Theos-Talk Archives (January 2000 Message tt00041)

ramadoss@eden.com wrote:

> Dear Lucio:
>
> Thanks for the information, which is especially valuable since you can tell
> us from contemporaneous facts.
>
> While I had attended many of the Jiddu's lectures -- did not have to pay a
> dime/penny as fees, donation, love offering or for whatever "good" cause --
> it was not until I had a chance to see some of his videos that I seem to
> get some flavor of what he has been saying for years.

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Dear Dos
You may have read the principal afforism of Patanjaly.  It reflect so much
of what jiddu tried to explain especially in the getting rid    of the principal

illusions of the transitory nature of our phisical experiences.
look at  the afforism the discrimination of the mind .and how to rid of props
and preconceived ideas of the sublime . ISM  Societies.Religions. And so
.on He maintained that This mind of ours can achieve a purity.of expression
and perception. And it is a subjective experience and not easily expressed by
our logic mind alone. Yes I find him a great teacher.
But like most of us he has I think some Imperfections .From the point of view
of the our middle eastern brothers.
As for the western world it is just now realizing that " unity makes strength"
Mussolini.

>
>
> To me he seemed to indicate that we need to see things as they are -- with
> no distortion because of any of our "prejudices" based on any stereotyping
> -- and need for immediate action rather than philosophizing based on our
> beliefs of either the past or the future etc. He also was trying to impress
> on the importance of first hand information and independed decision making.
>
> Based on the numerous books that one finds in book stores here, I think in
> a very quiet way, his writings are exposed to the masses and it may take
> couple of decades from now to see what kind of change they have made to the
> psyche of the masses.
>
> ..




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