DEATH IS ALSO A DREAM. READING THE YOGAVĀSIṢṬHA WITH SEGISMUNDO

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  • Raquel Ferrández Formoso Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia

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https://doi.org/10.5944/endoxa.51.2023.31142

Abstract

The mind is a corpse that kills and gives life, a flash (churita) of the power of consciousness (cit-śakti) creator and destructor of universes, temporalities and realities. The Mokṣopāya (10th CE), better known as Yogavāsiṣṭha, invites us to question all our ontological beliefs through extraordinary stories, narrated by Vasiṣṭha to his disciple Rāma. Reading this voluminous Sanskrit text in the light of one of the most famous plays of Spanish Golden Age theater, Life is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, this essay would like to appease the existential anguish of Segismundo, who does not know whether he is asleep or awake and suffers from the ephemeral nature
of the world’s values. If he were to become a disciple of Vasiṣṭha, this Christian prince would immediately abandon his worries and learn that the answer to all his concerns
is only in his consciousness (cit-mātra).

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Author Biography

Raquel Ferrández Formoso, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia

Graduada en filosofía por la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (Premio extraordinario fin de grado), Máster en Filosofía teórica y práctica (UNED), Experta en culturas de la India y de Irán (Universidad de Salamanca) Colaboradora en revistas de filosofía en el ámbito de filosofía de la India y de Irán. Estudiante de lengua sánscrita.

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Published

2023-06-20

How to Cite

Ferrández Formoso, R. (2023). DEATH IS ALSO A DREAM. READING THE YOGAVĀSIṢṬHA WITH SEGISMUNDO. ENDOXA, (51). https://doi.org/10.5944/endoxa.51.2023.31142

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No. 51 (2023)

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Papers and Texts

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