--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > To truly understand what this means, you should get an authentic > teacher to explain the rather detailed commentary of the secrets in > this passage contained in the yoga-siddhanta-chandrika. The comments > on this sutra also reveal why the correct route around the siddhis is > contained in this sutra.
FWIW, the results of praaNaayaama or perhaps specifically "caturtha" according to Patañjali are as follows: 52. tataH kSiiyate prakaashaavaraNam Taimni's translation : From that is dissolved the covering of light. BTW, the second part of the suutra following YF (III 40-something) is a paraphrase of II 52: ...tataH prakaashaavaraNa-kSayaH. It's the "same" sentence as the nominal (without a finite verb form) one II 52(finite verb forms, above "kSiiyate", are very rare in YS, perhaps in many other suutras, too). The second result: 53. dhaaraNaasu ca yogyataa manasaH. IMO, the conjunction "ca" (and) implies the adverb "tataH" (from that) from 52. Translation: And [from caturthaH?] the fitness of the mind for concentration [dhaaraNaa, which of course is the first "component" of saMyama]. I'm not sure what you mean by "route around the siddhis", but at least Patañjali doesn't seem to think like that if you mean by it what I think you mean. You should read Taimni's comment on II 52 where he explains his view why "tataH kSiiyate prakaashaavaraNam" obviously does not refer to the same "light" (prakaasha) as "...tataH prakaashaavaraNa (prakaasha + aavaraNa)-kSayaH." (The forms "aavaraNa" and "aavaraNam" are not different from each other semantically. In compounds words, save the last one, are used in the stem form without the indicators of gender and inflectional paradigms, and stuff.) > > On Nov 4, 2005, at 6:48 AM, cardemaister wrote: > > > > > What the...is the fourth (caturtha) [praaNaayaama]? > > > > baahyaabhyantara-viSayaakSepii caturthaH (II 51). > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
