Thanks, R, and thanks for explicating the LLL On Aug 2, 2011, at 2:16 PM, RoryGoff wrote:
> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mark Landau <m@...> wrote: > > > > Thanks for the "all kidding aside," if, indeed, it's literal. A lot of the > > humor I find in FFL goes completely over my head and I find myself often at > > a loss in winnowing the "serious" from the mirth. Haven't much found > > mantras of any kind useful for some time. Your experience is different? > > * * Dear Mark, > > Yes, it's literal. I wouldn't worry overmuch about winnowing the "serious" > from the mirth; I don't, and I don't think our devatas or I-particles do; our > body-politic is very literal and our constituents appear to take everything > seriously mirthfully, once we give them our full attention. > > Virtually all of my "humor" is a serious attempt at self-expression and > self-reference, a resonance which eventually may tickle us. Mirth if it > arises is simply the blissful dissolution, Shiva's perfect Tamo-guna > badaBOOM! (or ah-uh-OOM!): an explosive punchline to the serious joke of > gravely loving self-recognition through the wormhole (or down the > rabbit-hole) of our torus-Hiranyagharba. (If it works, it bombs. If it bombs, > it works.) > > No, upon Awakening, mantra became essentially useless for transcending as > there was no longer anywhere to "go" to transcend, clearly we ARE or it IS > all that perfection which we had sought. (Which doesn't mean that we don't on > occasion apparently err, sometimes egregiously, and have to apologize and > make atonement; that is part of perfection too. Atonement or At-One-Ment is a > necessary ingredient of a dynamic creator-creature marriage and co-creation. > After Awakening, our "program" continues 24/7, and is a program of hands-on > Universe Management, trial and error all the way.) > > However, mantras can still be most useful for bringing various of our devatas > or I-particles and their realms to our attention, and some of them may have a > very great deal indeed to show us. > > That OM! * SHRI! * RAM! * JAI! * RAM! * JAI! * JAI! * RAM! apears to be a > signature-frequency for that realm of Rama's throne-room....and of course, > his sandals. (I didn't even consciously encounter the story of Rama's "empty" > throne and his exile until after the fact. For that matter, Maharishi himself > showed me the same drama -- of his still and always being very powerfully > "present" on his apparently-vacant seat -- back on the Science and Veda > course in 1981 and I didn't fully get it then, either.) > > (And I apologize for bringing this up yet again, but I simply couldn't let > her go out in the world without one final costume-adjustment: > > "And remember! Four out of five *transcendentals* recommend JAI JAI RAM for > their patients who *choose* RAM!" > > There. That's probably the best we're going to do with THAT. For Now.) > > *Love*Light*Laughter* always, > > R. > >
