--- In [email protected], "Jeff Fischer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When one has *awakened* where do they go when they drop the body?
Disneyland. :-) More seriously, it kinda depends on who you believe. Maharishi always went with the "drop returning to the ocean" theory, meaning that when one has realized enlightenment (and he often specified 'CC' as the type of enlightenment he was talking about) and then kicks the bucket, there is no more reincarnation. The relative body drops away and only the absolute remains, never taking relative form again. But that's hardly the answer you'd get in other spiritual traditions, even those based in India. The "drop returning to the ocean" theory is prevalent, but in most traditions it only applies to *full* enlightenment, which in TM terms would probably mean BC. Before that, the general rap is that after basic enlightenment (CC) one has three options: 1. One can decide to try for non-reincarnation and perform after-death techniques to merge with light and not return in a body. Suffice it to say that unless one has practiced these techniques for many years *before* kicking the bucket this rarely works. 2. One can decide *to* reincarnate (for example as part of a desire to teach), and using other after-death techniques, have a great deal of say as to when, where, and in what form one reincarnates. 3. One can decide not to decide. One just kicks the bucket and sees what happens. Of the three, I'm most attracted to Door Number Three. It seems to have the least amount of attachment or aversion going for it. Let's face it...Door Number One is a theory based primarily on aversion for the relative and for incarnate life, and Door Number Two seems based on ego and an attachment to trying to bring others to enlightenment. Only Door Number Three seems to be about accepting whatever happens. Even if it's Disneyland. :-)
