How to Realize the Four Goals of Life by Means of mantra?

The purpose of the present paper is to discuss a specific conceptualization of the four goals of human life, namely dharma, artha, kāma and mokṣa, known under the collective term puruṣārtha, in the terms of magical rites. Such conceptualization appears in the Sātvatasaṃhitā, which, together with th...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:9d259faebb1643e99ac70d0ae7dde78a2021-11-27T12:53:22ZHow to Realize the Four Goals of Life by Means of mantra?10.12797/CIS.16.2014.16.051732-09172449-8696https://doaj.org/article/9d259faebb1643e99ac70d0ae7dde78a2021-08-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.akademicka.pl/cis/article/view/1531https://doaj.org/toc/1732-0917https://doaj.org/toc/2449-8696 The purpose of the present paper is to discuss a specific conceptualization of the four goals of human life, namely dharma, artha, kāma and mokṣa, known under the collective term puruṣārtha, in the terms of magical rites. Such conceptualization appears in the Sātvatasaṃhitā, which, together with the Jayākhyasaṃhitā and the Pauṣkarasaṃhitā, is classified as the oldest available text of the Tantric Vaiṣṇava Pāñcarātra. It seems that the reason of such a strategy might be not, as it happens in the case of later saṃhitās, to refer simply to the orthodoxy for the sake of proving that the Pāñcarātra belongs to the religious mainstream, but, in a sense, to adjust the way of realization of the four goals of life to the requirements of a particular Tantric practice. Obviously, the manner of presenting consecutive puruṣārthas in the Sātvatasaṃhitā aims at securing a quick and purely ritualistic method of their fulfillment to the people who were not able to realize them in the traditional way, obediently passing through the successive stages of their life. Ewa Dębicka-BorekKsiegarnia Akademicka PublishingarticleSātvatasaṃhitāPāñcarātrasiddhiskalpapuruṣārthasādhanacaturvargaIndo-Iranian languages and literaturePK1-9601Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, OceaniaPL1-8844ENCracow Indological Studies, Vol 16 (2021)
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topic Sātvatasaṃhitā
Pāñcarātra
siddhis
kalpa
puruṣārthasādhana
caturvarga
Indo-Iranian languages and literature
PK1-9601
Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania
PL1-8844
spellingShingle Sātvatasaṃhitā
Pāñcarātra
siddhis
kalpa
puruṣārthasādhana
caturvarga
Indo-Iranian languages and literature
PK1-9601
Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania
PL1-8844
Ewa Dębicka-Borek
How to Realize the Four Goals of Life by Means of mantra?
description The purpose of the present paper is to discuss a specific conceptualization of the four goals of human life, namely dharma, artha, kāma and mokṣa, known under the collective term puruṣārtha, in the terms of magical rites. Such conceptualization appears in the Sātvatasaṃhitā, which, together with the Jayākhyasaṃhitā and the Pauṣkarasaṃhitā, is classified as the oldest available text of the Tantric Vaiṣṇava Pāñcarātra. It seems that the reason of such a strategy might be not, as it happens in the case of later saṃhitās, to refer simply to the orthodoxy for the sake of proving that the Pāñcarātra belongs to the religious mainstream, but, in a sense, to adjust the way of realization of the four goals of life to the requirements of a particular Tantric practice. Obviously, the manner of presenting consecutive puruṣārthas in the Sātvatasaṃhitā aims at securing a quick and purely ritualistic method of their fulfillment to the people who were not able to realize them in the traditional way, obediently passing through the successive stages of their life.
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title How to Realize the Four Goals of Life by Means of mantra?
title_short How to Realize the Four Goals of Life by Means of mantra?
title_full How to Realize the Four Goals of Life by Means of mantra?
title_fullStr How to Realize the Four Goals of Life by Means of mantra?
title_full_unstemmed How to Realize the Four Goals of Life by Means of mantra?
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