Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Raam

[Richard J. Williams]

On 2/8/2014 1:21 PM, Share Long wrote:
> My point is that Eastern traditions define enlightenment as union with 
> God.
 >
Actually, no - "union with God" isn't mentioned in the Upanishads and 
not in Patanjali's Yoga Sutras. Of the Six Systems of Hinduism, only one 
system is theistic. According to Patanjali, raja yoga has nothing to do 
with "union with the gods", but has everything to do with *isolation* 
from prakriti, that is, the 'cessation of the fluctuations of the 
mind-stuff'. The enlightenment tradition in India does not support a 
notion that one can become "united" with Ishvara.