Billy G., Your response is very thought provoking. I'm sure the theologians and yogis of the past have addressed your ideas one way or another. My take is as follows: 1.> Certainly 'Adam and Eve", (representing the thinking and the feeling part of man's nature, even today) the androgynous human, was largely a 'descended' one or a product of maya/prakriti, although with the onset of freewill he was 'enabled' to become as gods, literally as the Bible points out, and that will be his/her destiny. >
Among theological circles, Moses is proclaimed to be the author of the Myth of Eden. Given his Hebrew background, the ideas of maya and prakriti are foreign to him. However, he did make a point that Adam and Eve "walked with God". This means that, as humans, they were living the most exalted life here on earth. In other words, they possessed the highest level of consciousness in vedic terms. This implies that the human physiology has the capacity to attain and retain divine consciousness. So, it would mean that the divine was one with humans, the created entity or prakriti, in the beginning. However, something occurred in the course of time which made humans 'fall' from their previous exalted position. (to be continued, as I have to go to work..lol) 2.> As Adam/Eve sinned or transgressed the laws of nature they set in > motion the inevitable law of consequence or karma and are working out their destiny till today as is the Divine Plan. We got tricked by the Satanic force of Maya/illusion which cast a hypnotic spell on us which only the Purusha can dispel. > > > > I believe the error was that they as humans assumed Knowledge can be > > obtained through the senses and phenomenal existence alone. In other > > words, they thought they were gods. > > I think they were promised, correctly, that they would become as gods > but in actuality they became *egos* or maya identified/deluded > entities...remember the flower analogy by MMY? >
