Re: [FairfieldLife] Matter and consciousness?
MMY had a fondness for the Kashmere Trika philosophy - I guess that's why he and students visited the Swami Laksmanjoo up in Kashmere on 1968 TTC. Kashmere Saivism is an absolute idealism, just like Adwaita Vedanta. The main difference is the interpretation given to the term 'maya'. Swami Laksmanjoo and Swami Mulktananda used to teach Adwaita Vedanta and Kashmere Saivism to their students. There's not much difference between the two traditions, which are both forms of monism. Kashmere Trika is a non-dual metaphysical system called 'Trika'. In Sanskrit, the term 'trika' pertains to number, '3', the three, or trinity. There are three states of consciousness, waking, sleeping, and dreaming; there is a fourth state, a state of pure consciousness, a transcendental state called 'turiya'. Turiya in Sanskrit means 'fourth', used in the Adwaita Vedanta to indicate the fourth state of consciousness, explained in Mandukhya Upanishad: In both deep sleep and transcendental consciousness there is no consciousness of objects. But this objective consciousness is present in an unmanifest 'seed' form in deep sleep while it is completely transcended in the turiya. Mandukya Upanishad: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandukya_Upanishad On 10/18/2013 12:43 AM, cardemais...@yahoo.com wrote: empty et al: Did Maharishi state something like (paraphrase): the basic state of consciousness is subjective experience of the state of least excitation of matter?? If that's the case was he more of an advaitic vedantist than a proponent of Patañjali's yoga?? I mean, according to saaMhkya and thus PJ, purusha has nothing to do with prakRti?
Re: [FairfieldLife] Matter and consciousness?
Richard can you give more detail about how these two systems view maya? Maybe it'll help me stay out of the rabbit hole! On Friday, October 18, 2013 9:12 AM, Richard J. Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote: MMY had a fondness for the Kashmere Trika philosophy - I guess that's why he and students visited the Swami Laksmanjoo up in Kashmere on 1968 TTC. Kashmere Saivism is an absolute idealism, just like Adwaita Vedanta. The main difference is the interpretation given to the term 'maya'. Swami Laksmanjoo and Swami Mulktananda used to teach Adwaita Vedanta and Kashmere Saivism to their students. There's not much difference between the two traditions, which are both forms of monism. Kashmere Trika is a non-dual metaphysical system called 'Trika'. In Sanskrit, the term 'trika' pertains to number, '3', the three, or trinity. There are three states of consciousness, waking, sleeping, and dreaming; there is a fourth state, a state of pure consciousness, a transcendental state called 'turiya'. Turiya in Sanskrit means 'fourth', used in the Adwaita Vedanta to indicate the fourth state of consciousness, explained in Mandukhya Upanishad: In both deep sleep and transcendental consciousness there is no consciousness of objects. But this objective consciousness is present in an unmanifest 'seed' form in deep sleep while it is completely transcended in the turiya. Mandukya Upanishad: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandukya_Upanishad On 10/18/2013 12:43 AM, cardemais...@yahoo.com wrote: empty et al: Did Maharishi state something like (paraphrase): the basic state of consciousness is subjective experience of the state of least excitation of matter?? If that's the case was he more of an advaitic vedantist than a proponent of Patañjali's yoga?? I mean, according to saaMhkya and thus PJ, purusha has nothing to do with prakRti?
[FairfieldLife] Matter and consciousness?
empty et al: Did Maharishi state something like (paraphrase): the basic state of consciousness is subjective experience of the state of least excitation of matter?? If that's the case was he more of an advaitic vedantist than a proponent of Patañjali's yoga?? I mean, according to saaMhkya and thus PJ, purusha has nothing to do with prakRti?
