--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: In his Commentary on the Gita Maharishi explains, "With the constant practice of meditation, this infusion continues to grow and when it is full-grown cosmic consciousness will have been attained. Once this state is attained, to fall from it is impossible." pg 173
from The Science of Being and Art of Living, with my underlining for emphasis: When this self-consciousness is forever maintained, even when the mind emerges from the Transcendent and engages in the field of activity, then self-consciousness attains the status of cosmic consciousness. Self-consciousness is then established eternally in the nature of the mind. pg 249 Ann wrote: Unless, of course, you make a conscious and concerted Herculean effort, as Robin evidently did, to overthrow the overwhelming hold of enlightenment on yourself. It appears not everyone wants to stay under the influence or to be held so firmly by the force of this power over them. I daresay Robin would still be in UC unless he had taken the steps he did to counteract that state. You are implying, Share, that his UC was not real because he is no longer in that state of consciousness. You see, what you write here is transparent. Judy adds: She fully intended it to be "transparent." (Don'cha love the way she underlines "forever" and "eternally" just to make sure we don't miss them?) At least Nabby had the guts and integrity to put his point right out there. Note that Maharishi writes, "TO FALL from [cosmic consciousness] is impossible." "To fall" implies something that happens against one's will, something one doesn't want to happen. Robin *wanted* to get out of the state he was in and, as Ann says, made "a conscious and concerted Herculean effort" to do so--and *sustained* that effort for *25 years*, a third of a lifetime. That doesn't seem to be what Maharishi was saying is impossible. (And even if he was, that doesn't mean he was correct. He wasn't always right, as we all know.) It's likely Maharishi never even conceived of someone going at it as Robin did. Wanting to go back to waking state *isn't in the books*, it isn't something that is taught. It's assumed that the enlightened state will always remain desirable once it has been achieved. At least, I've never seen anything to the contrary from a teacher of enlightenment; if anyone else has, please set me straight.
