--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > sparaig wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@> wrote: > > > >> tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis wrote: > >> > >>> Jim Flanegin writes snipped: > >>> Are you kidding me?? That it is OK to die of cancer when on the cusp > >>> of enlightenment? Finish the job, for God's sake, and begin enjoying > >>> life as a realized being NOW. Do the job in front of you. > >>> > >>> TomT: > >>> No way to know he was not finished and just living out the rest of his > >>> time. Nisargadata and Ramana Maharishi both went out with cancer. Who > >>> is to know either way and who cares, as Ramana would say. Who is it > >>> that wants to know? Tom > >>> > >> I think that is one problem when one becomes enlightened, they start > >> neglecting the body because they experience no attachment to it. I bet > >> quite a few here who have been meditating for years and have some degree > >> of enlightenment keep trying to remind themselves to look into some > >> medical problem even if it is just a toothache because they only > >> "witness" it and it is not as overwhelming as it would have been before > >> they were meditating. > >> > >> > > > > ???SO much for integration of mind and body... > And thus why you hear about gurus and such (including MMY) getting > sick. I think to propose that people will have perfect health just > because they are enlightened is a bit ludicrous and probably displays a > misunderstanding of what enlightenment is about. I think that one may > have an opportunity to keep their bodies in better shape with > enlightenment like a fine tuned sports car but they may not put their > attention there. I think that would depend on the individual and what > knowledge they already possess such as ayurveda would be a plus. > However Robert Svoboda in one of this books on ayurveda tells a tale of > a major ayurvedic instructor who came down with cancer and one would > have thought that he would have caught it at its earliest symptoms. >
There's enlightenment and there's enlightenment. FULL enlightenment requires the ability to perform any and all sidhis perfectly. I recall a lecture by Keith Wallace many years ago where MMY challanged people to come up with a clear sign of physical immortality. Keith's answer was the one MMY latched onto: the ability to float. If your Unity is at THAT level of integration, then all of your immediate environment naturally reflects this state. "Immediate environment" includes "body" and "mind."
