Talk:Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Hinduism, an attempt to promote better coordination, content distribution, and cross-referencing between pages dealing with Hinduism. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page.
|
| ??? | This article has not been rated yet on the quality scale. |
[edit] Transwiki English Translation of Sutras
It is excellent to find this ancient text in wikipedia. Though, yhis should be in wikisource, which is for original texts without copyright and not in wikipedia - encyclopedia. --Arjuna 21:45, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Completed Merge of the Yoga Sutras Article Into This One
I just merged the Yoga Sutras article into this one. I made the merged article a redirect. I'm removing this item from the Duplicate Articles list. The text that I didn't use in the merge follows. --Smithfarm 19:51, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Besides the Bhagavad Gita, references to and discussions of yoga can be found in the Puranas, Vedas and Upanishads.
- While Patanjali accepts the idea of what he terms "ishwar-devata" (worship of deities as manifestations of the single Brahman), his "ishwar" is not a conventional God and speaks more to a universal Brahman, an impersonal, unknowable, infinite force that is all and transcends all.
- The Yoga Sutras are in fact a collection of aphorisms that define synthetically and by sequential logical steps, a practical model for the consciousness-Nature and individual consciousness, how these are related, how is possible to understand and interfere with the elements of this model, and what is the outcome.
- The text emphasizes a non-mental way of knowledge as alternative form of knowledge. The procedure to achieve this type of knowledge is schematically outlined in Yoga Sutras, as application of the principle that a steady concentration on a certain object allows identification of the concentrating subject with the object itself and with the process of concentrating. This allows the subject to gain direct knowledge of the object by identification with it, rather than by indirect means, i.e. through mental elaboration of the sense perception of the object. Such process, called samadhi, occurs only when the concentration on the object neutralizes the mental activity, whose waves prevent the individual consciousness to fuse with that of the object.
[edit] Added-deleted?
I added the link to the site where the Patanjali sutra's named the The Thread of the Science of Uniting One's Consciousness was offered, because that is the only place where the book is read out aloud. There is no other way of offering this knowledge in this form but by this personal website. And, by the way, which of the already mentioned sites are not personal?
--rpba 16:22, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
