Re: [FairfieldLife] Ramana Maharshi on Lokas

[Peter]

Even we exist simultaneously in many different bodies in different lifetimes. 
Many are "future" to us now which brings up many questions regarding 
"evolution" and freewill.  

--- On Wed, 3/16/11, yifuxero  wrote:

> From: yifuxero 
> Subject: [FairfieldLife] Ramana Maharshi on Lokas
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> Date: Wednesday, March 16, 2011, 11:40 PM
> "The Maharshi", Mar/Apr 2011, Vol 21,
> No. 2, p. 4, article by Sri Krishna Bikshu, Voruganti
> Venkata Krishnaiah, (1904-1981), a disciple of Ramana
> Maharshi; entitled "Bhagavan Referring to the Self and the
> Lokas".
> ...
> "I have also heard Bhagavan say: "I have at this moment
> twenty different bodies working in twenty different lokas,
> so if one of them suffers am I to grieve? I am not the body.
> One who considers himself the body may grieve, but how
> should I?".
> .
> "On a different occasion we put the same question to
> Bhagavan, asking how he could exist in a number of lokas at
> the same time and he said that one could have as many bodies
> as he wished if he had the necessary poweer of yoga".
> .
> "We must remember that the lokas are empirical realities no
> more real than this world of ours but also no less
> real.  Bhagavan confirmed this when a group of
> disciples from Tiruchirapalli asked him whether Siva and the
> other Gods and their ehavens really exist.  "Do you
> exist?" he retorted. They replied that they did, and he
> said: "Then in the same way they do too".
> 
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[FairfieldLife] Ramana Maharshi on Lokas

[yifuxero]

"The Maharshi", Mar/Apr 2011, Vol 21, No. 2, p. 4, article by Sri Krishna 
Bikshu, Voruganti Venkata Krishnaiah, (1904-1981), a disciple of Ramana 
Maharshi; entitled "Bhagavan Referring to the Self and the Lokas".
...
"I have also heard Bhagavan say: "I have at this moment twenty different bodies 
working in twenty different lokas, so if one of them suffers am I to grieve? I 
am not the body. One who considers himself the body may grieve, but how should 
I?".
.
"On a different occasion we put the same question to Bhagavan, asking how he 
could exist in a number of lokas at the same time and he said that one could 
have as many bodies as he wished if he had the necessary poweer of yoga".
.
"We must remember that the lokas are empirical realities no more real than this 
world of ours but also no less real.  Bhagavan confirmed this when a group of 
disciples from Tiruchirapalli asked him whether Siva and the other Gods and 
their ehavens really exist.  "Do you exist?" he retorted. They replied that 
they did, and he said: "Then in the same way they do too".