The aesthetic and the mystic experience in Indian theory

In the Sānkhyakārikās, the chief text of the dualistic Sānkhya philosophy, the world and salvation therefrom are described in compressed images as various stages of aesthetic situations. Purusa, the spiritual principle, whose only characteristic apart from being is consciousness, regards the spectac...

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Main Author: Nils Simonsson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Donner Institute 1970-08-01
Series:Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis
Online Access:https://journal.fi/scripta/article/view/67626