[FairfieldLife] Re: Ishvara - The Transcendental Person

2014-02-26 Thread Pundit Sir
A King never desires to be God Krishna, but a King would desire to be God's servant. The very highest calling for anyone in the bhakti movement is to serve the Lord. Ramakrishna once remarked that he wanted to taste sugar, not be sugar. Thus the Vaishnavas came to be called 'rasiks', as in the

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2013-10-08 Thread emptybill
Reply to Iran I Tea Although I read Aurobindo's Life Divine and Synthesis of Yoga, the real heart of his yoga appeared in his collection known as Letters on Yoga. This collection that gave me the first taste of yoga-bhakti with its “opening upwards to the Adya Shakti” (i.e. the Divine

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Ishvara - The Transcendental Person

2013-10-06 Thread Richard J. Williams
Another crucial point about the Transcendental Person commented on by MMY inCBG is often missed - that Maharishi's typology is a Tantric rendering of the seven states, not a strictly Vedantic map, advaita, dwaita, or vista-advaita. The 'God Consciousness' described by Maharishi is based on

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Ishvara - The Transcendental Person

2013-10-05 Thread Richard J. Williams
The term 'Isha' refers to Ishvara, the cosmic person, Paramatman or Brahman. Ishvara is the supreme controller. According to the Isha, those who are engaged in the worship of the demi-Gods enter into the darkest region of ignorance, and still more so do the worshipers of the impersonal

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2013-10-05 Thread emptybill

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2013-10-05 Thread iranitea

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2013-10-04 Thread iranitea

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Ishvara - The Transcendental Person

2013-10-04 Thread Richard J. Williams
The Personality of Godhead is perfect and complete, and because He is completely perfect, all emanations from Him, such as this phenomenal world, are perfectly equipped as complete wholes. Whatever is produced of the Complete Whole is also complete in itself. Because He is the Complete Whole,

[FairfieldLife] RE: Ishvara - The Transcendental Person

2013-10-04 Thread emptybill

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2013-10-02 Thread Michael Jackson
: [FairfieldLife] RE: Ishvara - The Transcendental Person   Prairie Dog!  If you knew more you'd be embarrassed by your claims. I've replied many times with the accurate and accepted scholarship that casts a harsh light on your antiquated conjectures. Your reply is a study in troll behaviors

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Ishvara - The Transcendental Person

2013-10-02 Thread Richard J. Williams
Alara Kalama and Uddaka Ramaputta, the teachers of the historical Buddha, of course were Sramanas of the Buddhist persuasion - that's why they were practicing yoga and meditation. Not because they were Hindus who reverted the Vedas. There's no yoga mentioned in the Vedas - that came much

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Ishvara - The Transcendental Person

2013-10-02 Thread Richard J. Williams
*To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Tuesday, October 1, 2013 10:16 PM *Subject:* [FairfieldLife] RE: Ishvara - The Transcendental Person Prairie Dog! If you knew more you'd be embarrassed by your claims. I've replied many times with the accurate and accepted scholarship that casts

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2013-10-01 Thread emptybill

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2013-09-30 Thread Richard J. Williams
@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Wednesday, September 25, 2013 1:02 PM *Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Ishvara - The Transcendental Person On 9/25/2013 12:59 PM, punditster@... mailto:punditster@... wrote: Reformatted with Neo for easier reading: This formatting is crap. Oh the hell with it! LoL

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2013-09-30 Thread Richard J. Williams
:* Richard J. Williams punditster@... *To:* Richard J. Williams FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Wednesday, September 25, 2013 1:02 PM *Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Ishvara - The Transcendental Person On 9/25/2013 12:59 PM, punditster@... mailto:punditster@... wrote: Reformatted

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2013-09-28 Thread emptybill

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2013-09-28 Thread Bhairitu
punditster@... *To:* Richard J. Williams FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Wednesday, September 25, 2013 1:02 PM *Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Ishvara - The Transcendental Person On 9/25/2013 12:59 PM, punditster@... mailto:punditster@... wrote: Reformatted with Neo for easier reading

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2013-09-25 Thread punditster

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Ishvara - The Transcendental Person

2013-09-25 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 9/25/2013 12:59 PM, pundits...@gmail.com wrote: Reformatted with Neo for easier reading: This formatting is crap. Oh the hell with it! LoL! So, since Krishna is the Absolute, he is in fact 'indescribably different', (Acyenta Bheda Bheda). At first this seems to be non-sensical, but

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Ishvara - The Transcendental Person

2013-09-25 Thread Share Long
Thanks, Richard, it's wonderful.  In all versions! (-: From: Richard J. Williams pundits...@gmail.com To: Richard J. Williams FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 1:02 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Ishvara