Guggenbühl Claudia, Mircea Eliade, Surendranath Dasgupta. The History of their Encounter

Claudia Guggenbühl - Mircea Eliade and Surendranath Dasgupta. (The History of their Encounter Dasgupta’s Life, his Philosophy and his Works on Yoga. A Comparative Analysis of Eliade’s Chapter on Patañjali’s "Yogasūtra" and Dasgupta’s "Yoga as Philosophy and Religion".) - Zürich, 2008 p. 234.
This study is one of the products of a three-year-long scientific research project entitled Yoga between Switzerland and India: the history and hermeneutics of an encounter, sponsored by the Swiss National Fund for Scientific Research and guided by Prof. Maya Burger (University of Lausanne) and Prof. Peter Schreiner (University of Zurich). A collective volume containing all the results of our research will be published in due course.
Eliade’s Yoga. Immortality and Freedom.
Genesis and importance.
rtually unknown in Calcutta.
Eliade in India.
Eliade’s interest in Yoga.
Calcutta.
Yoga philosophy vs. Yoga practice.
nterlude: Yogendra’s visit of Dasgupta.
Dasgupta – a secret yogi?
Love and its consequences.
Yoga in Rishikesh.Surendranath Dasgupta.
A dazzling career.
The fall.
A scandal, silence, and three testimonies.
Pareshnath Bhattacharya.
Malati Guha Ray.
Sukumar Mitra.
Some official traces.
Dasgupta in other people’s eyes.
The scholar.
The head of a large family.
The professor.
The saint.
Dasgupta’s mystical experiences (samādhi).
Dasgupta’s own philosophy.
Critique of Indian philosophy, particularly of Vedānta.
Love of life.
Philosophy starts with experience.
Philosophy and science.
No need for liberation.
Mind, life and evolution.
Fulfilment.Dasgupta’s texts on Yoga.
Chronological outline.
Yoga as Philosophy and Religion compared to The Study of Patanjali.
Minor differences.
Major differences.Dasgupta’s Sāṃkhya-Yoga.
Reasons for treating Sāṃkhya-Yoga.
The textual sources.
Mircea Eliade and Surendranath Dasgupta.
The analysis of the system according to Yoga as Philosophy and Religion.Prakṛti (chapter I).
Puruṣa (chapter II).
The reality of the external world (chapter III).
The process of evolution (chapter IV).
The evolution of the categories (chapter V).
Evolution and change of qualities (chapter VI).
Evolution and God (chapter VII).Mind and moral states (chapter VIII).
The ethical problem (chapter X).
Yoga practice (chapter XI).
The yogāṅgas (chapter XII).
God in Yoga (chapter XIV).
Matter and mind (chapter XV).Karma (chapter IX).
Dasgupta’s personal opinion.
Karma in Yoga.Samādhi (chapter XIII).Table of the sūtras referred to.
Some general results.
Eliade’s presentation of Patañjali’s Yogasūtra in Yoga. Immortality and.
Freedom in comparison with Dasgupta’s Yoga as Philosophy and Religion.
Why Yoga? (foreword).
Eliade’s acknowledgment of Dasgupta (foreword).
Structure.
The Doctrines of Yoga (chapter I).
Point of Departure (subchapter I,1).
The Equation Pain-Existence (subchapter I,2).
The Self (subchapter I,3).
Substance (subchapter I,4).
The Relation Spirit-Nature (subchapter I,5).
How is Liberation possible? (subchapter I,6).
The Structure of Psychic Experience (subchapter I,7).
The Subconscious (subchapter I,8).
Dasgupta’s article Yoga Psychology.Techniques of Autonomy (chapter II).
Concentration on a Single Point (subchapter II,1).
Yogic Postures (āsana) and Respiratory Discipline (prāṇāyāma).
(subchapter II,2).
Excursus: Prāṇāyāma in Extra-Indian Asceticism (subchapter II,3).
Yogic Concentration and Meditation (subchapter II,4).
Mircea Eliade and Surendranath Dasgupta.
The Role of Īśvara (subchapter II,5).
Enstasis and Hypnosis (subchapter II,6).
The Siddhis or Miraculous Powers (subchapter II,8).
Reintegration and Freedom (subchapter II,10).
Samādhi.
Samādhi with Support (subchapter II,7).
Samādhi without Support and Final Liberation (subchapter II,9).Karma.Appendix: Dasgupta in Switzerland.
The 1939 visit.
An exchange of letters between Dasgupta and C. G. Jung.