HPI 29 - Practice Makes Perfect - Patanjali’s Yoga-Sutra
November 13, 2016
Yoga as presented by Patañjali offers a practical complement to the Sāṃkhya theory of the cosmos and the self.
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HPI 28 - Who Wants to Live Forever? - Early Ayurvedic Medicine
October 30, 2016
Philosophical aspects of Ayurveda, focusing on the oldest surviving medical treatise, the Caraka-Samhita.
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HPI 27 - The Theory of Evolution - Isvarakrsna’s Samkhya-karika
October 16, 2016
The oldest treatise of Sāṃkhya enumerates the principles of the cosmos and of the human mind.
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HPI 26 - Francis Clooney on Vedanta
October 2, 2016
Francis Clooney joins us to discuss the religious and philosophical aspects of Vedānta.
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HPI 25 - Communication Breakdown - Bhartrihari on Language
September 18, 2016
The grammarian Bhartṛhari argues that the study of language is the path to liberation, because the undivided reality underlying language is brahman.
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HPI 24 - No Two Ways About It - Sankara and Advaita Vedanta
September 4, 2016
Śaṅkara and his “non-dual” (Advaita) Vedānta, which teaches that only brahman is real, and the world of experience and individual self are mere illusion.
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Summer Reading
August 6, 2016
How to fill the month of August while the podcast is on summer break. Buy the book versions of the podcast at Oxford University Press.
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HPI 23 - Source Code - Badarayana’s Vedanta-sutra
July 24, 2016
The founding text of the Vedānta school, the Vedānta- or Brahma-Sūtra, interprets the Upaniṣads as teaching that all things derive from brahman.
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HPI 22 - Elisa Freschi on Mimamsa
July 10, 2016
Mīmāṃsā expert Elisa Freschi speaks to Peter about philosophical issues arising from the interpretation of the Veda.
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HPI 21 - Innocent Until Proven Guilty - Mimamsa on Knowledge and Language
June 26, 2016
The Mīmāṃsā school put their faith in sense experience, and argue that the Veda, and hence language itself, had no beginning.
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