--- In [email protected], cardemaister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "BillyG." <wgm4u@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], Peter <drpetersutphen@> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > You're talking about sattvic states of mind. The > > > little me does not become the Big me. That is only a > > > useful fiction that MMY spoke about. The little me > > > disappears and there is no me only THAT. > > > > Alright, now you really got me mad! You're gonna get it, just wait, > > you punk!.....anyway, like I was saying: > > > > At any rate, Sattvic is of the Gunas, not the Purusha. In Samadhi > we > > experience the Purusha, eternal unmanifest (to the three worlds), > > beyond relativity, and its nature is Unity, Consciousness and > > Anandam/bliss. > > > > Clue...the little me doesn't exist, but in its impure state the > soul > > thinks of itself as the ego (little me) it's an illusion of Maya > > (Satan the 'magical measurer') however, this apparency gets its > life > > from the jiva/soul. Since it is 'identified' with the objects of > the > > senses it thinks it is separate from soul, in reality it is not. > > > > When we meditate we just drop the illusion and the natural > awareness > > we already have (albeit meager) expands to realize tat-tvam-asi, > *I* > > am that! > > I guess you, Sir, mean "ahaM brahmaasmi" (I am Brahma[n]). > > > Some (dualists, and stuff?) think, I believe, that the phrase > above is actually "tattvam asi" (tattva [you] are). In devanaagarii > "tattvam asi" and "tat tvam asi" look exactly the same (actually, > they "look like" "tattvamasi").
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/3588/tattvamasi.gif NB: because of a "weird" feature of DN, 'i' is the *second last* character and 's' is the last (character).
