On 6/1/2014 8:49 PM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:
Richard, yoga comes from root meaning yoked or union. Are you saying
that the goal of union is to separate?!
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You *isolate* the Purusha from the prakriti and then the Self stands all
by itself. According to Patanjali, Raja Yoga has nothing to do with
/'union with the gods'/, but has everything to do with 'isolation from
prakriti', that is, the 'cessation of the fluctuations of the
mind-stuff'. To Patanjali, the 'Royal Yoga' is the attainment of
freedom, based on the sheer willpower of the individual. The Sage Kapila
said that success in attaing freedom from suffering is found in
individual willpower to knowledge; individual freedom is not the result
of any source of power outside one's own body-mind.
"Confusion arises from erroneously identifying words, objects, and ideas
with one another; knowledge of the cries of all creatures comes through
perfect discipline of the distinctions between them" (Y.S. 3.17).
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