---In [email protected], <punditster@...> wrote :
On 9/6/2014 9:55 AM, Share Long sharelong60@... mailto:sharelong60@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: I've decided that turq has samskaras about importance and specialness. Go figger! > 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. snip "a yoga of selfless and altruistic activities" - sound like someone you know? know a bit more of recently? Like someone with more 'positive samskaras than negative samskaras? Like a Real Yogi? autographs anyone? I've decided that turq has samskaras about importance and specialness. Go figger! > 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. snip "
