Poor Arjuna. He was a warrior and was instructed by Lord Krishna to follow his
dharma and fight. That means he could not follow Patanjali's practice of
non-harming (ahimsa) without regard to time, place or intent. Nor could any of
the other warriors for that matter. Although many of them practiced intense
yoga tapas (austerity) to obtain martial arts siddhis they really must have
only been practicing a form of yoga-lite McMeditation.
Don't you just feel sorry for poor Arjuna? He killed people in battle. He
therefore wasn't qualified for yama-niyama nor sannyasa (renunciation). He was
not qualified for the inner limbs used in sanyama - dharana, dhyana, samadhi.
Too bad - must have had bad karma.
Poor Krishna. He was a warrior and killed people too. He wasn't qualified to
do sanyama either. To bad. He must have had bad karma.
The unqualified teaching the unqualified. What is this world coming to?
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"BillyG." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
MMY took the essential teachings of the Sanatana Dharma of India
(eternal Religion of the Vedas)and made them into a science.
In order to do this he had to sever certain parts of Patanjali's
teachings in order to teach it as a Science. Limbs 1 and 2 are NOT
being taught by the TMorg, but MMY concedes they are necessary in his
BG and must be practiced simultaneously with the other 6. (page 363)
Limbs 1 and 2 are *Religious* in nature!
The reason he did it was to reach as many as possible by tailoring it
to meet the needs (or mentality) of the day, some compromises were
made, but essentially TM is yoga-lite for modernity.
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