Re: [FairfieldLife] Dangers of Pseudo-Advaita

2005-10-03 Thread Peter
There can never be any resolution to this debate from the side of the mind. The mind is looking for gratification through affirmation and support. The value of a teacher is in the impact they have on awakening you. This teacher could be quite a fruitloop or very traditional; very sweet and

Re: [FairfieldLife] Dangers of Pseudo-Advaita

2005-10-03 Thread Rick Archer
on 10/2/05 7:49 PM, sinhlnx at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem arises since Ramana Maharshi himself stated that any talk of I'm Enlishtened is a lot of nonsense since there's no I left to claim it. Everyone assumes Ramana Maharishi was enlightened. How did he convey that fact? What

[FairfieldLife] Dangers of Pseudo-Advaita

2005-10-02 Thread sinhlnx
Excellent article on previous postmakes it all the more important to formulate a set of objective/relative signs which attest to one's Enlightenment, realization of the Self. But this is problematic within the context of the groundrules laid out by the proponents of Pseudo-Advaita, of