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From: "'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]"
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To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 4, 2014 10:17 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Phenomenology of Consciousness
Another crucial point that is often missed is that Maharishi's typology is
a tantric rendering of the seven states, not a strictly Vedantic map. The 'God
Consciousness' described by Maharishi is based on Sri Vidya principles: The
Absolute as the creative source - the divine Mother, Tripura, which is the main
doctrine of both Sri Vidya and Kashmir Shivaism.
Tripura can be an anthropomorphic deity, but the subtler tantric practices are
directed towards Tripura as the formless - that is, the fourth state which is
beyond or transcendental to, the three gross states (three cities) symbolized
by AUM in the Mandukhya Upanishad and the cogent commentary by Gaudapadacharya.
The Sri Yantra is the map of the seven states, which agrees with Maharishi's
layout, with the bindu at the center. According to tantra the bindu is the
highest state of transcendence. The term 'Trika' means three - that comes from
the idea that there are three levels of consciousness: waking, dreaming, and
sleeping, and a fourth called the Transcendental state.
Trika also means that there are three types of aspirants, so that there are
three meditation techniques, one suitable for each person's level of spiritual
ability. Swami Rama on the Mandukya Upanishad:
"Atman has Four Aspects: All of this, everywhere, is in truth
Brahman, the Absolute Reality.
This very Self itself, Atman, is also Brahman, the Absolute
Reality. This Atman or Self has four aspects through which
it operates."
Works cited:
Enlightenment Without God
Mandukya Upanishad
By Swami Rama
Himalayan Institute Press, 1982
Other titles of interest:
The Secret of the Three Cities
An Introduction to Hindu Sakta Tantrism
By Douglas Renfrew Brooks
University Of Chicago Press, 1998
The Triadic Heart of Siva
Kaula Tantricism of Abhinavagupta in the Non-Dual Shaivism of Kashmir
By Paul Eduardo Muller-Ortega
State University of New York Press, 1989
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On 11/3/2014 4:52 PM, emptyb...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:
Kashmiri Shaiva teachings deviate from the Kevala Advaita of Shankara. They are
Tantra teachings only and although theoretically interesting, they lack the
uncompromising directness of Shankara's Upanishad exegesis.
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The Vedanta doctrine contends that there is only one ultimate reality which
never changes; therefore the manifest world is an *appearance* only. Kashmir
Saivism contends that there is only one reality, but it has two aspects;
therefore the manifestation is real. This is based on the argument that the
effect cannot be different from its cause.
According to Theos Bernard, Kashmir Saivism teaches that consciousness
alternates between two phases, rest and action. You can easily see the relation
to TM practice when you consider that this is almost exactly what MMY said at
Squaw Valley!
"In both deep sleep and transcendental consciousness there is no consciousness
of objects. But this objective consciousness is present in an unmanifest *seed*
form in deep sleep while it is completely transcended in the turiya." -
Mandukya Upanishad
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandukya_Upanishad
Works Cited:
Philosophical Foundations of India
By Theos Bernard, Ph.D.
Philosophical Publishing House, 1947
pp. 129-130
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