--- In [email protected], Mark Landau <m@...> wrote: > > Thanks for the "all kidding aside," if, indeed, it's literal. A lot of the > humor I find in FFL goes completely over my head and I find myself often at a > loss in winnowing the "serious" from the mirth. Haven't much found mantras > of any kind useful for some time. Your experience is different?
* * Dear Mark, Yes, it's literal. I wouldn't worry overmuch about winnowing the "serious" from the mirth; I don't, and I don't think our devatas or I-particles do; our body-politic is very literal and our constituents appear to take everything seriously mirthfully, once we give them our full attention. Virtually all of my "humor" is a serious attempt at self-expression and self-reference, a resonance which eventually may tickle us. Mirth if it arises is simply the blissful dissolution, Shiva's perfect Tamo-guna badaBOOM! (or ah-uh-OOM!): an explosive punchline to the serious joke of gravely loving self-recognition through the wormhole (or down the rabbit-hole) of our torus-Hiranyagharba. (If it works, it bombs. If it bombs, it works.) No, upon Awakening, mantra became essentially useless for transcending as there was no longer anywhere to "go" to transcend, clearly we ARE or it IS all that perfection which we had sought. (Which doesn't mean that we don't on occasion apparently err, sometimes egregiously, and have to apologize and make atonement; that is part of perfection too. Atonement or At-One-Ment is a necessary ingredient of a dynamic creator-creature marriage and co-creation. After Awakening, our "program" continues 24/7, and is a program of hands-on Universe Management, trial and error all the way.) However, mantras can still be most useful for bringing various of our devatas or I-particles and their realms to our attention, and some of them may have a very great deal indeed to show us. That OM! * SHRI! * RAM! * JAI! * RAM! * JAI! * JAI! * RAM! apears to be a signature-frequency for that realm of Rama's throne-room....and of course, his sandals. (I didn't even consciously encounter the story of Rama's "empty" throne and his exile until after the fact. For that matter, Maharishi himself showed me the same drama -- of his still and always being very powerfully "present" on his apparently-vacant seat -- back on the Science and Veda course in 1981 and I didn't fully get it then, either.) (And I apologize for bringing this up yet again, but I simply couldn't let her go out in the world without one final costume-adjustment: "And remember! Four out of five *transcendentals* recommend JAI JAI RAM for their patients who *choose* RAM!" There. That's probably the best we're going to do with THAT. For Now.) *Love*Light*Laughter* always, R.
