Hinduism and Christianity in Orissa : containing a brief description of the country, religion, manners and customs of the Hindus, and an account of the operations of the American Freewill Baptist Mission in northern Orissa /Otis Robinson. Ba...
She also places emphasis on the “body as prison” (soma-sema, citing Neoplatonism) as a true description of the material world incarnations where attachments to “transitory [worldly] beauty” draws the soul back into new bodies. The challenge of rebirth must be overcome through four basic ...