cardemaister: > Shankaracharya's guru had told Shankaracharya that > Patanjali was reincarnated as Govinda Bhagavatpada > and was meditating in a cave somewhere in the state > of samadhi.[7] > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patanjali > >From what I've read, Gaudapada was meditating in a cave near Jabulpur, near MMY's hometown. He may or may not have been in Samadhi, but probably he was, since he was one of the first transcendental meditators in the tradion of Shakti and the Adi Shankaracharya.
Let's review the TMer's Parampara: na-ra-yanaM padmabhavaM vashiSThaM shaktim ca tatputra parasharam ca vya-saM shukam gauDapadaM maha-ntaM govinda yogi-ndra matha-sya shiSyam | shri- shankara-ca-ryamatha-sya padmapa-dan ca hasta-malakan ca shiSyam taM troTakam va-rtikaka-ram anya-nasmad guru-n santatama-nato 'smi || shruti-smRti-pura-Na-nam a-layam karuNa-layam | nama-mi bhagavat-pa-dam shankaraM lokashankaram || shankaraM shankara-ca-ryaM keshvaM ba-dara-yaNam | su-tra-bha-Sya-kRtau vande bhagavantau punaH punaH || yad-dva-re nikhila- nilimpa-pariSad siddhiM vidhatte 'nisham shri-mat-shri--lasitaM jagadgurupadaM natva-tmatRptiM gata-H | loka-jn'a-na payoDa-pa-Ta-n-dhuraM shri- shankaram sharmadaM brahma-nanda sarasvati-m guruvaraM dhya-ya-mi jyotirmayam || Transliterated by Borje Mullquist, from param.jpg on willytex's homepage Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental From: ekih Date: 10 Sep 2000 09:43:29 GMT Local: Sun, Sep 10 2000 3:43 am Subject: aavaahanam
