Pressure and A-dvaita

[Charles A. Hillig]

At 03:30 PM 4/29/97 +1000, you wrote:
>At 11:45 29/04/97 +0800, prasad wrote:
>
>>   Happiness is a relative term, Sri shankara has told one can't worship
>>  2 deity at the same time. So we can't claim that I am driving Toyota
>>  corola and earning US $ still I claim dettached. Which is impossible.
>
>I think that this is where an understanding of non-volition is important.
>
>I would very much contend that one can be driving a Toyota and earning US$
>and *still* be detached. Such an individual (is there such a thing? forgive
>the terminology) would not differentiate between having the Toyota and not
>having the Toyota. Because he (or she) would not consider his (or her) self
>to have any control over 'events'... no volition... one accepts the
>universe as it appears unconditionally... and understands that 'having' or
>'not-having' are the different ends of the same piece of string, why is one
>'good' and the other 'bad'? Only in the mind world of duality do they
>appear separate.
>
>
>regards
>Cameron Reilly
>

    I (whoever That is) agree!


           With Blessings,
                          Chuck Hillig