--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > The word "saMskaara" is actually almost the "same" as
> > Sanskrit in, well, Sanskrit -- which is "saMskRta".
> > That word, "saM-s-kRta", consists of the perfect participle
> > of the root "kR" (to do, etc), with the prefix "sam"
> > (together, etc.), and a transition consonant, or perhaps,
> > as per Whitney, an original consonant that's lost from
> > most other forms of the root "kR", which would thus have
> > been originally *skR (in linguistics asterix is used to
> > indicate hypothetical word forms).
> > The word "saMskaara" differs from "saMskRta" in that
> > the second part is a noun, "kaara", from the same root "kR".
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> If this is indeed what he's referring to, then please quote a
source
> showing the equivalency in MMB's own words.
>
> If indeed it is, and I suspect you may be right, the mediator is
> indeed the pranic body and it's karmic eddies not the physical
> nervous system (as oft advertised in TMO tracts).
>
> There may indeed be a physical component in the nervous system,
e.g.
> glia with an extremely short time span unmeasurable by current
> medical imaging technology or some short biological half-life
fast
> neurotransmitters, but currently there is no tangible evidence to
> definitely arrive at such a conclusion.
>
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that the words "saMskRta" and
"saMskaara" have anything at all in common as to their respective
meanings in those contexts (refined language vs. mental impressions
from previous lifetimes) although one might come to that conclusion
from what I wrote.
Here are the dictionary definitions of both of those words:
saMskRta (or %{sa4M-skRta}) mfn. put together , constructed , well
or completely formed , perfected Lalit. ; made ready , prepared ,
completed , finished RV. &c. &c.: dressed , cooked (as food) MBh. R.
BhP. ; purified , consecrated , sanctified , hallowed , initiated
S3Br. &c. &c. ; refined , adorned , ornamented , polished , highly
elaborated (esp. applied to highly wrought speech , such as the
Sanskr2it language as opp , to the vernaculars) Mn. MBh. &c. ; m. a
man of one of the three classes who has been sanctified by the
purificatory rites W. ; a Iearned man MW. ; a word formed according
to accurate rules , a regular derivation ib. ; (%{a4m}) n. making
ready , preparation or a prepared place , sacrifice RV. TS. S3Br.
Gr2S3rS. ; a sacred usage or custom MW. ; the Sanskr2it language
(cf. above) S3iksh. Bhar. Das3ar. &c. ; %{-tva} n. the being
prepared or made ready &c. Jaim. ; %{-maJjarI} f. N. of wk. ; %{-
maya} mf(%{I}) u. consisting of Sanskr2it , Ka1s3ikh. ; %{-mAlA} f. %
{-ratna-mAlA} f. %{-vAkya-ratnA7valI} f. N. of wks. ; %{-vat} mfn.
one who has perfected or elaborated or finished MW. ; %{-tA7tman} m.
one who has received the purificatory rites Mn. x , 110 ; a sage
W. ; %{-to7kti} f. refined or polished language , a Sanskr2it word
or expression Hit. [1121,1]
saMskAra m. (ifc. f. %{A}) putting together , forming well , making
perfect , accomplishment , embellishment adornment , purification ,
cleansing , making ready , preparation , dressing (of food) ,
refining (of metals) , polishing (of gems) , rearing (of animals or
plants) Gr2S3rS. MBh. Ka1v. , &c. ; cleansing the body , toilet ,
attire Hariv. ; forming the mind , training , education R. Ragh. ;
correction (also in an astronomical sense Su1ryas.) , correct
formation or use of a word Nir. Sarvad. ; correctness , purity (esp.
of pronunciation or expression) MBh. R. &c. ; making sacred ,
hallowing , consecration Mn. MBh. &c. ; a sacred or sanctifying
ceremony , one which purifies from the taint of sin contracted in
the , womb and leading to regeneration (12 such ceremonies are
enjoined on the first three or twice-born classes in Mn. ii , 27 ,
viz. 1. %{garbhA7dhAna} , 2. %{puM-savana} , 3. %{sImanto7nnayana} ,
4. %{jAta-karman} , 5. %{nAmakarman} , 6. %{niSkramaNa} , 7. %{anna-
prA7zana} , 8. %{cUDA-karman} , 9. %{upanayana} , 10. %{kezA7nta} ,
11. %{samAvartana} , 12. %{vivAha} , qq. vv. ; accord. to Gaut.
viii , 8 &c. there are 40 Sam2ska1ras) Gr2S. Mn. MBh. &c. (IW.188 ;
192 &c. RTL. 353) [1120,3] ; the ceremony performed on a dead body
(i.e. cremation) R. ; any purificatory ceremony W. ; the faculty of
memory , *******mental impression or recollection , impression on
the mind of acts done in a former state of existence******* (one of
the 24 qualities of the Vais3eshikas , including %{bhAvanA} , the
faculty of reproductive imagination "') Kan2. Sarvad. (IW. 69) ;
(pl. , with Buddhists) a mental conformation or creation of the mind
(such as that of the external world , regarded by it as real ,
though actually non-existent , and forming the second link in the
twelvefold chain of causation or the fourth of the 5 Skandhas)
Dharmas. 22 ; 42 ; a polishing stone MW.
