tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7781646534201708629.post1843022168506524771..comments2024-01-08T00:08:53.008+00:00Comments on ombhurbhuva: Identity and Upadhiombhurbhuvahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07789523088428270027noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7781646534201708629.post-32588060214886345492012-09-19T21:39:55.171+01:002012-09-19T21:39:55.171+01:00Yes indeed there are stories of body swaps and the...Yes indeed there are stories of body swaps and the creation and inhabitation of multiple bodies. Bilocation is a phenomenon which trounces the spacetime continuum. Do you feel a certain pressure about the temples as paradox takes hold? As to Holy Fools Meher Baba used to go round gathering up ‘masts’ or or apparent lunatics who were unhinged by some yogic experience that they were not quite ready for. He established an ashram for them where they could be brought to a state of calm and peace.<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mast_%28Sufism%29<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meher_Baba<br /><br /> <br /><br />ombhurbhuvahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07789523088428270027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7781646534201708629.post-2760310834268060372012-09-19T15:34:37.905+01:002012-09-19T15:34:37.905+01:00Last night we watched Ostrov, or The Island, a Rus...Last night we watched Ostrov, or The Island, a Russian movie about a small monastery on a remote northern island. The resident holy man, a healer and a seer, is known by his brothers as The Prankster. There is a long tradition of the Holy Fool in Orthodoxy; maybe there's some overlap with the "serious fun" practiced by Hindu sages. I agree that it would be serious fun for someone who has attained awareness of his absolutely changeless identity suddenly to have his self swapped out for someone who just died.ktismaticshttp://ktismatics.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7781646534201708629.post-73987642211324314342012-09-19T13:49:35.613+01:002012-09-19T13:49:35.613+01:00If I chose to be portentous I could say - everythi...If I chose to be portentous I could say - everything a sage says is serious fun. However Lewis with his fission and fusion thought experiments would probably not or possibly might accept that there was overlap that could be explained by a different conceptual schema. His possible worlds he took to be real, ontically real, though they might never actually occurred. Many strange events occur in the life of a sage of the advaitic persuasion which are ontically unreal. So all this samsara is lila/sport.ombhurbhuvahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07789523088428270027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7781646534201708629.post-66359107282013491392012-09-19T13:28:45.128+01:002012-09-19T13:28:45.128+01:00So by "Lewisian fun" you mean that Raman...So by "Lewisian fun" you mean that Ramana did not intend for his remarks about the seven-year-old to be taken seriously?ktismaticshttp://ktismatics.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com