> > But the world of change, that is, prakriti, is > > totally separate from the Absolute, the unchanging. > > In order to go beyond the three gunas, all you need > > to do is *isolate* the Purusha. > > cardemaister wrote: > Whoa! Of course! That's obviously why "liberation" is > called "kaivalyam", which word is a vRddhi derivative > from the adjective "kevala" (guNa-grade: ke- > vRddhi: kai-). > 1. kaivalya n., isolation;
Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon: http://webapps.uni-koeln.de/cgi-bin/tamil/recherche Well, Erik, the conclusion must be that we are bound - it is an illusion that man has free will. If we were free, there would be no need for yoga or a path. If bound, by what means can we free ourselves? The answer is we can free ourselves by *isolating* the Perusha. The term Yoga means kaivalya, *isolation*. There are eight-limbs to the Yoga, one being right meditation in order to provide a cessation, *nirodha* of the thought process. When the thought processes are stilled, the Perusha shines as a Light. Otherwise we are bound by the three gunas, born of nature. Things happen for a reason, there are no random chance events. This world is governed by Causation, the law of action reaction. That's the way it is. Without a Yoga practice, just about all a person can do is pray to the God of Yoga, Ishvara, but that is no gurantee of liberation. Otherwise, an individual must be reborn a million times or more, and think and act like a perfect saint each and every time, in order to work off the accumulated karma of past deeds. In contrast, a Yogin can employ techniques and methods to see the Light, become the Light, and live in the Light, and by tapas, burn off the karma in a single lifetime, so the Siddhas say. Thus there are two ways, the slow way of faith, with no gurantee of success, and another way, the way of action, the way of the Siddhas. One way produces countless ages of sorrow, pain, lamentation, and grief - the other way produces Enlightenment, Immortality and Freedom. > sattva-puruSayoH shuddhi-saamye kaivalyam > (sattva-puruSa's [sattva and puruSa's] purity-equality-in kaivalya) > > The "normal" grade (kiva; cf: div - deva - daivya) > doesn't seem to appear in Sanskrit, but in Finnish > "kiva" means 'nice', and "kivi" means 'stone', which > is kinda "isolated", one might perhaps say (ugh!)... :0 > Furthermore, the *verb* "kaivaa" means 'to dig', but > "kaivata" means 'to miss'(someone or something). > > Mä kaivan ojas. (o-yass) -- I dig yer ditch. > Ma kaipaan sua, Lorna! -- I miss you, Lorna! > > kevala m. (nom. pl. %{e} RV. x , 51 , 9) f. (%{I} RV. x , 73 , 6 > AV. S3Br. ; %{A} Mn. &c. see Pa1n2. 4-1 , 30)n. (in comp. Pa1n2. 2- > 1 , 49) exclusively one's own (not common to others) RV. AV. ; > alone , only , mere , sole , one , excluding others RV. AV. TS. > &c. ; not connected with anything else , isolated , abstract , > absolute >
