Hindu Mysticism

About this book

What does a mystical experience mean to a philosopher, a devotee or someone practising yoga? Surendranath Dasgupta follows the question through several Indian traditions, allowing each to describe its own route towards spiritual knowledge.

Six lectures explore the Upanishads, yoga, Buddhist thought, religious devotion and earlier forms of spiritual practice. Dasgupta writes with the precision of a scholar who understands how easily very different traditions can be flattened into one idea. His comparisons show just how differently inner experience has been described across Indian philosophical schools.