--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "ruthsimplicity" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And in the end we all die. >
******** Exactly, which is why the thing to do is to gain the only real immortality, which is bliss consciousness: `You take a dive through Transcendental Meditation, and you are on the level of immortality.' --Maharishi Global Press Conference 18 April 2007 MERU, Holland http://www.globalgoodnews.com/scintillating-intelligence.html from the Srimad Bhagavatam: [the enlightened man] rests in his own true being. He does not identify the self with the body, which continues to live as prompted by the destiny that created it. (Book 3, Ch.28) * Though the inner controller or the spirit dwells in the body, it is not tainted by the latter's experiences (pleasure and pain). It is devoid of doership and is beyond the reach of the three qualities of nature (prakriti). It is but a totally free witness of nature. Yet, on account of the spell cast by the play of these qualities of nature, the self imagines that he is the doer of actions, he loses his peace of mind on account of this delusion, and in that self- imposed state of ignorance undergoes birth and death. The objects do not exist as such, except in the imagination of the subject; yet so long as one thinks of these objects and is attached to them, he cannot escape the wheel of birth and death, just as even non-existent events cause unhappiness to the dreamer." (Book 3, ch 27) http://tinyurl.com/ywykn6 * I do not witness 24 hours a day (which is the definition of Cosmic Consciousness), but any amount of witnessing gives great relief from the fear of mortality, since you are living your true status as an eternal silent witness of creation, and are thus less disturbed by the good and bad events of life. Bob
