If you call it "yoga" then it is unique to India. But then, "yoga" can be
translated in various ways into English, and so after that the question becomes
"Is yoga unique to India in all the possible meanings of the word "yoga" with
which we can render it into English? It is clear (almost a priori [because
there is such a "thing" as a transcendental signified]) that there will be some
renderings of "yoga" which are not unique to India. Union, for example, (with
God, with Self, with Nature, with whatever it is we cannot quite name that is
the basis of our awareness of an "I am") is prolly common to all that lives
and, according to Rory (and me on occasion) all that IS anywhere, anytime, in
any universe of its own discourse and ours "ever expanding in the bosom of
God," as Blake would have put it. Blake had, maybe, seen a translation of the
Gita. Yet he was as expert a yogi as any India has produced. (which can be
argued about even longer than the question of why deepak
left).
So now, after the amazing sentence about Union that apparently came outa my
ass, we'd have to determine which renderings of the word yoga we shall call
uniquely Indian and which ones are universal.
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"Richard J. Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Vaj wrote:
> At the same time it would be important to show where
> the basic TM lies are (i.e. the uniqueness lie, the
> effortless lie, the fastest boat lie, etc , etc.), why
> they are false and give informed perspective.
>
Well, it has already been established that Yoga (TM)
is unique to India; that knowing the Self is effortless,
according Brahmananda Saraswati; that Self Knowledge
with Raja Yoga is the fastest boat - none of these
statements are false. Patanjali, Shankara, Ramanuja,
Madhva, Vallabha, and Chaitanya all agree on this. All
the Upanishadic thinkers were transcendentalists.
What is important is why you'd want to deny this, and
why you don't offer any informed perspective, other
than to just spout off all the time with your know-it-
all attitude. What's up with that?
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