--- In [email protected], akasha_108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
(snipped the whole thing) First of all bear with me because I have a bad cold and my brain is baking. I thought this was a great post, not all that hard to comprehend but to keep all those ideas organized and visible in my head long enough to write them down is a task better suited to an intellect such as that of Akasha's. Here is a little piece from MMY Gita commentary, ch. 3 verse43: 'Having known him': this means having known the indweller of the body in his true nature as Being, separate from the whole field of activity of the body, senses, mind and intellect. It's easy to read this and ask the question, "if my true nature is separate from the whole field of activity of the body, senses, mind and intellect, then who or what is it that is doing the thinking?". When we identify as or with our thoughts and someone says that "we" are not doing the thinking, it just doesn't make any sense. But it says clearly here in the Gita that your true nature is SEPARATE from the mind and the intellect. So it seems that something else is thinking. Why is that something else thinking? What is the driver of thought? What is a thought? Perhaps a thought is the Light of Consciousness, that light through which creation can exist, bound up with nature, giving life to nature through the driving force of desire. Rk Ved X, 129, 11 "Desire in the beginning came upon that, (desire) that was the first seed of mind. Sages seeking in their hearts with wisdom found out the bond of the existent in the non-existent." Desire was the first seed of mind, without desire there is only stillness but desire causes stillness to move and gunas and mind and intellect are created. Desire mixes with nature and thoughts are created, these thoughts are the world but as MMY says the indweller of the body in his true nature is Being and Being is separate from the whole field of activity, so "we" are not thinking, "we" as being are only witnessing the play of thought in nature but identifiying as or with the body "we"(Being) see the thoughts as ourselves. This is my take on what I percieve to be the idea behind this thread. 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/
