Premanand wrote: > As Turquoise asks, then why not our own Fairy Tales > too? They have a lot in common with the Purananas. > Oh, but then they are not Indian or Vedic, huh! > The 'Fairey Tales' of Western cultures have nothing to do with Yoga or Transcendental Knowledge, found in the Upanishads and in the Vedanta.
The Gnostic tradition came long after Patanjali composed the Yoga Sutras. There is no yoga equivalent in Western culture to the transcendental state of samadhi. Western cultures are almost totally based on the Semitic notions of Monotheism which is opposed to the 'self-knowledge' found in Yoga and Vedanta.
