Meditation Und Mystik Im Yoga Des Patanjali

Author(s): Gerhard Oberhammer
Publisher: Gerhard Oberhammer

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pattih (YS I, 41-50) whick in contraposition to the former does not differ typologically from the samyamah as described in YS II, 54-III, 7. The samadhih of the Nirodhayoga may possibly be called a ,,natural mysticism", while the samapattih represents only a method to appropriate" existentially a certain belief or truth being a part of a philosophical or theological system. Thus the samapattih having no real object, but only representations and ideas, i. e. finite contents of cognition, cannot be called a mystical experience. The samadhih of the Nirodhayoga on the contrary - not the samadhih of the samyamah - is a meditation of a completely different structure. In it the cognition transcending all finite objects in direction of the ,,Being", which as ,,sky-line" of cognition is a necessary a priori of each act of cognition, reaches this very ,,Being" in a sort of direct experience, since every content of the act of cognition is eliminated, in spite of the fact that this ,,Being" on principle can never become the explicit object of human cognition. 118