Acknowledgments
Introduction
Note on Sources
Part I Gaudapada The Mind and the Cosmos: Reflection or Prototype?
1. Gaudapada : Life and Works
2. Mandukya-karika : The Gradations of Consciousness
3. Mandukya-karika: The Illusory World and the Problem of Creation
4. Mandukya-karika: TheShimmering of Cosmos
Part II Bhartrhari Speech andthe World: Creation or Expression?
5. Bhartrhari
6. Vakya-padiya
7. Manifestations of Speech
8. Language and Being
9. The Structure of the Universe and the Place of Man
Part III Further Developments: The Interplay of Energies and Artistic Creation
10. Early Vedanta and Kashmir Saivism
11. The Concept of Energies: Neoplatonist and Hesychast Parallels
12. Abhinavagupta's Aesthetics
The Name and the Voice: Some Concluding Unscientific Remarks
Index