--- In [email protected], "eloigne24" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- 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,
Yess! shreyaan sva-dharmo viguNaH para-dharmaat svanuSThitaat sva-dharme nidhanaM shreyaH *para-dharmo bhayaavahaH* -- Shriimad Bhagavad-giitaa III 35 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/
