matrixmonitor wrote: > --Precisely!. Among the impersonalist viewpoints, > There's no "impersonalist" viewpoint in Patanjali's Yoga Sutras. Patanjali precisely refers to Ishvara, the God of Yoga, as I pointed out. Saivite Hinduism came much later than Patanjali who lived in 200 B.C. before most of the Upanishads were composed.
> ...the bottom line is what is the connection to > such entities and PHYSICAL reality? > You just spouted the materialist point of view - but you've confused it with the transcedentalist view. The word transcendental in the Upanishads means "beyond the matereial world". Also, there's no mention of a Krishna, Vasudeva, or Balarama in Patanjali's Yoga Sutras - that came much later with the rise of the Bhakti sects.
