"The word discrimination can be a trigger (I know it is for me), because it brings up images of oppression, injustice, and exclusivity. As a friend of my teacher once said, "Words are pregnant with the history of their usage," meaning how they are used mostly defines them. The word discrimination really just means to be able to distinguish one thing from another - to discern the differences between certain things."
"In order to achieve the true state of yoga, we must be able to see that we are not the body that we ride around in, nor the machine-like mind that spits out millions of thoughts for us, but instead are a soul (eternal, wise, blissful). This skill of discrimination or discernment lives in the part of the Mind (Citta in Sanskrit) called the Buddhi."
"But from a yogic standpoint, no matter how well a bot does something, it will always be a different entity than what we all actually are because it is made out of a completely different thing than we are. Anything that shows what is called the "symptoms of life" - birth, growth, maintenance, reproduction, dwindling, and death, be it human, aquatic, or animal, contains within it, a soul."
The term discrimination originally means the ability to distinguish between things, here reframed as discerning essence rather than judgment. Yoga prioritizes discernment as the essential capacity to recognize the self as distinct from body and mechanistic mind, revealing the eternal, wise, blissful soul. Buddhi is the discriminative faculty within citta that must be cultivated to attain yoga's goal. Living organisms exhibit symptoms of life—birth, growth, maintenance, reproduction, dwindling, and death—and thereby contain a soul called Purusha. Purusha embodies sat (eternality), chit (wisdom), and ananda (bliss). Machines remain ontologically different from beings endowed with soul.
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