Even we exist simultaneously in many different bodies in different lifetimes. Many are "future" to us now which brings up many questions regarding "evolution" and freewill.
--- On Wed, 3/16/11, yifuxero <yifux...@yahoo.com> wrote: > From: yifuxero <yifux...@yahoo.com> > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Ramana Maharshi on Lokas > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Date: Wednesday, March 16, 2011, 11:40 PM > "The Maharshi", Mar/Apr 2011, Vol 21, > No. 2, p. 4, article by Sri Krishna Bikshu, Voruganti > Venkata Krishnaiah, (1904-1981), a disciple of Ramana > Maharshi; entitled "Bhagavan Referring to the Self and the > Lokas". > ... > "I have also heard Bhagavan say: "I have at this moment > twenty different bodies working in twenty different lokas, > so if one of them suffers am I to grieve? I am not the body. > One who considers himself the body may grieve, but how > should I?". > . > "On a different occasion we put the same question to > Bhagavan, asking how he could exist in a number of lokas at > the same time and he said that one could have as many bodies > as he wished if he had the necessary poweer of yoga". > . > "We must remember that the lokas are empirical realities no > more real than this world of ours but also no less > real. Bhagavan confirmed this when a group of > disciples from Tiruchirapalli asked him whether Siva and the > other Gods and their ehavens really exist. "Do you > exist?" he retorted. They replied that they did, and he > said: "Then in the same way they do too". > > > > ------------------------------------ > > To subscribe, send a message to: > fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com > > Or go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ > and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links > > > fairfieldlife-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com > > >
