--- In [email protected], "Premanand Paul Mason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For those interested, I have included in translation notes at the foot > of the passage, these can be read in MSWord.
************** "Even if one worships Vishnu for a long time with great devotion, he does not bestow enlightenment on one who is not wise with self- knowledge. Thus, the foremost means for self-knowledge is self- enquiry; grace and such other factors are secondary means....The cult of devotion to Vishnu has been founded with intention of possibly inducing those people who have turned away from the study of scriptures, from self-effort and from self-enquiry, to do something good....Without self-enquiry and the consequent inner tranquility, neither devotion to Lord Vishnu nor self-knowledge is possible. hence, resort to self-enquiry and the practice of cessation of distraction and thus adore the self; if you are successful in this, you have attained perfection; if not, you are no more than a wild donkey." (p. 256-7, http://tinyurl.com/6xndt ) "One can become a mahatma even while staying at home" Saying of Guru Dev, posted at http://www.paulmason.info/gurudev/gurudev.htm What MMY is teaching, self-enquiry through TM, is exactly what enables a householder to become enlightened, a mahatma, which is what Guru Dev wanted for the world. Those who are convinced that there is some dissonance between the teachings of Guru Dev and MMY are simply expressing their discomfort with the light being brought into the householder world by Guru Dev and his emissary to an ignorant world. Bob Brigante http://geocities.com/bbrigante 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/
