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Religious Experience in the Hindu Tradition Religious Experience in the Hindu Tradition Edited by June McDaniel Printed Edition of the Special Issue Published in Religions www.mdpi.com/journal/religions Religious Experience in the Hindu Tradition Religious Experience in the Hindu Tradition Special Issue Editor June McDaniel MDPI • Basel • Beijing • Wuhan • Barcelona • Belgrade Special Issue Editor June McDaniel College of Charleston USA Editorial Office MDPI St. Alban-Anlage 66 4052 Basel, Switzerland This is a reprint of articles from the Special Issue published online in the open access journal Religions (ISSN 2077-1444) in 2019 (available at: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special issues/ hindutradition) For citation purposes, cite each article independently as indicated on the article page online and as indicated below: LastName, A.A.; LastName, B.B.; LastName, C.C. Article Title. Journal Name Year, Article Number, Page Range. ISBN 978-3-03921-050-3 (Pbk) ISBN 978-3-03921-051-0 (PDF) Cover image courtesy of Leonard Plotkin. c 2019 by the authors. Articles in this book are Open Access and distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license, which allows users to download, copy and build upon published articles, as long as the author and publisher are properly credited, which ensures maximum dissemination and a wider impact of our publications. The book as a whole is distributed by MDPI under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND. Contents About the Special Issue Editor ...................................... vii June McDaniel Introduction to “Religious Experience in the Hindu Tradition” Reprinted from: Religions 2019, 10, 329, doi:10.3390/rel10050329 ................... 1 Jeffery D. Long Religious Experience, Hindu Pluralism, and Hope: Anubhava in the Tradition of Sri Ramakrishna Reprinted from: Religions 2019, 10, 210, doi:10.3390/rel10030210 ................... 7 Frederick M. Smith The Fulcrum of Experience in Indian Yoga and Possession Trance Reprinted from: Religions 2019, 10, 332, doi:10.3390/rel10050332 ................... 24 Christopher Key Chapple Religious Experience and Yoga Reprinted from: Religions 2019, 10, 237, doi:10.3390/rel10040237 ................... 40 Veena R. Howard Divine Light and Melodies Lead the Way: The Santmat Tradition of Bihar Reprinted from: Religions 2019, 10, 230, doi:10.3390/rel10040230 ................... 53 Alfred Collins Religious Experience without an Experiencer: The ‘Not I’ in Sam¯ . khya and Yoga Reprinted from: Religions 2019, 10, 94, doi:10.3390/rel10020094 .................... 67 Antoinette DeNapoli Earning God through the “One-Hundred Rupee Note”: Nirgun. a Bhakti and Religious Experience among Hindu Renouncers in North India Reprinted from: Religions 2018, 9, 408, doi:10.3390/rel9120408 .................... 82 J. E. Llewellyn Saints, Hagiographers, and Religious Experience: The Case of Tukaram and Mahipati Reprinted from: Religions 2019, 10, 110, doi:10.3390/rel10020110 ................... 97 Guy L. Beck Sacred Music and Hindu Religious Experience: From Ancient Roots to the Modern Classical Tradition Reprinted from: Religions 2019, 10, 85, doi:10.3390/rel10020085 ....................111 Mani Rao The Experience of Srividya at Devipuram Reprinted from: Religions 2019, 10, 14, doi:10.3390/rel10010014 ....................125 Jeffrey C. Ruff Modern Transformations of s¯adhan¯a as Art, Study, and Awareness: Religious Experience and Hindu Tantric Practice Reprinted from: Religions 2019, 10, 259, doi:10.3390/rel10040259 ...................135 v Perundevi Srinivasan Sprouts of the Body, Sprouts of the Field: Identification of the Goddess with Poxes in South India Reprinted from: Religions 2019, 10, 147, doi:10.3390/rel10030147 ...................151 Sukanya Sarbadhikary Shankh-er Shongshar, Afterlife Everyday: Religious Experience of the Evening Conch and Goddesses in Bengali Hindu Homes Reprinted from: Religions 2019, 10, 53, doi:10.3390/rel10010053 ....................166 vi About the Special Issue Editor June McDaniel is Professor Emerita of the History of Religions in the Department of Religious Studies at the College of Charleston. She is the author of three books on India, a book on religious experience, a co-edited volume on mysticism, and many articles. She received her MTS in Theology from Candler Seminary at Emory University, and her Ph.D. was in the History of Religions from Divinity School at the University of Chicago. Dr. McDaniel has spent two years in India on grants from the American Institute of Indian Studies and as a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar, and she is currently investigating religion in Indonesia. vii religions Editorial Introduction to “Religious Experience in the Hindu Tradition” June McDaniel Department of Religious Studies, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC 29424, USA; [email protected] Received: 6 May 2019; Accepted: 11 May 2019; Published: 16 May 2019 Abstract: This special issue of Religions brings together a talented group of international scholars who have studied and written on the Hindu tradition. The topic of religious experience is much debated in the field of Religious Studies, and here we present studies of Hindu religious experience explored from a variety of regions and perspectives. They are intended to show that religious experience has long been an important part of Hinduism, and we consider them to be important and relevant. As a body of scholarship, these articles refine our understanding of the range and variety of religious experience in Hinduism. In addition to their substantive contributions, the authors also show important new directions in the study of the third-largest religion in the world, with over one billion followers. This introduction will discuss some relevant issues in the field of Indology, some problems of language, and the difficulties faced in the study of religious experience. It will also give a brief sketch of the religious experiences described by our authors in some major types of Hinduism. Keywords: India; Hinduism; yoga; tantra; devotion; meditation; prayer; saints; brahman; bhava;¯ mahabh¯ ava;¯ bhakti; trance; samadhi;¯ moks.a; dar´san; bhakti Religious experience in Hinduism is a challenging topic—all three terms are contested ones. ‘Hinduism’ is not an indigenous word, it is an umbrella term used first by outsiders, intended to cover a wide variety of systems of belief and practice in India. The term ‘religion’ has a wide variety of definitions, ranging from individual to social to universal. Additionally, the concept of ‘experience’ has come under scrutiny over the past century, with philosophical emphases on materialism, empirical proofs, and the limits of human knowledge. The opposition to the area of religious and mystical experience as a legitimate area of study has been written about many times in recent years; a good overview of the literature can be found in Leigh Eric Schmidt’s article “The Making of Modern Mysticism.”1 While Hindu philosophy also has materialist schools, there are many branches that allow for a greater range of human awareness and understanding than we see in Western philosophies. The self is structured in a more complex way than is currently acceptable in Western psychology, with forms of perception that bring different interpretations of the world (and worlds) in which we live. While these abilities may be strengthened and clarified by specific beliefs and practices, they are not understood to be created by them. For many of the meditative traditions, they might be comparable to muscles, which are present naturally but can be made stronger and more visible through exercise. A single journal issue cannot be comprehensive on such a broad subject. This Issue is intended to show some of the range of religious experiences in Hinduism, and some academic approaches to understanding it. It includes articles on men and women, householders and renunciants, yogis and devotees, artists and musicians, and philosophers. Some forms of religious experience are blissful and positive, others are more dangerous. Some papers focus on empathy and are ‘experience-near,’ while 1 (Schmidt 2003). Religions 2019, 10, 329; doi:10.3390/rel100503291 www.mdpi.com/journal/religions Religions 2019, 10, 329 others are more skeptical and ‘experience-distant’. For the practitioners described here by our authors, religious experience is a way to understand life as meaningful and worthwhile, lived in relation to a greater whole. Each of the papers here has its own approach to the topic. Religious experience can include such ideal religious states as moks.a, samadhi¯ , s´aanti¯ , dar´san, bhakti, brahmajñana¯ , saktipat´ , and rasa. However, it can also include darker states, such as the presence of disease deities, as well as ways of blessing everyday life. There is no single correct religious experience in the great array of beliefs and practices included under the Hindu umbrella, though different traditions emphasize their own as preferable. Every approach has its own concepts and terminology. However, one important general concept in this area is the term bhava.¯ It has both the breadth and ambiguity that we see in the English word ‘experience.’ It can refer to existence, state, condition, mental state, mood, emotion, inner significance, imagination, and ecstasy.2 The Monier–Williams Sanskrit Dictionary has four columns of definitions for the term bhava¯ , and the Bangalar Bhasar Abhidhan has two columns, which include such meanings as heart, imagination, divinity, yogic powers, passion, trance, and rapture.3
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