Modern Transformations of sādhanā as Art, Study, and Awareness: Religious Experience and Hindu Tantric Practice
"My first raising of the kuṇḍalinī was hearing Ma [her teacher] speak about art." The experience of the awakening of sakti within practitioners in contemporary cultures occurs both in traditional religious settings and within novel circumstances. Traditional situations include direct trans...
| Published in: | Religions |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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MDPI
[2019]
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Religions
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| Further subjects: | B
Srī Vidyā
B sakti B Religious Experience B arts & B Modern Hinduism B Kuṇḍalinī B sākta tantra B Tantric sādhanā B Yoga B Tantric Studies B Creativity B Religions |
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| Summary: | "My first raising of the kuṇḍalinī was hearing Ma [her teacher] speak about art." The experience of the awakening of sakti within practitioners in contemporary cultures occurs both in traditional religious settings and within novel circumstances. Traditional situations include direct transmission from a guru (saktipāta), self-awakening through the practice of kuṇḍalinī-yoga or haṭhayoga, and direct acts of grace (anugraha) from the goddess or god. There are also novel expressions in hybrid religious-cultural experiences wherein artists, dancers, and musicians describe their arts explicitly in terms of faith/devotion (sraddhā, bhakti, etc.) and practice (sādhanā). They also describe direct experience of grace from the goddess or describe their ostensibly secular teachers as gurus. In contemporary experience, art becomes sādhanā and sādhanā becomes art. Creativity and artistic expression work as modern transformations of traditional religious experience. This development, while moving away from traditional ritual and practice, does have recognizable grounding within many tantric traditions, especially among the high tantra of the Kashmiri Saiva exegetes. |
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| ISSN: | 2077-1444 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3390/rel10040259 |