--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jun 12, 2007, at 6:47 PM, Marek Reavis wrote: > > > Vaj, I've never heard how Maharishi received (or appropriated) > > the "Yogi" suffix, but do you believe that it is only correctly > > accorded a Hatha Yogi? > > Not necessarily a hatha yogi, but a practitioner of yoga-darshana > (which includes hatha-yoga). > > > Certainly, Guru Dev was spoken of as a Siddha Yogi > > although no account I've read says anything about > > whether he did or did not do Hatha Yoga. > > When I say "yogi" I don't usually mean it to refer to a hatha- > yogi, although asana and even hatha-yoga may be practiced.
However, oddly enough, that's exactly what you did in the post Marek is responding to. No wonder you snipped it from your reply: "The person who said that M. was not a yogi was actually one of the Shankaracharyas IIRC. "I would think common sense could also make this clear. If M. was a yogi, he could have easily written a brilliant book or even better a course with his sharp intellect. But this is clearly not the case. Instead they found a HS gym teacher to do so and those formed the sets used for rounding. I'm sure many here have the booklets (which now circulate in PDF form)."
