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Hurrah!! The Yoga Sutras (or 'Yogadarshanam' as it is known in India) is of course the stuff to be quoting from. Especially the opening verses. I spent so-o-o-o-o much time on the first four verses, I have not gone beyond them, except to browse and some.
I hope you are going to tell us all that it is only the first four verses that anyone needs to bother about!!!!
I want to take it slow, Paul. I will try to discuss some of the self-teaching nature of the collection of sutras.
Any information I share, however, comes from my own study and my own thinking. I find I agree here and there with some translators, but, on the whole, have my own opinions about this anthology of teachings.
I'll try to clarify, as I go, through what might be a long series of short considerations about the YD (yoga darshana).
I have no intention of TEACHING anything, however. My objective is to lay out how I found the sutras useful in the hopes that others will take a personal interest in doing something similar for their own benefit and on their own terms.
S.
"what Mahesh teachers is not supported by the Sutras". oh, the many ways the ego can deceive itself. dumbass.
Name-calling is no sign of spiritual development. And it reflects poorly on the efficacy of one's tradition -- and guru.
J.
I was just called a "jerk," among quite a few other unpleasant things, in comments to another post after I'd made a brief, completely nonhostile, explicitly speculative comment about mantras. Four different commenters seemed to lose it completely.
You might want to make it clear that your observation about name-calling being a poor reflection on the efficacy of one's spiritual development does not apply only to TMers.
Judy,
I am sorry you are being called names. I'm not in favor of name calling no matter who indulges in it or who the target is.
Certainly, calling names does not reflect on anyone's spiritual advancement or tradition.
I'd like to point out that I did not aim my comment above toward TMers, since I don't know what tradition Anonymous follows. I did make an assumption that he or she follows a tradition because of the concerns about the ego and so forth.
I can't apologize for other posters here, Judy. But I want to make clear if I could control what people post, I would not allow name calling or hate speech of any type. (Hate speech meaning speech that is intended to convey or incite hatred of any human. Or threats, for that matter.
When you're right, you're right, Judy.
J.
How interesting Judy ... you say in anyther of your trouble-starting messages that character assassination is not character assissination if it's the truth and then you react to beging called something that you so clearly are.
It isn't character assassination, Judy, it really is the truth. You have it in you to be a peace-maker; it's only you standing in your own way that you're not.
nanny
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