All boiled down to "everything is everywhere" or is that "everywhere is everything"
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------- > > The following is reported to be Maharishi's beautiful comments on > Mahalakshmi ... very timely for this auspicious occasion... > > HAPPY MAHALAKSHMI PUJA -- DIPAVALI - DIWALI ! > > ===================================== > > ... Maha Lakshmi ... the first syllable is Maha. Maha, great. And this great > in the context of education is the characteristic of consciousness. > > This Maha is the goal of anyone who is not yet Maha. So, Maha goal is the > meaning of the word Laksha... Laksha means the goal (Maha means unbounded, > infinite, immortal, eternal, Brahm, Totality, whole). > > Maha is the goal of that which is not Maha. The goal of Maha is to swing in > his greatness. It should be a living reality. > > That the unbounded does not remain only silent. But in that silence, there > should be lively all possibilities. So, the Laksha, the goal, the goal of > Maha is to have many in its unified wholeness. > > And the goal of that what is not Maha, the goal of small is to be big and > the goal of big is to swing in its own expressions. > Infinity wants to flow from one end of infinity to the other end of infinity > and it's flowing, it divides itself, it quantifies itself, it qualifies > itself. > > So it is the qualification which makes one look to the goal. Small wants to > qualify itself into as big as possible. The big wants to qualify itself as > the field of all possibilities from this end to that end. > Maha is a goal and MI is a very, very significant word which is made of two > values, MA and I. When we look to MA, naturally it is me, the first to the > self, ME, even in English me, but in the Vedic terminology MI we understand > as total value of all four Vedas. MA, what MA is, it's the HUM, Hummm. > > Agnim-m-m. Rig, Yajur, Sama, Atharva. Then Atharva is a Hum. Hum of all the > four Vedas... Agni, it s a collapse of all the progression of all the Vedas > into a Hum. > > Hum means the total values of all sounds; all sounds are inherent in Hum. > And in that Hum which is focused on a point, that reality of the point is > then transformed into dynamism, which is represented by I. > > So, Maha Lakshmi this is the total Veda, concentrated into the Hum and made > dynamism. Here is concentration at a point, which then in its nature is all > dynamism. > > So, in the word Maha Lakshmi we have that enormous, unbounded, total, > infinite, eternal immortality expressed in all the Vedas and found located > in a point. > And then expanding a point in infinity, and dynamism again into Maha. So, > here is the total expression of the Veda, total expression of pure > knowledge. > > Along with its infinite organising power in one point concentrating and > expanding. This point value, this is Maha Lakshmi... > > So, the element of Maha Lakshmi is a composite of two values of opposite > directions. Focal point and expanding in its nature, this is called > Anyonyabhava. > > It has two kinds of directions, coming in, expanding and going out... So, > the Laksha, the goal of expanding value is to concentrate. > > The goal of concentrated value is to expand. And here is the seed of Maha. > This is Maha Lakshmi, at the point, which is both, expansion and > contraction, infinite potential of the expansion element we could see along > with infinite expansion of contraction element. > > That means no matter where the situation is, there is all possibility, no > matter at what level we are considering or at any level of contraction or at > any level of expansion, here or here, at any level is Maha Lakshmi. > > There is a field of all possibilities and the field of all possibilities in > each cell is a concentrated point of silence within the quality of infinite > dynamism. Silence and dynamism, that means completely fulfilled of > wakefulness. > > Completely fulfilled because it is not devoid of anything. Infinite silence > concentrated, infinite dynamism concentrated and therefore it is eternal > state of fulfilment. > > It is a fulfilment of eternal value. Fulfilment of immortal value because > there is a field of all possibilities and in this field of all possibilities > is the element of fulfilment, infinite bliss. > > Infinite bliss is a quality of fulfilment and fulfilment the quality of lack > of lack. Devoid of nothingness. > > It is all fullness, completely fulfilled, self-sufficient infinity, > eternity, capable of flowing in terms of waves, modified, qualified and > still remaining unqualified at all time. > > Unqualified qualified fulfilment, that means it is unmanifest total > potential of all qualifications that may be thought or desired. > > Maha Lakshmi is an element of all possibilities, completely self-sufficient > at any time, and any place. It is the total potential of all possibilities. > In the expression of prosperity, the expression of growing prosperity, it is > not stagnant prosperity it's growing prosperity, growing and growing and > growing. Growing up to what? > > Beyond the capability of growth it grows and grows and grows. This is what > is materialised in the ever-expanding universe. So, this ever-expanding > value of universe and in every step of progress there is a wave of > happiness, wave of happiness. Progress means successive waves of happiness. > Progress is always progressive. > > So, Maha Lakshmi is a basic of all progress, it is so self-sufficient in its > self interacting dynamics that it creates and creates and creates itself in > terms of infinite variety. > > This is the progressive fulfilling Nature of Maha Lakshmi. And in this > fulfilling Nature of Maha Lakshmi, because everything is growing, growing > fulfilment, the progressive Ananda growing, bliss, moving around in waves > and this, what we have in this is the power of Ananda, keeping everything > evolutionary. > > So, we say this is organising power, Maha Lakshmi is not only the element of > progress but also an element of progress, which is always waves on this > evolutionary direction. > > So, this aspect of Maha Lakshmi is called Durga, action principle. Now, this > action principle is the characteristic of pure knowledge. > > Knowledge is the characteristic of Saraswati. So, this Saraswati is present > in Maha Lakshmi. Durga is present in Maha Lakshmi. Maha Lakshmi present at a > point and in the unbounded infinity. > > So, in this what we see is the element of Maha Lakshmi, that element is > present everywhere, lively everywhere, action everywhere, silence > everywhere. > From this angle what we see is as the whole creation is nothing other than > the expression of Maha Lakshmi... > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! 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