--- In [email protected], "Robert Gimbel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As I recall in Maharishi's teaching of enlightenment; 7 stages~ > Three (3) steps to full enlightenment. > > (There are many enlightened people(CC), but few in stabilized UC- Unity). > > The first stage is called CC, and is the transcendence of the ego, and > the experience of the unbounded self, the Atma the soul.
Yes, with emphasis on the Self, that is the Spiritual Ego, MAN made in the image of God, *Self-Realization*. > The second stage of enlightenment has to do with the refinement of > perception, so it becomes possible to view the 'finest level of > creation- where creation actually takes place; where manifestation > arises somehow from the silence, to create creation. Now the Self-Realized Man realizes that his soul jiva/atma is one and the same with the Universal Soul, his consciousness merges with the Immanent Atman (Purusha or personal God) in creation and his soul becomes God's soul, which is the soul of the creation (not just his soul but all men's souls) now he has achieved God's Consciousness. > > Then the final step is one of cognition- that is the cognition or the > 'Knowingness', that everything in this creation is part and parcel of you. > In this state of UC, Unity Consciousness, you see through the Maya of > the whole deal... Correct the experience of the Self as God merges into the infinite beyond and the devotee realizes himself as one with the Father or Brahman...and all that entails. > CC alone, although expanded, can be an alone space- not yet having the > means to see the finest level, the celestial level. Correct..though still bliss, there is still separateness, duality on the level of perception, since it's 'only' the individual that is enlightened his status in not that of the all-pervading immanent God IN creation, and he has yet to achieve oneness or Unity with Brahman. snip
