--- In [email protected], "Patrick Gillam"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> It's interesting how Bright Light Types sometimes
> suffer despair before awakening. Buckminster
> Fuller and Ekhart Tolle contemplated suicide,
> Byron Katie raged, Maharishi was despondent.
> And their responses were to serve others.
First chapter of the Giitaa: arjuna-*viSaada*-yoga
viSAda m. (ifc. f. %{A}) drooping state , languor , lassitude
Ma1lati1m. ; dejection , depression , despondency (esp. as the
result of unrequited love) MaitrUp. MBh. Ka1v. &c. ;
disappointment , despair (one of the Vyabhica1ras q.v.) Das3ar.
Sa1h. ; aversion , disgust Bhartr2. ; fear , weakness MW. ;
dulness , stupidity , insensibility (= %{moha}) ib.
> --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@>
wrote:
> >
> > --- In [email protected], "matrixmonitor"
> > <matrixmonitor@> wrote:
> > >
> > > ---Yes, Tolle, Ramana, and Papaji are examples of individuals
who
> > > awakened more or less spontaneously without the need of prior
> > > practices. In a statistical curve, such persons are in the
> > > 99.99999....% percentile. The rest of us laggards need
> > > good "techniques" like TM.
> > >
> > Ha-Ha! Yes, the Universe in the form of daily activity, or
Maharishi
> > or Buddhas or Jesus or Ramana or Shiva or Vishnu or Ganesh or
> > Krishna or Barahmananda Saraswati or [fill in the blank] is
always
> > ready to deliver a retort to those who say they have found "The
One
> > Way" to Awakening!
> >
> > Interesting karma of those who awaken spontaneously. I imagine
the
> > conversation for them prior to this final incarnation in which
they
> > awaken spontaneously goes something like this: "OK, you're
almost
> > free. Just go down there one more time, and hang out for awhile.
> > That's it, and liberation will be yours- no technique
> > necessary..." "Really? Do I have to? OK, if you say so..." and
off
> > to earth they go.
> >
>
