The Fulcrum of Experience in Indian Yoga and Possession Trance

The “inner organ” (<i>antaḥkaraṇa</i>) in the Indian philosophical school called Sāṃkhya is applied in two different experiential contexts: in the act of transcendence according to the path of yoga explored in the Yogasūtras of Patañjali (ca. 350 CE) and in t...

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Main Author:	Frederick M. Smith
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2019-05-01
Series:	Religions
Subjects:	antaḥkaraṇa Yogasūtras saṃyama possession Balaji Ganges pilgrimage
Online Access:	https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/10/5/332

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description	The “inner organ” (<i>antaḥkaraṇa</i>) in the Indian philosophical school called Sāṃkhya is applied in two different experiential contexts: in the act of transcendence according to the path of yoga explored in the Yogasūtras of Patañjali (ca. 350 CE) and in the process of identity shift that occurs in possession by a deity in a broader range of Indian cultural practices. The act of transcendence will be better understood if we look at the <i>antaḥkaraṇa</i> through an emic lens, which is to say as an actual organ that is activated by experiential shifts, rather than as a concept or explanation that is indicative of a collocation of characteristics of the individuating consciousness or merely by reducing it to nonepistemic objective or subjective factors.
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The Fulcrum of Experience in Indian Yoga and Possession Trance

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