--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Apr 1, 2005, at 9:12 PM, Bob Brigante wrote: > > > The litmus test for CC remains witnessing sleep, the last > > stop in stabilizing life of living one's unlimited awareness at all > > times, even during the torpor of sleep (or death of the body, for that > > matter). > > I think if you check MMY's commentary on the Gita, you will find that > he states this is a precursor of CC (as well as a feature of the > eventual state). "Witnessing" (despite being a lousy choice of word) > can happen--and usually does happen before "CC". Please don't go > telling people that they are in CC just because they are witnessing, > because this is misleading in the extreme. Later TM literature like the > Journal of Vedic Studies reiterates this philosophy.
It seems to me that the main point that MMY is making about CC is that the awareness of Being is no longer overshadowed by any experience that is related to identification as the body. No emotion, no matter how strong fills the screen of the mind to such an extent that Self-consciousness is blotted out. No anger, no fear, no ecstatic state overshadows awareness of Being. No physical state of the nervous system such as; dreaming, sleeping or waking distracts the mind from the awareness of Self. I would think that it is not one of these criteria but all of these that constitute the state of being ESTABLISHED in Cosmic Consciousness. The steady intellect established in CC, being as a perfectly still candle flame that shows not the slightest flicker in even the most torrential storm. Rather than say that the steady intellect not losing Self- consciousness during deep sleep is a precursor to CC, it seems that a more accurate statement would be that this condition is met in the intellect that is fully established in Cosmic Consciousness. Rick Carlstrom 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/
