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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wmurphy77 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > **snip** The real significence of his > Bhagavad Gita is that "Awareness in the state of Being alone makes the > whole field of devotion real", this is significent! (page 7 Preface) > > The state of Being he is referring to is *Self-Realization* (or > realization of the soul as created by the creator)not Cosmic > Consciousness; CC (or UC) being the culmination of devotion! **snip to end** Well, this is the stuff that FFL was made for, right? The field of pure existence -- Being -- *is* the Self. Actually, the Self is beyond both existence and non-existence. It is so rock-solid and complete that it doesn't permit the possibility of anything but itself and therefore no qualifiers can ever reference it. It is absolutely exclusionary of anything and everything. Nothing is except That. Everything appears to exist because of That. So the realization of the Self does seem to encompass what Maharishi refers to as Cosmic Consciousness as well as Brahman. Self Realization is not the realization of a limited isolate or created soul. The Self is never created. The Self is uncreated, One, pure and immovable. The reflection of that in the notion of a nervous system causes the notion of a jiva, or soul, to appear. Jiva is the "created" soul; but it's just a notion of individuality and separateness; it isn't a reality, it's an appearance. It never was created. Maharishi's exposition is frequently muddled by his ambition to sell his product. That's a shame. The clearest, cleanest articulation (for me) is Nisargadatta's. He illuminates everything that I learned from Maharishi but hadn't realized yet. Marek
