On 9/6/2014 9:55 AM, Share Long [email protected] [FairfieldLife] wrote:
I've decided that turq has samskaras about importance and specialness.
Go figger!
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Apparently Barry is filled with specialness and importance, but it has
not been established that he is a yogin.
The term "samskaras" is Sanskrit and refers to mental impressions, which
are residing in the mind from previous impressions. /Samskaras are
volitions/. They are supposedly the imprints of your subconscious as a
result of previous lives which then affect your present life and your
state of mind and your responses. This notion is based on the doctrine
of /karma/ which is a doctrine that has been rejected by the
/TurquoiseB/ in numerous messages posted to this forum.
Barry does NOT support the notion that the endless round of becoming
generated by karma can be abolished through yoga.
According to the karma yoga doctrine, humans are born with karmic
samkaras from previous lives and develop more karmic samskaras as they
act in the world. Samskaras can be positive or negative. Samskaras are
what drive people to perform actions in their present life. The process
of acrueing karma will continue as samsara in a never-ending cycle of
rebirth, death, aging and dying.
An adept of yoga can burn up his karma through the practice of tapas,
until the sum total of samkaras is zero. When that happens, the yogin is
/'liberated'/ from samsara (suffering). This is called karma yoga
described in the BG - /a yoga of selfless and altruistic activities./
Karma yoga is based on karma, obviously, but also on the theory of
/reincarnation./
