The gunas & time / mariusz

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, " mortlake2002 " <shamshir

wrote:

>

> , Alan Jacobs

> <alanadamsjacobs@> wrote:

> >

> > Dear Mariusz,,

> >  

> > On the Relativily Real level Gunas are only a description which

> applies to an individual mind-body system. They are in continuous

> flux and are different for each jiva, there is no such thing as a

> guna you can extract, put it under a so called

scientific examination

> and say what it is as a scientific description. If they were

> unchanging we could call them real, as that is the definition of

Real

> in Vedanta.

>

> Dear Alan,

>

> Many thanks for your patience. What I am talking about would be

> probably called by the Schoolmen the essence of the gunas while

your

> latest reply is concerned with their accidents. In other words, we

> are told that there are always three of them, and that they have

> their specific names, and that their characteristics are such and

> such. That's what I perceive - probably wrongly - as their

permanence.

>

> " Yosyx gives you a good answer too. Why be concerned about these

> changing states? "

>

> I am concerned with them because they seem to undermine the entire

> doctrine of which I am intuitively convinced that it is true.

 

 

 

 

could you please elaborate some more?

what doctrine, and what appears to

undermine it?

 

 

 

 

 

This is

> a real stumbling block for me, please prove that my understanding

is

> wrong! 8)

>

>

> " When you are in satva, a clear state of mind, encouraged  through

a

> vegetarian diet, one can practice and enjoy Self Enquiry more

easily. "

>

> Incidentally, I have been a vegetarian for at least five years.

>

> Dear Yosyx,

>

> Thank you for your reply, too. Yes, I am Polish but I live in

Canada.

>

> Best regards,

>

> Mariusz

>

 

 

i left poland some fifty years ago, at the age

of eleven, but still retain full command of the

language (reading, writing and speaking)...

currently i reside in the middle east, in israel.

 

yosy