Colette/role of body in transformation

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At 12:49 AM 7/9/99 +1000, you wrote:

>Colette T <colette

>I wonder if anyone can clarify for me whether body, even mind

dissociation, is >a natural part of the process of transformation?

 

Yes, it is, although "dissociation" may not be an entirely accurate term.

Rather, the body and mind are seen for what they are, Maya.

>Then how this body/mind is to be used to express pure awareness, after

>grounding back in body?

 

The body and mind have their own natures. The nature of the body is to

move, breathe, eat, sleep, etc. The nature of the mind is to think. These

natures are separate in a realized being from Himself. The mind continues

to think, but it has nothing to do with who the realized person is. The

same applies to the body. Thoughts would appear to arise spontaneously and

naturally, and so the movements of the body as well. There is no

identification with these things. They are seen as a natural projection of

the Atman, yet they are in the realm of Maya and thus separate from the

Realized Being, who is Brahman.

>I hear much about ascent, but little on how to descend back vast awareness

of >void, back into a transformed body.

>There may be continued dissociation if this is not achieved.

 

There is continued "dissociation." The body is not transformed, nor is the

mind. These remain as they were. It is the locus of awareness that

shifts. Awareness becomes the awareness of Brahman, not that of the mind

or the ego. The realized being does nothing. It is the body that acts,

the mind that thinks. The realized being himself never moves, is outside

of time, space and causation.

 

Hari OM,

 

Tim

 

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