Dr Pete: writes The Shiva Sutras have a sloka(?) that specifically states that you become realized only through your own effort, nothing else.
Tom T: from the shiva sutras as posted here two years ago by Michael Goodman Shiva Sutras Translated by Sage Vasugupta First Awakening 1. Universal Consciousness is one's own nature. (Swami Lakshmanjoo: Supreme consciousness is the reality of everything.) 2. Knowing the individual consciousness as one's own nature and not knowing the Universal Consciousness as one's own nature is bondage. (Swami Lakshmanjoo: Knowing differentiatedly is bondage and not knowing undifferentiatedly is bondage.) 3. Differentiated perception and the field of individual activities are also bondage. [Editor's note: #2 & #3 seem to refer to rishi, devatta, and chhandas in their non-samhita, differentiated, individual state.] (Swami Lakshmanjoo: Mayiyamala and karmamala are also bondage.) [Mayiyamala = yonivargah, differentiated knowledge, intellectual dis- crimination between pairs of opposites.Karmamala = kalashariram, the embodiment of action as separate action.] 4. This threefold bondage is attributable to and commanded by the Universal Mother while She remains unknown. Hence the field of ignorance comes into existence through Her and not through any other agency. (Swami Lakshmanjoo: The Universal Mother commands this triple knowledge.) 5. To get rid of this triple bondage, such effort constitutes (the) means,which is identical with Bhairava [Lord Shiva]. (Swami Lakshmanjoo: That effort, the flashing forth of active awareness that instantaneously makes universal consciousness shine, is Bhairava.) 6. With deep contemplation on the wheel of energies, the whole differentiated universe comes to an end. [Editor: Transcendental Consciousness.] (Swami Lakshmanjoo: By establishing and meditating on the wheel of energiesthe differentiated universe comes to an end.) 7. Such a yogi, who has accomplished this stage, experiences Turiya (Tran-scendental God Consciousness) in the other three states also - jagrat (wake-fulness), swapna (dream) and sushupti (deep sleep). ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Drugs Don't Discriminate. Get help for yourself or someone you know. http://us.click.yahoo.com/0I.OUB/ZbOLAA/d1hLAA/0NYolB/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/
