Guest guest Posted June 12, 2002 Report Share Posted June 12, 2002 People speak of visions and white lights and spiritual and psychic experiences. These are beautiful things and indications of meditative practices at some time. Those who know the source that lights all experiences, spiritual and otherwise, remain unmoved by such descriptions. Advaita Vedanta declares without compromise. Atman Is Brhaman! Thou are That! With what white light or spiritual experience shall I now be impressed? Once Sri Ramana was asked about traveling to different planes and having visions. The Sage of Arunachala asked the questioner something like, "What are you experiencing now and how is it different?" All techniques fall at the feet of the Sage and become meaningless. Love to all Harsha ===== /join Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 12, 2002 Report Share Posted June 12, 2002 advaitin, "harshaimtm" wrote: > People speak of visions and white lights and spiritual > and psychic experiences. These are beautiful things > and indications of meditative practices at some time. > > Those who know the source that lights all experiences, > spiritual and otherwise, remain unmoved by such > descriptions. > > Advaita Vedanta declares without compromise. Atman Is > Brhaman! Thou are That! > > With what white light or spiritual experience shall I > now be impressed? > Namaste Harshaji, This discussion of extraordinary visions is not without a purpose. It is not that people taking interest in such discussions are seeking some excitement outside the realm of everyday experience. Suppose one wants to study a particular machine. A good approach to this is to isolate all the constituent mechanisms. And then focus on one mechanism at a time and design experiments to clearly highlight the laws of science related to that mechanism. The goal of this exercise is somewhat similar. We are trying to understand the cause-effect relationship in our daily normal lives. However we find the normal experiences too complex. Hence we try to study these extraordinary events where a small set of laws of nature are amplified. If these parts are understood, the hope is we will start to understand the super complex machine that our daily life is. Hope this clarifies doubts about the purpose of such discussions. Best regards Shrinivas Gadkari Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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