Silence Unheard: Deathly Otherness in Patanjala-Yoga

Silence Unheard maintains that the reality of PatanÅjali's Yogasuμtra is a profound silence barely and variously audible to the scholars and interpreters who approach it. Even the Yogasuμtra itself is an "approach," a voice articulating an other- a silent, beyond-speech yogin. Author Yohanan Grinshpon presents PatanÅjali as a Saμn khya-philosopher, who interprets silence in accordance with his own dualist metaphysics and Buddhistic sensibilities. The Yogasuμtra represents an intellectual's conceptualization of utter otherness rather than the yogin's verbalization of silence. Silence Unheard focuses on the yogin's supra-normal experiences (siddhis) as well as on the classification of silences and the ultimate goal of disintegration through gun