--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "at_man_and_brahman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Are these points attributed to Maharishi? >
********* Looks authentic -- but would certainly be the first time I have ever heard of the 8th and 9th states of consciousness delineated by the TMO: "9. State: Krishna Consciousness. Pure consciousness does not only now prevail in the body, but it has transformed every last trace of the eight elements in the body into absolute Being. Maharishi: " This is the body made of absolute Being." Starting with the all-knowingness of Brahman Consciousness we now also add physical omnipresence and omnipotence, however, there is no being that could ever be completely equal to God. Even in Krishna Consciousness, on the absolute pinnacle of any developmental possibility, one is still an individual, who can think "only one thought at a time" (although with maximum speed). Only God alone can think infinitely many thoughts at a time, however, we human individuals can transcend (in the end) even our individual personality and in Mahasamadhi become one with God, as Guru Dev before us has done. Then we are again completely one with the source of all beings. - 5200 years ago in Vrindavan, in His terrestrial incarnation, as the ninth avatar, Krishna had an absolute body and Krishna Consciousness and was revered as the embodiment of transcendence and as the incarnation of Vishnu's transcendental aspect - Finally a word on the heavenly body (which we humans also can attain in the 8th state, before the "second level of Brahman Consciousness"). The devas under Indra, the king of the Gods, have a heavenly body which is without boundaries, so that they can watch over and administer their own law of nature everywhere in the universe simultaneously. In this body the element Akasha becomes prevalent, and the four low elements: earth, water, fire and air are completely refined and only " available in seed form"... this last trace of the relative world is necessary so that the devas are able to be active in the world. Infinite harmony and pure Sattwa are prevalent in them, but Moksha, spiritual liberation or complete enlightenment is not available for the devas. They sometimes therefore accept a human birth in order to disseminate the highest knowledge (as did Bhishma, the Eights of the Vasu Devas, the son of Ganga Devi, or the five Pandawas: Yudhishthira, Arjuna, Bhima, Nakula and Sahadeva, each of whom, in ancient times, all already reined once as Indra over the devas).
