> > --- In [email protected], "Rory Goff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > Absolutely true that seeing or appreciating yagyas and rituals as > > outside the Self will tend (at best) to be an expression of god- > > consciousness, not "Brahman." --- In [email protected], anonymousff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > god-consciousness ? how so? > I think rituals are 95% empty. Perhaps one could say this of Life itself, which appears to be even more "empty" than 95% -- rather a thin, colorful soap-bubble-film of drama around and within the emptiful radiant vastness of ourSelf. At any rate while I would tend to agree with you at the moment from my own POV, I cannot ignore the testimony of people I respect with regards to yagyas, pujas and the like. Their Life-enhancing (i.e. soma- enhancing) experiences are undeniable, and to me appear to be of the nature of god-consciousness. Certainly from the point of view of GC it would seem these yagyas and rituals make perfect sense, as in them we are paying intense attention to the various deities. And again, as such soma-flows and so on appear irrelevant in ignorance, highly relevant in GC, irrelevant in Brahman (where everything is obviously the same), and again highly relevant in feeding the alchemical divine fire-Self of "Shiva-Consciousness," and so on, I would be hard-put to make a definitive and final statement on the matter. :-) 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/
