Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: M version and others

2010-08-16 Thread Peter
--- On Sun, 8/15/10, wgm4u wg...@yahoo.com wrote: From: wgm4u wg...@yahoo.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: M version and others To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Sunday, August 15, 2010, 8:23 PM --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptyb...@... wrote

[FairfieldLife] Re: M version and others

2010-08-16 Thread wgm4u
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutp...@... wrote: --- On Sun, 8/15/10, wgm4u wg...@... wrote: From: wgm4u wg...@... Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: M version and others To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Sunday, August 15, 2010, 8:23 PM

[FairfieldLife] Re: M version and others

2010-08-16 Thread wgm4u
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willy...@... wrote: cardemaister: A.C's reading is otherwise odd Swami Bhaktivedanta, a Vedantin, enumerates the five classical states of consciousness which are similar to M's: 1. Wakefulness (jagrat) 2. Dream state (svapna) 3.

[FairfieldLife] Re: M version and others

2010-08-16 Thread merudanda
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutp...@... wrote: I get a ideo-dynamic conditioned headache just reading that! You can't penetrate anything--you naughty boy you ..ups. Chakra girl? .. As ol' Charlie used to say, You can't storm the gates of heaven!and Don't teach your

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: M version and others

2010-08-16 Thread Peter
--- On Mon, 8/16/10, wgm4u wg...@yahoo.com wrote: From: wgm4u wg...@yahoo.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: M version and others To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Monday, August 16, 2010, 7:36 AM --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutp...@... wrote

[FairfieldLife] Re: M version and others

2010-08-16 Thread WillyTex
wgm4u: Same as Yogananda: According Vaj, MMY 'made up' the 'seven states of consciousness'. Now we see that MMY's seven states schema is almost the same as Wilber, Swami Bhaktivedanta, Swami Rama, and Swami Yogananda, and the Vijnanavada, Sri Vidya, and Trika systems. Apparently Vaj, in

[FairfieldLife] Re: M version and others

2010-08-16 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutp...@... wrote: Actually hard to know what those old school guys actually taught unless you were there...back in the day! What makes you think it would have been any easier if you had been?

[FairfieldLife] Re: M version and others

2010-08-16 Thread emptybill
--- infairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutphen@ wrote: Actually hard to know what those old school guys actually taught unless you were there ... back in the day! --- infairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: What makes you think it would have been any

[FairfieldLife] Re: M version and others

2010-08-16 Thread yifuxero
rightI'm still waiting for Vaj to present some evidence showing how his Guru (Norbu Rinpoche)'s metaphysics is somehow beyond what MMY has elucidated in his scheme of the 7 states of Consciousness. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willy...@... wrote: wgm4u: Same as

[FairfieldLife] Re: M version and others

2010-08-16 Thread yifuxero
Thanks. this is the Phuket mantra: uAhem phukoff phukoff anritam phat phat! ... as it has turned out, just yesterday a US Marine was in a bar in Phuket, Thailand and challenged to a fight by a Brit kick-boxer who killed the Marine for no apparent reason with multiple stabbings. So go figure!.

[FairfieldLife] Re: M version and others

2010-08-16 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, yifuxero yifux...@... wrote: Thanks. this is the Phuket mantra: uAhem phukoff phukoff anritam phat phat! ... as it has turned out, just yesterday a US Marine was in a bar in Phuket, Thailand and challenged to a fight by a Brit kick- boxer who killed

[FairfieldLife] Re: M version and others

2010-08-16 Thread emptybill
Yep, you're wright. I jus' din' memeber it the same. I went back an saw that he really gave it as: Ahem phukit phukit anritam wah tuh phuk haha! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, yifuxero yifuxero@ wrote: Thanks.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: M version and others

2010-08-16 Thread Bhairitu
Naah, you amateurs are mixing up amritam with amukam the first being the heart and the latter a word you replace with the name of the target. So it would be: Om phukit phukit amukam me hoong phat swaha. ;-) emptybill wrote: Yep, you're wright. I jus' din' memeber it the same. I went back an

[FairfieldLife] Re: M version and others

2010-08-16 Thread yifuxero
Well done! This reveals possible dangers in using mispronounced or wrong words in mantras; so a lesson to the wise. This Australian psychic was looking for a little girl (having had some visions of the whereabouts of a body); but instead found the headless corpse of a woman in her 30's. Such

[FairfieldLife] Re: M version and others

2010-08-16 Thread WillyTex
Actually hard to know what those old school guys actually taught unless you were there... back in the day! TurquoiseB: What makes you think it would have been any easier if you had been? Because you wouldn't have to read about them in books or on the internet long after they are

[FairfieldLife] Re: M version and others

2010-08-15 Thread jeff.evans60
MMY BG CH4 V14 Commentary ...knowledge of the essential nature of the divine Being, personified by Lord Krishna, who is beyond the relative and the Absolute, beyond the Unity of Being and the diversity of creation, but holds within Himself the fullness of both. --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: M version and others

2010-08-15 Thread WillyTex
jeff: MMY BG CH4 V14 Commentary... Lord Krishna is the 'Transcendental Person', mentioned in Bhagavad Gita. That means that He is beyond, or transcendental to, phenomenon - the relative world of change. So, since Krishna is the Absolute, he is in fact 'indescribablly different', (Acyenta

[FairfieldLife] Re: M version and others

2010-08-15 Thread raunchydog
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jeff.evans60 jeff.evan...@... wrote: MMY BG CH4 V14 Commentary ...knowledge of the essential nature of the divine Being, personified by Lord Krishna, who is beyond the relative and the Absolute, beyond the Unity of Being and the diversity of

[FairfieldLife] Re: M version and others

2010-08-15 Thread curtisdeltablues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV7zBvfc2mQfeature=related Ariel is the youngest of King Triton's seven daughters. She is shown as being adventurous and curious about the world of humans, a fascination which angers her father as merfolk are forbidden from making contact with the human world.

[FairfieldLife] Re: M version and others

2010-08-15 Thread wgm4u
The essential triune nature of Being is easily understood by the analogy of the crystal ball. A blue crystal ball exposed to the Sun reflects the light of the sun, which is now blue light being modified by the color of the crystal, the blue reflected light within this crystal ball is Krishna,

[FairfieldLife] Re: M version and others

2010-08-15 Thread WillyTex
wgm4u: Purman adah, Purnam idam Om ! That (world) is a complete whole. This (world) too is a complete whole. From the complete whole only, the (other) complete whole rose. Even after removing the complete whole from the (other) complete whole, still the complete whole remains unaltered

[FairfieldLife] Re: M version and others

2010-08-15 Thread yifuxero
very good, consistent with what Muktananda (and his disciple Master Charlnes Cannon); and Adi Da say. ...with one minor exception: Adi Da mentions the Blue field of the Cosmic Mandala and doesn't go into Personalities such as Krishna, Jesus, etc. Muktananda specifically mentions seeing the Blue

[FairfieldLife] Re: M version and others

2010-08-15 Thread emptybill
In Yogananada's kriya line this is the cosmic mandala. When you penetrate the different bindu-s, your consciousness transits into that loka. However you have to have good dharana. You can't just project your imagination, gossip with the masters and call it a day. The golden-yellow is the

[FairfieldLife] Re: M version and others

2010-08-15 Thread wgm4u
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, yifuxero yifux...@... wrote: very good, consistent with what Muktananda (and his disciple Master Charlnes Cannon); and Adi Da say. ...with one minor exception: Adi Da mentions the Blue field of the Cosmic Mandala and doesn't go into Personalities such

[FairfieldLife] Re: M version and others

2010-08-15 Thread wgm4u
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptyb...@... wrote: In Yogananada's kriya line this is the cosmic mandala. When you penetrate the different bindu-s, your consciousness transits into that loka. However you have to have good dharana. You can't just project your imagination,

[FairfieldLife] Re: M version and others

2010-08-14 Thread azgrey
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willy...@... wrote: Don't you just hate those fukin' Latinos! Hater. Usted señor no son caballero. ¿Ve cuán estúpido es?

[FairfieldLife] Re: M version and others

2010-08-14 Thread WillyTex
Texican pfrases such as y'all, chicken fried, and messcan. Don't you just hate those fukin' Latinos! azgrey: Usted señor no son caballero... Are you mescan? You're not making any sense.

[FairfieldLife] Re: M version and others

2010-08-13 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_re...@... wrote: FWIW: anaadimatparaM brahma Shankara: *anaadimat* paraM brahma A.C: anaadi *matparaM* brahma IOW, the author of the Giitaa seems to have been a bit, well, mischievous: Shankara's reading is grammatically a

[FairfieldLife] Re: M version and others

2010-08-13 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@ wrote: FWIW: anaadimatparaM brahma Shankara: *anaadimat* paraM brahma A.C: anaadi *matparaM* brahma IOW, the author of the Giitaa

[FairfieldLife] Re: M version and others

2010-08-13 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@ wrote: FWIW: anaadimatparaM brahma Shankara: *anaadimat*

[FairfieldLife] Re: M version and others

2010-08-13 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister

[FairfieldLife] Re: M version and others

2010-08-13 Thread emptybill
Card, Who has time to search out a quote without full attribution - other than you? If you want to quote text then at least give the chapter. Who keeps a copy of As-It-Is around except Hari K. or raw beginners who got their copy at the airport in 1976? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,

[FairfieldLife] Re: M version and others

2010-08-13 Thread WillyTex
cardemaister: A.C's reading is otherwise odd Swami Bhaktivedanta, a Vedantin, enumerates the five classical states of consciousness which are similar to M's: 1. Wakefulness (jagrat) 2. Dream state (svapna) 3. Deep sleep (sushupti) 4. Superconscious state (turiya) 5. Transcendent state

[FairfieldLife] Re: M version and others

2010-08-13 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptyb...@... wrote: Card, Who has time to search out a quote without full attribution - other than you? If you want to quote text then at least give the chapter. Who keeps a copy of As-It-Is around except Hari K. or raw beginners who got

[FairfieldLife] Re: M version and others

2010-08-13 Thread WillyTex
emptybill: Who has time to search out a quote without full attribution - other than you? If you want to quote text then at least give the chapter. You didn't cite any sources for your essay on Yogavasitha. Card already said he was reading from A.C.'s 'Bhagavad Gita As It Is', a copy

[FairfieldLife] Re: M version and others

2010-08-13 Thread WillyTex
Who keeps a copy of As-It-Is around except Hari K. or raw beginners who got their copy at the airport in 1976? cardemaister: I think everyone, even down in Texas, should have a copy of it! It would be more likely for someone 'down in Texas' to have a copy, than up in Finland!

[FairfieldLife] Re: M version and others

2010-08-13 Thread emptybill
So! You even admit you are an informant! My buddy the former narc didn't work in Texas so you couldn't be one of his. Did you find another source for some straight cash on the side? Do you have to wear a cowboy hat to play your part? Left is right and right is wrong. --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: M version and others

2010-08-13 Thread yifuxero
right, of course. It's true that AC Bhaktivedanta put Krishna first, ahead of the impersonal Absolute. That's why I discard his teachings as being false, along with that other dualist from Barsana Dham. But one can choose to retain a copy of false teachings, since there's plenty of that in

[FairfieldLife] Re: M version and others

2010-08-13 Thread tartbrain
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, yifuxero yifux...@... wrote: right, of course. It's true that AC Bhaktivedanta put Krishna first, ahead of the impersonal Absolute. That's why I discard his teachings as being false, along with that other dualist from Barsana Dham. But one can

[FairfieldLife] Re: M version and others

2010-08-13 Thread WillyTex
emptybill: You even admit you are an informant! It's 'informant' in the sense of those that INFORM, rather than come here to simply pick a cat fight. I hope you're not falling into the latter, because you seem to have something important to share. My buddy the former narc didn't work in

[FairfieldLife] Re: M version and others

2010-08-13 Thread azgrey
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willy...@... wrote: Who keeps a copy of As-It-Is around except Hari K. or raw beginners who got their copy at the airport in 1976? cardemaister: I think everyone, even down in Texas, should have a copy of it! It would

[FairfieldLife] Re: M version and others

2010-08-13 Thread WillyTex
That's becuase here in Texas we have numerous ISKCON Temples and other Vaishnava seats of learning where people can actually study these ideas and put them into practice, instead of just reading them in a book... azgrey: Plus which, Sanskrit is the only language capable of

[FairfieldLife] Re: M version and others

2010-08-12 Thread seventhray1
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_re...@... wrote: there was a discussion of Batgap among 3-4 participants who were discussing their sustained experiences of Krishna Consciousness -- beyond BC, I can just see it now. I see your Cosmic Consciousness, and raise you to God

[FairfieldLife] Re: M version and others

2010-08-12 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sun...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_reply@ wrote: there was a discussion of Batgap among 3-4 participants who were discussing their sustained experiences of Krishna Consciousness -- beyond BC, I can

[FairfieldLife] Re: M version and others

2010-08-12 Thread emptybill
Bhaktivedanta's contentions were standard Gaudiya ideological propaganda. These Gauda descriptions of Brahma-Jyotih are really just like descriptions of insentient pradhaana, only not independent like in Sankhya but totally dependent. This is why they must ascribe insentience to Brahman itself,

[FairfieldLife] Re: M version and others

2010-08-12 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptyb...@... wrote: Bhaktivedanta's contentions were standard Gaudiya ideological propaganda. These Gauda descriptions of Brahma-Jyotih are really just like descriptions of insentient pradhaana, only not independent like in Sankhya but

[FairfieldLife] Re: M version and others

2010-08-11 Thread shukra69
thats in line with what Maharishi said, but he used the words Krishna Consciousness. (just to confu --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptyb...@... wrote: Tart! I forgot to add: Just to confuse even more, Madhusuudhana's version of stages asserts that Bhagavan-Chaitanya is

[FairfieldLife] Re: M version and others

2010-08-11 Thread tartbrain
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptyb...@... wrote: Tart! I forgot to add: Just to confuse even more, Madhusuudhana's version of stages asserts that Bhagavan-Chaitanya is beyond Brahma-Chaitanya (i.e. Unity). Heh, Heh. That kind of fits -- the Totality of Bhagavan

[FairfieldLife] Re: M version and others

2010-08-11 Thread yifuxero
Right...precisely what the Hare Krishna Guru proclaimed. If you look at his works, his translated Skt into English uses words such as Effulgence: (i.e. the impersonal Absolute is an Effulgence or Light of Krishna.). But imo - that doesn't make sense. Then in countless verses of the BG and

[FairfieldLife] Re: M version and others

2010-08-11 Thread WillyTex
yifuxero: But then, the Krishna dualists (of course) proclaim that Krishna is the supreme Advaita Vedanta... The Gaudiya Vaishnava sect is monotheistic, and transcendental, based on the Vedanta. You are incorrect about them being 'dualists'. They do not proclaim the Advaita but follow the

[FairfieldLife] Re: M version and others

2010-08-11 Thread WillyTex
emptybill: emptybill@ Bhagavan-Chaitanya is beyond Brahma-Chaitanya (i.e. Unity). tartbrain: ...there was a discussion of Batgap among 3-4 participants who were discussing their sustained experiences of Krishna Consciousness... The Gaudiya Vaishnavas believe that consciousness is