--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: <snip> > One way > of viewing Patanjali is as a guy who was never any good > at the normal skills of human interaction. I don't think > that the guy ever scored in high school. It's possible that > he never scored, period. So he becomes a monk. But even in > the monastery he's lacking in the ordinary skills of human > interaction, so he focuses instead on the extraordinary > ones. He may not be able to have a conversation with one > of his fellow monks because it's painful, but he can fly > and turn invisible. That'll teach 'em.
FWIW, we don't know anything for sure about Patanjali's life. I don't know that there's even a tradition that he was a monk, but besides having been a teacher of Yoga, he is said to have been a master dancer. Which pretty much sinks any notion that he didn't enjoy life.
