Vaj wrote: > The prerequisite for understanding of the YS is a thorough > comprehension sankhya via the Tattva-samasa-sutras. > According to Kapila:
"And from the contrast with that which is composed of the three constituents, there follows, for the purusha, the character of Being, a witness; freedom from misery, neutrality, percipience, and non-agency." - Kaplila > Once one has this understanding, one will also understand > that an alambana will be based on any of the 24 evolutes > of matter, the prakritis and the vikritis and that an > alambana approaches "union" or "yoga" via some method. No > matter how easy and simple any of these methods are, they > do constitute some type of effort. > So, Vaj you're thinking that Yoga means "union" - so how, exactly are you going to get a union out of isolating the Purusha and the prakriti? Kaivalya, the ultimate goal of yoga, means freedom and isolation. "Only the minds born of meditation are free from karmic impressions." Patanjali Enlightenment depends SOLELY upon discriminative knowledge of the true nature of things: prakriti, the relative, is the result of cause and effect, the interplay of the gunas born of nature, which, in all cases, are seperate from Purusha, the Being. It is ignorance, propelled by the force of karma, which is misery in an endless cycle called samsara. Read more: Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental, alt.yoga From: Willytex Date: Sun, Apr 10 2005 9:21 pm Subject: One of Four Humans, Not Counting a Dwarf http://tinyurl.com/yvdsyr
