Isa Upanishad: De-gendering the text. by Bharadwaj, Tapati

Isa Upanishad: De-gendering the text. (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789384281076)

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Isa Upanishad: De-gendering the text. by Bharadwaj, Tapati

Isa Upanishad: De-gendering the text.

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Isa Upanishad: De-gendering the text. by Bharadwaj, Tapati

Isa Upanishad: De-gendering the text.

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Format: Paperback
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This rendition of an Upanishadic text is but a part of a larger series; the aim of this work is to construe Hindu religious texts as literature, and examine them within a gendered inflected analytical framework. What prevents us from examining the Upanishadic or the Vedic texts within a literary or a gendered perspective? If the basis of religion is "revealed knowledge," which was made evident to men - then is it not obvious that these notions of the Absolute Being would but be defined within gender inflected terminologies? The personal gender-biases of men would affect and predetermine how the notions of the Supreme Being were written about.Extracts from the ISA UPANISHAD.2. By doing karma, indeed, should one wish to live here for a hundred years. For a person, such as you (who wants to live thus), there is no way other than this, whereby karma may not cling to you.6. S/he who sees all beings in the Self itself, and the Self in all beings, feels no hatred by virtue of that (realization).8. S/he is all-pervasive, pure, bodiless, without wound, without sinews, taintless, untouched by sin, omniscient, ruler of mind, translucent, and self-existent; s/he has duly allotted the (respective) duties to the eternal years (i.e. to the eternal creators called by that name).

Author: Tapati Bharadwaj
ISBN-10: 9384281077
ISBN-13: 9789384281076
Publisher: Lies and Big Feet
Language: English
Published: 08/07/2015
Pages: 48
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.17lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.10d
By Tapati Bharadwaj
By Tapati Bharadwaj
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Series Editor: I grew up in an uber-brahmanical family where ritualistic worship was a part of my everyday life; the Vedic texts and the Upanishads were also something I grew up. I always thought that religion was something "out" there; I never actually thought that we were meant to believe in these texts on "revealed knowledge" in an absolute manner. But religion pervades every and all aspects of our lives - institutional, private or public, and be they secular, or not. After reading the Hindu religious texts for myself, I realised how gendered these texts were, and to our sensibilities, the archaic notions that underlie the basic tenets of Hinduism sound ridiculous and perverse. We forget that the "revealed knowledge" that is evident in the Upanishads has been written by men, and their gender predetermined how they translated the notions of the Absolute Being into language. I do not want my daughter to grow up within such a flawed belief system; we have to dismantle the existing religious texts as they are and re-transcribe them in order to arrive at gender-neutral concepts of religion, and Being.

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