I agree with you about “premature claims to enlightenment.” I think they are
common. If the people I’m referring to were saying “I have reached the
pinnacle of human evolution” or if they displayed egotism or even if they
were setting themselves up as gurus, I’d doubt them. All of them have
OK Rick,
Now asking in public so all can participate. I suspect that all of those that
you know that
you say are realized have proclaimed this on their own without their Guru
declaring this,
or they did not or currently do not have a guru, or they have their own inner
Guru- either
in some
On Sep 28, 2007, at 10:15 AM, Ron wrote:
My experience with it is I have been with and read about both those
self proclaiming as
above and also those proclaimed enlightened by their Guru who also
were proclaimed
enlightened by their Guru in a chain continueing upwards. The Self
procalimed