--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Did you not read what I wrote? Yeah...and don't take my word for it, it was just a teaser, so to speak, see for yourself. > In the first place, what you quoted is from the two > guys' *commentaries*, not their translations. In > the second place, MMY's commentary goes into great > detail on the "esoteric" aspects in his commentary; No he doesn't.... > what you quoted is from the very last part of his > commentary on this verse, and it does indeed deal > with the "exoteric" aspects--but not because that's > *all* he deals with! Like I said, the *both* have merit!! > I'm asking if you have similarly taken the quote from > Yogananda out of context. If that's all the commentary > he has on the verse, it isn't anywhere near as > comprehensive as MMY's. Heavens no! The entire book, Judy, the entire book is like that, to the very last detail. If you've only read MMY's commentary and were going to leave it at that (like I was going to) you're short changing yourself, seriously. MMY really only mentions it as an allegory...he never unfolds it!! Vyasa was a genious and the book deserves better than what MMY turned out, but he felt it was needed to fulfill an urgent need of the time vis-a-vis CH2vs45. Read his disqualifier in the introduction!!
