--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you're aware *of* bliss as a "something," as > blissfulness, that isn't no thoughts/no mantra, > by definition. I think I see the problem now, you must remember that MMY's description of Samadhi includes *three* adjectives, it's Absolute (Sat, eternal without a second), Chit (Consciousness) and Ananda (Bliss, not *blissful* in the animated sense). Of course there is consciousness during TC, TC is nothing but your conscious bliss, get it? The ego is transcended and what is left is your pure awareness of Bliss, not blissful as in happy, but your pure soul, eternal conscious bliss. Emphasis on *Consciousness*. > You may recall that MMY has said, "Bliss is not > blissFUL." To experience blissfulness, one must > have awareness *of* it, as a "something." Correct...blissful in this context is a verb! > Transcendental consciousness-by-itself (samadhi) > is *pure* bliss, as opposed to blissFULness. There > is no subject/object distinction present in TC-by- > itself, so no way to be aware *of* blissfulness. Yes, bliss being a noun and blissful being a verb. The subject (the ego) has become the object (the soul, pure conscious bliss). > That doesn't mean one doesn't experience > blissfulness before and/or after TC-by-itself. But > in TC-by-itself, one *is* bliss. There is no "me" > to say, "I am blissful." You mean there is NO ego, the ego is now conscious bliss. The fourth major state of *consciousness*. That happens only after > TC-by-itself has ended and the subject/object > distinction has returned. > > Pure bliss is utterly abstract, not something > one is aware *of*. It is awareness itself, The ego does not lose the ability to experience in the transcendent, it becomes the transcendent which is Absolute, *Consciousness*, bliss. You lose consciousness when you come out of TC and go to sleep in matter and the objective world, the consciousness in TC in pure...bliss! >read remainder carefully and snipped for brevity.....
