Ashtaanga Yoga in Bhagavad-Gita. Is Bhurijana contradicting Prabhupada?

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As I read Bhurijana Dasa's "Surrender Unto Me" alongside Bhagavad-

gita As It Is, I get the impression that Bhurijana's notes seem to

have a different emphasis, and sometimes even seem to contradict,

Srila Prabhupada's writings. Here is yet another example.

 

Srila Prabhupada's purport to BG 6.3: He writes that the entire yoga

system is like a ladder, the beginning of which is called the

yogaarurukShu stage while the highest rung is called the yogaaruuDha

stage.

 

But in Bhurijana's notes to the same verse, he writes that

yogaarurukShu and yogaaruuDha are two stages of aShtaa.nga-yoga.

 

Isn't this contradictory? If aShTaa.nga-yoga is one rung on the yoga

ladder, then why is it subdivided into yogaarurukShu and yogaaruuDha

when those terms refer also to the beginning and end of the yoga

ladder? Or is it that aShTaa.nga-yoga is the same as the entire yoga

ladder rather than being one rung on the ladder?

 

Or could it be that aShTaa.nga is divided into the two stages, and

those same two stages also refer to the beginning and end of the

entire yoga ladder? But if this is the case, couldn't Bhurijana have

clarified this in his notes?