Billy-Jim wrote: > Have you read Shankara's vivarana on Patanjali's > sutras dealing with Ishvara? > Bill - You are wasting your time here. From what I can tell, not a single informant on this forum has even heard of Shankara's vivarana on Patanjali's Yoga Sutras. Years ago on Usenet, I tried to strike up a dialog on this subject, to no avail. This is not surprising, considering that the most informed respondents here can't even tell the difference between Shankara's Vedanta and Nagarjuna's Madyamaka. Judy Stein and Michael Dean Goodman proved, using Nagarjuna's Four Negations, that Brahmna was devoid of Being. Can you believe that?
Read more: Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental From: willytex Date: 9 Dec 2004 10:31:10 Subject: Shankara on Yoga Sutras http://tinyurl.com/29qv6g "Shankara on the Yoga Sutras" The Vivarana sub-commentary to Vyasa-bhasya on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Translated by Trevor Leggett Routledge & Kegan Paul 1983
