[Advaita-l] Fw: Fwd: Difference Between Sankya and Advaita!

[Sunil Bhattacharjya]

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Ravisankarji,

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The root yuj has meanings - in the context of yoga darshana it does not mean union/unite.
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No problem to me if you think that  Samadhi state is not the state of Union with Ishvara.  Let me have my own opinion. To me the Kshanika samadhi means the Union is kshanika (momentary). In permanent Samadhi the Union is permanent and the Jiva becomes Brahmaleen. Yogavasistha says that without Yoga this final goal cannot be achieved.   No argument on this further.

Sunil KB



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From: Ravisankar Mayavaram <abhayambika at gmail.com>
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On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Sunil Bhattacharjya
<sunil_bhattacharjya at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dear friends,
>
> Ishvara is the
 Para-Prakriti and is also the Apara- Brahman ans his vachaka is OM.  Prakriti is the Yoni of Ishvara (remember mama yoni Mahadbrahma) and Prakriti alone creates or pedagogically one can say that Prakriti is the instrument for creation or one  can also say that Prakriti creates to fuilfil the desire of Ishvara to be many. With Ishvara-pranidhana or Bhakti the vibhakta (divided or separated)  beings become avibhakata (undivided or be whole or united) with the Ishvara. Thus I maintain that Yoga mean the same thing as what yoga also means etymologically. So etymological meaning of Yoga is not wrong. Yoga can never mean viyoga, howevermuch some people may try to interpret. It may for that reason the that Nirukta is one of the Vedangas and one must know that first before reading the Vedic literature.
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> Regards,
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> Sunil K. Bhattacharjya
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The root yuj has meanings - in the context of yoga
 darshana it does
not mean union/unite. It is taken as to contemplate/meditate implying
samaadhi as defined in suutra I-2. This is also discussed in sarva
darshana sangraha.  In addition, in yoga puruSha and prakRti are
separate ontological categories. Liberation is described as kaivalya
-that is the puruSha standing alone (kevala). Goal of yoga darshana is
to achieve this kaivalyam and the guNas having no purpose to serve go
back to that state for that puruSha (IV-34).  Yoga darshana, similar
to sAnkhya has multiple puruSha-s and it is dualistic.

Ravi