On Dec 16, 2006, at 7:14 PM, sparaig wrote:
Really. Is THAT what YS 2:35 means...
It's a sketch. That's why they need comments. Vyasa says the loss of
hostility extends to "all beings", by that what he means is that
creatures normally hostile to each other--like a cat and a mouse--
even they abandon their natural hostility towards each other.
The comments also specify the tests for the perfection of ahimsa
-the vitarkas and deviant thought no longer arise in the presences of
the causes which would normally incite violence and those tendencies
in others and
-this is not a passing or occasional thing, but is stabilized,
permanent and natural (pratishtha).
I like to call this quality of consciousness "immovability".
This is why I have previously said for this to work one is at least
at the level of pacification or subjugation in terms of their
experience of samadhi.
