Ascent patanjali etc

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MillionPaths , " Brian " <bjkay@o...> wrote:

> Sachin-

>

> You're speaking of ascent - the way of achievement...climbing up,

up, up and away...rising

> above it all...becoming extra-ordinary rather than ordinary which

 

Namaste,

 

This still doesn't address natural functioning desires. Even eating

food establishes samskaras, but as they are necessary it seems they

are non binding. I don't know the level of Patanjali's spiritual

development, although I have a couple of different copies of his

sutras. There was a grammarian by the same name also.

 

Any thought or desire prevents Moksha but in some way not having

preferences in food for example, doesn't count. Probably, as I have

said before, they are samksaras of survival and natural function in

the body. Even with Sex, it is the mind or ego that builds up the

natural biological desire into an indulgence of lust etc.

 

I think there has to come a time when we rely on ourselves and not

scriptures written by some other person, who may or may not be a

Mukta.

 

In the end result there is a disconnect, with a Jivanmukta but up to

that time the person has these desires in the body and isn't a

witness.

However as I have previously stated, eating creates samskaras but

doesn't prevent Moksha, why should any other bodily

function?.........ONS..Tony