On Mar 28, 2005, at 10:59 PM, tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis wrote:
> From having talked about this sutra many times it appears that the > intellect is translucent because it is still in a body made of DNA. > The translucent value seems more appropriate for what needs to happen. > It can never be clear but it can know THAT as the final > discrimination. How? Don't know but it seems to be part of the getting > of it all. The actual word is "buddhi-sattva" (no, not *bodhisattva*). When buddhi becomes free of tamas and rajas, it's easier to make the final distinction between buddhi and purusha--that's buddhi-sattva or "translucent buddhi". The distinctive marker of this style of enlightenment is that buddhi is gone. The purity of buddhi and its similarity to purusha are not enlightenment (CC)--just their "cause", it is final discrimination that is liberation. This results in "cosmic consciousness"--a 'knower of Brahman' NOT 'I am Brahman' (huge difference). IMO people confuse this final discrimination with the slow, gradual form of enlightenment where objects are slowly assimilated in the "Self" (karma mukti). After a number of "objects" are assimilated into Self, the person begins claiming enlightenment, but in fact they are somewhere in between and just beginning to see the first stages. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
