--- In [email protected], "guybanner2002" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I appreciate receiving the references to Muktananda quotes. It > exactly explains the grace I received. > I thought your description of receiving transformation in this way from MMY was beautiful - thank you. My experience has been somewhat different. I have spent many lives in spiritual settings, and one in particular in a setting like an anchorite. My learning this time was to balance matter and spirit and not separate the two - so I had to learn to be very grounded, and to have a spiritual path alongside the challenges of the relative. My learning has also been about different kinds of relationships - and the different aspects of sexual experience. This learning was actually triggered off by the Taste of Utopia course in 1984 - I was plunged into past lives and challenged by this particular learning. It has been a fascinating path, and I'm still learning.
So my view is that evolution is a spiral, and that we have to go through many different experiences, to take those back as ambassadors for the total soul's learning - each life will contribute to that wholeness. So no one aspect is more evolved than the other. I do not view my life as a celibate anchorite as any more evolved as the life I live now where I am fully in the relative - but meditating alongside, viewing life through a lens of learning and gathering experience, and using the experiences I have not to judge other aspects but to open up to the whole. I value them all - and for me my particular challenge for balancing in this life was to try and integrate the two as I had been so far along one polarity before. It is about finding your own path, and what your soul requires for your learning this time around. Also lives can have different emphases - and some lives have a key element where you are asked to do a major task of integration. It looks as if Guy has really touched into the importance of this life for him, and honoured it - and it looks as if MMY recognised that and helped him to achieve that. Otherwise I don't think he would have helped in the way he did - he possibly recognised what Guy's soul was asking for, the blueprint of the seed he carried this time which needed to be unfolded. That to me is the greatest evolutionary aspect - not purely whether one is celibate or not. 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/
