Publicación: The Nakedness of Prakrti: A Sāmkhya‑Yoga Reading of Aubrey Menen’s The Space Within the Heart
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2024-06-25
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In his autobiography The Space within the Heart (1970), the writer Aubrey Menen shares the experiment in self-inquiry he conducted in the 1960s in the Piazza Farnese in Rome. Relying on the reading of two Upaniṣads, he decided to retreat to a room and not abandon the experiment until he had achieved the experience of his true self, the ātman. Employing only intellectual analysis, Menen distances himself, one by one, from all the narratives that make up his empirical identity. In this essay, I propose to interpret his experiment from classical Sāṃkhya philosophy, reading it as a contemporary practice of tattva-abhyāsa that proceeds through a methodic disenchantment and entails a cognitive and emotional nakedness that might be interpreted as the nakedness of prakṛti. This case study raises questions about the application of Sāṃkhya philosophy in contexts other than renunciation and outside of any tradition, as well as on the role that emotions play in the process of the negation (pratiṣedha) of tattva-s, for the latter are not abstract entities, but shape our various empirical identities through emotional knots that the seeker will have to undo in the exercise of coming to affirm their identity as puruṣa.
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La versión registrada de este artículo, publicado por primera vez en DHARM 7, 147–164 (2024), está disponible en línea en el sitio web del editor: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42240-024-00174-z
The copyrighted version of this article, first published in DHARM 7, 147–164 (2024), is available online at the publisher's website: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42240-024-00174-z
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Tattvābhyāsa, Sāṃkhya, Yoga, Aubrey Menen, Kleśa, Emotions
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Ferrández, R. The Nakedness of Prakṛti: A Sāṃkhya-Yoga Reading of Aubrey Menen’s The Space Within the Heart. DHARM 7, 147–164 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42240-024-00174-z
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Facultades y escuelas::Facultad de Filosofía
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Filosofía