--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > on 8/8/05 4:47 PM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > >> The question "why would they post" seems to imply that the > poster > > > > believes > > > >> awakened people are so high and mighty that they would never > do > > > > something so > > > >> mundane as participate in a chat group. > > > > > > > > Where people exchange constant insults, make insulting > references to > > > > former teachers, and in general, exchange no useful > information? > > > > > > > > Blink, blink... why would that seem counterproductive for > someone > > who > > > > is enlightened? > > > > > > In his Gita commentary, Maharishi says that the likes and > dislikes one > > > develops before awakening tend to continue after awakening. So > if you > > don't > > > want to be an awakened chat participant, you'd better quit now. > > > > STrikes me that he also said that one's desires become more > > lifesupporting... > > Must be because the small self is not trying to kill the Self any > longer, and the Self is not trying to kill the small self any > longer. So there is less killing in one's system, hence desires > become naturally more life supporting. > > The small self subsumes itself in worshipful Bliss to the Self, > making itself indistiguishable from the Self, merging in complete > unity with it. > > Must also be because the identification is with more of life instead > of the small life of the small self, and so there is more life to > support with each desire. > > Whether that makes one more high or more mighty, can't say. A > healthy measure of both. Oh, and more mundane too...
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