--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rory Goff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- 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
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