--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], cardemaister <no_reply@> > wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], cardemaister <no_reply@> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > Is TM dhyânam, as defined in Maharshi Patañjali's > > > > Yoga-darshanam (yoga-suutras)? > > > > > > > > > > I believe that MMY says TM is the simplest and most important > form of > > > it. > > > > > > > In aSTânga-yoga pratyâhâra is before dhâraNâ and dhyânam, > > but IMO in TM pratyâhâra usually "happens" after one has > > meditated for a while. > > > > Well, MMY has always claimed that people have reversed the order in > which things are practiced in the Yoga Sutras... What is pratyâhâra > again? >
II 54 sva-viSayaasaMprayoge citta-svaruupaanukaara ivendriyaaNaaM pratyaahaaraH sva-viSaya (their) own-object(s) asaMprayoge not coming into contact citta (of) the individual mind's sva-ruupa own form; nature anukaaraH the imitating or functioning according to iva as if; like indriyaaNaam by the senses pratyaahaaraH abstraction Taimni's translation: Pratyaahaara or abstraction is, as it were, the imitation by the senses of the mind by withdrawing themselves from their objects. ------------------------ 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/
