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karl
United Kingdom
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 Posted - Oct 18 2010 : 5:22:14 PM
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I'm reading the Bhagavad Gita again and can begin to understand a bit more so I wondered how it related to the AYP method and how that method came about ?
In The Gita Buddhi Yoga is mentioned. Reading some more on the subject reveals an interesting similarity between the Bible, the Gita and my experience of the AYP method.
There are many common elements:
The Bible verse:
God is Spirit and they who worship Him must worship in spirit and in truth (John 4:23-24). That is man has to perceive himself not as a body, but as a spirit.
This is how I perceive things now, the website I draw this from
http://www.encyclopedia-of-religion...hi_yoga.html
also indicates that we see that spirit with our spiritual eye and not our physical eye. This, after 2 years of AYP is exactly how it is for me. I can see this energy (the only thing I can think of to call it) rushing through everything including myself (or at least not a physical self). There is a smell, a taste and a colour about this energy although I cannot describe any of them.
Buddi Yoga seems the final embodyment of this, the final merging but I think there is a long way to go to reach that.
I understand that AYP contains the 8 limbs of Patanjali in a simpler, more direct way.
There are a few things that seem different, or undescribed.
There is a passage which describes not meditating on the void, or on particular things except for 'God'. Is this why 'I am' is the phrase used ? How did Yogani decide to use that ?
There is also a warning about eating animal flesh.......again, the Bible says not to eat beings that contain blood so another common link. Does this have a marked effect on the later stages of merging ? |
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