--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" <anartaxius@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" > > <anartaxius@> wrote: > >> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > >>> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" > >>> <anartaxius@> wrote: > > <snip> > >>>> 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. > > > > Right. But TM teachers' devotion to MMY kept them "on the > > program," facilitated their learning to teach TM as he > > wanted it taught, and strengthened their commitment to > > teach as many as possible, thus helping implement the > > mechanical path both for the teachers and their students. > > Sure, I will not argue with that. It's all the same path, ends in the same > place, a nothingness that is the wholeness of everything together, approached > from different angles per the characteristics of the seeker. All roads lead > to Rome. Except not all roads really end up in Rome. Some end here, at FFL. > > What do you think or feel the characteristics of your path are? I am just > curious, I do not intend to argue about it, or bring in details of anything > in the past here on FFL. You have been meditating a long time, so you should > have a decent idea by now. > To be 'Devoted to Maharishi' is to be devoted to attaining 'Brahman Consciousness'...through the techniques and through intellectual knowlege which Maharishi outlined toward the end of his life, in detailing the specifics of Brhaman Consciousness...
It still comes down to putting in time that it takes to 'burn up' the 'latent tendencies' 'Samsaras' and release everything that interferes with the 'Complete Realization of the Soul'... Brahman Consciousness is basically what was embodied by 'Guru Dev' , and as he taught as basically 'Soul Realization'... How your individual soul becomes self aware and how it relates to the 'Soul of all Things'...all manifest reality... The basic technique of TM to teach transcendence and then the basic technique of the Sidhis to become familiar with the finest impulse of the Sutra... So, just becoming familiar with transcenence and the finest level of feeling over and over again, so it becomes habituated... Until finally, the 'Self-Referral' quality of the process begins to disolve into a kind of wholenss of awarness, in that at the finest level there is a merging of Being with both the inner awarness of Self, and the outer awareness of relativity, and the gap in between... It is finer than fine, this level of Brahman, but as Maharishi says, it can be stabilized with continued practice of maintaining that level of 'Wholeness of Beingness' which is a direct experience of many at this time, and only needs to be stabilized with continued practice in that way of 'Devotion' to 'That'...
