--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "Jeff Fischer" <jeffcandace@>
> wrote:
> >
> > When one has *awakened* where do they go when they drop the body?
> 
> 
> 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.

This one never attracted me.  Don't want to be a drip.
> 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. 

# 2 is more for me.  Desire to serve and help rather than teach. 

> 3. One can decide not to decide. One just kicks the bucket
> and sees what happens.
 
# 3 is the one I have the most experience with :-)
 
> 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. :-)
>


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