Are these points attributed to Maharishi?
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> Our consciousness ("as we experience ourselves", "as we feel", "who we
> are")
> has its correspondence in the condition of our physiology, our body,
> our nervous
> system, which is the physical carrier of consciousness. There is always a
> relationship between body and spirit: Even if we only purely
> theoretically think
> about biting into a lemon, our lips become pursed. - in the same way,
> if our
> body is good in shape, then it is also good for our consciousness.
>
> "Our body consists of biological cells, and cells consist of molecules and
> atoms"... according to western science. Also Vedic science delineates
> eight
> basic elements of the creation and concomitantly the body: eight smallest
> components or "fundamental principles", from which everything is
> constructed:
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> 1. Earth (Prithivi), the firm
> 2. Water (Dschala or jala), the flowing
> 3. Fire (Agni), the flammable
> 4. Air (Vaju), the gaseous
> 5. Akasha (world ether), space
> 6. Manas (spirit), "what thinks" mind
> 7. Buddhi (intellect), "what distinguishes"
> 8. Ahamkara (Ego), the I consciousness
>
> The sequence 1-8 goes from the grossest to the finest. We have a body
> that is
> primarily constructed from the rougher elements (earth, water etc.). With
> progressively higher states of consciousness the body also refines
> itself, which
> Vedic science associates with progressively finer prevailing Prakritis
> (elements). Except during deep sleep, all the elements are always
> lively in the
> body; but the two prevailing elements clearly delineate the state in
> which we
> find ourselves:
>
> 1. State: Deep sleep. "Earth" is the prevailing element, while the other
> elements are all asleep. This is the condition with the minimum of
> consciousness; it is extremely rejuvenating for the body.
>
> 2. State: Dream Consciousness. "Earth" is the prevailing element, and
> "water" is
> in second place. Our perceptions and actions in this state are not
> real (with
> regard to waking consciousness).
>
> 3. State: Waking Consciousness. "water" is the prevailing element, and
> "earth"
> is in second place. Maharishi spoke of the fact that the earth element
> maintains
> our body consciousness, while the water element ensures that the next
> higher
> element (Agni) develops, because each element always promotes the next
> higher
> element. Agni is of highest importance for human life; it reaches full
> bloom in
> God consciousness, by promoting (the next higher element) the air element.
>
> 4. State: Transcendental Consciousness. Agni (fire) is the prevailing
> element,
> and Akasha (space) is in second place. This condition occurs, if we
> meditate in
> cosmic consciousness. In this state we still have the elements of waking
> consciousness (water and earth) lively in the body during meditation,
> which,
> however, refines itself noticeably. Already in 1970 Dr. Keith Wallace had
> written his famous doctoral thesis regarding the fact that the
> functioning of
> the body is so obviously different during TM that, in the scientific
> sense, we
> must speak of it as a new state of consciousness: Transcendental
> Consciousness.
> - Maharishi: "the Akasha element ensures that we retain our transcendental
> self-awareness."
>
> 5. State: Cosmic Consciousness. This is the state of enlightenment, in
> which we
> experience the pure, transcendental light of our higher Self (Atma)
> day and
> night . We are a witness of our activity as well as our dreams, and we
> have
> complete wakefulness at night during sleep. We suddenly find that we
> are "beside
> ourselves" with regard to activity and experience ourselves as
> separate from
> everything that happens outside. Our self has evolved to its absolute
> value.
> Agni (fire) is the prevailing element, and Vayu (air) is in second place.
>
> 6. State: God Consciousness (or refined Cosmic Consciousness). Vayu
> (air) is the
> prevailing element in the body, and Agni (fire) is in second place.
> Our internal
> five subtle senses are opened, and we now have the ability to perceive
> everything in the universe (to hear, see, smell, taste, feel
> anything). Nothing
> anymore remains hidden from us, and we are not capable of misusing our
> abilities. He who is once enlightened, loses the ability to make
> errors; and he
> who is not enlightened, he is not yet quite able to do everything
> completely
> without error. - the Vayu element (air) maintains the separation
> between our
> transcendental interior world and the refined external world. - in God
> Consciousness we have heavenly perception (and we are now able to, for
> example,
> speak with our guardian angel without any problem). All these refined
> abilities
> develop gradually day by day with the TM-Sidhi program and the TM advanced
> techniques.
>
> 7. State: Unity Consciousness. Akasha (space) is the prevailing
> element, and
> Vayu (air) is in second place. While in the fourth state Akasha is in
> second
> place, where it retained our transcendental self-awareness, here
> Akasha takes
> the first position in the body and allows the experience of Unity
> Consciousness
> to be possible. Each item, which we are aware of, we perceive in the
> full value
> of our transcendental Self. This perception of unity is an achievement
> of the
> finest intellect, thus our most highly developed ability of
> discrimination.
>
> 8. State: Brahman Consciousness (first level in refinement of the
> body). Akasha
> (space) is the prevailing element and Vayu (air) is in second place
> (as in Unity
> Consciousness, however, in Sanskrit both states, the 7th and the 8th,
> are called
> "Brahmi Chetana", the distinction isn't delineated). The body in this
> state is
> more refined than in the 7th state and the proportion of grosser elements
> (earth, water, fire) in the body decreases significantly. The
> "realization of
> unity in each perception" has with regard to the 7th state completely
> changed:
> While, in Unity Consciousness, we experienced unity exclusively with
> regard to
> the object of perception, which we are completely aware of; we
> constantly have
> this experience of absolute unity in Brahman Consciousness with regard to
> everything around us, near or far. Therefore, our perception here has
> developed
> to its absolute value, while in Cosmic Consciousness our self had already
> developed to its absolute value. Thus now
> everything in our life is experienced in its absolute value - except
> the body.
> It refines itself only in the later states.
>
> 8a: Brahman Consciousness (2nd level in the refined body). Manas, 6th
> element of
> the thinking mind, becomes prevalent in the body, and Akasha is in
> second place.
> Whoever achieves this elevated state is guaranteed a place in the
> Guiness World
> Book of Records. - it is believed that the illumined Gopis (Krishna's
> playmates
> in Vrindavan) reached this state 5200 years ago.
>
> 8b: Brahman Consciousness (3rd level in the refined body). Buddhi (7th
> element,
> the finest intellect) becomes prevalent in the body. This state is
> unique. Shri
> Radha, who among all the Gopis was the most highly enlightened, and whom
> Krischna admired the most, reached this state.
>
> 8c: Brahman Consciousness (4th level in the refined body). Ahamkara,
> 8th element
> of the "I Consciousness" (finest Ego) becomes prevalent in the body.
> In this
> state our body is totally refined, as a body of light existing on the
> finest
> level of creation, far beyond a so-called heavenly body ("Celestial
> Body").
> Examples of this state are not available at the present time, however,
> eagerly
> sought after, is someone to report to us how it feels.
>
> 9. State: Krishna Consciousness. Pure consciousness does not only now
> prevail in
> the body, but it has transformed every last trace of the eight
> elements in the
> body into absolute Being. Maharishi: " This is the body made of
> absolute Being."
> Starting with the all-knowingness of Brahman Consciousness we now also add
> physical omnipresence and omnipotence, however, there is no being that
> could
> ever be completely equal to God. Even in Krishna Consciousness, on the
> absolute
> pinnacle of any developmental possibility, one is still an individual,
> who can
> think "only one thought at a time" (although with maximum speed). Only
> God alone
> can think infinitely many thoughts at a time, however, we human
> individuals can
> transcend (in the end) even our individual personality and in
> Mahasamadhi become
> one with God, as Guru Dev before us has done. Then we are again
> completely one
> with the source of all beings. - 5200 years ago in Vrindavan, in His
> terrestrial
> incarnation, as the ninth avatar,
> Krishna had an absolute body and Krishna Consciousness and was revered
> as the
> embodiment of transcendence and as the incarnation of Vishnu's
> transcendental
> aspect -
>
> Finally a word on the heavenly body (which we humans also can attain
> in the 8th
> state, before the "second level of Brahman Consciousness"). The devas
> under
> Indra, the king of the Gods, have a heavenly body which is without
> boundaries,
> so that they can watch over and administer their own law of nature
> everywhere in
> the universe simultaneously. In this body the element Akasha becomes
> prevalent,
> and the four low elements: earth, water, fire and air are completely
> refined and
> only " available in seed form"... this last trace of the relative world is
> necessary so that the devas are able to be active in the world.
> Infinite harmony
> and pure Sattwa are prevalent in them, but Moksha, spiritual liberation or
> complete enlightenment is not available for the devas. They sometimes
> therefore
> accept a human birth in order to disseminate the highest knowledge (as did
> Bhishma, the Eights of the Vasu Devas, the son of Ganga Devi, or the five
> Pandawas: Yudhishthira, Arjuna, Bhima, Nakula and
> Sahadeva, each of whom, in ancient times, all already reined once as
> Indra over
> the devas).
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