--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Richard M" <compost...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradhatu@> 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?
I think Vaj meant the 'angas' in Patanjali's Ashtanga (8 limbs)Yoga, "With the practice of ALL of these limbs, **or means**, simultaneously, the state of Yoga grows simultaneously in all the eight spheres of life, eventually to become permanent." MMY Gita appendix under Yoga!
