Guest guest Posted July 29, 1999 Report Share Posted July 29, 1999 At 11:04 AM 7/29/99 -0700, you wrote: >a c <ac > >I think westerners underestimate mukti. And you think Easterners don't also? :-) >I have seen dozens of ordinary egos be >told by American gurus "there! you've got it -- you *are* it", whatever. >Next week the student starts "playing guru" and soliciting donations. What does that have to do with mukti? >I thought real mukti implied you also automatically had *all* the siddhis >(powers) and your state wasn't affected in any way by sleep, physical death, >etc. Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. Borrowed that one from Buddhism, but it applies to Vedanta as well. >No, I don't think siddhis are valuable in themselves but if you don't >have them you are not a jivanmukti in the same way a $1000 bill must have the >little watermarks to be genuine. Is this not true? A few maybe, but if you can't make yourself disappear and reappear on the planet Zortor, I'd not say that was in indication of avidya! With Love, Tim ----- Visit The Core of the WWW at: http://core.vdirect.net Music, Poetry, Writings on Nondual Spiritual Topics... Also Personal Site with Shareware, Entertainment, Etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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