--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "BillyG." <wgm4u@> 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!!
> 
> C'mon, BillyG, you know MMY is explicit that he
> believes the order of Patanjali's Eight Limbs
> got reversed--that samadhi should be *first*,
> not last, and that all the other limbs,
> including Yama and Niyama, are the *result* of
> samadhi: If you're experiencing samadhi on a
> regular basis, you *are* practicing all eight
> limbs simultaneously, spontaneously.
> 
> You may not agree with him, but you oughtn't to
> pretend he's tried to put something over on us
> surreptitiously. He's been right up front about
> it.

Or BillyG should quit TM- wouldn't want him to harm himself.;-)


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