Theos-Talk Archives (December 2002 Message tt00588)

Dallas and All,
Thanks so much for your most stimulating propositions and listed 
questions.
These are the very fruitful inquiries for all of us. I just happened to 
have been 
reading "The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali" as published by Quest Books and 
Authored
by I. K. Taimni when you posted this and was on the very topic you 
inquire after.

Beginning on page 127 the exposition on "Avidya" and by what process it
brought into manifestation and consequence thereof tied to the contrast 
between "Asmi(I AM) and "Asmti(I Am that) in original production of 
State of
Avidya (Ignorance).
Particularly helpful is Taimni's explanation of the 5 "Kles'as" having 
"Avidya" as 
Root.
>From an Adwaita Shaivite correlate to the 5 Acts of Shiva'

1.Projection (The so-called Mayavic reality)
2. Maintenance (the perpetuation of the Mayavic reality)
3. Veiling (The State of no longer having direct conscious communion 
with Unity
of Transcendental Beingness yet still having conscious remembrance 
though
corporeal or subtle state)
4. Withdrawal (The State wherein one in repealed of even the memory of 
Original
Pure Being and Self Nature)
5. Grace (the Return of the State of Union or Native Original Be-ness)
Reference: The Siva' Sutra--The Yoga of Supreme Identity: Author:Jaideva 
Singh


An interesting view -Adam in the state of Numbers 1 and 2 (above) was 
yet in Union and 
therefore "walked and talked with God" but in the descent into the 
Mayavic Reality
both He and Eve under went the detailed process explained in Patanjali 
by Taimni
and the benchmarks are the 5 Acts of Siva'..The "Descent" characterizes 
that Being
through Intention and Will "adopts a point of being" that then acts as 
proxy of it's
activity.

Here is a very nice work if one can find a copy that I suggest 
contains elaboration's
correlate to the recent threads on "Maya", Sakti",Karma,etc.

"Sakti Cult of Ancient India" Author:Dr. Pushipendra Kumar M.A. 
,Ph.D.,F.R.A.S
(London)
Bhartiya Publishing House-Varanasa 1974

This work indulges in an astute survey from earliest Bharat pre-Vedic. 
Vedic. Puranic,
and later developed doctrine contained in the many differentiation's 
from the Seed
Bhijna .