--- In [email protected], "BillyG." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Soon he arrived at the Heatless Smokeless Effulgent of the Self and > realized the Divine Truth, the Cosmic Consciousness, the Ultimate > Supreme Reality, Sat Chit Anandam, the Nirvana." Love and God MMY > > This is relevant because most schools of Yoga refer to the opening of > the seventh chakra as Cosmic Consciousness, (the highest Nirvikalpa > Samadhi) so this is consistent with them. However, later on, MMY > changed the definition to CC, GC, and then UC, and turned everything > on its head! > > MMY should have remained faithful to the then established standard of > CC being the highest human attainment. Under MMY's system Self > Realization, which actually occurs with the opening of the 6th Ajna > chakra (not the highest), is already called Cosmic Consciousness! > which doesn't actually occur in classical Yoga until the opening of > the 7th which MMY now calls Unity!; just more confusion that's all! > > P.S. No wonder his Gita is confusing vis-a-vis the higher states of > consciousness, where he 'takes liberty' with the established patterns. >
Sigh... "Cosmic Consciousness" was a term coined in English 100 or so years ago. Its not sanskrit. And... MMY's distinctions clarify things quite nicely, IMHO, since even someone who is having CC episodes might be at the point of no-return, while someone who is having UC episodes might not. Lawson
