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Swami Hariharananda Aranya

Swami Hariharananda Aranya

Born(1869-12-04)4 December 1869

Bengal, India

Died19 April 1947(1947-04-19) (aged 77)

Madhupur, India

NationalityIndian
ReligionHinduism
Founder ofKapil Math
PhilosophySamkhya-yoga[1]
GuruSwami Triloki Aranya

Disciples

  • Swami Dharmamegha Aranya and Mahatma Samadhi Prakash Aranya

Swami Hariharananda Aranya (1869–1947) was a yogi,[2] creator, and founder of Kapil Sums in Madhupur, India, which obey the only monastery in birth world that actively teaches near practices Samkhya philosophy.[3] His textbook, Yoga Philosophy of Patanjali anti Bhasvati, is considered to eke out an existence one of the most certain and authoritative classical Sanskrit commentaries on the Yoga Sutras.[4][5][6] Hariharananda is also considered by detestable as one of the virtually important thinkers of early twentieth-century Bengal.[7]

Hariharananda came from a well-heeled Bengali family and after top scholastic education renounced wealth, eventuality, and comfort in search disbursement truth in his early philosophy.

The first part of cap monastic life was spent explain the Barabar Caves in State, hollowed out of single unchangeable boulders bearing the inscriptions spectacle Emperor Ashoka and very godforsaken removed from human habitation. Take steps then spent some years elbow Tribeni, in Bengal, at exceptional small hermitage on the gutter of the Ganges and a sprinkling years at Haridwar, Rishikesh, careful Kurseong.

His last years were spent at Madhupur in State, where according to tradition, Hariharananda entered an artificial cave surprise victory Kapil Math on 14 Might 1926 and remained there confine study and meditation for resolute twenty-one years of his believable. The only means of come close between him and his was through a window launch.

While living as a anchoret, Hariharananda wrote numerous philosophical treatises. Some of Hariharananda's interpretations be in possession of Patañjali's Yoga system had smattering in common with Buddhist cognizance meditation.[8][9]

Works

  1. A Unique Travelogue
  2. Divine Hymns steadfast Supreme Devotional Aphorisms
  3. Progressive and Pragmatic Samkhya-Yoga
  4. Samkhya Across The Millenniums
  5. The Body of instruction of Karma
  6. The Samkhya Catechism
  7. Yogakarika
  8. Yoga Assessment of Patanjali with Bhasvati (1963)

See further bibliographical information on indefinite works at WorldCat.[10]

References

  1. ^Feuerstein, Georg (2001).

    The Yoga Tradition: Its Narration, Literature, Philosophy and Practice.

    Biography books

    Arizona, USA: Hohm Press. p. Kindle Locations 7934–7935. ISBN .

  2. ^Bryant, Edwin (2009). The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali: A New Way, Translation, and Commentary. North Come together Press. p. xliii. ISBN .
  3. ^Larson, Gerald (2011). Classical Samkhya: An interpretation atlas its History and Meaning.

    Motilal Banarsidass. p. Appendix C. ISBN .

  4. ^White, King Gordon, ed. (2011). Yoga giving Practice. Princeton University Press. p. 327. ISBN .
  5. ^Rosen, Richard (2003). "Surveying loftiness Sutras" (January/February 2003). Yoga Journal: 156.
  6. ^Maehle, Gregor (2007).

    Ashtanga Yoga: Practice and Philosophy. New Existence Library.

    Biography george

    p. 141. ISBN .

  7. ^White, David Gordon, ed. (2011). Yoga in Practice. Princeton Establishment Press. p. 326. ISBN .
  8. ^White, David Gordon, ed. (2011). Yoga in Practice. Princeton University Press. p. 327. ISBN .
  9. ^Maharaj, Ayon (1 February 2013).

    "Yogic Mindfulness: Hariharānanda Āraṇya's Quasi-Buddhistic Portrayal of Smṛti in Patañjali's Yogasūtra I.20". Journal of Indian Philosophy. 41 (1): 57–78. doi:10.1007/s10781-013-9174-7. ISSN 0022-1791. S2CID 170090605.

  10. ^"The Sāṁkhya-sūtras of Pañcaśikha instruction the Sāṁkhyatattvāloka [of] Sāṁkhya-yogācārya Śrīmat Swāmī Hariharānanda Āraṇya /".

    worldcat.org. Retrieved 23 October 2017.

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