[FairfieldLife] Re: Is Ego an I or a Me?

2007-09-27 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, BillyG. wgm4u@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bronte Baxter brontebaxter8@ wrote: Bill wrote: The soul is a pure reflection of God called the Jivatma,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Is Ego an I or a Me?

2007-09-22 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, brontebaxter8 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip To claim that the ego is only a Me is to perceive only its limited expression. Such limited expression certainly needs dissolving for cosmic bliss to occur. But the Me only needs to dissolve into the I. It

[FairfieldLife] Re: Is Ego an I or a Me?

2007-09-22 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, brontebaxter8 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what is the ego, an I or a Me? Me is something that things are done to. I is a doer. snip Yes, Vedic philosophy seems so unlimited. It speaks eloquently of the Unlimited. But it teaches you that to live

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Is Ego an I or a Me?

2007-09-22 Thread Bronte Baxter
Bill wrote: The soul is a pure reflection of God called the Jivatma, when in the beginning when it was tempted by Lucifer (maya/avidya) in the Garden of Eden (pure innocence) it was warned not to eat of the tree of knowledge of Good and evil or surely it would die (be subject to the wheel of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Is Ego an I or a Me?

2007-09-22 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bronte Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill wrote: The soul is a pure reflection of God called the Jivatma, when in the beginning when it was tempted by Lucifer (maya/avidya) in the Garden of Eden (pure innocence) it was warned not to eat of the tree

[FairfieldLife] Re: Is Ego an I or a Me?

2007-09-22 Thread John
Both of you are making good points. We don't see any major difference between your ideas. I would just like to add something to the discussion about the point relating to the 'mistake of the intellect'. This mistake can be the contributing factor of those who are agnostics or atheists. I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Is Ego an I or a Me?

2007-09-22 Thread new . morning
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, BillyG. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bronte Baxter brontebaxter8@ wrote: Bill wrote: The soul is a pure reflection of God called the Jivatma, when in the beginning when it was tempted by Lucifer (maya/avidya) in