--- In [email protected], "Richard J. Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > According to Patanjali, Ishvara is the inner controller, > > > higher than even the subtlest relative. > > > > Billy wrote: > > In some circles Ishvara represents Brahman and his consort > > Prakriti, wherein is found his immanent nature Brahma, the > > son, the Creative intelligence behind and controlling the > > Gunas/Prakriti. > > > There's no mention in Patanjali's Yoga Sutras of Ishvara "and > his consort" >>
And yet Rama and Sita were known in ancient Egypt, at least 3,000 years earlier, as was Sanskrit. OffWorld <<- that idea came much later with the rise of the > tantric sects during the Gupta Age. The Yoga of Patanjali is > based on the Sankhya or radical dualism - there's no shakti > in it and no impersonal God, which if you think about it, is > a contradiction in terms. >
