Comments on: Bodhinatha's Yoga Panel in Melbourne http://www.himalayanacademy.com/blog/taka/2009/12/06/bodhinathas-yoga-panel-in-melbourne/ News from the Hindu monastery on the island of Kauai, Hawaii, USA Fri, 17 May 2013 04:25:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: gajanan http://www.himalayanacademy.com/blog/taka/2009/12/06/bodhinathas-yoga-panel-in-melbourne/#comment-860 gajanan Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:48:27 +0000 http://himalayanacademy.com/blog/taka/?p=4665#comment-860 The absence of Gnana in western thought is the reason Dr Chappel took a different view. It is well known to Indians or Sanatanis that it was Gnana , a God given gift to Panini , Katayana , Vyagrapradha and Sage Patanjali ( Yoga Sutras). As John Dobson , says in his great masterpiece. An extract below. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dobson_(amateur_astronomer) " There is no language on the face of the earth even comparable to Sanskrit in its competence to handle philosophical concepts. [Swamiji, here is Swami Vivekananda] found himself translating and re-translating from Sanskrit to English. In English there is no word for Vivartavada (the doctrine that the first cause is apparitional). Parinama (transformation) is understood but not Vivarta. There is no word for Brahman, for Atman, for Maya or for the Gunas. It is not just that the words are absent; the ideas are also absent" the book is here in the following http://roland.pri.ee/roland/HTML/tekstid/advaita/introduction.php It will take more than millions of monsoons for the western mind to understand Gnana, as acquired by pure divine souls like Sage Patanjali and Sage Panini The absence of Gnana in western thought is the reason Dr Chappel took a different view. It is well known to Indians or Sanatanis that it was Gnana , a God given gift to Panini , Katayana , Vyagrapradha and Sage Patanjali ( Yoga Sutras). As John Dobson , says in his great masterpiece. An extract below. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dobson_(amateur_astronomer)

” There is no language on the face of the earth even comparable to Sanskrit in its competence to handle philosophical concepts. [Swamiji, here is Swami Vivekananda] found himself translating and re-translating from Sanskrit to English. In English there is no word for Vivartavada (the doctrine that the first cause is apparitional). Parinama (transformation) is understood but not Vivarta. There is no word for Brahman, for Atman, for Maya or for the Gunas. It is not just that the words are absent; the ideas are also absent”

the book is here in the following
http://roland.pri.ee/roland/HTML/tekstid/advaita/introduction.php

It will take more than millions of monsoons for the western mind to understand Gnana, as acquired by pure divine souls like Sage Patanjali and Sage Panini

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