[FairfieldLife] Re: YS II 22: what does 'naSTa' (~ nashta) refer to??

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : you should read Hagelin's "Is consciousness the Unified Field" if you have not ++ It seems rather obvious, if for instance elementary particles, like photons, "know" when they are observed??

[FairfieldLife] Re: YS II 22: what does 'naSTa' (~ nashta) refer to??

you should read Hagelin's "Is consciousness the Unified Field" if you have not

[FairfieldLife] Re: YS II 22: what does 'naSTa' (~ nashta) refer to??

What makes the material ("mothery", LOL) world look real for others than enlightened individuals (kRtaarthaaH)? According to Patañjali it seems to be dhaaraNatvam*. This word seems to be abstract noun derived from dhaaraNaa, which in YS is the word for the sixth an.ga of yoga. In the 3rd

[FairfieldLife] Re: YS II 22: what does 'naSTa' (~ nashta) refer to??

Hmmm... saaMkhya*-suutras (sankhya-sutras) give me the impression, that prakRti proper is actually the equilibrium (saamyaavasthaa [saamya-avasthaa: sameness-condition] of guNas) from which, by spontaneous sequential symmetry breaking(?) are born the 24 tattvas of saaMkhya (puruSa is the

[FairfieldLife] Re: YS II 22: what does 'naSTa' (~ nashta) refer to??

In the last suutra, IV 34, Patañjali seems to elaborate upon why prakRti is "destroyed" (naSTa) for a kRtaartha ([someone with a] done-purpose [kRta-artha]): पुरुषार्थशून्यानां गुणानां प्रतिप्रसवः कैवल्यं स्वरूपप्रतिष्ठा वा चितिशक्तिरिति॥३४॥ puruṣa-artha-śūnyānāṁ

[FairfieldLife] Re: YS II 22: what does 'naSTa' (~ nashta) refer to??

I have been in a state (briefly) where everything dissolves in front of my open eyes.