Peter writes snipped: Then bliss is like a dead dog in the road! Bliss is the darshan of Brahman, but not Brahman.
TomT: Yes but if the indicator is there then attention and appreciation of what is going on in the moment surely leads to the understanding of Brahman. Appreciation is the tool that leads attention to the understanding. The experience is the body's way of handling the knowledge that is present in the moment. Paying deep attention and asking the experience itself for the knowledge it has for you will yield the results. If the understanding were complete we would have virtually no experience of bliss but rather would be processing what was happening as knowledge. At any moment we can go back to the most profound of our past experiences and ask for the knowledge that is contained in them. The bliss is the body storing the knowledge until it can be handled. The body is the hard drive for holding the knowledge until it can be appreciated as whole and full knowledge. Tom
