You might want to pop quotes like this into the newly-created quotes section so they'll be available on-going.
on 5/18/05 5:37 PM, bbrigante at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > --- 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 > > > > > > -- Rick Archer SearchSummit 1108 South B Street Fairfield, IA 52556 Phone: 641-472-9336 Fax: 815-472-5842 http://searchsummit.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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/
