Judy Yes that is it. The wording sounds just a slight bit difference and maybe it was edited very slightly from the original, but, yes, that is the section I had underlined and have remembered lo these many years.
It fit nicely with the admonition Maharishi gave to a small room of people way back in the mid 70s in Livingston Manor when he made a surprise visit. In response to a question (Rick Archer says it was a question he asked) Maharishi told us (again paraphrased): "Every day is life...we don't pass up the present based on a more glorious future..." and he spoke to the idea that many of us were holding (and many still do) that we ere reticent to allow ourselves to be fully engaged in activity for fear of being overshadowed yet the name of the game (at least it used to be) was/is, meditate and then act. And when you are engaged in the field of activity you don't analyze your every thought word and deed. Somewhere else either in the SOB or the Gita he talks about the practice (akin to modern day Mindfulness) of holding our attention on what we do when we are doing it and talks about how this creates disintegration of the mind-body connection. > > Is this the paragraph you have in mind? > > "Identification should not be a horror to the > seekers of truth and to the aspirants of reality. > It is only that a state of mind has to be > cultivated so that the mind engaged with outer > things does not overshadow the pure state of > Being." > > I don't have time at the moment to quote more of > the section, but if you have a chance go digging, > the paragraph is about exactly halfway through the > part titled "Life in Freedom" at the very end of > Section III, "Art of Living." (I have the Signet > edition, so the page number wouldn't help you find > it!) There's relevant material both before and > after that paragraph. > > The basic idea is that identification (absorption > in the objects of perception) is fundamental to > living in the world. The trick is not to get rid > of identification, but to have Being *along with* > identification. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
