> > > > > > To All: > > > > > > Upon reading many of the posts here, it appears > that some posters > > > are flauting their involvement with the gunas. We > should be > > > reminded of the aforementioned quotation from the > Gita. 'Those who live by the gun(a) die by the gun(a)' > > > > Well, hell, seems like most of FF is fixated on > > being with sattva guna, as if spirituality and > > enlightenment are defined by it. > > That looks like the nutshell of an interesting "take". > But what do you mean exactly? I'd be interested if you > could expand on that. > > If we are to believe WikiP, there could be worse goals > (but perhaps not so irritatingly nice!): > > "A sattvika individual always works for the welfare of > the world. He is always hardworking, alert and lives > life moderately. He leads a chaste life. He eats > moderately. He speaks the truth and is bold. He never > uses vulgar or insulting language. He does not feel > jealous nor is he affected by greed and selfishness. > He does not cheat or mislead anyone. He does not even > allow any evil tendencies to enter his mind. He has > good memory and concentration. He also has keen > interest in improving his spiritual knowledge, and > spends time worshiping god or meditating. In the > extreme state he may even perform penance or > uninterrupted meditation. A satvic individual can be > recognized if his mind, speech and actions synchronize." >
Beautific quote. Is now quite well documented in modern science and spiritual experience. Study the Collected Papers and the B.Gita along with your spiritual practice. Is an extraordinary age we come to live in. If those 300 rebelling college students rejecting meditation at MUM won't hear precepts of even places like from the B. Gita, then their salvation may yet be found in other modern ways they may relate to in their youthful hellish ways like even in, WikiP. Thus turn the gunas. Have a nice day. The chance for a spiritual life is a terrible thing to waste. Come to meditation, tonite at the peace palace. 7:30pm. Everyone is welcome evidently. For, "Whether pure or impure, whence impurity is permeating everywhere, who so ever opens themselves to the expanded vision of unbounded awareness gains inner and outer purity." There is a great compassion in nature this way. Come to meditation. Come back to meditation as you find you are off in the involvement of the guna. Discipline. Steady boys, 'Shake off that faint-heartedness'. Jai Adi Shankara, -D in FF
