[Advaita-l] Yoga - aparOkshAnubhUti - Vedanta Sara

Jaldhar H. Vyas jaldhar at braincells.com
Sat Feb 5 09:12:15 CST 2005


On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 bhaskar.yr at in.abb.com wrote:

> Thanks a lot for your kind clarification on different phases of sAnkhya &
>    yOga...Kindly clarify whether (2) above has any influence in (3) or
>    shankara while taking sAnkhya & yOga into consideration has he given
>    entirely new dimension to the orthodox / classical yOga sUtra
>    terminologies??  Since as you said above (2) is still a dualistic school
>    shankara would have not endorsed the views of these schools from his
>    non-dualistic perspective.
>

Yes, Advaita Vedanta has adopted the terminology and some of the practices
of Samkhya/Yoga but has taken them in a totally different direction.

> I request your permission to post your above observation to Advaitin list.
>

Yes certainly.

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Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com>
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