--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Dec 13, 2007, at 5:54 AM, t3rinity wrote: > > > Vaj or one of his friends expressed, that Samyama is not restricted to > > Siddhis, and that this was refereing to a higher technique to attain > > Samadhi. So I looked up in the commentary of Vyasa, and found that he > > said that beginners should practise not the higher Forms of Samyama, > > but should start with the lower forms - the Siddhis. (The Siddhis were > > also called lower forms of attainmenment) > > > I thought that the gudhartha-dipika specifically stated samyama on > atma (atma-samyama).
Just occurred to me: perhaps Sanskrit compound words with 'saMyama' as their last component are not necessarily always /tatpuruSa-s/...
