wgm4u, Can you describe the experience of pure bliss more and how does it differ from the bliss in TC?
JR --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u <no_reply@...> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <rick@> wrote: > > > > From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] > > On Behalf Of wgm4u > > Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 3:51 PM > > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: MMY: "developing GC", 1968 > > > > > > > > > > Swami Beyondananda? Guru Devs come along once in a lifetime, come on Rick! > > Charlie used to say there would be NO mass exodus from the wheel of Samsara > > (Reincarnation) but that we would exit the 'well' one at a time! I believe > > he was telling the truth, and he wasn't selling anything. > > > > I firmly do not believe even ONE Raja is enlightened, sorry. > > > > > > > > I don't know about Rajas, but I mean folks regularly experiencing gods, > > oceanic bliss, etc. > > I agree you can have glimpses, I did, two seconds of pure bliss (in 40 > years), enough to change me forever. I believe you would call it experiencing > the pure soul (jiva) which in Yoga is called the Ananda-maya-kosha or bliss > covering of Brahman. It is the spark of God in whose image we are made, > beyond that is GC or the universal Soul or over-soul (God's Consciousness IN > creation, the light of God) and beyond that is the big Kahuna, beyond > comprehension. > > Yogananda expounds on these fundamentals of Yoga marvelously in his BG which > didn't come out until after MMY's, believe it or not. >