[FairfieldLife] Re: What did ‘Guru Dev’ say on Spir itual Morality and its Moral Compass
"You are a human being, therefore you have the power to discriminate what is good and what is bad, and you can accomplish the greatest human goals. Don't think of yourself as weak or fallen. Whatever has happened in the past, understand that it was done unknowingly. But now be careful, begin doing the type of acts appropriate for a human being. Discern for yourself what is good and what is bad. Adopt the good and reject the bad. As a human being, if you don't know Paramàtmà, then understand that you have sold a diamond for the price of spinach." -SBS In TM we say “Jai Guru Dev” a lot; but, what did Guru Dev Swami Brahmananda Saraswati (Maharishi’s teacher) have to say about morality and behavior? Let us look at this for a bit. Let us look more at what Maharishi’s teacher had to say about character and behavior... Of morality Guru Dev evidently is saying, That our Spiritual in morality is judging in discernment how we take care of ourselves and others in either enhancing spiritual wellbeing or not. ..Swami Brahmananda Saraswati (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s teacher) says: “Dhanàrjana has said, [Sanskrit:] akçtvà parasantàpaü, àgatvà khalamandiram | anullaïghya satàm vartmaü yadalpamapi tad bahu || This means, not harming others, not associating with bad persons, not plunging the àtman in entanglements, and whatever small amount we earn will be plenty. If you make trouble for others while earning your money, that wealth will remain behind, but the harm that you have given to the person will carry along with your subtle body. Therefore, don't act such that you carry along a baggage of sin with you. The meaning of àgatvà khalamandiram is this Þ if you associate with base people, your intellect (buddhi) gets spoiled, and once your intellect is spoiled, a fall is certain. [The phrase] buddhinà÷àt praõasyati Þ Direct association with base objects is much more precipitous. So going to the home of the wicked for the purpose of making money is forbidden. The meaning of anullaïghya satàm vartmaü is thisÞthat path which is in accord with the Vedas and ÷àstras given by good people should never be violated. If a situation arises in your daily dealings where you have to come into contact with a base person, then you should approach him just like you go to the toilet — do the job and leave. Nobody lingers in the toilet for long. If you discipline your intellect in this way, then there is no doubt of harm through association with the low. A pure mind goes near Paramàtmà, and the impure mind wanders through various types of emotional states.” ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Of moral integrity, Maharishi’s teacher’s teachings about moral character.. Teaching #50, "For all kinds of progress, both in this world and the next, keep the mind pure, and it is essential to increase the purity of the mind to remain pure. Therefore you must keep the company of good people while foregoing the company of the bad. Always study the scriptures; take care to maintain a pure diet (thoughts); perform Bhagavàn's bhajan and worship, as well as repetition of mantras; practice truth and non-injury (ahimsà), and the other precepts of good conduct; you must always keep yourself within proper bounds." -Guru Dev Swami Brahmananda Saraswati ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : "A man learns from the company he keeps. As one's company is good or evil, so such things will be learned. It is a notable fact that on seeing his companions' behavior, a man does likewise; whether he is aware of it at all or not, he nevertheless acts accordingly. So the point is that man's actions and thoughts accord with the company he keeps. Therefore, if someone falls in with a bad crowd, then his actions and thoughts will be corrupted; moreover, those with whom he comes into contact will also sink. Hence, one should strive to associate with good company." -Guru Dev, SBS Guru Dev Swami Brahmananda Saraswati reflecting, You should understand that if someone is of poor character, he is not a [real] devotee, and is just putting on a show to cheat people. Save yourself from such deceitful people, and save innocent pious people from them. .. As a matter of principle, one should reject those deserving rejection and honor those deserving honor. If unworthy people are honored, then their number will increase and their stench will spoil society. -SBS ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Consideration of bad spiritual morality and bad character in behavior runs throughout Brahmananda Saraswati’s discourses. Like discourses #17, 19, 22, 33, 50 and throughout, morality by what enhances spirituality or does not as a litmus. Of bad morality and bad character different people have dealt with their feelings around behavior displayed in the communities ofTM differently. There evidently wa
[FairfieldLife] Re: Support in Nature
..protective care of nature as a spiritual power. Support of Nature: A Life Supported by Natural Law Lectures by His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1985) Maharishi said: “The unified field is the unmanifest basis of the whole creation, the creator and governor of the whole universe. Through Transcendental Meditation it is simple to open our awareness to this state of transcendence. Spontaneously, the conscious mind identifies itself with the self-referral unified field, the fountainhead of all the streams of activity in nature. As we gain more and more familiarity with that self-referral performance, our thoughts and actions spontaneously begin to be as orderly and evolutionary as all the activity of nature.” “This training is of supreme practical value for our lives.” Support in Nature, a Provident protective care of unasked for grace in elegant favour of nature as a spiritual power. ..Support of Nature. The presentation of providence as support in nature that is in spiritual cultivation was a strong feature in both Guru Dev’s and Maharishi’s practical teaching of life. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Brahmananda Saraswati (Guru Dev) from a mid-20th Century Himalayan India and then Maharishi in the opening decade of the modern 21st Century taught to this practicality of spiritual life. Maharishi in a 1985 lecture: All who are practicing the Transcendental Meditation and ™-Sidhi program are the real scientists of this generation, on the forefront of scientific investigation. ..Now Vedic Science offers the knowledge to develop a fully integrated man, whose mind, body, intellect, and behavior are in perfect accord with all the laws of nature. Human brain physiology is the hardware of that cosmic computer which can create anything through proper programming. Human awareness has the ability to identify completely with the total potential of natural law, the unified field, which is transcendental consciousness, the self-referral state of consciousness. The Transcendental.. Life Supported by Natural Law World Assembly on Vedic Science Lectures by His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi July 9-17, 1985, Washington, D.C. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : What did Guru Dev (Maharishi’s teacher) say about cultivating this support in nature? It is a theme that recurs in his talks about spirituality and spiritual life. This is one discourse that considers a support in nature that comes from meditation and spiritual practices. Swami Brahmananda Saraswati said: “If you want to benefit from Bhagavàn (the Transcendent), then do spiritual practice and make him manifest in one location. The all-pervasive, formless divine being (bhagavatsattà ) is incapable of action; it is merely a witness. Only when it manifests itself in one place with the help of màyà can it take some action in màyà's world, characterized as it is by the three guṇas. This is like the fire which remains unmanifest in wood; even though it is all-pervading, it cannot light the wood, nor can it perform any act. But when wood is rubbed, the wood can burn and act as we desire. Similarly, when the all-pervasive divine being manifests in some site with the help of our spiritual practice, then there can be some worldly benefit. Spiritual practice is a staircase by which the devotee climbs to Bhagavàn (the Transcendent), and Bhagavàn climbs down to the devotee. Only by spiritual practice does the being of Bhagavàn, which abides in all animate and inanimate things, manifest itself in one site and thus acts in accordance with the devotee's desires. Only when the formless, unmanifest pure existence manifests itself in a form with attributes can any activity take place. Hence if you want to receive Bhagavàn's blessings, then carry out spiritual practice and make him manifest, either inside or outside. Once Bhagavàn manifests in one's heart, only then will all the poverty of life be eliminated.” ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : In this nature of phenomenology, there is someone who conducted what became an empirical study of 'support of nature' as phenomenology. Gathered data, authored a paper on support of nature experience. Became the work of a PhD thesis. Collected people’s experience that became data. The work of the paper allows for something that would seems more purely subjective to become more objective to look at. Nature’s providence in meditating human’s nature in, Grace. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Support of Nature, in findings of phenomenological support that is operational as nature in the human life form in practical life. Phenomenal. ‘..Know this to be that which you are seeking’, also. email sharing by experience from a friend to FFL.. "Yes, our source of the source is Mother Divine. We expand in consciousness from the Self to a clear vi
[FairfieldLife] Re: TM and Karma Yoga
from inside Fairfield's spiritual satsanga conversation.. "The heart chakra in many systems is considered as sort of the crowning jewel of the human energy system because especially in a place (Fairfield, Iowa) where we have people who do a lot of meditating a lot of the chakras like the 3rd eye or brow chakras in a lot of mediators are activated, although not necessarily, funnily enough, it does not always happen that way. But a lot of times the chakras above the head, your heads, are very developed. TM in particular does a fantastic job of opening the chakras above the head, that is what makes that transcendence experience possible. That is also why people sometimes collapse down in their meditation when they go into deeper states of their meditation, they actually slump down in meditation a bit because their energy is actually shooting up and out. Now that is great but it is not going to live in the world that way. The chakras when they are healthy nest with each other one in to the other. Where we get in to trouble is when we start getting blocks between these chakras where this can be partial and it is very rare to be complete or you would be really really sick if they are really truly blocked chakras. But they can be diminished and that will manifest in certain kinds of conditions, physical, mental, emotional and spiritual . So, we want to open those blocks up. In the human energy system there are the chakras that serve as pins that pin the larger light body to its relationship to this little “meat suit” physical body . The chakras are really good at transferring information in and out of this system. The larger light body moves out and around the physical body. So when we open these and start talking to them and invite them to talk to each other then the whole system becomes more activated. This is when some people reference things like change in aura size, that people come to have large auras. Why is that possible? Because their chakras have become un-blocked so that the energies that are available to it spread out. A lot of people here in Fairfield actually do have big chakras, and very big auric fields. They can go out a thousand feet. .that the ‘expansion of consciousness’ is great but that to live it here on earth we need to open up that heart. So this is to help with this to move energy in the body and activate certain areas. All to purpose then the cultivated purpose is to help open connections between the chakras and clear them, orient them, help them so that they are spinning in the right direction and that they articulate and communicate with each other. What we want to do is cultivate the strength of our energy body so that we can take that incredible of development of consciousness and live in the world and actually live it. To do that we need to be attending to the condition of this incredible system that we have that is just waiting to be employed. The easiest place to influence this is the heart chakra because as the heart goes the rest of the system will go. But if you open up and cultivate this heart how good we feel in that sense of joy, well being and comfort here. That is a function of the open heart." https://sites.google.com/site/chakraheartmeditation/ https://sites.google.com/site/chakraheartmeditation/ ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Sit up and meditate, ‘meditation is something you do’.. Back a few years ago when people were being subsidized with grant money to stay in Fairfield and meditate with the large group in the Domes some few were gaming the money system then by just coming in to the Dome meditation and sleeping. Even on FFL this was called out for what is was, the ‘dozing for dollars’ program. The dullness in slumber consciousness of the group was palpable then. Some of us who do sit up while we meditate started the ‘STFU and meditate’ pushback back against this corruption. Others in an orthodox appeasement were insistent that slumped over or flat out laying down sleeping for meditation is an important experience in meditation. Mostly you can see that this was just lack of discipline in people’s lives and It got to be pretty bad for a while. The dozing for meditation sleep-a-tation became something that TM’ers were being more commonly known for in wider spiritual circles. You’d see TM’ers doing this like an entitlement within the shakti of other spiritual groups. TM’er’s use to come in to the darshan area where Ammachi was transmitting darshan and lay out in front at the darshan hall as this very spiritual transmission was going on. Same thing with Karunamayi in her public meetings. It was such dullness to what was going on, so lame and so obvious to ™’ers taking some entitlement. The saints finally asked in turn that people stop with bringing the sleep consciousness in and doing that, effectively stopping it for what dulln
[FairfieldLife] File - FFL Acronyms
BC - Brahman Consciousness BN - Bliss Ninny or Bliss Nazi CC - Cosmic Consciousness GC - God Consciousness MMY - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi OTP - Off the Program - a phrase used in the TM movement meaning to do something (such as see another spiritual teacher) considered in violation of Maharishi's program. POV - Point of View SBS - Swami Brahmananda Saraswati, Maharishi's master SCI Science of Creative Intelligence SOC - State of Consciousness SSRS - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (Pundit-ji) SV - Stpathya Ved (Vedic Architecture) TB - True Believer (in TM doctrines) TNB - True Non-Believer TMO - The Transcendental Meditation organization TTC TM Teacher Training Course UC - Unity Consciousness WYMS - "World Youth Meditation Society" later changed to "World Youth Movement for the Science of Creative Intelligence" was founded by Peter Hübner in Germany, as a national TM outlet competing with SIMS, Students International Meditation Society YMMV = Your Mileage may vary To subscribe, send a message to: fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: fairfieldlife-dig...@yahoogroups.com fairfieldlife-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: fairfieldlife-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo Groups is subject to: https://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/utos/terms/
