BillyG. wrote:
> Having its foundation in Patanjali's eight limbs of Yoga and that
> coming from the Sanatana Dharma (eternal Religion) of the Vedas,
> clearly TM has its roots in Religion!
>
> Just because MMY only teaches 6 of the 8 limbs of Patanjali's yoga and
> calls it a science only means you're just getting a half a loaf of the
> real thing!
>
> A moral ethical life is the *foundation* of spirituality, until the
> soil is properly cultivated the plants can't grow, so to speak! Yama,
> the proscriptions and Niyama the prescriptions of Yoga are the first
> two limbs of Patanjali's Yoga and form the foundation from which the
> others spring.
>
> As regards to practice, yes, as MMY says himself, "All *eight* must be
> practiced simultaneously....." Gita HB page 363 bottom under, The six
> systems of Indian philosophy.
>
> Are you getting the picture...MMY compromised Patanjali's Yoga to
> conform to Science!!
>
>
>
Perhaps you should go on a pilgrimage to southern India and locate the
text that TM was supposedly derived from?
