--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://www.themystic.org/print/dark-night.htm > > good decsription including some points that were not in my own > experience. Tom T (not Tom Paul)
>From this description: "...You find yourself somehow painfully on the outside. You feel caught between your old way of living, your old tendencies and associations, and this nebulous, unreachable realm of higher consciousness. "You feel an exile in both places. You don't belong in the old pastimes. in the old empty or numbing way of life, yet you somehow can't fit in or feel at home in the fellowship of those who talk naturally of the higher consciousness and its reality...." Reminds me of a bit of MMY's commentary in his Gita translation. The context is a question from Arjuna: What goal does he reach, O Krishna, who is not perfected in Yoga, being endowed with faith, yet lacking effort, his mind strayed from Yoga? Deluded on the path to Brahman, O mighty-armed, without foothold and fallen from both, does he not perish like a broken cloud? (VI:37-38) Maharishi comments, in part: "Arjuna is aware of different levels of consciousness and of the different states of life that correspond to them. He is also aware that when a man's consciousness evolves from one level to another, the life of the previous level becomes useless to him. "His question is about one who, as the result of a certain amount of practice, has risen above the level of ordinary human consciousness but who has not yet attained cosmic consciousness.... "Such a man has lost ground on the human level but has as yet no foothold on the divine level. He is neither here nor there...." The context is different in that MMY is talking about someone who has stopped practicing, but it seems to me relevant to the "dark night" experience because the sense of being neither here might well cause one to become so discouraged about their progress that they would give up their practice. There's another bit of commentary in an earlier chapter that discusses this sort of thing as well; as I recall, it's in the context of the need for intellectual understanding of the experience of dawning CC, which can initially make one feel lost and empty, according to MMY. I'll see if I can find it later today. ------------------------ 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! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
