RE: [RamanaMaharshi] From Conscious Immortality

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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Thanks Alan. That is the essence of the

beauty of the teaching. What will the Self meditate on? It is Always

Self-Abiding.

10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">That is why the ancients called it “One

without a second.”

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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">I am reminded of a story. Has anyone heard

it? Aristotle said that God is Perfect. Therefore whatever God thinks about or

focuses on must be Perfect as well. Certainly the Perfect One will not

focus on imperfection. But since there is only One Perfection and That is God,

it follows that God’s essential nature must be Self-Abiding or

God-Abiding. So God is constantly and continuously only meditating on God,

there being nothing else.

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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">I heard that when I was in college and it

seemed to me very Advaitic. Is it a true story about Aristotle. Perhaps Greg

Goode would know.

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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"> Will pass it on to HS and Advatin.

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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Love to all,

10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Harsha

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font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold">Alan Jacobs

[alanadamsjacobs (AT) (DOT) co.uk]

Thursday, December 09, 2004

12:35 AM

ramana maharshi

Cc: atma vichara

[RamanaMaharshi] From

Conscious Immortality

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The Practice of Meditation

 

Q: Is there a time of day which is better

for meditation?

 

M: Yes, meditation in the early morning upon

arising is the best time

because the mind is then free of thoughts,

cares and worries.

But all these rules regarding hours of

meditation etc, are only for

beginners. There will come a time when

you will say, “I have given up

meditation,” because then you will

have realized that the idea implies

duality: the person who meditates, and the

object of meditation; you will

perceive the standpoint of the true Self

which does not need to meditate.

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From the book, “Conscious Immortality”

by Paul Brunton and Munagala

Venkataramiah, published by Sri

Ramanasramam, Tiruvannamalai

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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Dear Miles:

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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Thank you. I will pass this on to HS and

Advaitin.

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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Love to all

10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Harsha

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font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold">Miles

[miles.wright (AT) btopenworld (DOT) com]

Friday, December 10, 2004

7:00 AM

RamanaMaharshi

Re: [RamanaMaharshi] From

Conscious Immortality

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om namo bhagavate sri

ramanaya

Dear Harsha,

Aristotle's teleological argument comes to mind. e.g. "God and nature do

nothing in vain."

12.0pt">Aristotle believed that a form, with the exception of the Prime Mover,

or God, had no separate existence, but rather was immanent in matter. Thus, in

the Aristotelian system, form and matter together constitute concrete

individual realities; the Platonic system holds that a concrete reality

partakes of a form (the ideal) but does not embody it. Aristotle believed that

form caused matter to move and defined motion as the process by which the

potentiality of matter (the thing itself) became the actuality of form (motion

itself). He held that the Prime Mover alone was pure form and as the ³unmoved

mover² and final cause was the goal of all motion. (The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth

Edition. 2001.)

Aristotle concluded that God was the Unmoved Mover.

Kind Regards,

Miles

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