--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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. >
Or, samadhi isn't an experience.
