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Hinduism --- Hindouisme --- Spiritual life --- Doctrines. --- Hinduism. --- Spiritual life (Hinduism) --- Doctrines --- Hindu authors --- Hinduism - Doctrines. --- Spiritual life - Hinduism.

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The essays cover the historical emergence of the classical system, a careful examination of key elements, character and relevance of that system and a glimpse of some of the tradition's many effects in later Indian religious history.

Yoga. --- Spiritual life --- Spiritual life (Hinduism) --- Yoga --- Yoga exercises --- Exercise --- Philosophy, Indic --- Hinduism. --- Hindu authors --- Hinduism --- Spiritual life - Hinduism.

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Yoga, karma, meditation, guru—these terms, once obscure, are now a part of the American lexicon. Combining Hinduism with Western concepts and values, a new hybrid form of religion has developed in the United States over the past century. In Transcendent in America, Lola Williamson traces the history of various Hindu-inspired movements in America, and argues that together they constitute a discrete category of religious practice, a distinct and identifiable form of new religion.Williamson provides an overview of the emergence of these movements through examining exchanges between Indian Hindus and American intellectuals such as Thomas Jefferson and Ralph Waldo Emerson, and illuminates how Protestant traditions of inner experience paved the way for Hindu-style movements’ acceptance in the West.Williamson focuses on three movements—Self-Realization Fellowship, Transcendental Meditation, and Siddha Yoga—as representative of the larger of phenomenon of Hindu-inspired meditation movements. She provides a window into the beliefs and practices of followers of these movements by offering concrete examples from their words and experiences that shed light on their world view, lifestyle, and relationship with their gurus. Drawing on scholarly research, numerous interviews, and decades of personal experience with Hindu-style practices, Williamson makes a convincing case that Hindu-inspired meditation movements are distinct from both immigrant Hinduism and other forms of Asian-influenced or “New Age” groups.

Hinduism -- United States. --- Meditation -- Hinduism. --- Spiritual life -- Hinduism. --- Hinduism --- Meditation --- Spiritual life

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Vaishnavism --- Vishnouisme --- Chaitanya (Sect) --- Gurus --- Hindu philosophy --- Spiritual life --- Vaisnavism --- Vishnuism --- Hindu sects --- Spiritual life (Hinduism) --- Philosophy, Hindu --- Philosophy --- Philosophy, Indic --- Hinduism --- Chaitnaya (Sect) --- History --- Hindu authors

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The idea that there is a truth within the person linked to the discovery of a deeper, more fundamental, more authentic self has been a common theme in many religions throughout history and an idea that is still with us today. This inwardness or interiority unique to me as an essential feature of who I am has been an aspect of culture and even a defining characteristic of human being; an authentic, private sphere to which we can retreat that is beyond the conflicts of the outer world. This inner world becomes more real than the outer, which is seen as but a pale reflection. Remarkably, the image of the truth within is found across cultures, and this book presents an account of this idea in the pre-modern history of Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism. Furthermore, in theistic religions, Christianity, and some forms of Hinduism, the truth within is conflated with the idea of God within, and in all cases this inner truth is thought to be not only the heart of the person, but also the heart of the universe itself. Gavin Flood examines the metaphor of inwardness and the idea of truth within, along with the methods developed in religions to attain it such as prayer and meditation. These views of inwardness that link the self to cosmology can be contrasted with a modern understanding of the person. In examining the truth within in Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism, Flood offers a hermeneutical phenomenology of inwardness and a defence of comparative religion.

Introspection --- Spiritual life --- 291.22 --- Spiritual life (Hinduism) --- Spiritual life (Buddhism) --- Spiritual life (Lamaism) --- 291.22 Godsdienstwetenschap: doctrines over mens en ziel --- Godsdienstwetenschap: doctrines over mens en ziel --- Religious aspects. --- Christianity. --- Buddhism. --- Hinduism. --- Hindu authors --- Self --- Christianity and other religions --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- Buddhism --- Hinduism --- Introspection - Religious aspects. --- Self - Religious aspects. --- Spiritual life - Christianity. --- Spiritual life - Buddhism. --- Spiritual life - Hinduism.