Knut A. Jacobsen, "Yoga in Modern Hinduism: Harihar?nanda ?ra?ya and S??khyayoga" (Routledge, 2017) - a podcast by Marshall Poe

In his book Yoga in Modern Hinduism: Harihar?nanda ?ra?ya and S??khyayoga (Routledge, 2017), Knut A. Jacobsen examines the K?pil Ma?h, a S??khyayoga institution emerging in the late nineteenth century Bengal. This movement (developing contemporaneously with modern yoga) is centered on the cave-dwelling renunciant yogin Harihar?nanda ?ra?ya. This book offers a rare glimpse into S??khyayoga as a living tradition in terms of documenting the practices of modern S??khyayogins. It moreover maps the production of a novel sort of yogin forged by the nineteenth-century transformations of Bengali upper class religious culture.
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