--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <drpetersutphen@> wrote: > > > > > > > > --- sparaig <sparaig@> wrote: > > > > > > > > There are plenty of scenarios where any number of > > > states might have "no qualities" that > > > one can remember. If you can't remember any > > > qualities, than its a state without qualities. > > > > And pure consciousness has no "qualities". It is > > "outside" of the mind. The mind can only appreciate > > pure consciousness as emptiness. > > > > Actually, technically, the claim is that Pure Consciousness has three qualities though these > aren't experienceable per se: Sat-chit-ananda... >
FWIW, 'sat' is an "interesting" word. I think it's the neuter singular nominative form of the present participle of the verb 'as' (to be). Thus, the closest English equivalent would, I guess, be 'being'. One might expect it to be 'asat', but several other forms of that verb drop the initial 'a', for instance, 'asmi'([I] am), but 'santi' ([they] are). Thus, 'asat', "of course", is the opposite of 'sat', prolly to be translated literally to 'non-being', or stuff. IMO, the coolest sentence those two words appear in a Vedic text is the first line of Rgveda X 129 (Hymn of Creation): naasadaasiinno sadaasiittadaaniim (without sandhi: na; asat; aasiit; na; u; sat; aasiit; tadaaniim) ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/TISQkA/hOaOAA/yQLSAA/UlWolB/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/
