Vedic Philosophy
Edwin Bryant
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Have you become confused by the various types of yoga and claims about liberation? In this course, we will encounter some of the prominent traditions of ancient Indian thought and their views on the self, God, the world, human suffering, and the perennial 'big-ticket' existential questions faced by all. Students will encounter the richness of Indian thought, and discover that different traditions do not lead to the same final goals; that there are multiple forms of liberation from human suffering; and that therefore there are choices to be made for anyone undertaking a path of yoga.
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Edwin Bryant received his Ph.D. in Indic languages and Cultures from Columbia University. He taught Hinduism at Harvard University for three years, and is presently the professor of Hinduism at Rutgers University where he teaches courses on Hindu philosophy and religion. He has received numerous awards and fellowships, published eight books, and authored a number of articles on the earliest origins of the Vedic culture, yoga philosophy, and the Krishna tradition.
As a personal practitioner of bhakti yoga for over 45 years, a number of them spent in India studying with traditional teachers, where he returns yearly, Edwin strives to combine academic scholarship and rigor with appreciation towards traditional knowledge systems. His teaching method is to allow the ancient texts to speak in their own voice and through their own terms and categories.
Edwin’s most recently published work is Bhakti Yoga: Tales and Teachings from the Bhāgavata Purāṇa (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2017). This work seeks to ground the practices of bhakti in the traditional Krishna-centered framework of the Vrindavan devotional traditions.
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