> > You are basically correct. I never got the "hit" from > > the puja that some have said they experienced. What I > > did experience has, since leaving the TM movement, had > > occasion to be measured against subsequent experiences. > > As a result, I don't really rank the experiences I had > > when performing puja 'way up there in the list of exper- > > iences I've had during this incarnation. That's not > > a putdown or anything; it's just the truth. > > My experience varied. Doing one puja, the effect can be sweet but > mild. But I had the opportunity to sometimes teach when people were > line up around the block and at 9pm, people were still waiting. So > when doing sometimes 60+ pujas in a weekend, the impact is quite > pronounced, sublime, silent. > > But I was using puja as a possible common ground of experience that > relates to the yagya experience . Regardless of whther you got a > "hit", you felt something -- you know the "thing" I am talking > about, I think. The difference may be magnitude.
I believe that the difference is qualitative, not quantitative. > > Cool again. Just as a question, do you feel there was a > > subjective difference in the experience of being in the > > same room when the yagya was being performed and your > > subjective experience of the yagyas performed remotely? > > Yes. > In person, the yagyas left a puja-like feel of stillness and that > "blue smoke of divinity" thing -- I can't describe it much more than > that. But the in person yagyas were usually 3-4 hour affairs. The > "distant ones" were sometimes 3-4 or more days. But at a distance. > What I felt, at a distance, was this "light inside" --- everything > was > brighter in a very natural way. More "Life" in Life is what it felt > like. And it lasted 3 weeks or so. Over the period that various 3-4 > day yagyas were being done. But it didn't have the same stillness of > being at the yagya in person. Both effects were good things. That makes sense to me. Thanks again for explaining. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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/
