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--- In [email protected], off_world_beings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > **snip** > > Only Leisha Vidya ("the remains of the yagya" -- after the burning > of the offerings) remains. Only enough of "ignorance" for there to > be activity, but it does not overwhelm the bliss or enlightenment, > nor the positive influence in the environment of an active ascended > being (which purifies its environment). The karma no longer has a > control (birth and rebirth) over the being, because the karma has > been burned up in the fire of 'knowledge', as the Gita states. > That is the theory Maharishi expounds, I am not saying I agree with > it or anything, just sounds fair enough to me. I don't agree or > disagree. > > OffWorld > **end** Offworld, that's a cool way to articulate "LV" (above) by transliterating the 2d word as Vidya (knowledge) and translating it as Yagya. Nice interaction of the relationship of knowledge to yagya, both the gross act of the ritual with offerings into fire, as well as the inner yagya of offering self to Self. I'd always transliterated it "lesh avidya" -- the remains of ignorance, meaning the body (the notion of which is there because of ignorance). 'Avidya'; negation of knowledge. After realizing enlightenment, the body (or the notion of it) remains until its demise, and then drops away. When I first Maharishi talk of it, he gave the example of baby Krishna who loved to steal butter and eat it. Maharishi said that the ball of butter was like ignorance itself, and that once the butter ball is gone (consumed by Brahman), then what remains is the butter grease on the hand -- the remains of ignorance. It's a nice interaction between those two ways of looking at the term, too. Thanks. Marek
