--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "L B Shriver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for the input, Bobananda. Although I don't agree with the specifics of yugas, etc, I > accept the principle that these are dark times. However, I don't have a clue what can be > expected—or not. > > L B S >
************** And neither does MMY (as he admits when he says it could be hundreds of centuries before Vedic civilization is restored to India), not because he is incompetent, but because beings, human and higher, have complete freedom of action, so anything can always happen. God/Nature can always only discourage people from bad behavior and lowlife with punitive reactions to such behavior, but people can always choose to live worse rather than better (and it is only from the platform of expanded awareness that it is possible to live better). > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bbrigante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "L B Shriver" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "L B Shriver" > > > > [...] > > > > Now it is > > > > > difficult to find the faintest shred of evidence that the > > world is > > > > being "saved". So the Dream > > > > > is Over, and the disappointment for many is huge and painful. > > > > > > > > I must be truely insane. I find the New and Improved TMO to be a > > > > wonderous thing and genuinely have more expectations for it than > > for > > > > the TMO of the Merv days. > > > > > > > ******** > > > > > > I would be interested to know your criteria for evaluating your > > position. Specifically: > > > > > > How will you know if you are correct in your belief in the > > Movement's immanent success? > > > > > > How will you know if you are mistaken? > > > > > > > > > > Do you have a "time line" in mind by which a judgement could be > > made? > > > > > > L B S > > > > > > > ****************** > > > > The movement (towards expansion of happiness, the purpose of > > creation) is always successful, even if, as MMY said earler year, it > > may take "hundreds of centuries" -- we're 51 centuries into the > > Kaliyuga, the dismal 10% of the eternal Yuga cycle, so at most it > > will be another 4269 centuries until life on earth is not > > characterized by chaos, a mere drop in the bucket of cosmic (or even > > geologic) time: > > > > At one hour and 30 minutes into the 23Mar2005 press conference at > > mou.org, Maharishi says that it may take centuries for the pundits > > to restore Vedic civilization in India: > > http://streaming.mou.org/MOU/Mar/wnews_23mar2005prt1_128 > > (the following week MMY said it may be "hundreds of centuries." > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Ever feel sad or cry for no reason at all? Depression. Narrated by Kate Hudson. http://us.click.yahoo.com/YbEMxA/ubOLAA/d1hLAA/0NYolB/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/
