--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The danger is that along the way one starts to lose the purity side > of the teaching and just stays with the rituals, hence losing the > purity of the knowledge. > Brahman, G-D, infinity has no shape or form and rituals are just > golden cage of samsara at the best case. Absolutely true that seeing or appreciating yagyas and rituals as outside the Self will tend (at best) to be an expression of god- consciousness, not "Brahman." (Not true that in themselves they will bar one from "Brahman," which cannot be obtained or lost, only Understood or ignored; god-consciousness -- like any other state -- is no real barrier to "Brahman;" only attachment to it is.) Like these yagyas, seeing MMY, Guru Dev, and the "purity of the teaching" as outside the Self will also (at best) tend to be an expression of god-consciousness, not "Brahman," and (if you like) tend to reinforce the "golden cage of samsara." (Though again, there is no golden cage of samsara, per se -- only a habit or belief that there is.) No one "out there" can really give us "Brahman;" it can (probably) only be surrendered into/conquered by a tiny/colossal step of egolessness/Egomania, denying the illusion of the self-other dilemma and embracing/accepting the Whole -- what IS. > I think our friend need to check where his focus and attention goes. Yes, perhaps we all do, and one could perhaps make a case that without at least some attention on and "somatose" appreciation of the celestial qualities of the "Other," it would appear highly unlikely that one would ever consider the "Other" worth unifying with or embracing. A "Brahman" without the Heart is a pretty poor "Brahman"! :-) The beauty of focus and attention is it gives us precisely what we need at any point in our Life -- whether it be the sweetly powerful electromagnetic soma-flows of god-consciousness, or the Understanding that all is Self in the perfection of what IS, or both simultaneously, or neither, or even the lovely embrace of deepest, blackest Sleep...it's all good, all just a matter of focus and attention. With that in mind, I would like to apologize to Akasha for denying what I perceived as his golden appreciation of Peter in "K.C." While perhaps true in the deepest sense that this perception was a projection -- so what? At least it is celestial, glorious -- and so if Akasha were not to deny that perception but rather to "take credit" for it, embrace it All -- then in what way is god-consciousness a barrier to "Brahman"? Perhaps rather it is the single missing piece of the puzzle (if indeed there ever could be such)! Jai Guru Dev in each of Us To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
