The rhetoric of priestcraft helps Dayanand to imagine the radically diffuse field of power in which his reformed asceticism will intervene. Brahmacharya somaticizes self-government by associating it with a set of techniques for regulating the body in accord with “virtue.” In this chapter, it is argued that Dayanand’s extension of brahmacharya is closely linked to his critique of priestcraft. Where brahmacharya had previously been the reserve of a narrowly demarcated segment of society, whether student or renunciant, Dayanand generalizes it to the population as a whole-it being through generalized ascetic practice that the national body is to be reconstituted and reformed. The Light of Truth advocates for a radically expanded notion of asceticism or brahmacharya. The term in question, “pope-lila,” is evidently a translation of the English word “priestcraft.” Like his English counterparts, Dayanand depicts post-Vedic Hindu tradition as a priestly fabrication but he also does much more than this. O元64730W Page_number_confidence 92.62 Pages 600 Pdf_module_version 0.0.This chapter interprets Hindu reformer Dayananda Saraswati’s magnum opus, The Light of Truth (1883), via a curious term that plays a pivotal role in the book’s polemical history of Hinduism. Urn:oclc:record:1084571118 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier satyarthprakashl00dayauoft Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t4zg7nd28 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-1-g862e Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9149 Ocr_module_version 0.0.15 Ocr_parameters -l san+eng Openlibrary_edition Copyright-evidence-date 23:56:24 Copyright-evidence-operator University of Toronto scanning center Copyright-region US External-identifier
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