Lots of excellent ideas on how we can promote happiness in our lives from the
Vedas and modern psychology. Here is the intro. You can go to YouTube to pick
up the course or register to have the daily videos sent to you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnEo1s-00-8=10s
I can admire as remarkable how ‘on message’ he was with this through his
decades long career of teaching.
I recall hearing him talk and answer questions of some people even weeks
before his death giving the same hopeful message he gave in coming out to
travel teaching in the 1950’s.
Peace
If you mean that can I translate the original Sanskrit text, I dare say
that at least partly, with the help of a dictionary. BTW, Maharishi's and
Vernon's translation is one of the most true to the original text, IMHO.
Csrde
Can you read the Sanskrit text of the B Gita?
I appreciate hearing your perspective much
Grr! Those southern Indian (Dravidian) transliterations of Sanskrit make
me furious!
Fer Chrissakes: it's lalita, NOT lalitha!
rights of conscience.
Lovely statements on the non-dual nature of cosmic intelligence.
This is funny though, given the TM org's obsession with marketing and
educating on TM's merits as a modern "science-based" technique.
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"If the individual
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Carde,
Does Norway or Sweden have a "Dome" similar to Fairfield, IA?
Also, what does "laerer" mean in English?
Not sure, but I don't think they have. -- Laerer means teacher.
Carde,
Does Norway or Sweden have a "Dome" similar to Fairfield, IA?
Also, what does "laerer" mean in English?
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Was quite surprised when just learned that in Norway has been Maharishi
foundation (stiftelsen)
since 1960:
Srijau asks, I don't see what the logic was in sending people home! Dome is
outside??
It was the routing of fairfield Super Radiance..
Sidhas told to leave group meditation, to ‘go home’.
A profound failure in leadership, it was incredulous to see happen.
..The flood of meditators out of
Yes, ‘twas remarkable spiritually. Others there meditating in the Dome
mention a commonality experiencing a type of pressure that was in the
collective spiritual atmospheric up to the eclipse totality and then what was a
palpable profound release and lightness that came as the eclipse
thanks for sharing that , I has some weird thoughts / unstressin during the
eclipse. I find I have been have a lot of memories of the past around the
eclipse whereas usually I never think about the past much.
I don't see what the logic was in sending people home! Dome is outside??
Wonder if he would have had the same experience meditating outside in the
natural world during the event? With everyone else who was outside.
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Chatting yesterday with one of the magnificient 20 who held out meditating in
the
Chatting yesterday with one of the magnificient 20 who held out meditating in
the Dome during the eclipse while leadership ran people away the guy told that
he meditated there in the Dome for the four hours of the eclipse and it
seriously was ‘the most profound meditation he has ever had’.
That “We hold these truths to be self-evident”. ‘Should’ is a great word and
should fairly have its place in civic life and personal hygiene. Clearly there
are things which enhance spiritual life as there are things which do not and in
that sense there are Golden Rule things that people should
You're right. I retract that statement. Personally, I hate the word "should"
also. I was refuting instructions to the opposite.
Thanks for sharing this! What a great story! I wouldn't have believed that
this would have such an impact. It was so glorious and brought out our shared
Yes, and standing outside the doors in the shade of the Dome’s door portico
during the air inversion of the dimmed sun was unique. Anyone was free to walk
out and look at the sun. However the meditation inside the Dome right from the
start of the eclipse was particularly unique.
I don't think people ==should== be outside. I think they should do what feels
right for them. For me, that meant driving down to the path of totality to
watch. I kept an eye on the weather for 10 days, and on Sunday, I decided that
I really wasn't up to the 13 hour drive out to Casper WY, where
There was also a palpable effect when one was outside watching. Can't imagine
why one would miss it if they had the opportunity (you guys had about 92%
coverage I think). Of course, glasses were mandatory to look directly. I would
have elected to meditate outside, personally.
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'Palpable' seems to be the qualifier around the experience.
Txt:
A really nice palpable quantum change in the field here in the Dome as the
total of the eclipse is passed.
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msg. txt
A palpable Spiritual juice
msg. txt
A palpable Spiritual juice of the eclipse is extremely high in the men's Dome
now. But phone battery is failing. I may not be able to keep broadcast from the
Golden Dome of Pure Knowledge for much longer. Will sustain position here until
the end.
..
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You don't live and meditate here? Communal context is predecate to
understanding in this.
emily.mae50 writes:
Of course everyone should be outside! Unbelievable.
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Live during the eclipse.. Txt msg.from the Dome:
Live during the eclipse.. Txt msg.from the Dome:
Bevan told the IAssembly on Saturday to Not be in the Dome and go home during
the eclipse! That is treason
against all that we are as a group of transcendentalists. Sedition. Stunningly
bad.
..
At about 9:20am the flower of the Dome
Of course everyone should be outside! Unbelievable.
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Live during the eclipse.. Txt msg.from the Dome:
At about 9:20am the flower of the Dome meditating program got up and left, a
lot of really powerful meditators exit-ed
Live during the eclipse.. Txt msg.from the Dome:
At about 9:20am the flower of the Dome meditating program got up and left, a
lot of really powerful meditators exit-ed to go out anywhere on their own
during the eclipse. It looked like a factory shift change with so many people
leaving out
Live during the eclipse.. Txt msg.from the Dome:
At about 9:20am the flower of the Dome meditating program got up and left, a
lot of really powerful meditators exit-ed to go out anywhere on their own
during the eclipse. It looked like a factory shift change with so many people
leaving
It is said,
Astrologically the moment of eclipse is powerful and saturates that degree of
the zodiac with energy. The effects of the eclipse will reveal themselves
during the following years as the energy dissipates.
https://billsinclair.com/tse7-21-2017/
I thought for a moment JP Sears was going to say that as beings of spirit no
longer seeking signs from material phenomena we are no longer like animals with
no choice but to shiver with fright and panic at unusual but natural earthly
changes, and therefore we are no longer associating with
JP Sears has a humorous video entitled “The Solar Eclipse – Ultra Spiritual
Life episode 70” at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWOykD3FXKw . It is 4 min
31 seconds.
Behold the morning sun
Begins its glorious way,
It beams through all the nations run,
And light and life convey.
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FW: With all love I will say that no one who knows this tradition would want
to view any eclipse let
Behold the morning sun
Begins his glorious way,
His beams through all the nations run,
And light and life convey.
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FW: With all love I will say that no one who knows this tradition would want
to view any eclipse let
FW: With all love I will say that no one who knows this tradition would want
to view any eclipse let alone a total solar eclipse that is a dire omen for
this country. Think of the source of all life and atma being eaten away and
totally disappearing. It is a spectacular view but negative
Here in Fairfield the Domes are available to be indoors and inward during the
eclipse for those meditators who have Dome badges.
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The eclipse..
On the east coast this is: 12:35 PM till 3:40PM
Central Time it is from
The hill of Zion yields
A thousand sacred sweets,
Before we reach the heav’nly fields,
Or walk the golden streets.
Then let our songs abound,
And ev’ry tear be dry;
We’re marching through Immanuel’s ground
To fairer worlds on high.
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On the east coast this is: 12:35 PM till 3:40PM
Central Time it is from 11:35 AM to 2:40 PM
Mountain Time it is 10:35 AM to 1:40 PM
Pacific Time is between: 9:35AM and 12:40PM.
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e-mail, FW:
Hi Friends
After some
e-mail, FW:
Hi Friends
After some soul searching, I have decided that the trip to view the eclipse is
not the best idea for me.
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Ammachi satsang: While many will be out trying to get a glimpse of the
eclipse, we
Ammachi satsang: While many will be out trying to get a glimpse of the eclipse,
we are going to follow the Vedic Rishi's recommendation to use this special
time that will amplify the power of our spiritual practices. Our Sankalpa will
be for peace in the world, and Amma has explained that when
Divert! Divert!
Come to Fairfield, Iowa and meditate during the eclipse..
Come, humble sinner, in whose breast
A thousand thoughts revolve,
Come, with your guilt and fear oppressed,
And make this last resolve.
I’ll go to Fairfield, though my sin
Hath like a mountain rose;
I know
Vedic astrologers warn not to view the maleficent dark-light of the eclipse on
Monday the 21st of August 2017.
Be advised to get and stay indoors 10 minutes before, during and after the
eclipse times in your location.
Engaging in deep meditation or prayer during the time of the eclipse is
FW: Be informed that potential negative influences activated by watching an
eclipse can last more than 2.5 years.
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Minority Transcendentalists traveling to Missouri? Missouri a Red state?
There is a travel advisory out
Minority Transcendentalists traveling to Missouri? Missouri a Red state?
There is a travel advisory out now for minorities traveling to Missouri.
Knowing the old history of persecution of minorities in Missouri, as a
transcendentalist I should be concerned about travel there. Needing
AMMA’s guidance: main point again and again emphasized is that it is
traditionally known in India by spiritual people that eclipses are excellent
time for meditation. Not good time for puja and other ceremonies.
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A
this is "know-it-all" know nothing empty rhetoric. you live and operate in the
world of duality. a watch is a superstition according to a person who can't
understand it by your verbalization.
A Shadow is a metaphor for fear. Fear is the loss of Unity, thinking we are
separate from what happens in the world. Light is sucked out, blocked. This is
for the ignorant. If "infinity is at every point," there is pure being
everywhere, no shadows at all. You are trading in illusions. The
Hear AMMA’s guidance on what to do before and during the upcoming solar eclipse
on August 21, 2017http://www.karunamayi.org/homepage/
http://www.karunamayi.org/homepage/
#
Dixon writes:
I'm Going Home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bblopcUcW6A
: "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]"
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To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, August 18, 2017 12:46 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Jyotish Council's Tips for Eclipse
I ain’t going. Will not. Should not, won’t. W
Spiritually, according to particulars in astrological charts travel to the
eclipse clearly ist verboten.
I am staying inside and inward in Fairfield, Iowa for the eclipse. The
configuration of the eclipse is particularly bad in one of our cases. Something
about the sign of Leo transits,
I ain’t going. Will not. Should not, won’t.
While I have been inwardly ambivalent whilst having fun figuring out the
details of travel down to Missouri to the eclipse we just had two big time
astrology and jyotish people separately contact us about the eclipse and charts
after their seeing
I’ve a long time heard that the sun will be darkened,
That the sun will be darkened in that day.
Oh, sinner, where will you stand in that day?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB0OHYyiDtg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB0OHYyiDtg
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I've posted elsewhere some of the silliness on the west coast as the
California state power authority issued a request for citizens to reduce
their use of power during the eclipse due to reduced solar power
generated. The effect of the eclipse on solar power generation should be
about the same
The groups of Fairfield meditating Quakers and Fairfield folk artists are
taking a picnic to Arrow Rock.
Friends who are University staff are thinking of “staying home and being
inward” on eclipse day. I expect them to ‘secretly’ show up counter to good
jyotish advice in Arrow Rock for the
I cancelled room reservations today that I made for Liberty, Missouri north of
Kansas City. I made the reservations months ago but figure now that the
interstate heading up to Totality from Kansas City is going to be a parking lot
on Monday morning.
Arrow Rock looks like a better shot
A solemn darkness veils the skies,
A sudden trembling shakes the ground.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0tfgd4I7dU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0tfgd4I7dU
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I've been listening to shortwave radio since
I've been listening to shortwave radio since I was around 10 years old, and one
of my fave shortwave religious kook broadcasters is Brother Stair, the Last Day
Prophet of God. His cult compound is in Canadys SC, just barely inside the path
of totality. He's holding a special gathering for the
Coincidence that the totality of the eclipse traverses the Bible-belt?
Repent sinners! Some will be on their knees. Some in lotus.
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Right now, the weather forecast is calling for partly cloudy skies along the
Right now, the weather forecast is calling for partly cloudy skies along the
path of totality in Missouri. I'm gonna keep an eye on it and figure out where
I'll drive to. The best bet is a 13 hour drive out to Casper WY, but I'm not up
for that. I may drive 6 hours out to Nebraska if it'll make
Car caravan departing 5am on the 21st from Fairfield.
Subject: Arrow Rock / Eclipse Totality
Historic Village site on the Missouri River, 200 miles south of Fairfield
Right smack on the line of Totality!
Arrow Rock, Missouri
The village is on the National Registry
A whole slew of meditators from Fairfield, Iowa are going to be right on the
line of Totality
for the eclipse down at Arrow Rock, Missouri.
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Om, a question: Would staying inside your car 'indoors' with the doors
Om, a question: Would staying inside your car 'indoors' with the doors closed,
count as okay?
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JULY 31, 2017
Points regarding the Solar Eclipse on August 21
We have received several emails asking about recommendations from
Thanks. From Wikipedia: in a nutshell the ME lacks a causal explanation and
cherry picks the data. In other words, correlation is not causation; and
beyond correlation, (something like: During period A in which people gathered
in the Dome, there were (fill in..; such as fewer automobile
Yup the post pretty obviously read as fake news item from anti-™ haters where
they often code disrespect of one of the great sages, scientists, and
revolutionaries of the 20th and early 21st Centuries, Maharishi, by calling him
Mahesh. Typical anti-TM bloggers.
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A Spurious Russian or X-ian fake-news blogging designed to derail invincible
America?
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Thx, from :"behind-the-tm-façade.com":
According to the Mahesh/TMO claims, the ME covering the last 25+ years in the
city of
Thx, from :"behind-the-tm-façade.com":
According to the Mahesh/TMO claims, the ME covering the last 25+ years in the
city of Fairfield, and the EME covering the last 20+ years in the state of
Iowa, should have demonstrated a steady decrease in crime, accident and
sickness becoming "the
#
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His aim of life, if the life of a realised soul can be said to possess any
such aim, is to broadcast the message of the Great Divine light that he has
himself realised, the Light that is the Soul of all human beings.
His aim of life, if the life of a realised soul can be said to possess any such
aim, is to broadcast the message of the Great Divine light that he has himself
realised, the Light that is the Soul of all human beings. Having himself
attained the pinnacle of Self development, he aims at
Someone could upload the file or folder to Google Drive, Dropbox, Hightail, or
one of the other cloud services. They could then send out a link, and everyone
could download it (only if not copyrighted).
Sent from my Samsung S6 phone
I asked around here today about this. The Maharishi School here in Fairfield,
Iowa currently teaches standard ‘core curriculum’, teaching of reading
beginning in the pre-school and on through.
That may not be what some alumni may remember but that is how it is done here
now.
One
Yes, I have your address. Evidently The MMY 500 Hours Thumb Drive has its own
journey to make here. It came to me unsolicited mailed in an envelope
apparently because of the thread where someone mentioned their interest in old
Maharishi tapes on FFL.
Now I mention the Thumb Drive to
Yes, I have your address. Evidently The MMY 500 Hours Thumb Drive has its own
journey here. It came to me unsolicited mailed in an envelope apparently
because of the thread where someone mentioned their interest in old Maharishi
tapes on FFL.
Now I mention the Thumb Drive to people here
ieldLife]
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To: FairfieldLife <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sat, Mar 5, 2016 10:20 pm
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Tapes
Hi
Thank you so much
You have made my day
For sure your wish is going to be fulfilled
Have a great day
Sent from my iP
Hi
Thank you so much
You have made my day
For sure your wish is going to be fulfilled
Have a great day
Sent from my iPhone
> On Mar 4, 2016, at 15:15, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
> wrote:
>
> Okay, I will send the thumb drive. I don’t know what the
Okay, I will send the thumb drive. I don’t know what the story is with this
thumb drive and its 500 hours of Maharishi but this is kind of magical that it
could jump to the middle of the Mideast so fast. May be you can get it to
those teachers up in Turkey and from there it goes on the spice
Hi again
This is my son's address
Shaya Ghanbar
1204 - 28 Linden Street, Toronto, ON, Canada, M4Y 0A4
Just update me please
Thanks for your very kind attention
Wish you always more happiness in life
Sent from my iPhone
> On Mar 3, 2016, at 06:01, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
>
That is a good solution.
Send the mailing address to me directly at: dhamiltony2k5 at yahoo.com
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Hi and thanks for the beautiful news.
You may send it through my son who lives in Ontario Canada and he will bring
Hi and thanks for the beautiful news.
You may send it through my son who lives in Ontario Canada and he will bring it
for me via his Iranian friends whom will drop by to visit their family.
If it's ok with you I send him his address!
Thanks for your great help.
Kish is a beautiful island to
Yes, we can figure out how to get you a copy. My computer engineer friends
comment that the file is too big to e-mail. I could send you a thumb drive.
Someone sent it to me in an envelop by mail. That clearly worked. The folder
is about 22GB with quite a lot of files in the folder.
That is fascinating - Any plans to share this?
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Evidently from before with this subject thread, a 32GB thumb drive in an
envelop arrived in the mail this last week. It has 500 hours of audio of old
Maharishi lectures. Starts
Hi friends
How I can reach those tapes ? Is it possible to have them ?
Thank you for your help
Sent from my iPhone
> On Mar 2, 2016, at 05:59, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
> wrote:
>
> Evidently from before with this subject thread, a 32GB thumb
Evidently from before with this subject thread, a 32GB thumb drive in an
envelop arrived in the mail this last week. It has 500 hours of audio of old
Maharishi lectures. Starts way back in the 1950’s with some Guru Dev audios
and comes forward.
Someone digitalized an incredible amount
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I know some people who have been inside recently. Not sure who owned it at the
time but the signposts from town were all of the "Beatles ashram this way..."
variety. Maybe they've cut back the undergrowth a bit to
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---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
I know some people who have been inside recently. Not sure who owned it at the
time but the signposts from town were all of the "Beatles ashram
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I know some people who have been inside recently. Not sure who owned
The bee hives!
From: salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com>
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, December 9, 2015 8:31 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi ashram opened to the public...
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ve got distracting...
From: salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com>
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, December 9, 2015 8:31 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi ashram opened to the public...
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time in the
80's.
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Sent: Wednesday, December 9, 2015 11:40 AM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi ashram opened to the public...
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# 1952
The Great Saint of the Himalayas is Coming
to Shower His Blessings on the Metropolis
The Statement issued by: BAL BRAHMACHARI SHRI MAHESH JI.
Press conference convened by Shri Shankaracharya Reception Committee, Delhi on
the 15th October 1952 at 5 p.m. in the Young Man's
The Phases of MSAE:
From the Ledger article..
“..the first phase of Maharishi School itself began in 1981. That year,
Maharishi School and Maharishi University of Management collectively educated
students from kindergarten all the way through a doctorate degree.”
“Maharishi School 2.0 began
Yes, an extremely important book and they are fabulous to meditate with once
you have the transcendent.
http://www.mumpress.com/books/other-authors/f06.html
http://www.mumpress.com/books/other-authors/f06.html
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Maharishi: I
For me the entire statement basically said: Everyone is different, there's many
angles from which to view a person or event - therefore judging others never
ends...so stop it already and mind you own business.
...Because there is no end to judging the behavior of others.
Just judge your own
I don't know. Is that what it is?
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Isn't is just a long-winded way of saying Mind your own business?
Isn't is just a long-winded way of saying Mind your own business?
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, martyboi@... wrote :
Isn't is just a long-winded way of saying Mind your own business?
Is what just a long-winded way of saying Mind your own business?
This is perfect. It's not about what happens, it is about how the mind
perceives what happens. What happens is always what happens. That one and
others are going to 'improve' as a result of meditation simply does not happen.
There are just hidden changes in the manner in which one understands
This is a physical world and I am conscious . . . how the illusion of the outer
world is created is still a mystery
E . . . so *is there* a physical world or is it an illusion?
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According to Sam Harris,
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote :
This is a physical world and I am conscious . . . how the illusion of the
outer world is created is still a mystery
E . . . so *is there* a physical world or is it an illusion?
There is a physical world, the illusion is
Re There is a physical world, the illusion is the Cartesian theatre:
What is immediately given in consciousness is the Cartesian theatre. So we
know that that at least is real (as real as it needs to be). The idea that
there is an existing physical world independent of our being aware of it
On 12/11/2014 3:47 PM, s3raphita wrote:
This is a physical world and I am conscious . . . how the illusion of
the outer world is created is still a mystery
E . . . so *is there* a physical world or is it an illusion?
/For those well versed in the Vedaanta the world is like a city of
The way I look at 'karma' is it is just action, what comes to you, what you
do, and the effect of past life, what happened then, cultural conditioning,
etc. One does not even have to think of it as 'past lives', just 'past life';
ten minutes ago could be past life. Maybe you insulted someone
: Wednesday, December 10, 2014 4:27 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Mahesh -greatest Guru the world has
ever known
The way I look at 'karma' is it is just action, what comes to you, what you
do, and the effect of past life, what happened then, cultural conditioning,
etc. One does
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