--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well lets stop right there: your "experience off CC"? > > Was it a real experience of CC or was it--what Mahesh mostly seemed to > talk of--the signs of CC dawning? > > Witnessing? > > Zzzzzz.
You are right Vaj to question Turq's assertion. I don't think MMY intended witnessing alone to be the sign of Cosmic Consciousness! It was just mentioned as one indication that CC may be coming on; clearly CC is much, much more than just witnessing! It is Self Realization where one realizes him or herself as made in the image of God and a state of bliss where one unfolds 'ananda maya kosha' or the bliss covering of the soul/jiva. Though this is just the beginning, or as MMY himself said, "a milestone on the path of enlightenment", it certainly is not the end. Once the jiva realizes itself as a reflection of Brahman, (CC) it then realizes itself as the immanent God in creation (Brahman dynamism or GC) and finally Brahman itself (UC)! MMY says it nicely in the Gita: "Jiva, then is *individualized* cosmic existence, it is individual spirit within the body, with its limitations removed, jiva is Atman......"
