Richard J. Williams wrote:
> Bhairitu wrote:
>
>> Indian yogis personified the fields of nature...
>>
>>
> You need to get some smarts, Mr. Bharat2. There
> were no 'yogis' mentioned in the Vedas. It was
> the Vedic authors who personified the forces of
> nature. Patanjali does not mention any 'forces
> of nature' in his Yoga Sutras. Ishvara is the
> God of Yogins, the Transcendental Person, not a
> 'force of nature' like the Sun, the Moon, the
> Wind or the Earth. All the Indian deified heros
> such as Vasudeva, Rama, Ramchandra, and Krishna
> came long after the composition of the Vedas in
> 1500 B.C.
Depends upon the translations doesn't it? I believe in the translations
they get called "priests" (but I'm not going to go dig through them to
find out).