{"product_id":"9781438458687","title":"Engaged Emancipation: Mind, Morals, and Make-Believe in the Moksopaya (Yogavasistha)","description":"\u003ci\u003eA wide-ranging analysis of the \u003c\/i\u003eMokṣopāya\u003ci\u003e, the Indian literary classic that teaches through storytelling how to enjoy an active, successful, worldly life in a spiritually enlightened way.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the \u003ci\u003eMokṣopāya\u003c\/i\u003e (also known as the \u003ci\u003eYogavāsiṣṭha\u003c\/i\u003e), an eleventh-century Sanskrit poetic text, the great Vedic philosopher Vasiṣṭha counsels his young protégé Lord Rāma about the ways of the world through sixty-four stories designed to bring Rāma from ignorance to wisdom. Much beloved, this work reflects the philosophy of Kashmir Śaivism. Precisely because all worldly pursuits are dreamlike and fiction-like, the human soul must first come to an experience of non-dualistic, mind-only metaphysics, and after attaining this wisdom, promote moral activism. \u003ci\u003eEngaged Emancipation\u003c\/i\u003e is a wide-ranging consideration of this work and the philosophical and spiritual questions it addresses by philosophers, Sanskritists, and scholars of religion, literature, and science. Contributors allow readers to walk with Rāma as his melancholy and angst transform into connectivity, peace, and spiritual equipoise.","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47154260607216,"sku":"9781438458687","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781438458687_p0.jpg?v=1763786414","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781438458687","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}