In other words, Sri. Stein, It is possible for MMY to see underlying unity and yet differentiate between other disciples and the Beatles, and the Swiss-Bank account.??
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From: "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 13:42:08 -0000
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Experience of a Conscious Self
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 13:42:08 -0000
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Experience of a Conscious Self
In a brahmin endowed with learning and humility, in a cow, in an elephant, in a dog and even in one who has lost his caste, the enlightened perceive the same.
Bhagavad-Gita, V:18
MMY comments, in part:
"The mind of the realized man is fully infused with the state of Being--the oneness of life--and such a mind naturally has oneness of vision irrespective of what it sees. The apparent distinctions of relative existence fail to create division in its view.
"This does not mean that such a man fails to see a cow or is unable to distinguish it from a dog. Certainly he sees a cow as a cow and a dog as a dog, but the form of the cow and the form of the dog fail to blind him to the oneness of the Self, which is the same in both. Although he sees a cow and a dog, his Self is established in the Being of the cow and the Being of the dog, which is his own Being. The Lord stresses that the enlightened man, while beholding and acting in the whole of diversified creation, does not fall from his steadfast Unity of life, with which his mind is saturated and which remains indelibly infused into his vision."
In other words, the enlightened person (presumably in Unity) sees both distinction and nondistinction, but the Unity of the person's state extends even to the distinction between distinction and nondistinction, i.e., distinction and nondistinction are not different.
My (purely intellectual) understanding is that in Unity consciousness, there is no distinction between the flower, the process of seeing the flower, and that which sees the flower.
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