The concept of God (īśvara) in classical Yoga

✍ Scribed by Georg Feuerstein

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 811 KB
• Volume: 15
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0022-1791
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00178815

✦ Synopsis

Gvuru-pru$dhtimid vi, "Or [enstasy is achieved] through devotion to the Lord." kle&Azwrnu-viptiku-riSayair upurumrstuh punqu-viie;u . . . . . Cur@, 'The Lord is a special Self, untouched by the causes-of-affliction, action, fruition, and the deposits [in the depth-memory] ." tutru niruti&yum survujfiu-bijum, "In Him the seed of omniscience is unsurpassed." pGve+m upi guru+ kzilenu unuvucchedtit, "[The Lord was] also the Teacher of the earlier [teachers] because [He] is not interrupted by time." tusyu vticukuh prunuvu@, "His symbol is the prunavu [i.e. the sacred syllable 0~1.