Seraph, rather than being the "final refusal to lose one's individuality" or the "final grasping at a gratifying experience? maybe it's simply a case of extreme devotion, wanting to adore the Beloved rather than become one with the Beloved.
On Thursday, March 6, 2014 9:18 PM, "s3raph...@yahoo.com" <s3raph...@yahoo.com> wrote: The Ramakrishna reference I was trying to recall above came from The Eye in the Triangle: An Interpretation of Aleister Crowley by Israel Regardie (by the way: the best short account of Crowley's life). Sri Ramakrishna said "I want to taste sugar, not become sugar." So what you have here is a final refusal to lose one's individuality. I appreciate Doc's comments above but I can't help "feeling" that a true seer (Ramana Maharshi?) would have abandoned that final grasping at a gratifying experience.
