Acting as a Way of Salvation: A Study of Raganuga Bhakti Sadhana

by David L. Haberman

Sixteenth-century Hindu theologian Rupa Gosvamin established a technique by which, in imitating one of the significant figures in Krishna's dramatic world, a devotee might actually become the character whose part he or she was playing. Haberman here demonstrates that the Hindu view of reality accepts such role playing, called raganuga bhakti sadhana, as the preeminent way to salvation. He argues that Hindu devotional religion is not entirely a religion...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195053214
• ISBN13: 9780195053210
• Release Date: November 1988
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.6"