Re: Theos-World Re: 1. Maya .Finite and infinite
Jan 24, 2009 00:31 AM
by Martin
How could I forget, a very good friend of mine has done the latest series ( works for the BBC ).
--- On Sat, 1/24/09, Augoeides-222@comcast.net <Augoeides-222@comcast.net> wrote:
From: Augoeides-222@comcast.net <Augoeides-222@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: Theos-World Re: 1. Maya .Finite and infinite
To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
Date: Saturday, January 24, 2009, 4:24 AM
Martin,
From Doctor Who TV Series ! LOL Do not resist! Resistance is futile! You will
be assimulated!!!
Regards lol,
John
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From: Martin <Mvandertak@yahoo.com>
> The Dalac?
>
> --- On Sat, 1/24/09, Augoeides-222@comcast.net
> wrote:
> From: Augoeides-222@comcast.net
> Subject: Re: Theos-World Re: 1. Maya .Finite and infinite
> To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Saturday, January 24, 2009, 12:02 AM
>
> The Dalac would love that lol!
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> -------------- Original message --------------
> From: Cass Silva
> are you sure that inhale is destruction - I see it as assimilation
> Â
> Cass
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> --- On Sat, 24/1/09, Martin wrote:
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> From: Martin
> Subject: Re: Theos-World Re: 1. Maya .Finite and infinite
> To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
> Received: Saturday, 24 January, 2009, 1:44 AM
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> There can only be rest when first destroyed...destruction could also mean
> renewal.
> Atmen, ademen, the breath of Life..exhale is creation, inhale is
destruction...
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> --- On Fri, 1/23/09, christinaleestemaker
> wrote:
> From: christinaleestemaker
> Subject: Theos-World Re: 1. Maya .Finite and infinite
> To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Friday, January 23, 2009, 2:39 PM
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> Â Â
> Â Â Â Â Â Â Right, only one thing I have a little trouble with and
that
> is that
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> in pralaya you call: the Will to destroy, I think there is a better
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> word for, the Will to keeep things in rest.For later new creations.
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> Destroy is a finite definition.Than it would like we take not
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> rememberance with us.The one state flows always cumulative over in
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> the next.
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> Christina
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> --- In theos-talk@yahoogro ups.com, Martin wrote:
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> > Christina:
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> > Zakk, Jerry and others are discussing this and nother matters very
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> extensively. By their intellectual approach you may understand the
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> mind has to go through an intellectual state, driven by the power of
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> instinct, to reach pure Intuïtion, which doesn't need words or
form.
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> Like Ideas have no need of words or form. However as soon as the
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> Ideas reach a world and its inhabitants, they need form and words to
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> be understood by them and to be realised.
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> > This realisation is like a piece of music, it comes and it dies
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> out. Illusion yes, beautifull when in perfect harmony, noise at its
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> worst.
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> > It is eternal Law which causes Ideas to appear in any world to be
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> realised and maintained if the effect improves life of the
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> inhabitants, who are 'crystalised' music as well.
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> > Above Ideas is the Cosmic Will, the Will to create and in Pralaya,
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> the Will to destroy.
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> >
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> > To call the earth a speck of dirt is very disrespectfull for the
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> composition of music, made by the Dzyan Chohans. Of course earth's
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> music could improve, but tell me how many of you are musicians?
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> > A 'Brotherhood of Humanity' is a piece of music, which is
written
>
> but not finished. The earth needs to be worked upon to be a good
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> instrument to reflect the harmonious tunes of the Human Soul. As long
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> as we do not understand, all is music, we will be in trouble, every
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> time...trillions of years or merely a 100 years in this Kali Yuga?
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> > As for phenomena, music stirs the soul, need I say more?
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> >
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> > --- On Fri, 1/23/09, christinaleestemake r
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> wrote:
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> > From: christinaleestemake r
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> > Subject: Theos-World Re: 1. Maya .Finite and infinite
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> > To: theos-talk@yahoogro ups.com
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> > Date: Friday, January 23, 2009, 7:43 AM
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> >Â Â Â Â
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> >Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â This is what I have found over the finite and
> infinite
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> in Mahatma
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> >
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> > letter 6 on internet.
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> >
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> > Plato was right: ideas rule the world; and, as men's minds will
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> >
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> > receive new ideas, laying aside the old and effete, the world will
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> > advance: mighty revolutions will spring from them; creeds and even
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> > powers will crumble before their onward march crushed by the
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> > irresistible force. It will be just as impossible to resist their
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> > influx, when the time comes, as to stay the progress of the tide.
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> But
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> > all this will come gradually on, and before it comes we have a duty
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> >
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> > set before us; that of sweeping away as much as possible the dross
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> > left to us by our pious forefathers. New ideas have to be planted
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> on
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> > clean places, for these ideas touch upon the most momentous
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> subjects.
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> > It is not physical phenomena but these universal ideas that we
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> study,
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> >
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> > as to comprehend the former, we have to first understand the
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> latter.
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> > They touch man's true position in the universe, in relation to
his
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> >
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> > previous and future births; his origin and ultimate destiny; the
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> >
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> > relation of the mortal to the immortal; of the temporary to the
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> >
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> > eternal; of the finite to the infinite; ideas larger, grander, more
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> > comprehensive, recognising the universal reign of Immutable Law,
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> > unchanging and unchangeable in regard to which there is only an
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> > ETERNAL Now, while to uninitiated mortals time is past or future as
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> > related to their finite existence on this material speck of dirt.
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> > This is what we study and what many have solved.
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> > And now it is your province to decide which will you have: the
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> >
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> > highest philosophy or simple exhibitions of occult powers. Of
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> course
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> >
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> > this is by far not the last word between us and -- you will have
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> time
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> >
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> > to think it over. The Chiefs want a "Brotherhood of
Humanity," a
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> real
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> >
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> > Universal Fraternity started; an institution which would make
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> itself
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> >
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> > known throughout the world and arrest the attention of the highest
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> > minds. I will send you my Essay. Will you be my co-worker and
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> >
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> > patiently wait for minor phenomena? I think I foresee the answer.
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> At
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> >
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> > all events the holy lamp of spiritual light burning in you (however
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> >
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> > dimly) there is hope for you, and -- for me, also. Yes; put
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> yourself
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> >
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> > in search after natives if there are no English people to be had.
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> But
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> >
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> > think you, the spirit and power of persecution gone from this
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> >
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> > enlightened age? Time will prove. Meanwhile, being human I have to
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> >
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> > rest. I took no sleep for over 60 hours.
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> > Ever yours truly,
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> > KOOT' HOOMI.
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> > And few sight over Collected writings, perhaps she have written
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> more
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> >
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> > in secret doctrine and key to theosophy, but I will let it for now:
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> > HPB.Collected writings IV
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> > Page 536
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> > vehicles, if preferred, as to facilitate the manifestation of his
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> > individuality in its original nature.
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> > My own inference is that Advaita and this coincide, the former
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> > considering that Jivan is Parabrahm, modified by the latter into
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> > "Jivan is a part only of Parabrahm."
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> > We believe not. A true esoteric Vedantic Advaitee would say: Aham
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> eva
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> >
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> > Parambrahm, "I am also Parabrahm." In its external
manifestation
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> >
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> > Jivan may be regarded as a distinct individualityâ?? the latter
a
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> maya;
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> >
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> > in its essence or nature Jivan isâ??Parabrahm, the consciousness
of
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> the
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> >
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> > Paramatma manifesting through, and existing solely in, the
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> aggregated
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> > Jivans viewed collectively. A creek in the shore of the ocean is
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> one,
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> > so long only as the land it stretches upon is not redeemed. Forced
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> > back, its water becomes the ocean.
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> > Considered in this manner, there is one Infinite, made up of
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> > numberless infinites.
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> > We are at a loss to know what our learned brother can mean by Jivan
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> > being "dependent" on the whole, unless "inseparable
> from" is meant.
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> > If the whole is "all-pervading" and "infinite,"
all
> its parts must
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> be
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> >
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> > indivisibly linked together. The idea of separation involves the
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> >
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> > possibility of a vacuumâ??a portion of space or time where the
whole
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> is
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> >
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> > supposed to be absent from some given point. Hence the absurdity of
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> >
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> > speaking of the parts of one Infinite being also infinite. To
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> >
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> > illustrate geometrically, suppose there is an infinite line, which
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> >
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> > has neither a beginning nor end. Its parts cannot also be infinite,
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> >
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> > for when you say "parts," they must have a beginning and
end;
> or,
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> in
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> >
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> > other words, they must be finite, either at one or the other end,
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> >
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> > which is as evident a fallacy as to speak of an immortal soul which
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> >
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> > was at some time createdâ??thus implying a beginning to that
which,
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> if
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> > the word has any sense, is eternal.
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> > Jiva, Iswara and Maya are considered to be real, all the three in
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> > this light, i.e., as long as anything has existence, it is real or
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> > true, although that existence may not last forever. The Advaitee
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> says
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> >
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> > that only that which is immutable is true, and all things temporary
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> >
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> > and liable to change are illusionary; whereas the
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> ViÅ?ishtadvaite e
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> > says that as immutability is real in the eternity, so mutability is
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> > also real for the time being, and so long as there is no change. My
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> > own inference is that all the difficulty here lies in the words,
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> but
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> > that the idea is one.
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> > Collected writings VIII
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> > Page 88
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> > unknown principle called Parabrahman, Ã?di-Buddha, the "One
and
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> > Eternal Wisdom."
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> > If there is a still greater absurdity than to speak of a cruel God:
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> > it is to admit that God, the Great, Absolute Whole, could ever
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> > interfere in terrestrial or human affairs. The infinite cannot
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> > associate with the finite; the unconditioned ignores the
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> conditioned
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> > and the limited. The absolute "Intelligence- Wisdom" cannot
act
> in
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> the
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> > restricted space of a small globe. It is omnipresent and latent in
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> > the Kosmos, infinite as itself. We find its only truly active
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> > manifestation in humanity as a whole, composed as it is of stray
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> > sparks, finite in their objective duration, eternal in their
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> essence,
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> > issuing from that Hearth without beginning or end. Therefore, the
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> > only God whom we should serve is Humanity, and our only cult should
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> > be the love of our fellow man. Doing evil towards him, we wound God
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> > and make him suffer. When we deny our brotherly duties and refuse
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> to
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> > consider a pagan as well as a European as our brother, we deny God.
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> > This is our religion and our dogmas.
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> > --- In theos-talk@yahoogro ups.com, "christinaleestemak er"
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> > wrote:
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> > > Yes Cass, but than( after that trillion of years) we may hope
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> that
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> > > the infinite have taken place over the finite.
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> > > Christina
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> > > --- In theos-talk@yahoogro ups.com, Cass Silva
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> wrote:
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> > > > Within a cycle there is Christina - Each Manvantara has its
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> > Pralaya
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> > > - so one could argue that infinity resides in pre-pralaya and
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> > > else that is a result of it is still finite - even if we are
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> > > > Cass
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> > > > --- On Fri, 23/1/09, christinaleestemake r
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> > > > From: christinaleestemake r
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> > > > Subject: 1. Maya . 2.Re: Theos-World Re: Our latest news:
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> America
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> > > run on guns!!!
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> > > > To: theos-talk@yahoogro ups.com
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> > > > Received: Friday, 23 January, 2009, 8:16 AM
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> > > > As I understand well, if it is to be measured it is finite
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> > > > for that it is not the alpha and omega the infinite, what
is
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> > > > reality,which is not to be measured for there is no
beginning
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> > > > Christina
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> > > > --- In theos-talk@yahoogro ups.com, Jayananda Hiranandani
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> > > > wrote:
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> > > > > The root of word maya, is ma (a is long as in father).
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> > > > measure, which makes it finite. In Sindhi, (an Indo-Aryan
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> > > > with many Sanskrit words, perhaps 70 per cent), the word
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> > > > > Ã?Â
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> > > > > Jayananda H. Hiranandani
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> > > > > --- On Thu, 1/22/09, christinaleestemake r
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> > > > > From: christinaleestemake r
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> > > > > Subject: Theos-World Re: Our latest news: America run
on
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> guns!!!
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> > > > > To: theos-talk@yahoogro ups.com
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> > > > > Date: Thursday, January 22, 2009, 10:59 AM
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> > > > > Mistake need to read for infinite -- FINITE=Maya
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> > > > > Infinite is NOT
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> > > > > Christina
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> > > > > --- In theos-talk@yahoogro ups.com,
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> > > > > > Don't worry Adalasie and others.
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> > > > > > All what is infinite is MAYA.
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> > > > > > But I am glad I don't live in America. ( 70 %
of
> the
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> > Americans
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> > > > > > bought a gun (nov-dec and jan) accept the ones
already
> have
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> > one.
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> > > > > > I don't think they use it for hunting on
hares!
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> > > > > > PS Here it is forbidden to have a gun, only
policeman
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