--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > Ok, here is the point that's intrigued me. I fully > admit to having read very little Advaita, where these > ideas seem to be coming from. I walked away from TM > and having much of an interest in the Hindu-based > philosophies 25 years ago, and wandered down paths > more frequented by Buddhists. > > So when I first encountered, a few days ago, your use > of the term "primal identification," and, even more > shocking (to me), "sin" used with regard to manifestation, > it kinda threw me for a loop. I must admit to having > NEVER entertained such a concept as "sin" with regard > to the manifest universe.
I'd love to know where the notion that Advaita views manifestation as "sin" came from. I've never encountered that idea in any of the material I've read on Advaita, and certainly not from Maharishi. If there is "sin," as I understand it, it's in having "forgotten" one's unmanifest nature. Then there's this, two responses MMY has given (at different times) to the question, "Why did the Absolute manifest?" (1) Perhaps for the sake of variety? (2) It didn't.
