(snip) "The intellect is the discriminator, which makes it possible for us to > make decisions -- buddhi (intellect) throws light on the mind to make > decisions possible (and thank God, it enables Prez Bush to say "I am > the decider").
My experience is different: For me the 'mind' is everything we think- it is like a container of thoughts, feelings, perceptions, instincts, etc. The intellect is that part of the ego the chooses, between this or that- it is an aspect of the mind the runs around like a monkey, choosing and making judgements... The 'light' is to me the soul itself, or the pure energy field, or you and everything...flowing through the mind, and experienced as clearly as the soul has 'realized itself'... So, this whole notion of the intellect becoming exact or producing what Maharishi calls: 'Spontaneous right action', is just the finest aspect of the intellect- The finest aspect of the intellect happens when we can maintain pure awareness, or 'witnessing' to the extent, that: The intellect becomes 'still', at the 'finest level of thought(the bottom of the bubble diagram; And is no longer jumping around(at more superficial levels); Making judgements based on more superficial thoughts of the mind, and perceptions; Rather the intellect becomes attuned to the 'finest level of feeling'... So, in a way, the intellect 'transcends itself', becomes the 'intuitive lively intellect... By 'becoming attuned to pure-awareness', and the sense of 'oneness' or 'knowingness'... Like the right and left hemispheres of the brain align, to produce the linear and spacial aspects into one. The intellect then 'knows', because it is a uniting of the wholeness of the 'mind' So, in essence the perfectly still mind, has a perfectly functioning intellect, which is a more 'still' intellect; And not the one that runs around like the 'monkey intellect'... It's no longer 'trying to be right'. It just is right, aligned with Truth. Ritam is just being able to experience the essence of anything... The siddhi practice to me is the practicing of Ritam... And when one does 'float'... That would be the perfect experience of the Ritam, of that aspect of the siddhis... R.G. 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/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/
