--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mar 17, 2005, at 10:27 PM, at_man_and_brahman wrote: > > > (Your tautology aside) not especially, and > > Sunthar seems utterly uninterested in > > engaging in a discussion that will > > reveal its mysteries to me or connect it > > to my present and past paradigms. > > It's simple really. > > There are two basic streams of ancient Indian society: Vedic and > pre-Vedic. Transplant and indigenous. Brahmin and Dravidian. In the > current sense, those who are appropriated by Vaishnavism and the > primordial yogic Shaivites. > > One forms a priesthood, another an outcaste Gnosis. > > In order to preserve one culture (the indigenous Dravidian Shaivite > culture--which was VAST), they created barriers which would prevent the > Brahmins from raping their culture, their Gnosis. > > The Aryans were vegetarians and worshipped the cow. The Shaivites ate > meat, but worshipped the bull. And on and on. There were certain taboos > that separated these two parallel societies. One was an > invader/transplant, the other was indigenous. > > The indigenous people created a sacred life that opposed the > transplanted aryan culture. Their sacred life was masked by an approach > that would cause a Brahmin to transgress that which hey held sacred: a > transgressive sacrality: a sacredness only approached by transgressing > everything you held as sacred. > > A classic example exists in the hatha-yoga-pradapika, the central text > of hatha-yoga. In it is the sutra: > > "Eat meat and drink wine".
This is the only appearance of "meat" I could find with Ctrl-F: Foods injurious to a Yogi. 61. Bitter, sour, saltish, green vegetables, fermented, oily, mixed with til seed, rape seed, intoxicating liquors, fish, meat, curds, chhaasa pulses, plums, oil-cake, asafoetida (hinga), garlic, onion, etc., should not be eaten. kaTvAmla\-tIkShNa\-lavaNoShNa\-harIta\-shAka\- sauvIra\-taila\-tila\-sarShapa\-madya\-matsyAn | AjAdi\-mAMsa\-dadhi\-takra\-kulatthakola\- piNyAka\-hi~Ngu\-lashunAdyamapathyamAhuH || 61|| http://www.santosha.com/philosophy/hathayoga-pradipika-chapter1.html To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
