--- In [email protected], cardemaister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From a linguistic POV that's so confusing that I'd like > to know what exactly is your source for that.
The analogy of the crystal ball comes from Swami Yogananda's book, "The Second Coming of Christ". > Actually, those Hindi truncations(?) of Sanskrit words > make me "furious"! Well, at least a bit irritated... :] But there is a good reason for it as Brahm-a with 'short' a, signifies something different than Brahmaa (two a's for effect only) with a long a. The former refers to the omnipresent Pususha or the formless (can take any form) Creative intelligence in nature, (Brahman's reflection in Prakriti). The long aaaaa is consistent with the trinity of Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva; for what it's worth, I know little about the pantheon of Hindu gods per se! :-) Hence when MMY talks about Brahm, he apparently means the Creative Intelligence/God consciousness underlying all of manifest creation, not the trinity per se. Brahman is unmanifest/Absolute.
