On Jul 27, 2007, at 12:37 PM, Marek Reavis wrote:
This (above) is a good capsule of what Maharishi's original intentions were, I feel, when he started teaching in the west. Yoga is so empirical in nature and practice and most religions promulgate most, if not all, of the elements contained in the yamas and niyamas that Maharishi could have very reasonably felt that any individual following the tenets of their culture and religion while at the same time practicing TM would get the substance of Patanjali's 8 limbs. It was a nice and emminently practical scheme.
I can't see how anyone could take perverting a tradition which works as "practical". The mechanics of why the prerequisites work are well known to real yogis...and they keep creating real samadhic absorptions.
If we don't meet the prerequisites of samadhi, we likely won't get it or keep it--even if we round for hundreds of years. That's not to say some great people of exceptional circumstance could not or will not, but I feel we should gear a system of practice for as many people as possible, not just the few lucky ones.
