--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradh...@...> wrote:
>
>
> On May 8, 2010, at 4:50 PM, cardemaister wrote:
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> > OK! Please, just don't claim anymore, that Patanjali *himself* was
> > against practising the siddhis, unless you can prove that the
> > pronoun 'te' in 'te samaadhaav upasargaa...' refers to all the
> > siddhis, not just those mentioned in the previous suutra!
> > (Vyaasa: 'te *praatibhaadayaH*...')
>
>
> I can only tell you what I was instructed, mouth to ear, in the Patanjali
> trad. If you want to make up something else, go for it.
>
So, you appreciate "those guys" more than commentators like e.g.
Vyaasa (te praatibhaadayaH...*) and Bhojadeva (te praakpratipaaditaaH...**)?
* Can only refer to some "list" where 'praatibha' is first.
** Can only refer to the suutras *before* III 36 (or whatever it's
in various editions), not for instance the YF suutra. Most probably
refers only to the suutra "previously mentioned", even though
'praak-pratipaaditaaH' is in in plural (praatibha: intuition;
shraavana: hearing; vedana: touch; aadarsha: sight; aasvaada: taste;
vaartaa: smell)
prAJc , f. {prA3cI} turned forwards, being in front, facing; turned
eastwards, easterly; previous, former; m. pl. the eastern (people or
grammarians). Acc. w. {kR} bring, offer, promote, further; w. {kalpay} turn
one's front towards. n. ***{prA3k} ({prAG}) in front, before (w. abl. of pl. &
t.); eastward, in the east of (abl.); formerly, previously, first, at first,
from now***. Instr. {prAcA3} forwards; abl. {prAca3s} from the front. f.
{prA3cI} ({ñdiz}) the east.
[Vaj, I really wish you knew Sanskrit better than you seem
to. Same might apply to your Patanjali gurus... ;)]
