From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of authfriend Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 1:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [FairfieldLife] Selfless Service (was Re: Deepak Chopra)
--- In HYPERLINK "mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com"[email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > Really, I am. The answer relates to a discussion > here during the last week or so, about whether > "doing good works" has a value. > > I say Yes. Ruth, as I remember, tends to agree. > Some don't. They think that the idea of "selfless > service" is some kind of mood-making if the sup- > posedly good works don't spring automatically > from the level of the "laws of nature" or some > such hogwash. I don't agree. Wrong hogwash. The point is not that there's anything wrong with doing good works prior to enlightenment, but that the good works won't help you get there. According to Shankara, Ramana Maharishi, Amma, and others, they will. Maybe not directly, but as a way of attenuating the ego. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.20.5/1279 - Release Date: 2/14/2008 6:35 PM
