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Beyond compare : St. Francis de Sales and Śrī Vedanta Desika on loving surrender to God /
Beyond Compare is a remarkable work that offers a commentary on spiritual learning for the twenty-first century rooted in two classic texts from the Hindu and Christian traditions: the Essence of the Three Auspicious Mysteries by Sri Vedanta Desika and Treatise on the Love of God by St. Francis de S...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
Georgetown University Press,
[2008].
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Chapter 1. Two spiritual classics and the possibilities they present
- On writing as a scholar beyond himself : 1996
- Reading loving surrender across religious boundaries
- Vedānta Deśika, his Śrīvaiṣṇava tradition, and the Essence
- Francis de Sales, his Catholic tradition, and his Treatise
- Vedānta Deśika and Francis de Sales, brought into conversation
- "Loving surrender" as the key in this double reading
- Some cautions as we look ahead
- Chapter 2. Thinking, writing, reading : finding a path to loving surrender
- The problem of reason in interpreting religious truths
- Reason's limits and potential in the Treatise
- De Sales on pagan and Christian learning
- Reason's limits and potential in the Essence
- The ascent of the mind and heart to God
- Conversion : reason and the leap beyond
- Deśika on conversion
- De Sales on conversion
- The self-understanding and intentions of Deśika and de Sales as writers
- Why de Sales writes, and with what authority
- Why Deśika writes, and with what authority
- From writer to reader : on the exercise of religious reading
- Paul Griffiths
- Pierre Hadot
- Chapter 3. Awakening : reading and learning on the way to God
- Scripture, inscribed in the Treatise and Essence
- De Sales' use of scripture
- Appropriating scripture's wisdom
- An example : the liquefaction of the soul
- Deśika's use of scripture
- "Five things to be known" : first, God's nature
- The self and obstacles to attaining God
- Engaging the reader : person to person
- De Sales makes it personal : learning by example
- Reports of heroic persons
- Addressing the reader : o, Theotimus
- Deśika's sparer, more traditional approach
- Hearing great persons of the Śrīvaiṣṇava tradition
- Shifting the way we read : from prose to poetry
- A lineage of verses, a lineage of teachers
- Reading more intensely to discover a destiny
- The particulars of rapture : advice from Charles Altieri
- The complex text and the complex reader
- Chapter 4. Loving surrender : insight, drama, and ecstasy
- The theological presuppositions of self-abandonment
- De Sales : freely choosing to let God be all in all
- Deśika : from devotion to human readiness
- Deśika's exegesis of the Dvaya mantra
- The first clause : I approach for refuge the feet of Nārāyaṇa with Śrī
- I approach Nārāyaṇa : Nārāyaṇam prapadye
- I approach Nārāyaṇa with Śrī : Śrīman-Nārāyaṇam prapadye
- I approach the feet of Nārāyaṇa with Śrī : Śrīmannārāyaṇa-caraṇau prapadye
- For refuge I approach the feet of Nārāyaṇa with Śrī : Śrīmannārāyaṇa-caraṇau śaraṇam prapadye
- I approach : prapadye
- The second clause : obeisance to Nārāyaṇa with Śrī
- With Śrī : Śrīmate
- For Nārāyaṇa : Nārāyaṇa-āya
- Obeisance : namaḥ
- The whole Dvaya mantra
- De Sales on love and loving surrender
- The foundations of love
- A note on deep pleasure (complaisance)
- Deep pleasure, conformity, and obedience
- The role of the indifferent heart
- De Sales' mantra?
- Loving surrender
- intensified
- Chapter 5. As we become ourselves : on the ethics of loving surrender and of persistence in reading
- Life after loving surrender to God
- Deśika on life after refuge
- De Sales on life after loving surrender
- On being a religious reader and writer after the Essence and Treatise
- On becoming the right person
- Reason humbled and restored (Chapter 2)
- The grounded, liberated, passionate reader (Chapter 3)
- The vulnerability and safe haven of the (inter)religious reader (Chapter 4)
- A final word.