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Paul Friedrich 
The Gita within Walden 

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This book explores and interprets the myriad connections between two spiritual classics, Henry David Thoreau’s Walden and the Bhagavad-Gita. Evidence shows that Thoreau took the Gita with him when he moved to Walden Pond, and the books have much in common, touching on ultimate ethical and metaphysical questions. Paul Friedrich looks at how each work speaks to fundamental problems of good and evil, self and cosmos, duty and passion, reality and illusion, political engagement and philosophical meditation, sensuous wildness and ascetic devotion. His examination moves through several stages, from an analysis of key symbols, such as the upside-down tree, to an exposition of social, ethical, and metaphysical values, to a consideration of the many sources of these syncretic works. This book should be of lively interest to those concerned with the origins of Indian and American thought, activism, and poetry.
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Acknowledgments

Introduction


1. “God”


2.Historical Retrospect



The Unique Individual Creates Scripture
Complex Origins
History of the Gita Connection




3. The Case for Shared Absolutes


4. Life Symbols That Essentialize



Ax/Axis/Axes
The Upside-Down Tree
The Field (kshetra)/“The Bean-Field”
Eye and Light




5. Social and Ethical Absolutes



Courage/Cowardice
Sincerity/Hypocrisy
Egalitarianism/Elitism




6. Purity


7. Reality and Being



Body (Self/Spirit)
Matter and the Levels of Spirit
Essence and Tropology: Synecdoche and the Punch of Cumulative, Climactic, Terminal Metaphor
Denial of Opposites (dvandva-moha-nir-mukta)
Liberation from Delusion
The Infinitudes, Especially of Time




8. Three Ways to God



Preamble: Yoga
Work (karma)
Knowledge
Faith (s´raddaha)/Loving Devotion (bhakti)




9. The Gita within Walden Expanded: A Poetics for Activism



Gita, Gandhi, Walden, King: The Making of a Political Classic



Conclusions

References

Index

Sobre o autor

Paul Friedrich is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books, including
From Root to Flower and Music in Russian Poetry.
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