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Note II, 3: On the concentration yogi
First attestation explicit in the Upanishads: Kathaka Up, VI, 11. The passages of the
Mahabharata have been sefialados and discussed by Hopkins, Yoga-technique in the
Great Epic, p. 351 and ff. About five dharana in Jainism R. Garbe, Samkhya und Yoga,
P. 39. The main passages in the Yoga-Sutrt and their comments are reproduced and
analyzed by Sigurd Lindquist, Du Methodendes Yogo (Lund, 1932), p. 104 et seq. - But
we must bear in mind that this author reduces yogis meditation and concentration various
forms of self-hypnosis.
For a personal experience of the concentration yogi, see Theos Bernard, Hatha Yoga, and
also ks relevant observations of Dr. Jean Filliozat, Sur la "concentration oculaire" dans le
Yoga (study published in Yoga: Eine Internationale Zeitschrift, I, 1931, p . 93-102) and
the observations of Oliver La-combe, Sur le Yoga iridium (Etudes Carmdlitaines, Oct.
1937, p. 170 et seq.).
Note II, 4: Samadhi
With regard to the meaning of the didactic samhadi in the Mahabharata, see the work of
Hopkins, Yoga-technique in the Great Epic, p. 337 et seq.
The significant passages in the Yoga-Sutra (mostly I, 41-46), with the commentaries of
Vyasa, Misra and Bhoja Vacaspati are reproduced and analyzed two in S. Lindquist, Die
Methoden des Yoga, P. 118, 144.
The identity of the word samadhi = sapamatti, see especially
Vyasa, ad Y. S., I, 4344 and Vacaspati Misra, ad I, 42-43. >
On the parallelism of the four Buddhist dhyana and the four varieties of Samprajnata des
samadhi, E. Senart, Bouddhisme et Yoga (RevueHistorique des Religions, 1900, p. 345-
364), p. 349; Louis de la Vallee-Poussin, Le Bouddhisme et le Yoga of Patanjali
(Melanges chinois et bouddhiques, V, Brussels 1937, p. 223-242), p. 229-230. "^ We ask
for qu6 part, Yoga and Buddhism, these concepts were developed first and these
doctrines common? Seems (apparently it reaches the certainty) that it was the Yoga"
(Oldenberg, quoted by De la Vallee-Poussin, p. 230 ). See also below, Note V, 1.
Note II, 5: The Siddhi "powers mUagrosos"
The classic yoga texts are gathered in S. Lindquist, Die Methoden des Yoga, P. 169-182,
id., Siddhi und Abhinna, Erne Tiber die Studie des klassischen Yoga Vfunder (Uppsala,
1935), where the documents are analyzed Buddhist prmcipalmente the Visuddhimagga of
Buddhaghosa. Good bibliography of the origins of ahhijna in Etienne Lamotte, Le Traite
de la Grande Vertu de Sagesse de Nagarjuna (Mahaprajnaparamttasas' ra), t I (Louvain,
1944), p. 329, n. 1.
On hathayogui siddhi in literature, see Siva-Samhita, III, 41. On the siddhi in Tantrism
and folklore yogi, see below, p. 297. Also a siddha legends, P. 290.
Note III, 1: Vratya and extdticos of time vteicos
The problem of Vratya has been treated at great length by M. Win-temitz, Die Vratya
(Zeitschriffur Buddhismus, 1924-1925, p. 48, 311), and especially J. W. Hauer, Der
Vratya, XJnterschungen Tiber die. Nichtbrahma nische antindiens Religions, I
(unicopublicado): Die Vratya al "che Kultgenossenschaftenarischer Herkunft
nichtbrhamanis (Stuttgart, 1927). About kesin Rig Veda, X, 136, Hauer, Die der Arrange