AA and yoga contradiction
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Well, if you have to, as a student of the AA read the Hatha Yoga Pridipika, or the Shiva Sanhita, my question is why do they require that you read 2 texts that contradict each other? The Hatha Yoga predipika expounds various suggustions like "stretch the tongue until it touches the forhead" where as the shiva sanhita says right off the bat that Hatha yogis are psycho's that most people would avoid. Can someone clarify?
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Crowley answers your question in "Eight Lectures on Yoga" about the student reading list:
"The chief object of this is not to
instruct you, but to familiarise you with the
ground work and in particular to prevent you
getting the idea that there is any right or wrong
in matters of opinion."* -
Contradiction itself was a key practice of Crowley.
From, The Method of Equilibrium:
"Let the student then contradict every proposition that presents itself to him."
"Rational ideas being thus expelled from the mind, there is room for the apprehension of spiritual truth."
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@Law said
"Well, if you have to, as a student of the AA read the Hatha Yoga Pridipika, or the Shiva Sanhita, my question is why do they require that you read 2 texts that contradict each other? The Hatha Yoga predipika expounds various suggustions like "stretch the tongue until it touches the forhead" where as the shiva sanhita says right off the bat that Hatha yogis are psycho's that most people would avoid. Can someone clarify?"
Marry each thought (and argument and vision) against its opposite and arise Master of both sides.
IAO131
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@Law said
"Well, if you have to, as a student of the AA read the Hatha Yoga Pridipika, or the Shiva Sanhita, my question is why do they require that you read 2 texts that contradict each other?"
“You are expected to spend three months at least on the study of some of the classics on the subject. The chief object of this is not to instruct you, but to familiarise you with the ground work, and in particular to prevent you getting the idea that there is any right or wrong in matters of opinion. You pass an examination intended to make sure that your mind is well grounded in this matter, and you become a Probationer.” (Eight Lectures on Yoga, Cap. VIII, ¶24)