--- In [email protected], Peter Sutphen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Bob Brigante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], Rick Archer > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > on 4/2/05 4:23 AM, peterklutz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > > > > > > According to this fellow, there's no chance that > > CC will be mistaken > > > > for something else - once it hits. > > > > > > > > > According to MMY in his commentary on the Gita, > > Ch. 4, vs.. 41, > > referring to > > > CC: "Without proper understanding, even the direct > > experience of > > eternal > > > freedom may be found to create confusion and > > fear." > > > > ********** > > > > This quote refers to the onset of witnessing > > generated by transcending > > during TM, not its stabilization in CC. The > > possibility of > > misunderstanding and being afraid of witnessing is > > why it is talked > > about in advanced TM lectures, but when CC is > > gained, one's self is > > permanently unshaken by whatever it witnesses in the > > phenomenal world. >
> The transition from the mental habits of the mind in > waking state to the mental habits in CC can be very > uncomfortable. Much fear can be experienced as the > mind seeks for a self that no longer exists. In waking > state the mind seeks and experiences the ego every few > seconds. It's actually pretty strange, this > ego-referral movement, and only noticed in CC. This is > a mental habit that needs to be pointed out and > dropped for many people. > -Peter ****************** This is such a thorough misunderstanding of what Cosmic Consciousness is -- you seem to have crafted a definition that would allow you to see yourself as enlightened (and that's OK, the Global Country has not crowned me the CC Cop), but it is simply not consistent with the descriptions in Vedic literature (and also expressed by MMY) and with the experiences of witnessing that the unenlightened (like me) have on the way to Cosmic Consciousness. In CC, far from living in fear for a lost self, one lives the self -- which is unlimited bliss consciousness -- and merely witnesses the body and the rest of the creation. Vasistha: "Freed from all conditioning, fully established in the state of unmodified consciousness, the yogi remains like a child or a dumb person: in him there is bliss, like the blueness of the sky. This bliss is not an experience, but the very nature of consciousness. Hence, it does not act as a disturbance, but remains integrated in the consciousness." (p. 318, http://tinyurl.com/6xndt ) 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/
