--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <LEnglish5@...> wrote:
>
> "Every experience has its level of physiology, and so unbounded awareness has
> its own level of physiology which can be measured. Every aspect of life is
> integrated and connected with every other phase. When we talk of scientific
> measurements, it does not take away from the spiritual experience. We are not
> responsible for those times when spiritual experience was thought of as
> metaphysical. Everything is physical. Consciousness is the product of the
> functioning of the brain. Talking of scientific measurements is no damage to
> that wholeness of life which is present everywhere and which begins to be
> lived when the physiology is taking on a particular form. This is our
> understanding about spirituality: it is not on the level of faith --it is on
> the level of blood and bone and flesh and activity. It is measurable."
>
> -Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
>
Well, actualla, one of the "nicknames" of Vedaanta-suutra
is 'shaariiraka-suutra':
zArIraka mfn. bodily , corporeal &c. (= %{zArIra}) ; n. the soul or
embodied spirit or the doctrine inquiring into its nature MW. ; = %{-sUtra}
Veda7ntas. ; N. of an Upanishad (cf. %{-ko7paniSad}) and of a medical wk. by
S3ri1-mukha ; du. bodily joy and pain BhP.
