--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > on 12/27/05 12:44 PM, Patrick Gillam at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > --- authfriend wrote: > >> > >> The more abstract the understanding of the nature of > >> devas, the less "religious" they seem. Sort of like > >> "Christ" the divine/human center of the Christian > >> religion, versus the universal "Christ" as a mode of > >> consciousness. > > > > I've been trying to remember if I've ever heard anyone > > say or write, "My mantra came to visit me in a tangible > > form, and I saw it to be a god." Nothing comes to mind. > > That leaves the abstract understanding, which indeed > > has no religious feelings for me. > > Although on a Rishikesh TTC, Maharishi did say that you eventually do > perceive the deity associated with your mantra. >
Seems to me that if there's anything to this Unity/Brahma consciousness thing, that that would be inevitable. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/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/