The Concept of Kuṇḍalinī in Śiva Śatakam: A Malayalam Work by Nārāyaṇa Guru

In the present paper an attempt will be made toward interpreting selected stanzas from the work of Nārāyaṇa Guru (1854-1928), a mystic and social reformer from Kerala. In his Malayalam work the Kuṇḍalinī Pāṭṭŭ (The Song of the Kundalini Snake), Guru depicted an ancient yogic concept of Kuṇḍalinī, a...

Πλήρης περιγραφή

Αποθηκεύτηκε σε:  
Λεπτομέρειες βιβλιογραφικής εγγραφής
Κύριος συγγραφέας: Urbańska, Hanna (Συγγραφέας)
Τύπος μέσου: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Άρθρο
Γλώσσα:Αγγλικά
Έλεγχος διαθεσιμότητας: HBZ Gateway
Journals Online & Print:
Φόρτωση...
Fernleihe:Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste
Έκδοση: Wydawn. Uniw. Jagiellońskiego 2020
Στο/Στη: Studia religiologica
Έτος: 2020, Τόμος: 53, Τεύχος: 2, Σελίδες: 119-131
Άλλες λέξεις-κλειδιά:B Śiwaizm
B Tirumandiram
B Nārāyaṇa Guru / Śaivism
B Kuṇḍalinī
B Śiva Śatakam
B Nārāyaṇa Guru
Διαθέσιμο Online: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
Περιγραφή
Σύνοψη:In the present paper an attempt will be made toward interpreting selected stanzas from the work of Nārāyaṇa Guru (1854-1928), a mystic and social reformer from Kerala. In his Malayalam work the Kuṇḍalinī Pāṭṭŭ (The Song of the Kundalini Snake), Guru depicted an ancient yogic concept of Kuṇḍalinī, a coiled power residing in the state of sleep within the subtle energy centre (mūlādhāra) situated at the base of the central body channel (suṣumnā). The very same concept appears in many other works by Nārāyaṇa Guru, including Śiva Śatakam (One Hundred Stanzas on Śiva). An analysis of these stanzas in the light of the Siddha tradition (Tirumandiram by Tirumūlar) reveals that not only has the Kuṇḍalinī concept been borrowed from the Dravidian literature, Nārāyaṇan introduces the Tamil Siddhas’style of description of mystic experiences to his philosophical works, using metaphorical-twilight language which excludes the possibility of univocal interpretation.
ISSN:2084-4077
Περιλαμβάνει:Enthalten in: Studia religiologica
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.4467/20844077SR.20.009.12512