On Nov 18, 2007, at 12:16 PM, new.morning wrote:
--- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> I am going on 30-year memory here, but I remember a tape by MMY from
> TTC in which he addressed what "type" of yoga TM was.
>
> He said that, in a sense, we could call TM "raja yoga" because raja
> denotes royalty and, like a king who does nothing yet has everything
> done for him, TM's effortlessness rallies nature to do everything
for
> it.
>
> But I also remember him saying that if we were to call TM any type
of
> yoga, we would call it "karma yoga" because it is a yoga of action
> with rest as the basis of activity and that dynamic rest being the
> period TM twice daily.
>
> Again, this is all from memory and could be off...anyone else
> remember the tape I am referring to?
At Squaw Valley, MMY went through a list of different yogas. I don't
recall the lecture verbatim, but I think he equated TM with raja yoga.
Which of course it's not, but it's interesting to hear he attempted to
co-opt that (very beautiful) path. TM is just, non-variant basic,
plain-Jane mantra yoga.
Also possibly Lia ? (sp) yoga.
Laya-yoga. Laya-yoga is a path that had died centuries ago according
to several Hindu yogins I've known, but has been re-written about
since the British colonial era. Now that it has been written about,
some are claiming to teach it.
From what I know again about laya-yoga, it ain't anything remotely
like TM, which (again) is very plain-Jane in comparison.
