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Yoga Vāsiṣṭha (Mahārāmāyaṇa)
योगवासिष्ठ (Yogavāsiṣṭha), también महारामायण (Mahārāmāyaṇa), आर्षरामायण, वासिष्ठरामायण
A dialogue of some thirty thousand verses, according to tradition, in six books (prakaraṇa): Vairāgya (Rāma's disenchantment), Mumukṣu (the seeker of liberation), Utpatti (creation), Sthiti (persistence), Upaśama (quiescence) and Nirvāṇa (extinction). Vasiṣṭha teaches Rāma that the world is a projection of the mind and that liberation is possible in life, through dozens of nested tales —Līlā, Lavaṇa, Gādhi, Cūḍālā and Śikhidhvaja, the crow Bhuśuṇḍa— and a constant defence of human effort (pauruṣa) against fate.
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Authorship note
The teachings are put in Vasiṣṭha's mouth and the narration in Vālmīki's, to whom tradition ascribes the work. Scholarship (Slaje 1994; Hanneder 2006) has shown that it is a Vedāntic reworking of the Mokṣopāya, composed in Kashmir around the tenth century; earlier datings ranged from the sixth to the fourteenth century (Chapple 1984). Neither Vasiṣṭha nor Vālmīki is its author in a historical sense.
Editions and translations
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English
Vasiṣṭha's Yoga
State University of New York Press, 1993
Translation: Swami Venkatesananda
ISBN 9780791413647
Versión más amplia.
The Concise Yoga Vāsiṣṭha
State University of New York Press, 1984
Translation: Swami Venkatesananda
ISBN 9780873959551
Versión abreviada, con introducción de Christopher Chapple.
Vasishtha
The Supreme Yoga: A New Translation of Yoga Vasistha, vol. 2
The Conscious LibraryThe Supreme Yoga: A New Translation of Yoga Vasistha, vol. 2
Timeless Books, 1976
Translation: Swami Venkatesananda
ISBN 9780931454554
Vasishtha
The Yoga-Vásishtha Mahárámáyana of Válmiki (4 vols. en 7 partes)
The Conscious LibraryThe Yoga-Vásishtha Mahárámáyana of Válmiki (4 vols. en 7 partes)
Bonnerjee & Co., Calcuta, 1891
Translation: Vihari-Lala Mitra
Única traducción inglesa completa (1891–1899); en Project Gutenberg.
Français
Psychogenèse et cosmogonie selon le Yoga-Vāsiṣṭha : « le monde est dans l'âme »
Collège de France, 1998
Translation: François Chenet (estudio)
ISBN 9782868036711
Estudio académico, no traducción completa.
Sánscrito · संस्कृतम्
Vasishtha
योगवासिष्ठः (texto sánscrito)
The Conscious Libraryयोगवासिष्ठः (texto sánscrito)
Wikisource
Texto por libros (prakaraṇa).
Other works by Vasishtha
- Ṛgveda, Book VII (hymns of the Vasiṣṭhas) · 1200
- Mokṣopāya ('The Means to Liberation') · 950
- Laghu Yoga Vāsiṣṭha (The Shorter Yoga Vāsiṣṭha)
- Vasiṣṭha Dharmasūtra (The Sacred Law of Vasiṣṭha) · 100
- Vasiṣṭha Saṃhitā (Yoga section)
- Vasiṣṭha Smṛti
- Vāsiṣṭhī Śikṣā (treatise on Vedic phonetics)
- Vasiṣṭha's Dhanurveda Saṃhitā (treatise on archery)
- Vasiṣṭha Siddhānta (astronomical system)
Sources
- Slaje, Walter. Vom Mokṣopāya-Śāstra zum Yogavāsiṣṭha-Mahārāmāyaṇa. Philologische Untersuchungen zur Entwicklungs- und Überlieferungsgeschichte eines indischen Lehrwerks mit Anspruch auf Heilsrelevanz. Viena: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1994.
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