--- In [email protected], billy jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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
Um, thanks for setting me straight... (Actually, "snubbing" was Marek's term, not Vaj's; I was responding to a post of his.)
