--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "BillyG." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > If you're aware *of* bliss as a "something," as > > blissfulness, that isn't no thoughts/no mantra, > > by definition. > > I think I see the problem now, you must remember that MMY's > description of Samadhi includes *three* adjectives, it's Absolute > (Sat, eternal without a second), Chit (Consciousness) and Ananda > (Bliss, not *blissful* in the animated sense). > > Of course there is consciousness during TC, TC is nothing but your > conscious bliss, get it? The ego is transcended and what is left is > your pure awareness of Bliss, not blissful as in happy, but your pure > soul, eternal conscious bliss. Emphasis on *Consciousness*.
Well, it might well be so that much the same way as u prolly can't *experience* 'aa-kaasha', u (and U Thant) can't experience 'aa- nanda', in the sense that word is used in advaita-vedaanta. Perhapst u (and U Than) can *experience* 'nanda' right after u been "in" 'aa- nanda'.... :o >