--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], wmurphy77 <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote: > > > > > snip> > > > >> There were pranayamas given in Seelisburg that related to the > third > > > >> eye. The TM puja refers to the opening of the ajna. > > > > > > > > It seems to me the second last (KS) Shiva-suutra is about > saMyama > > > > on the aajñaa[=command?]-cakra (from memory: naasikaantar- > madhya- > > > > saMyamaat kim atra savyaapasavya-sauSamneSu). Perhaps that means > > > > that kuNDalinii-yoga -practises are needless when one does > saMyama > > > > on "naasika_antar-madhya". > > > > > > > > > It's talking about maintaining awareness regardless of what > channel > > > prana is flowing in. > > > > Could you elaborate on this....also, where in the puja does it talk > > about the ajna? > > > > ANd where is it made clear that one spiritual tradition has to have a > 1-to-1 correspondance with another for either to be correct? The > history of Sanskrit texts covers literally thousands of years, with > multiple meanings for many words for a given text written during one > period that may not be coherent with the meaning intended for them > when used in another text written in another era. > > And that doesn't mean that MMY's interpretation of things is wrong, > regardless of what was meant consciously by one author, since the > point of MMY's interpreation of texts is to promote and explain > enlightment techniques of a certain kind, so if the techniques work > and the itnerpreation is valid within the context of the techniques > he promotes, the author's conscious intent may not be as big a deal > as you appear to be insisting by all this textual exegisis stuff. > > IOW, MMY's silence on such things may mean nothing more than he > disagrees with the whole thing, or perhaps with the standard > interpretation of such things. He talks about Marmas which almost no- > one does, while generally NOT talking about kundalini or chakras, > which virtually everyone DOES talk about. Does this make him wrong > and everyone else right, or is it the other way around or what?
Hey, that's fine with me, I'm just trying to get some clarity on this issue, it does seem to me, these principle are *fundamental* to YOGA, how can they possibly be overlooked? BillyG. > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/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/
