authfriend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Given his very different understanding, of course
MMY would not have taught mastery of the yamas
and niyamas as a prerequisite to samadhi, even to
the most religiously devoted Hindu practitioners;
it would have been counterproductive, in his view.
He wasn't "snubbing" the yamas and niyamas, he was
putting them in what he believed to be their proper
context.
Judy,
You're not giving Vaj any credit here. It is just that Maharishi hadn't yet
read Swami Rama's "Living with the Himalayan Masters".
After all, Maharishi is a kshatriya and you know those ksatriyas can't
practice ahimsa and keep their dharma too. Therefore (as Dr. Pete says) it is
just a different context for each of the two opposite teachings. If Krishna
says "stand up and fight!" and Yoga Sutras say "no harm to anyone, for any
reason, in any situation, at any time" then what's a poor guru to do?
According to Vaj, Mahesh Varma decided to make up a technique to fool people
into forgeting who they were. He got them to meditate with a technique that
caused their minds to go blank (laya/naypa). When they came out of that
momentaryly sleep-like state and felt more rested he called it samadhi.
The rest is history. What else is there to know?
empty
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