--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ravi Yogi" <raviyogi@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dharmacentral no_reply@ wrote: > > > > > > > > The Difference Between Devotion and Emotion > > > > > > > > By Sri Dharma Pravartaka Acharya > > > > > > > > "The central message of the Bhagavad Gita, the most important > > > > scripture in all of Sanatana Dharma, is that bhakti, or > > > > devotion to the Absolute, constitutes the most effective and > > > > highly recommended path in all of the Yoga tradition. > > > > > > How can one practice devotion to the Absolute?? You can't > > > worship the Impersonal. > > > > Very good catch, you are indeed very sharp..:-), I hardly > > skimmed the post like I do when they get too intellectual > > (I have spoken like a true Bhakta..:-D). > > > > It has to start with personal and end up with impersonal. > > On the other hand, in SBAL MMY makes a case for realization > of the Impersonal (on the level of the Self, i.e., Cosmic > Consciousness) before true devotion to Personal God is even > possible. He's not opposed to Bhakti prior to CC, but he > does seem to think it's merely emotional until that point. So > in that respect he's in agreement with Pravartaka. He just > organizes the mechanics of development differently: first > Self-realization (CC), then true devotion (GC), then Unity. > If Bhakti in the emotional sense helps propel one toward the > first of these, that's fine. > > I would guess that it depends to some extent on the > individual, though. > >
Thanks for MMY's viewpoint, that seems to reinforce my view that TM'ers are mostly intellectual. However when I made this remark to a former TM'er here in Amma's she said Maharishi was "all heart".
