Agreed - it is mechanical. Enlightenment is for the masses, and becoming much less rare.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@...> wrote: > > On 05/02/2011 02:37 PM, Vaj wrote: > > On May 2, 2011, at 3:17 PM, Bhairitu wrote: > > > >> Logically CC should not be a binary experience. IOW, a switch goes on > >> and you're there. It would be gradual. For instance someone noticing, > >> as they did years ago, that they seemed to no longer come "out" of > >> meditation and that the experience of the transcendence was there along > >> in activity. It might be a mild experience of it but it *is* there. > >> And more particularly over time should grow. So some of these things > >> are "flash" experiences or a spike in the experience but I wouldn't say > >> they "popped into CC". They were already there. > >> > >> TM'ers seem to be in this mode that only a few achieve enlightenment but > >> I found in India people expected folks practicing sadhana to get there > >> and it was not that uncommon. > > Indians are an often superstitious people, so maybe they would believe > > that. However yogis describe it as an extremely rare stage. > > Most of those opinions came from yogis. It may be considered rare > because you have to be doing sadhana. But IMHO it is a mechanical state > induced by training the nervous system to adapt to the state. I don't > think there is anything supernatural about it. After a while the > rewiring is complete and at that state continued sadhana would not be > needed as even living moment becomes sadhana. The "religious" aspect of > this philosophy is the idea that only "special people" achieve it. >
