Yoga cult rejoiner: addendum

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<<the yoga sutras are not a likely

scripture for tampering as they are sankya [sic] tradition,

neither affirming or denying deism.>><br><br>Taking

myself to task on this. <br>In Desikachar's words from

"HEALTH, HEALING, AND BEYOND", pg 41, "Both Samkhya and

Yoga are concerned with philosophy and the method that

lead and individual to happiness, to perfection in

this life, and to the ultimate liberation of the soul

from the cycle of death and rebirth. There are two

important distinctions. First, Samkhya is primarily a path

of comtemplation, of detachment, while Yoga is very

much a path of action. Second, Samkhya is a godless

philosophy, atheistic in the truest sense, while Yoga

recognized God in the form of a Supreme Teacher, Ishvara."

<br> <br>I misunderstood Desikachar to say that Yoga

sutras stemmed from Samkya tradition, from a tape

recorded talk, of which I cannot reference readily. At the

time I was suprised, and I figured that Ishvara, maybe

taken in an interpretive way. Well, there when that

interpretation. <br><br>Goenke mentioned the two practices

Vipassana text, and the Yoga Sutras are very closely

aligned, and Desikachar also comments on the same pg. 41 ,

that the "wisdom of Samkhya" is invoked in the

Bhagavad Gita "'...in peace in pleasure and pain, in gain

and in loss, in victory or in the loss of a battle.

In this peace there is no sin'" Desikachar also says

that Hindu philosophy accomodates athiestic

philosophy. <br><br>It's getting even more mysterious....