emptybill:
That is why Gaudapada condemns their quest for laya...
Apparently Guadapada supported the practice of laya,
and in fact, almost invented the bija mantra OM, the
Pranava mentioned in Patanjali, for which to meditate
on.
As per Gaudapada, there are states of conciousness:
waking,
cardemaister:
Shankaracharya's guru had told Shankaracharya that
Patanjali was reincarnated as Govinda Bhagavatpada
and was meditating in a cave somewhere in the state
of samadhi.[7]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patanjali
From what I've read, Gaudapada was meditating in a
cave near
Yikes! That Mullquist feller had a strange style of
indicating Sanskrit lång vowels! (e.g: a- = aa, i- = ii) :D
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wrote:
cardemaister:
Shankaracharya's guru had told Shankaracharya that
Patanjali was
Thanks for the demonstration of sheer ignorance by the yogis.
That is why Gaudapada condemns their quest for laya.
For them everything is about actualizing the state of samàdhi.
However for classical vedantin-s samàdhi is a path value that
is only valued for its ability to generate clarity of
