World. Contemporary Perspectives. Rutledge: London / New York.
Dyczkowski, Mark S. G. (ed., 1992): The Stanzas on Vibration, Suny Series in the Shaiva Tradition of Kashmir. New York: State University of New York Press.
Dyczkowski, Mark S. G. (ed., 1992): The Siva-Sūtra with Bhāskara's Commentary, the Vārttika Translated with Explanations and Notes by Mark S. G. Dyczkowski. Foreword by Paul E. Muller-Ortega, SUNY Series in Tantric Studies. New York: State University of New York Press.
Eliade, Mircea: Yoga. Unsterblichkeit und Freiheit, Suhrkamp Verlag: Frankfurt am Main 1985
Gnoli, Raniero (1985): The Aesthetic Experience According to Abhinavagupta. Varanasi: Chowkhamba Sanskrit Series Office.
Gonda, Jan (1977): A History of Indian Literature. Vol. 2, fasc. 1, Medieval Religious Literature in Sanskrit. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowi
Heehs, Peter (2006): Sri Aurobindo and Hinduism. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram Archives and Research Library.
Lakshmanjoo, Swami (2000): Kashmir Shaivism: The Secret Supreme. Lakshmanjoo Academy.
Maharaj, Ayon (2018): Infinite Paths to Infinite Reality. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Muller-Ortega, Paul Eduardo (1989): The Triadic Heart of Siva. Kaula Tantricism of Abhinavagupta in the Non-Dual Shaivism of Kashmir. New York: State University of New York Press.
for more: see Moodle
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In addition to the original reading of Aurobindo's “Records on Yoga”, we will also read the excellent interpretation of these records by Debashish Banerji “Seven Quarters of Becoming”, in which he regularly relates Aurobindo's records of his yoga practice to the canon of European philosophy, especially to the writings of Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze.
In this respect, my lecture performs a practice of translation in which we will constantly move back and forth between the European and Southeast Asian traditions of philosophizing.