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ugizralrite
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(12/6/03 2:21 pm)
Reply 		Can someone run this one down
As indicated in another posting I ,er ah, mis-located all my SRF books around 15 or 20 years ago and I have lost track of a quote from the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali that I have seen nowhere else except in the little hardcover book that SRF sold and for some reason stopped selling at some point. (As an aside, does anyone know why they dropped this key yoga work from their book sales?)

The quote is in the third section and to paraphrase said, "Ultimate reality has the luster and temper of a diamond." Can someone quote the page and sutra number and exact quote on this? And also the publisher ISBN or other info on that particular book. Thanks

ugizralrite
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(12/13/03 11:36 am)
Reply 		Re: Can someone run this one down
I found it, and I guess was a little off on my memory of what it said, but the idea of a transparent jewel or crystal is still helpful I think.



www.yrec.org/yogasutra.html

[In the case of a consciousness whose] fluctuations have dwindled [and which has become] like a transparent jewel, [there comes about]—in regard to the “grasper,” “grasping,” and the “grasped”—[a state of] coincidence (samâpatti) with that on which [consciousness] abides and by which [consciousness] is “anointed.” (1.41)

Comments: When the mind is completely still, it becomes translucent. Then the ecstatic state, or samâdhi, can occur. The underlying process of ecstasy is one in which the object of concentration looms so large in consciousness that the distinction between subject and object vanishes. Patanjali speaks of this as the “coinciding” of the experiencing subject, the experienced object, and the process of experience, which are respectively referred to as “grasper” (grahîtri), “grasped” (grâhya), and “grasping” (grahana).

www.adishakti.org/pdf_files/ yoga_sutras_of_patanjali__(sacred-texts.com).pdf

1.41 When the agitations of the mind are under control, the mind becomes like a transparent crystal and had the power of becoming whatever form is presented, knower, act of knowing, or what is known.

dailyreadings.com/ys1-5.htm

BOOK I

41. When the perturbations of the psychic nature have all been stilled,
then the consciousness, like a pure crystal, takes the colour of what it
rests on, whether that be the perceiver, perceiving, or the thing
perceived.



Lest it should be misunderstood that the intelligence freed from conditioning and coloring is dull, inactive, unresponsive and void, it should be remembered that, like a pure crystal which reflects without distortion or confusion any object that is placed near it, the steady and ever-alert intelligence, too, receives and reflects the color (nature) of the subject, the predicate, and the object in all situations, instantly, spontaneously and appropriately.

YellowBeard420
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(12/14/03 12:34 am)
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Re: Can someone run this one down
> Ugizralrite wrote: " ... the steady and ever-alert intelligence, too, receives and reflects the color (nature) of the subject, the predicate, and the object in all situations, instantly, spontaneously and appropriately."

A good jnana yoga equivalent to this would be this statement:

"When the mind has inquired into time and found that the concept that tomorrow is a means to an end, psychologically, is illusory, then there is only perception and action without the interval of time. For example, when one sees the dangers of nationalism -- wars, and so on -- that very perception is the action of the ending of the feeling of being attached to a particular group." -- J. Krishnamurti, "This Light in Oneself", pg. 95

> "As an aside, does anyone know why they dropped this key yoga work from their book sales?"

I'm surprised that they ever carried it. Patanjali made it clear that any meditation that makes the mind one-pointed is as good as any. This kind of takes some of the magic out of Kriya Yoga. But then again, with SRF publications, they probably tried to make it look like he was really promoting Kriya. Yogananda tended to do that, he would build cases to show how Revelations of the New Testament and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (just to use a few examples) were really promoting Kriya with hidden, encrypted references, which is really outrageous. Perhaps many complained about this being done to Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, so they pulled it. I really don't know.

ugizralrite
Registered User
(12/15/03 10:50 am)
Reply 		Re: Can someone run this one down
Correction: I got an email from I think it was stermjo that put me back on the search for the crystal sutra. This time I really did find the sutra that I was looking for. For some reason my eudoramail isn't allowing me to send a reply today, so I will say thanks here.
So much of Patanjali seems to be about the supreme self and not the powers and characteristics of the human body. These sutras are taking me a long time to assimilate and their brevity is deceptive, especially in the Internet age where volumes of text are streaming by all the time.

3:46. Shapeliness, beauty, force, the temper of the diamond: these are
the endowments of that body.
from www.textlibrary.com/downl...ga-sut.txt

3:46. Symmetry of form, beauty of color, strength and the compactness of the diamond, constitute bodily perfection.

from beaskund.helloyou.ws/netn...k3-00.html

3:46. What constitutes perfection of the body? Beauty, grace, strength, and adamantine firmness.

from dailyreadings.com/ys3-5.htm

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