--- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> > > >
> No- the whole 'are you actually flying?' thing is a total bore for
> me. My experience doing the flying sutra was long hops- once lifted
> into the air about 18 inches and moved forward linearly about 4
feet
> until I put out my hand to stop flying into a counter. But that is
> completely beside the point, which was when I did the flying sutra
I
> felt as if I was dematerializing into pure, intense light.
Whoa! That's way interesting, because, y'know, the last
(compound)word of the original Sanskrit suutra is
"caakaasha-gamanam". Well, that's actually two words, "ca (=and;
belongs really to the preceding word, because in Sanskrit "and"
comes usually as the last word of the phrase it's part of) + aakaasha-
gamanam.The root from which "aakaasha" is derived,
is most probably "kaash":
kaash, kaashate (-ti) , pp. {kaashita} be visible, appear, shine, be
[[-,]] brilliant or pleasant. I. {caakashiiti...} shine bright; see
clearly, survey.
The verb obviously belongs to a category of verbs, whose present
tense form have the "prefix" /ca/ (caakashiiti). Now, this might
be really far-fetched, but it's interesting to speculate that
Patañjali might have embedded(?) the meaning "shine bright" into
the last couple of words. He might have expected knowers
of Sanskrit to associate "ca + aakaasha-(gamanam)" to the present
tense forms of the verb one of whose meanings
is "to shine bright". :0
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