--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradh...@...> wrote: > > > On May 6, 2009, at 1:27 AM, sparaig wrote: > > >>> As I said, we agree to disagree... > >>> > >>> Or, to quote a famous anonymous sage: there are as many legitimate i > >>> interpretations of the Veda as there are enlightened persons. > >> > >> > >> Unfortunately this is one area where the sages of the yoga-darshana > >> (not "the Veda") are in agreement. Generally the type of people who > >> subvert the angas are what would in western languages be referred to > >> as "black magicians" or in theosophical lingo "black brothers": give > >> me the magic, let me circumvent the virtues, they will come on their > >> own, just give me power, NOW. > >> > > > > > > Is that how you see the TM-Sidhis program? > > > That is how the yogic tradition perceives the intent of those > who try to skip the angas. >
So you're the spokesperson for "the yogic tradition"? Self-certified? These skippable angas seem jolly arcane for such a well studied tradition as Yoga. You need to put Wikepedia right Vaj, eh? "The earliest reference to Angas (???) occurs in the Atharava Veda (V.22.14) where they find mention along with the Magadhas, Gandharis and the Mujavatas, all apparently as a despised people. The Jain Prajnapana ranks the Angas and the Vangas in the first group of Aryan peoples. According to Buddhist texts like the Anguttara Nikaya, Anga was one of the sixteen great nations (solas Mahajanapadas) which had flourished in central and north-west India in the 6th century BC. Anga also finds mention in the Jain Bhagvati-Sutra's list of ancient Janapadas." What's the instruction for "skipping" them?
