--- In [email protected], Michael Dean Goodman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Someone asked: > > > What is the TM/MMY-approved sanskrit word for intellect? > > In response, choices were offered: buddhi and pragya. > > Buddhi = intellect > > Pragya = sprouting (pra) of knowledge (gya - as in 'gyan') > > Rtam bhara pragya = that most subtle level where knowledge sprouts (1st > appears) in only its radiant state of truth, where name and form are not > yet separate, where knowledge is immediate and pure (not yet separated > from the source), where intellect has hardly become individuated, where > there is no gap between desiring to know something and knowing it, where > the knowledge is, as if, inherent in the question or desire itself. > > Dr. Pete asked about how that rtam is experienced: > > It can be experienced in at least two ways: > > 1. When a specific desire for knowledge arises and is instantly and com- > pletely fulfilled - no gap, no waiting, no partial answer, no lack. > Complete identity of question/desire and answer/fulfillment. > > 2. As a more general experience of omniscience, of being omniscient, of > "sitting" in that place where all knowledge is available, as you need > it (even if no specific question/desire is arising at that moment). > > Maharishi Patanjali lists this second one as one of the final siddhis > in the Yoga Sutras - the siddhi of omniscience and omnipotence (III-50). > > But first a little preface, before Patanjali takes the stage: > > Maharishi once told us an interesting thing. He said (paraphrased): > > It's not difficult to be established in the Self, sitting in some cave > in the Himalayas. It's all silence there, nothing challenges the Self. > But the real test of how well-established the Self is - is if it is > maintained while you're sitting in a dirty taxi, stuck in a traffic > jam in Manhattan, behind a fume-belching bus. Self-realization, he > said, has to be tested, tempered, in the world of activity. Only > then will the fear of "losing it" be dissolved. We have to see that > nothing in the relative - no negativity, no emotion, no thought, no > activity, no 'impurity', no pleasure, no pain - can challenge it. > Really beautifully said Michael. Thanks for putting this into words. I regularly enjoy the tests and tribulations of a busy daily life in a large metro area precisely because of this. And it continues to be very rewarding.
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