[Advaita-l] Yoga in Vedanta

[Sunil Bhattacharjya]

Namaste,
 
Both Yogasutra and Yogasara define Yoga as "Chitta vritti nirodha" This shows that Patanjali did borrow from Yogasara, unless somebody can prove that Yogasara, one of the 108 original upanishads, was revealed after the living times of Patanjali. Vajrasoochika of course defines what a brahmana is and goes to impress that  that a brahmana is not necessarily by birth in a brahmin family. A true brahmana has to adhere to yoga and be one with all. Here the relation between Yogasutra and Vajrasoochika is somewhat indirect. My contention is that Vedanta does not ignore Yoga, although I agree that what can be achieved by practice of Ashtanga Yoga can also be achieved by direct meditation (say in the Ajna Chakra) if I have unerstood the Yogataravalli right.
 
Regards,
 
Sunil K. Bhattacharjya


--- On Sun, 2/21/10, yajvan <yajvan at san.rr.com> wrote:


From: yajvan <yajvan at san.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] Yoga in Vedanta
To: "'A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta'" <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>
Date: Sunday, February 21, 2010, 6:48 PM


Namaste Sunil (et.al)

Re:  Patanjali appears to have taken his
definition of Yoga from the 
       Yogasara and the Vajrasoochika
upanishads,

Can you assist and provide the logic or
audit trail to your assessment?

pranams

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Namaste

That is on the assumption that the
Yogasara and Vajrasucika Upanishads were
codified and written prior to the Yoga
Sutras.

On 21 February 2010 15:35, Sunil
Bhattacharjya
<sunil_bhattacharjya at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Dear friends,
>
> Patanjali appears to have taken his
definition of Yoga from the 
> Yogasara and the Vajrasoochika
upanishads,
>
> Any comment?
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Sunil K. Bhattacharjya
>
>
>
>
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