--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex" <willytex@...> wrote: > > > > > > > Yoga is the *isolation* of the Purusha from the > > > > prakriti. > > > > > RoryGoff: > > * * * Yoga is Union; this *begins* with the isolation of > > the Purusha from the Prakriti, and ends in the paradoxical > > realization that the two are not different: Absolute and > > relarive, stillness and activity, nirvana and samskara -- > > all the same, all the divine Alchemical Marriage of Us. "WillyTex" <willytex@...> wrote: > You cannot have a union of Purusha and prakriti. According > to MMY, the Purusha is totally separate from the prakriti. > When the prakriti overshadows the Purusha, we identify with > the prakriti and not with the Purusha.
* * * Absolutely correct; that is the Unity of Ignorance, when the Witness (Purusha) is lost in the World (Prakriti). And when we realize the Purusha is utterly separate from Prakriti, then the Witness stands alone, witnessing the world, as you have quoted below. That would appear to be more or less equivalent to MMY's CC. There is at that point a dynamic tension and even opposition between the Witness and the World, between Purusha and Prakriti, that begs to be resolved, and is indeed resolved when we surrender into the paradoxical Understanding that the Witness and the World are two sides of the same coin, and in reality the coin has no sides at all -- is in fact nondual. > > That's why Patanjali defined Yoga as *isolation*, 'kaivalya', > the cessation of the mind-stuff. There is no mind-stuff in > the Purusha - it's totally devoid of conditioning. > > Yoga is the cessation of the mental turnings of the mind. > When thought ceases, the Transcendental Absolute stands by > itself, refers to Itself, as a witness to the world. > > The mental impressions are held together by cause and effect, > and they disappear with the total disappearance of these > four." —Kaivalya Pada: Sutra 11-12. > >
