--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 
> On Jan 16, 2007, at 10:18 PM, sparaig wrote:
> 
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On Jan 16, 2007, at 6:13 PM, Marek Reavis wrote:
> >>
> >>> Comment below:
> >>>
> >>> **
> >>>
> >>> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>> **snip**
> >>>>
> >>>> He does mention bhakti, but it's more *transcendental bhakti*  
> >>>> and is
> >>>> present in the transitional refinement of GC. In other words it's
> >>> not
> >>>> 'falling down in the street with your tambourine Hare Krishna
> >>> bhakti'
> >>>> but an inner, yogic bhakti, Love & God and all that. I also wonder
> >>> if
> >>>> part of that also has to do with making his system of yoga fit into
> >>> a
> >>>> more western adapted model, devoid of any overtly "Hindu" elements.
> >>>>
> >>> **end**
> >>>
> >>> There have been passages in my life when I was overcome with what I
> >>> can
> >>> only refer to as 'transcendental bhakti' and I found myself on the
> >>> ground, on my knees in spontaneous prayer, eyes streaming tears of
> >>> gratitude and in such unbearable sweetness that it was
> >>> incomprehensible
> >>> that I could survive it.  If that is part of the program I don't  
> >>> know
> >>> how or why it isn't spoken about more directly.
> >>
> >> Have you read "Love and God"? After all, it sounds like you already
> >> wrote your own version. ;-)
> >>
> >
> > Are you mocking him, by chance?
> >
> > My own belief, for what it is worth, is that any form of  
> > "overwhelming" emotion is, by
> > definition, a sign of not being fully established in CC, but that  
> > doesn't denigrate what he
> > was feeling...
> >
> > On the other hand, YOUR comment certainly "feels" derogatory.
> 
> Since I know quite well what I meant, we'll chock another one up to  
> the "ear of the beholder." What an idiot.
>

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