Thank you so much for the informations. Greetings, Carla Geerdes...
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Gummuluru Murthy
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Nov 2, 1998 3:43 pm
... Namaste. Thanks for a very nice contemplative article. I certainly like the last paragraph. Quite often, the intellect takes credit for any spiritual ...
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f. maiello
egodust@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Nov 3, 1998 3:01 am
... manonasa = destroyed mind suddha chit = purified mind perhaps it's better to think of the idea of the "destroyed mind" as the destroyed *philosophical* ...
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Charles Wikner
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Nov 3, 1998 2:43 pm
... Let it rest for the moment: it will come up again. Meanwhile, I have four weeks of accumulated karma piled on my desk to work through. ... It is just...
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Charles Wikner
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Nov 3, 1998 2:49 pm
... You seem to stop short of the goal: that is certainly the limit of the ego, but Brahman is beyond that. Katha 1.3.13 gives: yacchedvaa"nmanasii...
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Charles Wikner
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Nov 3, 1998 2:52 pm
... Ego and creation are concurrent: you cannot have one without the other. ... CounterFACTuality? Who determines what is a fact and what is not? A smoker...
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Eric Stewart
ganesh_82@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Nov 3, 1998 5:02 pm
Question from the newbie: in your statement that ego is never present, i.e. in the moment, I offer the following example of what I think is a statement from...
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sadananda
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Nov 3, 1998 7:17 pm
... Thanks for your post. Suppose if I ask you, how can you say that your are the best baseball player - assuming that you are not playing, when I am asking -...
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sadananda
sada@xxxxx.xxx.xxxx.x...
Nov 3, 1998 7:21 pm
... Every situation is a win-win situation is worth to remember - it helps one to grow. Thanks Charles. Hari Om! Sadananda K. Sadananda Code 6323 Naval...
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sadananda
sada@xxxxx.xxx.xxxx.x...
Nov 3, 1998 7:27 pm
... Beautiful - you are absolutely right. In my statement I could not go beyond - since beyond the universal ego there is no futher expression - as Nanda...
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Ram Chandran
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Nov 3, 1998 8:20 pm
Greetings Advaitins: Currently, this list contains 69 members and we have quite a few new members. Let me take a moment to welcome the new members and request...
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Gregory Goode
goode@xxx.xxxx
Nov 3, 1998 8:22 pm
... This is a great question! The reference points for the statement "I am the best baseball player alive." take you out of the "now" (think of all my past...
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Vidyasankar Sundaresan
vidya@xxx.xxxxxxx.xxxx
Nov 3, 1998 10:04 pm
In part I of the commentary on verse 2. 11, we saw that SankarAcArya traces Arjuna's confused state of mind to Soka (grief) and moha (delusion), which motivate...
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T. Temple
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Nov 4, 1998 12:30 am
Hi, If you hadn't asked, maybe I would have just kept reading. I'm Tamra, one of the new ones to the list. I'm a student of psychology/sociology/religion and a...
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Gummuluru Murthy
gmurthy@xxxxxx.xxx.xx...
Nov 4, 1998 2:55 pm
Namaste. This has relevance to Eric Stewart's question of yesterday and my comment of October 20 (Digest # 41) on the topic. I see Shri Sadananda's point that...
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sadananda
sada@xxxxx.xxx.xxxx.x...
Nov 4, 1998 3:48 pm
... I think one has to be careful in this analysis. Ego is with reference to the past or the future, but the error is in the present, in the sense 'I am the...
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Gummuluru Murthy
gmurthy@xxxxxx.xxx.xx...
Nov 4, 1998 4:09 pm
... Namaste. The above answer makes the present last only an instant with what is now present being rolled into a more or less infinite past, and what is now ...
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sadananda
sada@xxxxx.xxx.xxxx.x...
Nov 4, 1998 4:52 pm
... Both are equivalent descriptions - depends on the reference. Present can be considered as a thin invisible line where the past meets the future! But the...
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Swami Atmananda
atma@xxxx.xxxx.xxx.xxx
Nov 5, 1998 4:09 am
Hari om ! From this issue I plan to start lessons on a well known introductory text of Vedanta philosophy called 'Tattva Bodha'. These lessons will be sent as...
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Charles Wikner
WIKNER@xxxxxx.xxx.xx....
Nov 5, 1998 9:23 am
... When the Atman steps into creation as it were, what arises is aham, the feeling of pure being. When there is the feeling of particular and differentiated...
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Charles Wikner
WIKNER@xxxxxx.xxx.xx....
Nov 5, 1998 9:33 am
... That makes nonsense of any notion of MY spritual development: there is nothing in it for ME. And ultimately even mumukshutva must be surrendered. The...
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Charles Wikner
WIKNER@xxxxxx.xxx.xx....
Nov 5, 1998 9:56 am
... Taking that sentence as summarising the gist of the post (as a reminder, for it was a few weeks ago), there is another way to consider these states that...
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sadananda
sada@xxxxx.xxx.xxxx.x...
Nov 5, 1998 2:06 pm
What is Ego? It looks like the discussion on Ego apparently drifting into somewhat confusion. What is Ego and does it exist in the present etc. are the ...
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sadananda
sada@xxxxx.xxx.xxxx.x...
Nov 5, 1998 3:10 pm
... True - even the sense of journey is born of mumukshutvam. Ultimately it is a realization that there is nothing to realize. Some JNaani said - "Ignorance I...
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Lilia Stepanova
ls691035@xxx.xxx.xxxx
Nov 5, 1998 3:55 pm
Namaste to everyone in the list In 'Talks on Upadesa Saram', Swami Dayananda says: "If the Lord created the world, is He inside the world or outside of it? If...
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sadananda
sada@xxxxx.xxx.xxxx.x...
Nov 5, 1998 4:11 pm
... If the Lord is outside then the questions comes - what is that outside and who created that outside. If that outside is also created then that out-side...
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Gregory Goode
goode@xxx.xxxx
Nov 5, 1998 4:15 pm
Hello Charles, ... I responded off-list because I saw only my own e-mail address in your post, whereas all the others show up in my mailer as: "Delivered-To:...
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Gregory Goode
goode@xxx.xxxx
Nov 5, 1998 4:46 pm
... So the answer to "Where is God?" is -- Everywhere there is a Where, and Everywhere there is not a Where, There is God! --Greg...
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sadananda
sada@xxxxx.xxx.xxxx.x...
Nov 5, 1998 5:58 pm
... All Temples are the embodiment of the indwelling Lord where Lord Nataraja dances eternally out of joy. Welcome to the AdvaitinL where Lord alone is there...
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sadananda
sada@xxxxx.xxx.xxxx.x...
Nov 5, 1998 6:13 pm
... I am reminded of the statement a close friend of mine made; It is only ignorent who does not take life seriously It is only intelligent who seriously takes...