[FairfieldLife] Re: Brahma Sutra Commentaries

2015-06-28 Thread he...@hotmail.com [FairfieldLife]
Teaser: For instance practicing drum rudiments is primarily repeating them over and over again. Alistair Shearer "commentarily" translates abhyaasa-vairaagyaabhyaaM tan-nirodhaH like this: The five types of mental activity are settled through the practice of yoga and the freedom

[FairfieldLife] Re: Brahma Sutra Commentaries

2015-06-27 Thread he...@hotmail.com [FairfieldLife]
BS 1.1.12 goes like this aanandamayo 'bhyaasaat (without sandhi: aanandamayaH; abhyaasaat) Some of the meanings of the word abhyaasa according to CDSL: abhyAsa 2 m. the act of adding anything , S3ulb. ; (in Gr.) `" what is prefixed "' , the first syllable of a reduplicated r

[FairfieldLife] Re: Brahma Sutra Commentaries

2015-06-24 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Xero, this seems a fair enough succinct historical analysis of the temporal TM movement on that level. He evidently was strategic the whole way right through to the end on this. He gave an interview in the very final weeks of his life and it was vital and clearly this same consistent talk on spi

[FairfieldLife] Re: Brahma Sutra Commentaries

2015-06-23 Thread emptyb...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
However, Chapters 7 and beyond of the BG are definitely "out", as well as most of the Puranic literature such as the Srimad Bhagavatam. OTOH, strictly impersonalist Scriptures such as the Brahma Sutras are welcomed since the main topic is Pure Consciousness. .8. etc, etc Said like a tr

[FairfieldLife] Re: Brahma Sutra Commentaries

2015-06-23 Thread Duveyoung
TL:dr version: "Don't worship the gods; worship Girish!"

[FairfieldLife] Re: Brahma Sutra Commentaries

2015-06-23 Thread yifux...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Thx...MMY stopped the BG after chapter 6, since some of the later chapters are devoted to Krishna as a Personality. MMY deliberately has chosen those "Vedic" texts to be in concert with his plan to cull out any taint of devotion to the "Deities". If such devotional elements crept into the teach

[FairfieldLife] Re: Brahma Sutra Commentaries

2015-06-23 Thread emptyb...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I doubt that this commentary is published anywhere. It is probably only in the hand of a few TMO's. Typical control issues abound. "If you are not in unity consciousness then it will only baffle or confuse you ... blah blah." Probably MMY probably thought that Badarayana shifted between G.C. and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Brahma Sutra Commentaries

2015-06-23 Thread jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
ebill, If the commentary is published, I'd like to buy it to see how it relates to the ideas MMY wrote on the BGita. Also, I got a copy of Chapter 7 to the Gita, but have not seen any of the subsequent chapters being sold at MUM Press. I read here in the forum that those chapters are res

[FairfieldLife] Re: Brahma Sutra Commentaries

2015-06-23 Thread emptyb...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I listened to Jerry Jarvis give a brief set of comments about MMY's Brahma Sutra commentary one time. He had a typed copy of the commentary with him as he spoke. I seriously doubt it would track well with Shankara's famous Bhasya but I have not read it yet so no one yet knows. Have Bari2 ask J