--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" <anartaxius@> > wrote: > > > > Response to Judy. > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > <snip> > > > As I go back and reread your post, though, I'm a little > > > confused as to whether by "devotion" you mean devotion > > > to MMY or a devotional path as in bhakti yoga. There's > > > some overlap, I suppose, when the master is seen to be > > > a manifestation of the Divine so that in worshipping > > > him or her one is worshipping God, but one can certainly > > > practice bhakti yoga in the sense of worshipping a > > > personal form of God as a path to enlightenment without > > > having a master. > > > > I used the term 'devotional path' in a general way; being > > devoted to communism could have the same emotional weight > > as a spiritual path. As usual I am using terms in a way > > that is more vague than you tend to prefer. > > It's not so much a matter of my preference. If all you want > is vague comments, that's fine. But the three situations-- > bhakti as a path, devotion to the master as a path, and > devotion to the master as a means of implementing the > "mechanical" path--are very different in terms of why and > how they develop in a spiritual organization, so if you > want meaningful comments they need to be differentiated.
With regard to the mechanical path, I do not recall MMY talking about it being related to devotion. He spoke of TM as a mechanical means to achieve enlightenment, sans devotion apparently. That path is probably furtherest from devotion, at least as I think about it. Since bhakti is not really my thing, I probably do not distinguish much between flavours of devotion as to what, etc. >
