--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "george" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > i think its a mistake to think of these deities > > > as somehow seperate entities...ultimately they are > > > just organizing principles...aspects of the one > > > Self. > > > > Exactly. SSRS recently said the same thing. Just > > aspects of one's own consciousness not outside of > > one's Self. > > OTOH... > > Bobananda responded to my comment with a reprint > of a MMY press conference which made me think twice > that my understanding is not at all how MMY sees it. >
For anything to exist, it has to exist in some way. In unity, wholeness is all that is seen. In waking state consciousness everything thing is seen in a limited sense, limited by characteristic of some sort. Our minds force wholeness to exist in some "way". We cannot conceive of God in it's true nature which is seamless wholeness so we force God into a shape, into something that we can relate to, something that looks like we think it looks. What do laws of nature look like? They don't look like any "thing" but can be described as having characteristics based on their function and over time these characteristics are built out into recognizable icons that describe the indescribable and how they relate to the human; things such as silence and dynamism, as Shiva and Vishnu which are essentially aspects of ones own consciousness. So on our trip to recognizing wholeness we see God as the sun or as a buffalo or as Jesus or as yahweh or as Allah or as a million other "ideas" of what God is. God doesn't care, God will be whatever you want God to be as long as you are sincere in your devotion. Rick Carlstrom Rick Carlstrom 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/
