Jai Guru Dev
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Dick Mays <dickmays@...> wrote:
>
> The Experience of Bliss
> Humboldt, 1970
>
> Question: I've never had a meditation that I could consider
> blissful. So when does bliss become a real experience?
>
> MAHARISHI: Real experience of bliss - in UC, where everything is in
> terms of infinity. All values of life rise to the infinite value. And
> then it is just bliss.
>
> Question: Doesn't anything come before this?
>
> MAHARISHI: Yes. On the subjective level of Being, bliss is available
> in TC. Once the mind transcends - pure awareness is called bliss
> consciousness. Even if it is momentary, we call it bliss.
>
> It is our experience in meditation, whether we completely transcend
> or not. What happens is, all that is dear to us in life - very dear,
> so beautiful, everything so nice, most attractive thing which clings
> to our heart and mind all the time - even that is forgotten the
> moment we begin to investigate into the finer regions of the mantra.
>
> In the transcendent is bliss consciousness. But on the way to it also
> the absorption of the mind is so intense, mind gets so intensely and
> so intimately absorbed in the perception of even the finer state of
> the mantra, that this charm here at this level makes mind forget all
> that has been so dear and so charming and so beautiful and so
> fascinating. All that gets forgotten.
>
> From this even we can infer - inference is a very valid means of
> gaining knowledge. So from this, that we even forget the dearest
> things, we infer that the level of experience in the finer state of
> the mantra must be charming enough to make us forget all charm of the
> gross experience. All charm of the gross experience is put off and
> this charm holds the mind.
>
> And then further subtler stage and then further subtler stage - the
> charm in all these experiences is of increasing value. And in that
> pure awareness it is profound. That alone is there, pure awareness....
>
> When you feel that you have not had any experience of bliss and you
> are meditating for maybe two years or something, that means in every
> meditation the mind is getting to the finer state and some deep
> rooted stress starts to unstress. And this activity on the physical
> body does not allow the mind to settle down. And that may be the
> reason that you didn't have the contact with Being, which makes life
> blissful.
>
> But the very fact that you are meditating shows that the stresses are
> being released and released and now after such a long time, any time
> you could dive. The path is being cleared every time and any time you
> just could be....
>
