Guest guest Posted March 4, 2000 Report Share Posted March 4, 2000 On Sat, 4 Mar 2000 10:04:45 -0800 (PST) Tony O'Clery <aoclery writes: > Tony O'Clery <aoclery > > Namaste All, > > Sri Lakshmanaswami says that it would be difficult to > travel the whole world and meet but two 'realised > souls'. Given the constraints of physical travel Swamiji is probably quite correct. However, such constraints do not apply. > I see claims that we have such people on these > lists, we are so fortunate? Out of 6 billion people? See how the mind frantically deduces in denial of what it fears? > Please stand up and be worshipped ha ha ha!! Discomfitted, mind feigns humor to assuage fear. > > Ego is fear and fear is ego, is it not? Ego arises out > of the fear of not knowing the world. Ego arises out of rightful survival instinct -- it is a tool/weapon along the lines of opposable thumbs or color binocular vision. As with other tools, ego becomes problematic when misused and, ego being comprised of thought and therefore profligate within consciousness, such misuse is pretty much inevitable. > The last > impediment to the mind dying is the fear of the ego. > Close to realisation the ego is in terror. It can even > convince people they are 'realised', so as to > perpetuate its own illusion. Manomayakosa! Yes, that can certainly happen! > [snip] > > No claim to any kind of realisation. Duly noted. > I have come to > the conclusion that intelligences, a developed mind > and over education are an impediment to realisation. A > thing so simple as realisation can only be talked of > in like terms. I am amazed at how we can write so much > about this. > Well, "we" is certainly inclusive and "I am amazed at how" *you* "can write so much about this" in defense of what you call a "conclusion" -- an intellectual deduction! Don't concern yourself about others' "intelligences," "developed mind, or "over education" -- look into that which concludes and defends its conclusions. http://come.to/realization http://www.atman.net/realization http://www.users.uniserve.com/~samuel/brucemrg.htm http://www.users.uniserve.com/~samuel/brucsong.htm ______________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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