Krishna's teaching is from and within a different
context than Patanjali.
--- billy jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Poor Arjuna. He was a warrior and was instructed by
> Lord Krishna to follow his dharma and fight. That
> means he could not follow Patanjali's practice of
> non-harming (ahimsa) without regard to time, place
> or intent. Nor could any of the other warriors for
> that matter. Although many of them practiced intense
> yoga tapas (austerity) to obtain martial arts
> siddhis they really must have only been practicing a
> form of yoga-lite McMeditation.
>
> Don't you just feel sorry for poor Arjuna? He
> killed people in battle. He therefore wasn't
> qualified for yama-niyama nor sannyasa
> (renunciation). He was not qualified for the inner
> limbs used in sanyama - dharana, dhyana, samadhi.
> Too bad - must have had bad karma.
>
> Poor Krishna. He was a warrior and killed people
> too. He wasn't qualified to do sanyama either. To
> bad. He must have had bad karma.
>
> The unqualified teaching the unqualified. What is
> this world coming to?
>
> empty
>
>
> "BillyG." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> MMY took the essential teachings of the
> Sanatana Dharma of India
> (eternal Religion of the Vedas)and made them into a
> science.
>
> In order to do this he had to sever certain parts of
> Patanjali's
> teachings in order to teach it as a Science. Limbs 1
> and 2 are NOT
> being taught by the TMorg, but MMY concedes they are
> necessary in his
> BG and must be practiced simultaneously with the
> other 6. (page 363)
> Limbs 1 and 2 are *Religious* in nature!
>
> The reason he did it was to reach as many as
> possible by tailoring it
> to meet the needs (or mentality) of the day, some
> compromises were
> made, but essentially TM is yoga-lite for modernity.
>
>
>
>
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