--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote:
> > >
> >
> > Of course, the idea that the Pandavas represen 5 virtues ala Raja
> Yoga is impossible. They
> > have to represent 5 chakras even though Chakra is never mentioned
> in the Gita or the
> > Yoga Sutras
>
> Well, actually it is mentioned in the Yoga-suutras, III 30 (29):
>
> naabhi-cakre (locative case form of "cakra") kaaya-vyuuha-jñaanam.
>
> And according to Taimni, "hRraya" (heart) in III 35 refers
> to anaahata-cakra (an-aahata):
Isn't Taimni a modern commentator? trying to provide support for an
interpretation of an
ancient text by using a modern commentary on the text is well, kinda circular.
The phrase is:
hirdaye chitta samvi
Assuming a meaning and then doing a commentary on that assumption is fine but
YOU
can't use that assumption and commentary to prove that this is a heart chakra
thing.
MMY's exposition of samyama doesn't use this chakra interpretation, for
instance. I believe
his itnerpretation is simpler, and in fact, if it is valid, more complication
interpretations
become suspect automatically.
>
> anAhata mfn. unbeaten , unwounded , intact ; new and unbleached (as
> cloth) ; produced otherwise than by beating ; not multiplied ; (%
> {am}) n. the fourth of the mystical %{cakras} , or circles of the
> body.
>
> 2 Ahata mfn. struck , beaten , hit , hurt R. Ragh. Kum. Katha1s.
> VarBr2. &c. ; fastened , fixed RV. AV. ; beaten , caused to sound (as
> a drum &c.) MBh. Hariv. Ragh. &c. ; crushed , rubbed S3is3. ;
> rendered null , destroyed , frustrated BhP. VarBr2S. ; multiplied
> VarBr2S. [162,2] ; hit , blunted (said of a Visarga , when changed to
> %{o}) Sa1h. ; uttered falsely L. ; known , understood L. ; repeated ,
> mentioned L. ; m. a drum L. ; (%{am}) n. old cloth or raiment L. ;
> new cloth or clothes L. ; assertion of an impossibility L.
>
>
>
> and only once in the Upanishads.
> >
> > OK...
> >
>
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