Plurality of Spiritual Paths in the Dādūpanthī Community of Seventeenth-century Rājasthān.

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Plurality of Spiritual Paths in the Dādūpanthī Community of Seventeenth-century Rājasthān.

Original language description

How should we approach the phenomenon of plurality of voices in contexts of Indian religious traditions? Does it suffice, for a religious openness of a community to be ackgnowledged, to hear each of their members to proclaim, in different words and with differing emphases, one and the same tenet? Or is the range of their real tolerance tested by their willingnes to discuss and accept different solutions to common spiritual questions? If so, where are the limits of what is still felt and understood to be acceptable? Different Indian communities, panths and sampradāyas found different answers to this problem – answers that might change, and did change with time and circumstances. The present contribution will focus on the role attributed to God in the spiritual progress to the ultimate goal which is called variously sahaja, sūnā, end of the circle of rebirths, or unity with the Supreme being (Rām, Hari, Govind) in the early, formative years of the Rājasthānī Dādūpanth. Here, different approaches to this basic question can be discovered and analysed in the the vāṇī, or sayings (couplets and poems) attributed to medieval North Indian mystic Kabīr (ca. 1440–ca.1518). Closer reading of these texts reveals a variety of attitudes, from devotional longing and cry for help to (seemingly) distant God in the vinaya style, to typically Nāthyogī descriptions of (re)discovering the Supreme in oneʼs own self with oneʼs own efforts. A number of poems can be read as distinct voices in a dialogue between these two positions, with subtle shifts and reinterpretations of their ultimate message. Relative openness manifesting itself in the Kabīr vāṇī is set in a broader context of pañc-vānī („Five voices“), as the emerging corpus of voices of Dādū, the founder of the panth, Kabīr, and three other North Indian sants began to be called. The non-dogmatic aspects of the analysed vāṇī collection appear to be fully in line with the contents of the Dādūpanthī codex in which it was embedded: a huge collection including a wide variery of Old Hindī and Sanskrit religious literature. Codices of this type are to be seen as historical documents of cardinal importance for the study of religious pluralism in medieval India.

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60500 - Other Humanities and the Arts

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Provincialising Pluralism. Difference and Diversity in South Asian Traditions.

ISBN

9781350436046

Number of pages of the result

25

Pages from-to

273-297

Number of pages of the book

544

Publisher name

Bloomsbury Publishing

Place of publication

London

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