On May 6, 2005, at 9:03 AM, Alex Stanley wrote: > How is purity determined? A quick Google search says Patanjali lived > somewhere between 200 BC and 200 AD. How does one determine whether > one interpretation of an ancient religious scripture is more pure or > correct than another? The idea of locking down something as > free-flowing as spirituality into a box of rigid dogmatic purity > strikes me as silly as trying to herd cats.
Since these are instruction manuals, I don't know how realistic it is to call them "dogmatic"--it's kind like calling the users manual to your car "dogmatic" because it gives the instructions it knows will work. No, this isn't about "my-guru-can-beat-up-your-guru" esp. since my own teacher doesn't teach Patanjali. What my comments are/were about is when someone like the TMO claims to be restoring the "purity of the tradition" re: Patanjali, it might make sense to see what traditional samkhya-charyas (who hold lineal instructions on this "user manual") have to say. Get some perspective and get a second opinion. Then decide on your own. 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/
