[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi and Satyanand: Comments on Enlightenment Afterlife

2011-05-26 Thread shanti2218411
I guess what I want to say is that from my point of view in enlightenment the question of what happens to the body(subtle/gross) becomes irrelevant b/c the SELF no longer experiences itself as being bounded i.e having a body.OTOH,after enlightenment, the SELF continues to have an experience

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi and Satyanand: Comments on Enlightenment Afterlife

2011-05-26 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@ wrote: If the drop becomes the ocean, the drop is no more as a drop, it is completely recycled and uniformly distributed in the ocean, if we take the analogy a bit further. The specific individuality of the drop is gone. Try

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi and Satyanand: Comments on Enlightenment Afterlife

2011-05-25 Thread shanti2218411
IMHO, their never is adropseparate from the ocean(SELF). Thedrop never has an actual existence.It is only the result of the eternal SELF's creation of apparent boundaries/forms i.e.individual beings.The SELF who is writing all the posts on this forum is the same SELF that exists after the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi and Satyanand: Comments on Enlightenment Afterlife

2011-05-25 Thread Yifu
Right, that's what the string addresses: the apparent boundaries/forms, individual beings. It's obvious only the Self exists on the level of the Self; but the Self is only able to write with apparent organs of actions. The string addressed the organs of action, not the eternality of the Self.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi and Satyanand: Comments on Enlightenment Afterlife

2011-05-24 Thread John
We are part and parcel of God, but can never be God, according to Srila Prabhupada. I believe MMY wanted to say the same thing to you about this subject. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@... wrote: I asked Maharishi at TTC [Estes Park, CO] if when we reach UC are

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi and Satyanand: Comments on Enlightenment Afterlife

2011-05-24 Thread Yifu
thx, I'm forwarding the previous post on M and Sat. to Jerry; along with an invitation to comment on the official TMO nonexistence dogma.(probably won't get a reply...he's not one to like people disagreeing with him). ... As to Prabhupada; bringing him into the discussion wouldn't be

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi and Satyanand: Comments on Enlightenment Afterlife

2011-05-24 Thread do.rflex
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@... wrote: We are part and parcel of God, but can never be God, according to Srila Prabhupada. I believe MMY wanted to say the same thing to you about this subject. No. The point being made here is that when one reaches Cosmic, God, or

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi and Satyanand: Comments on Enlightenment Afterlife

2011-05-24 Thread Yifu
I disagree. Accounts of various people on this forum tend to outweigh the subtle existence option as to the official TMO dogma. (the witnesses have heard the statements directly from the Man himself and his mouthpieces.). The official dogma appears to be complete nonexistence. ... We must

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi and Satyanand: Comments on Enlightenment Afterlife

2011-05-24 Thread do.rflex
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Yifu yifuxero@... wrote: I disagree. Then you disagree with Maharishi AND you presume that Satyanand imagined or fabricated his story. If, as Maharishi stated, reaching the status of Krishna requires another series of incarnations into bodies finer

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi and Satyanand: Comments on Enlightenment Afterlife

2011-05-24 Thread Yifu
let's go back to square one. MMY/Jarvis, and the TMO party line is non-existence; notwithstanding a few quotes here and there that one might come up with. ... The Guru Dev, Satyanand model does encompass the possibility of subtle existences after physical death among the Enlightened. For

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi and Satyanand: Comments on Enlightenment Afterlife

2011-05-24 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius
What we need here on this forum is a post from someone who has died and not lived to tell about it. If the drop becomes the ocean, the drop is no more as a drop, it is completely recycled and uniformly distributed in the ocean, if we take the analogy a bit further. The specific individuality

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi and Satyanand: Comments on Enlightenment Afterlife

2011-05-24 Thread Yifu
Right, the drop is no longer a drop. Depends on what people want (whatever, fine with me). The Holy Grail of Christians is to live eternally in a dualistic relationship with Jesus; but this doesn't necessarily contradict nondualistic Realization also (just that the Oneness applies to the Self,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi and Satyanand: Comments on Enlightenment Afterlife

2011-05-24 Thread Robert
'And, if indeed Guru Dev was enlightened, how could he speak to Satyanand after his death if he had gone out of existence? (snip) You don't go 'out of existence' when you die, instead you continue to exist, on a soul level, without the need to incarnate into the physical again... That's the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi and Satyanand: Comments on Enlightenment Afterlife

2011-05-24 Thread Yifu
Nope: first, on an ultimate Absolute level, there is no Soul. I'm a Buddhist philosophically. What makes the me is a bunch of non-local components without a centered I. Conventional individuality is a conglomeration of components, tendencies, and unfulfilled desires that can be located

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi and Satyanand: Comments on Enlightenment Afterlife

2011-05-24 Thread emptybill
You might mentally note that this concept of extinction was pronounced here in the West by an 19th Century English poet rather than by Shankara. Never shall yearnings torture him Nor sins stain him nor ache of earthly joys And woes invade his safe eternal peace Nor deaths and lives recur.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi and Satyanand: Comments on Enlightenment Afterlife

2011-05-24 Thread emptybill
Prabhupad was a Gaudiya Vaishnava and only spoke their theology. This was decidedly not what Maharishi was saying. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@... wrote: We are part and parcel of God, but can never be God, according to Srila Prabhupada. I believe MMY wanted to say the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi and Satyanand: Comments on Enlightenment Afterlife

2011-05-24 Thread tartbrain
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@ wrote: We are part and parcel of God, but can never be God, according to Srila Prabhupada. I believe MMY wanted to say the same thing to you about this subject.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi and Satyanand: Comments on Enlightenment Afterlife

2011-05-24 Thread emptybill
Better yet, direct his attention to the final part of the Brahma Sutra-s with Shankara's commentary. Although he used to carry around Maharishi's commentary on the Brahma Sutra-s, apparently he never wanted to read Shankara's famous bhasya.This is probably because Maharishi commentary did not