Excactly!! Thats exactly my experience. What he said. :)
--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Eventually rajas and tamas and cleansed from the mind. When the Buddhi > becomes as purified as gold, it then rests and stays in its own nature, > experience changes. This should not be confused with the spiritual self > dwelling in its own nature. > > Once buddhi dwells in its own nature, it is no longer being imprinted > by the senses and their objects. It acts independently of them. This is > not the end of buddhi's function though--it still has to "awaken". Some > will confuse this with final awakening. What awakens in buddhi is > "vivkeka-khyati"--discrimination of the distinction between Buddhi and > Purusha. The person no longer feels limited since they are no longer > relying on external objects for fullfillment--instead they now > experience the Spiritual Self as "illuminator". Identification with the > senses, mind and body ceases. > > Vyasa states that this experience does not occur in the first two > stages of samprajnata samadhi which are related to discursive and > subtle thought. Only from the third stage and after does this > discrimination occur. > > The VB [Vyasa-bhasya comment. on the YS] points out that viveka-khyati > illuminates all the virtues and the knowledge and nature of all things. > It is not a spiritual entity but a *quality* of Buddhi. Because it > embraces the totality of Buddhi it carries with it a sense of fullness. > It illuminates experience. > > This is not self-realization. Beyond this the virtues dawn and one > attains complete cessation [nirodha] in samadhi. This is still not the > 'self > dwelling in the self'. > > In the big picture, viveka-khyati is just as undesirable as the states > which preceded it despite it's sense of greater freedom and > fullness/totality. 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/
