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ISBN 10: 0791476189
ISBN 13: 9780791476185
Author: Paul Friedrich
Looks at the connections between Thoreau's Walden and the work that influenced it, the Bhagavad-Gita. This book explores and interprets the myriad connections between two spiritual classics, Henry David Thoreau's Walden and the Bhagavad-Gita. Evidence shows that Thoreau took the Gita with him when he moved to Walden Pond, and the books have much in common, touching on ultimate ethical and metaphysical questions. Paul Friedrich looks at how each work speaks to fundamental problems of good and evil, self and cosmos, duty and passion, reality and illusion, political engagement and philosophical meditation, sensuous wildness and ascetic devotion. His examination moves through several stages, from an analysis of key symbols, such as the upside-down tree, to an exposition of social, ethical, and metaphysical values, to a consideration of the many sources of these syncretic works. This book should be of lively interest to those concerned with the origins of Indian and American thought, activism, and poetry.
1. "God"
2. Historical Retrospect
The Unique Individual Creates Scripture
Complex Origins
History of the Gita Connection
3. The Case for Shared Absolutes
4. Life SymbolsThat Essentialize
Ax/Axis/Axes
The Upside-Down Tree
The Field (kshetra )/“The Bean-Field”
Eye and Light
5. Social and Ethical Absolutes
Courage/Cowardice
Sincerity/Hypocrisy
Egalitarianism/Elitism
6. Purity
7. Reality and Being
Body and Self/Spirit
Matter and the Levels of Spirit
Essence and Tropology: Synecdoche and thePunch of Cumulative, Climactic, Terminal Metaphor
Denial of Opposites
Liberation from Delusion
The Infi nitudes, Especially of Time
8. Three Ways to God
Preamble: Yoga
Work (karma)
Knowledge
Faith (ßraddhå )/Loving Devotion (bhakti )
9. The Gita within Walden Expanded: A Poetics for Activism
Gita, Gandhi, Walden, King:The Making of a Political Classic
Conclusions
References
Index
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Tags: Paul Friedrich, Gita, Walden
