Greater lack of cultural values than that found in the inner life of some strata of our modern population is hardly to be found anywhere.
-- Franz Boas, The Mind of Primitive Man (2ed, 1938), p.198.
Greater lack of cultural values than that found in the inner life of some strata of our modern population is hardly to be found anywhere.
The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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super powers (siddhi) come from birth, drugs, mantras, asceticism, and meditative integration (samādhi)(janmauṣadhimantratapaḥsamādhijāḥ siddhayaḥ).Explaining this, Patañjali (not Vyāsa) says, in his Bhāṣya,
by using drugs means using rejuvenations (rasāyana) in the houses of the Asuras, and so on.No further explanation is given, and we are left to wonder what the "houses of the Asuras" might be.
(oṣadhibhir asurabhavaneṣu rasāyanenety evamādiḥ).
oṣadhibhir asurabhavaneṣu rasāyanena somāmalakādibhakṣaṇena pūrvadehānapanayenaiva/
by means of drugs in the houses of the Asuras by elixir, by consuming Soma, emblic, and so on, completely without the removal of the previous body.
[I am grateful to Philipp Maas for improving this translation. -- October 2016]The use of the word "soma" suggests that this commentator is putting together the idea of rasāyana entioned in the Bhāṣya with the specific rasāyana treatment described by Suśruta (and, more briefly, Caraka).
oṣadhisiddhim āha --- asurabhavaneṣv iti/ manuṣyo hi kutaś cin nimittād asurabhavanam upasaṃprāptaḥ kamanīyābhir asurakanyābhir upanītaṃ rasāyanam upayujyājarāmaraṇatvam anyāś ca siddhīr āsādayati/ ihaiva vā rasāyanopayogena yathā māṇḍavyo munī rasopayogād vindhyavāsīti/
He states the super power of drugs: "in the houses of the Asuras." Because a human, for a certain reason, who has reached the house of an Asura, is served an elixir by the attractive Asura girls. After taking it, he achieves the state of never aging or dying, and other super powers. Alternatively, by taking elixirs in this actual world, like the sage Māṇḍavya took up residence in the Vindhya mountains through the use of elixirs.
From http://www.pranayama-yoga.co.uk/ |
Here's the image in a 1949 English translation of Daniélou's book. The caption says "with permission from 'Kalyan' Corakhour". Kalyan was a well-known Sanskrit and Hindi journal published by the Geeta Press in Gorakhpur since 1926. So the trail now leads to an issue of Kalyan from before 1949. Some issues have been scanned and are at Archive.org.
Found it! After an afternoon of scanning back issues of Kalyan, I located the image in the 1935 issue:
Unfortunately, the image available in the scan is folded over, so the whole image is not visible. But the visible parts are definitely identifiable as the bottom half of the famous Danielou-Eliade-Sunita image. It's nice to see that it is in negative, which explains why it was negative in the early reproductions. This is a bold idea by the Kalyan illustrator. Later printers have preferred to reverse the image to positive. In the volume, the illustration is on page 560 and illustrates an article by Svāmī Śrīkṛṣṇacalled "प्राणायामविषयको मेरा अनुभव"(My experience in the area of Prāṇāyāma") (pp. 554-561).This issue of Kalyan was dedicated to the theme of Yoga, which is no doubt why it came to Danielou's attention, over ten years later. It contains other interesting illustrations, including pictures on pp. 389-392 copied without attribution from Haṃsasvarūpa's Ṣaṭcakranirūpaṇa (Muzaffarpur, Bihar: Trikutivilas Press, 1903?). See Wujastyk 2009: 201-204 for further background on this work
In the same issue of Kalyan, there is an unexpected article on mesmerism and hypnotism by Dr Durgāśaṅkarajī Nāgara, "मेस्मेरिज्म् और् हिप्नाटिज्म्" (pp. 538-544) that gives a history of the techniques, its use at St Thomas's hospital in London, illustrations of magnets and practitioners, and a discussion of electrical flow, the scientific basis, methods of magnetic pass, deep breathing, etc.
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How To Fix A Non-Bootable Ubuntu System Due To Broken Updates Using A LiveCD And Chroot
// Web Upd8 - Ubuntu / Linux blog
If your Ubuntu system doesn't boot because of some broken updates and the bug was fixed in the repositories, you can use an Ubuntu Live CD and chroot to update the system and fix it.
1. Create a bootable Ubuntu CD/DVD or USB stick, boot from it and select "Try Ubuntu without installing". Once you get to the Ubuntu desktop, open a terminal.
2. You need to find out your root partition on your Ubuntu installation. On a standard Ubuntu installation, the root partition is "/dev/sda1", but it may be different for you. To figure out what's the root partition, run the following command:
sudo fdisk -l
This will display a list of hard disks and partitions from which you'll have to figure out which one is the root partition.
To make sure a certain partition is the root partition, you can mount it (first command under step 3), browse it using a file manager and make sure it contains folders that you'd normally find in a root partition, such as "sys", "proc", "run" and "dev".
3. Now let's mount the root partition along with the /sys, /proc, /run and /dev partitions and enter chroot:
sudo mount ROOT-PARTITION /mnt
for i in /sys /proc /run /dev; do sudo mount --bind "$i" "/mnt$i"; done
sudo cp /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/etc/
sudo chroot /mnt
Notes:
ROOT-PARTITION is the root partition, for example /dev/sda1 in my case - see step 2;the command that copies resolv.conf gets the network working, at least for me (using DHCP); if you get an error about resolv.conf being identical when copying it, just ignore it.
Now you can update the system - in the same terminal, type:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
Since you've chrooted into your Ubuntu installation, the changes you make affect it and not the Live CD, obviously.
If the bug that caused your system not to boot is happening because of some package in the Proposed repositories, the steps above are useful, but you'll also have to know how to downgrade the packages from the proposed repository - for how to do that, see: How To Downgrade Proposed Repository Packages In Ubuntu
Originally published at WebUpd8: Daily Ubuntu / Linux news and application reviews.
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