--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bronte Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > At the start of this thread, you quoted Ramana Maharishi on the value of letting "His name," the name of a god, not only permeate your meditation but every moment of your life, every impulse of your thought, the very fabric of consciousness. This is outright possession. This is a taking over of your individual consciousness by another entity, by the god whose name you repeated. This is not experience of Brahman, however they may dress it to be so.
Funny thing is, this is the same argument fundie Christians make against mantra meditation, yet it seems as though in their own devotional practice, they're just substituting "possession" by Jesus for "possession" by a god.
