>
> --- In [email protected], "Richard Hughes"
> <richardhughes103@> wrote:
> >
> > Or how about three quarters because I doubt these ancient
> > writings are be taken that literally, I would say they
> > are more the history of the consciousness of that
> > civilisation. So, perhaps asking if sat yuga is a
> > fairy tale is not the right question, most human
> > religions have tales of a blissfull life with god
> > before a fall from grace, I like the idea that they
> > symbolise the emergence of self awareness and the
> > resultant seperateness from nature. All our meditating
> > and rituals since then have been an attempt to regain
> > that unity.
>
> And the real joke of it all is that the myth is WRONG.
> There has never been a moment when anyone in human
> history has ever "lost" their unity and "fallen" from
> "grace." They all -- each and every one of them -- have
> always already been enlightened. The entire issue of
> "separation" from nature is a non-issue, an illusion
> based on ignorance of what has always already been
> present. So the myth of "the fall" was developed to
> describe the ignorance and the illusion, *not* to
> describe any kind of reality. :-)
Actually it describes the reality of ignorance of the
reality.
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