--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > on 2/4/06 11:43 AM, TurquoiseB at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Bingo. You have just nailed the fatal flaw in > > Maharishi's model. To believe it is true, you > > have to believe that before enlightenment, one > > has free will, and that afterwards one does not. > > > > What *changed* in the operating system of the > > universe between unenlightenment and enlighten- > > ment? Did karma stop working? > > > > If one has a choice as to how to act before real- > > ization of enlightenment, one has the same choice > > afterwards. Those who claim otherwise are in my > > opinion trying to avoid responsibility for their > > actions. They may be avoiding this responsibility > > because they are up to no good, or they may be > > avoiding this responsibility because they honestly > > believe that "God does everything," but it's the > > same bottom line. They wish their followers to > > cut them slack they would not extend to anyone else. > > I agree. The enlightened man driving his car makes the decisions necessary > to navigate successfully through traffic and arrive at his destination. Why > shouldn't other decisions be just as volitional and just as subject to dire > consequences if they are made capriciously? >
What capriociously? Why would someone's decision-making process be capricious if enlightened (and hence not owning the process since it is a guna-based thing) but not capricious prior to enlightenment? ------------------------ 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/
