--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. Maharishi says: "..whereas in truth each limb is designed to create the state of Yoga *in the sphere of life to which it relates*." Gita Practicing ONE limb (samadhi) is NOT practicing all of them simultaneously, all eight are designed to compliment one another. *All eight* are a means to the ultimate goal of Yoga or Union/Unity with Brahman as you well know. There are eight, not six! This is what he had to do to teach it as a science, deal with it and start practicing Yama and Niyama and you'll start making real progress. > 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. So Judy.....where is his teaching on Yama and Niyama, a mere mention is hardly a teaching!! Is it? Hey he did what he did and I'm the richer for it but let's not kid ourselves TM is more than just meditation, far more. IN fact, it's Yoga-lite for modernity, all the Religion has been removed!! Instead of being "shrouded in the garb of mysticism" it's now "hidden in the garb of science".
