[FairfieldLife] When one looks to the sky for rain, the rain falls

2007-04-26 Thread Robert Gimbel
In order to have cause and effect, there must be the dimension of 
time present. Therefore, these laws do apply in the relative world of 
time and sequence.
But, in the Transcendent, there is no time, it doesn't exist.
So, when one has an intension, in a place of no-time...
Different laws of nature apply.
This is where miracles occur.
Sure, if Rome's Pilot commanded Jesus to quick;
Perform a miracle for some ego satisfaction..
It would have been quite difficult to do that;
Because of that consciousness being so literal,material, time-
oriented... 
Miracles only occur, outside of time.
It is an experience which cannot be explained in linear terms.
That's why they call it a miracle;
You must be open to something greater than your ego.
That's all.
Jesus said, that we all could perform miracles greater than he.
Why is that so hard to believe?
Why is it so hard to believe, that you could transcend time, and 
change anything?
r.g.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Curtis wrote:
  Since none of us actually experience causation...
 
 You may want to re-think this statement, Curtis. Apparently 
 you got confused and went over to the transcendentalist 
 point of view without realizing it. If you were a philosophy 
 major at MUM, this is understandable. 
 
 But, in fact, everyone experiences Causation. Everyone knows 
 that human excrement always flows downstream. In philosophy, 
 Causation is a relationship that describes and analyses 
 cause and effect. 
 
 In physics, we get from this the first law of thermodynamics: 
 energy can be neither created nor destroyed, which gives rise 
 to the second law of thermodynamics involving entropy.
 
 According to most Western philosophers, Causality denotes 
 a logical relationship between one physical event, the cause, 
 and another physical event, the effect - the cause-effect 
relationship. 
 
 In the transcendentalist view, (Mandukya Upanishad, Brahma 
 Sutras, Yoga Vashishta) there is mention of causality, but 
 causality is explained as part of the creation of the universe,
 a concept which is opposed to the deterministic view of modern
 science.
 
 In a deterministic world-view, there is nothing but Causation, 
 which has been described as a chain of events following one 
 after another according to the law of Causation. 
 
 All causes of things are beginnings; that we have scientific
 knowledge when we know the cause; that to know a thing's 
 existence is to know the reason why it is. - Aristotle
 
 Because of this, that happens. - Gotoma
 
 Looking at the sky, he fell into a ditch. - Punditster






[FairfieldLife] When one looks to the sky for rain, the rain falls

2007-04-25 Thread Robert Gimbel
 (snip)
   My criticism of selling yagyas comes from its theory as well as
its practice.  I don't know of any plausible theory of how 
offering, smoke and food to statues of Indians mythological 
characters can have an effect on the world without proposing a 
magical connection.
 
Let me relate a story:
One time, a few years ago, I traveled to New Jersey, in my van;
And my girlfriend and I spent a few days camping in Southern New Jersey.
Well it just so happens that I had some extra time, while I was camping 
there, in the woods;
And so, I tried an experiment:
Now, as it would have it, there had been a severe draught at that time, 
on the East Coast, and in New Jersey(probably in the summer of 1999, as 
I recall).
I had heard that proposition describing the name/form concept, as 
Maharishi has taught, so I made up what I thought would be the simplest 
form of a mantra, and focused on the desire to have it rain.
The mantra was in reference to Indra, the force of thunder, and rain.
So, I thought: Shri Indra Namah Aum, and continued to do this for about 
three days.
At first I felt a resistance in the atmosphere, as if the dryness, or 
the desert feeling, at the time of the draught, seemed to 'push back'.
But after a while that feeling subsided, and low and behold, it started 
to rain, and it rained quite a bit, for several days.
In the meantime a hurricane had formed off of the Carolina coast, and 
it was interesting to watch the outermost clouds of that storm.
So, I can easily believe, that a group of people, performing yagyas, 
could easily produce the results, so it seems to me.
r.g.



[FairfieldLife] when one looks to the sky for rain, the rain falls

2007-04-23 Thread bob_brigante
Maharishi's message from Akshaya Tritiya

Global Good News
22 April 2007

On 20 April 2007, the auspicious day of Akshaya Tritiya—the Day of 
Lasting Achievements in the Vedic Calendar—Dr Bevan Morris, the Prime 
Minister of the Global Country of World Peace, summarized the address 
of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to the world. 

'Maharishi has given today a hint of that great secret of the 
administration of Raja Raam (ruler of the Global Country of World 
Peace),' he said. 'And that is administration on that level where, 
when one looks to the sky for rain, the rain falls. 

'This is the expression of that level of administration where it is 
cosmic law that has been invoked to administer the life of society, 
not only in favour of society as a whole, but in terms of every 
individual Every individual can have spontaneous fulfilment of 
their desire materialized by cosmic law, by the law of the galactic 
universe. It is the heartfelt desire of Raja Raam to achieve such a 
level of purity in the life of the world, that this will be the case 
for every individual in every nation on earth,' Dr Morris said. 

Echoing Maharishi's words, he said that this is 'Raam Brahm Paramarat 
Rupa—the administration of Brahm (Totality, total Natural Law) 
itself. And even, as Maharishi explained, taking that to another 
level, before the requirement is known by anyone, that requirement 
could be fulfilled by the parental influence of the cosmic law that 
administers the universe. 

'So this is the secret that Maharishi said, ''I was almost too hasty 
to express.'' ' This is the secret of Raja Raam's silent 
administration 'which is dawning now, as the Kali Yuga ends and the 
Sat Yuga begins. We see this on the level, Maharishi explained, of 
Shabda Brahman, that the Brahman known through the field of Vedic 
Sound, which is Shruti (that which is revealed) in that eternal field 
of totality of all Natural Law ... that is being enlivened through 
the Vedic performances of the Vedic Pandits of India, and that is the 
level where we have, at once, the two realities of infinite silence 
and infinite dynamism, of Gyana Shakti and Kriya Shakti, both 
together, neutralizing each other, covering each other. 

'These two opposite values are unified in one grand totality of 
infinite silence without a trace of activity; but then, in the nature 
of that infinite silence, the Para Prakriti, the unified value of 
dynamism and its eightfold divided nature—this grand reality is 
available completely to be the blissful administrator of life on 
earth. 

'This is the administration of our Raja Raam, that everything in our 
world will be sustained on this level of its own cosmic dignity and 
nature. Everything will always be evolving to higher and higher 
levels of fulfilment.' 

Dr Morris presented Maharishi's explanation of the first sounds of Rk 
Veda and their significance as the dynamics of Natural Law—that 'this 
is the level of administration where ''AK'' will really be known in 
the world again. It was hidden in the Kali Yuga, even in the printing 
of the Veda, but now ''AK'', ''A'' to ''Ka'', infinity to its point, 
the reverberation of infinite silence with infinite dynamism', is 
becoming the reality of the global administration of the world. 'So 
it is such a joy to know,' he said, 'that this level of completely 
competent rulership that can do anything without doing at all, is now 
going to be the reality.' 

Dr Morris outlined the great news about Maharishi's Kurma Chakra 
Calendar—the system of evaluation predicting yearly, monthly, and 
daily events of the different kinds of influences that can be seen in 
the horoscope. Maharishi's desire is that there be Vedic Pandits and 
Vedic Jyotishis (astrologers) taking care of these influences for 
every country in the world from the Brahmasthan (centre point) of 
India. 'And they should cover all five elements—Prithivi, Jala, Agni, 
Vayu, Akasha (earth, water, fire, air, space)—in each area to see 
where any imbalance may be coming, any fury of nature, whether in 
water, through excessive rain and flood; or wind and hurricane. The 
idea is, to calm that fury of nature in advance, to prevent any 
disaster befalling any of the 192 countries of the world.' 

A grand total of 16,000 Vedic pandits will perform this service for 
the world, Dr Morris said. And then, when this is established, small 
groups of 5-11 Vedic Pandits will begin to move about the world, that 
everyone may hear 'this sound of Brahm, the Shabda Brahm, the sound 
of the Veda, everywhere in every country. It will be very significant 
for the total good of every nation', for their destiny, perfect 
health, immortality, and invincibility, to be taken care of from 
India, from the Brahmasthan, through these groups for all 192 
countries of the world. 

'So what an incredible news that Maharishi has unfolded to us', said 
Dr Morris, 'in giving us this great secret of the administration of 
Maharaja Nader Raam, to whom