--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > It's really interesting because in yogic-speak there are two words > which are used to describe two diametrically opposed modes of > being: the yogi and the bhogi. The bhogi, the enjoyer of the senses > and the material is also involved in the world and things > and "business": wealth. So without really knowing this, Lennon just > intuited that he was really "Maharishi" Mahesh Bhogi. The Bhogi Man.
That may have been what Lennon intuited. The question is, was his intuition accurate? The issue isn't whether a person enjoys the senses and the material and is involved in the world, but whether they are *attached* to these enjoyments and involvements. And that, of course, is a matter of the nature of the person's subjective experience, not their behavior. MMY defines enlightenment as "200 percent of life"--100 percent of the Absolute and 100 percent of the relative. And according to him, renunciation refers to the experience of nonattachment on the level of consciousness, not physical withdrawal from the things of the world. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/TISQkA/hOaOAA/yQLSAA/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/
