sounds like someone needs a hug.:)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_re...@...>
wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" <jr_esq@> wrote:
> >
> > To All:
> >
> > According to certain vedic texts, an adept in yoga can live
> > forever by controlling the inhalation and exhalation of the
> > breath.
>
> Given the Post Count mechanism screwup, I'm not
> completely sure but I think that this is my
> last post of the week. And, as such, it would
> probably behoove me to say something intelligent
> and uplifting in response to one of our more
> thoughtful members here.
>
> Instead, I'm going to respond to John again.
>
> So John, might I propose a "commentary" to your
> brilliant observation on the "vedic texts" above?
>
> The entirety of my commentary is, "Well, duh."
>
> If I could control the inhalation and exhalation
> of my breath by keeping them going, I could live
> forever, too. So could you. There ain't no "adept"
> or "yoga" in the equation at all. :-)
>
> Well, duh.
>
> > One of Ramachandra's descendant by the name of Maru, who
> > was born thousands of years ago, is supposedly still alive
> > today and is living somewhere in India.
>
> Actually, this part is true. Maru lives in a remote
> cave in the Himalayas with Maitreya (yes, Nabby's
> Maitreya), where the two of them have a fairly bitch-
> slap-meets-bitch-slap homosexual relationship. Their
> spats can be heard from miles away, as can their
> lovemaking when they run out of K-Y lubricant.
>
> > According to the text, he will revive the lineage of the
> > Sun dynasty sometime in the future.
>
> And then *everyone* is going to have to invest in K-Y
> lubricant. The resulting era will be known as the
> Sun Buggery Yuga, or the Age of Enlightened Bendover. :-)
>
> I'm just funnin' wit ya, John, to see if you've got a
> sense of humor about all of this. I would suggest that
> if you don't, you should probably work on that.
>
> I *understand* that you probably wrote your post out
> of a desire to inspire others here with the same sense
> of awe and wonder that you felt when reading this fairy
> story (so to speak), and there are probably a few folks
> here who will feel that same sense of awe and wonder.
> You had them at "According to certain vedic texts."
>
> Say that magic phrase and some are willing to throw
> common sense out the window and believe anything that
> follows without question. They are willing to believe
> stories about living forever, about monkey men leaping
> from India to Sri Lanka, about big blue chauffeurs
> getting to decide who lives and who dies, about green
> flowing soma, and about cows. Lots and lots of stories
> about cows.
>
> But others of us here -- I would suggest many of them
> firmly still in the "I like TM and continue to practice
> it no matter what" camp -- seem to be able to view these
> fairy tales *as* fairy tales, and enjoy them as such,
> without feeling the need to believe them as literal fact.
>
> You seem to feel the need to believe them as literal
> fact, the same way that Jim Jim (what *is* it about guys
> from the South with two first names like Jim Bob or
> Bubba Sue, anyway?) seems to believe that the Bible is
> literal fact.
>
> So I'm going to pose a few questions to you. You may
> answer them or not, as you see fit, but I've really just
> got to ask, because I find your position in all of this
> as curious as Jim Jim's.
>
> First, do you really *believe* that one of Ramachandra's
> descendents named Maru is still alive and kicking today
> and living somewhere in India?
>
> If so, what makes you believe this?
>
> Have you seen any *other* examples of people living forever?
>
> If this guy pulled off living forever by being an "adept
> in yoga" and Maharishi (obviously) didn't, does that make
> Maharishi *less* than an "adept in yoga?"
>
> What is the *value* of living forever? ( To the world,
> that is. I can imagine that if one is ego-bound enough
> to *want* to live forever it has a value to the self. )
>
> If you were secretly given the location of Ramachandra's
> descendent, and were to go see him, would you believe the
> things he told you just because he said them, and he's
> so freakin' old? ( I mean, Roger Moore just turned 80,
> but I don't see him as any font of eternal wisdom, even
> if he did play James Bond for a while. )
>
> If you were to go to see Ramachandra's descendent and the
> first thing he asked you was, "Did you bring your K-Y?,"
> would you have second thoughts about the eternal truth
> to be found in the "vedic texts?"
>
> And on that note, I think that's 50 and I'm outa here.
>
> Jai and away...
>
