--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > YS I 15 > > > > dRSTaanushravika-viSaya-vitRSNasya vashii-kaara- > > saMjñaa vairaagyam. > > > > Taimni's translation (not necessarily one of the > > "best" ones, but it'll do for now): > > > > The consciousness of perfect mastery (of desires) > > in the case of one who has ceased to crave for > > objects, seen or unseen, is /vairaagya/. > > > > YS I 16 > > > > tat paraM puruSa-khyaater guNa-vaitRSNyam. > > > > That is the highest /vairaagya/ in which , on > > account of the awareness of the /puruSa/, there > > is cessation of the least desire for the /guNas/. > > This morning during TM I actually most of the time, > it seems to me, pondered on "tat param" in that > suutra, whether it can be read as a /bahu-vriihi/ > or a /tat-puruSa/ or just "simple" nominal phrase, > or whatever. As a result of that pondering I decided > not to try to analyze it at all, because my take on > it seems not to be in line with those of most translators, > and Vyaasa's commentary suggests it must be a wrong one...
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