The Conception of Buddhist Nirvana c8.63

c8.63

¹ Fr. Heiler, op cit p 47, following Prof Rhys Davids, thinks that (brahmanical) yoga is predominantly physical and hypnotic, whereas the Buddhist method of meditation is intellectual and moral I would not venture to endorse this opinion In this respect the difference, if any, is negligible Heiler evidently overlooks, in his Buddhist fervour, the devotion to God (*īśvara-praṇidhāna*) of the brahmanical Yogi The process of moral purification of the latter is very vividly described by Prof S N Dasgupta, The Study of Patañjali, p 142 ff (Calcutta, 1920) and his other works