One or two ultimate realities.......

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Further to earlier question by Geeta...... this came

 

" Keppel Klan " <keppell

 

1. " Standing on bare ground - my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted

into infinite space - all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent

eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; I am part and parcel of God. "

 

 

2. " I was unprepared for what happened. Almost instantly, I somehow knew

that I had opened a door into something unknown but very powerful. I

remember uttering a curse. My field of vision was immediately a dark

ink-black, which then rapidly filled with brightly colored swirling

phosphorescent 'sparkles.' This vortex built in intensity ... and luminosity

until it coalesced into a sort of ball of intense light into which I was

swallowed up. This light or energy was completely overwhelming; it roared

like a tornado ... like being at the center of a nuclear explosion without

being consumed with pain or annihilated. I felt This is God, and for the

first time, I could sense the power that this Creative Force actually

represented. I was totally in awe. Yet throughout the whole experience, I

was not able to keep a grasp on my own personality. I was just a thread of

freely running consciousness, holding on for dear life to this screaming

freight train of energy that was tearing through the cosmos. At the same

time, I had the realization that this light was God; my body was filled with

a feeling of ecstasy of love. "

 

3. " I - my drashta, the Looker - became separated from my body and mind.

This was Atman ... And then the Looker witnessed everything in the world,

this ground, these trees, this river, this mountain, and all people, and all

other things, the light, the energy, and also itself, myself - all were

Shakti, the primordial energy of the universe. There was no Seer and seen,

no Looker and looked - they are One - that is Brahman, the Absolute. "

 

1.Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote the first report, an account of his experience

in a New England wood in his 1836 essay Nature

 

2. The second comes from a neuropharmacologist and professor at a large

American university who recently experimented on himself using extract from

a psychoactive plant.

 

3. The third is a description by a Hindu yogi about his own practices.

 

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> Interesting question......... Can I request the list members to reply

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> geeta Email: <mskutchi2001

> Posted on: Thursday, May 31, 2001, 09:00 PM

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> Is there two ultimate reality or just one. Are we the ultimate realty or

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> brahaman the only ultimate reality?

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