We seem to have some people here who have misinterpreted Buddha and
hammers. Kurt Vonnegut would be disappointed given his story "Harrison
Bergeron."
TM, yoga and meditation are self improvement programs. So if practicing
makes you better then the next guy, so be it. That's what you signed up
for didn't you? If practicing a guitar and taking lesson from a great
guitarist makes you better than the next guy, so be it. That's what you
signed up for didn't you? You did your homework and the other guy
didn't. Should the teacher give you both As?
After all the materials to improve were just as available to the "next
guy" as they were to you. So why should they be jealous?
I've often viewed humility as a "game" people play. Maybe it too is a
form of narcissism to be "more humble than you."
Humans are such a curious lot. :-)
On 12/08/2014 11:29 PM, salyavin808 wrote:
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <seerdope@...> wrote :
Perhaps (probably) he did. (Traditionally) it is not uncommon for
realized beings, even those well on the way, to know when prarabdha
karma will come to an end. There is not much to be done to alter that.
You lease a car for a specific period -- after that, fini.
Realized beings simply endure that prarabdha that remains with the
current body.
For the unliberated (who still have sanchita karma), then its back to
the vast mountain range of sanchita karma (which may have grown since
the last bite due to karma generated in the just prior life) to bite
off another chunk (of prarabdha karma) -- and start anew. Wheel of
karma keeps on rolling.
Unless you have stumbled upon an effective means to burn / roast the
vast "mountain range" of sanchita karma, or in parallel parlance,
dry-out and extinguished the causal body.
(Ask someone who claims to be enlightened their experience of burning
off that last bit of sanchita karma and the extinguishing of the
causal body. If they say "huh?", "Run Forest, Run" )
I love the myths that "realised" people put around about themselves.
It both gives us lowly mortals something amazing to aim for and a way
for them to keep themselves above us. It's a neat trick, and yes I
fell for it but it was Maharshy's obvious weakness as a speaker - that
he was basically making it up as he went along - that convinced me it
was all a put on. And I never heard of anyone better.
What we have is an impossible ideal of wondrous powers and
paranormally gained "wisdom" that no one ever demonstrates to be
anything more than them claiming to have attained the sort of godlike
status we read about in the holy books. Or am I wrong and there really
is an infinite world within this one that I can reach by purifying my
mind to reveal a deeper truth about reality that can't be understood
objectively, indeed can /only/ be experienced rather than studied? If
only they'd shown us something convincing as I hate taking people at
their word, especially as their word always involves them living a
life of luxury being waited on hand and foot.
I've certainly seen something that could be mistaken for this sort of
enlightenment but is the vedic explanation the best one? Perhaps the
original holy men had the same vision I did and interpreted that as
being something fundamental to everything else we normally experience
and then passed that down as received wisdom when really it's an
imbalance in the way the brain normally constructs our perception of
the world. Questions questions.
