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Re: Present
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To: r0m6887@tam2000.tamu.edu (Ravisankar S. Mayavaram)
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Subject: Re: Present
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From: kstuart@snowcrest.net (Ken Stuart)
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Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 07:09:27 GMT
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Cc: srh@rbhatnagar.csm.uc.edu
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Resent-Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 02:15:38 -0500 (EST)
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On 19 Mar 1996 03:05:52 GMT, r0m6887@tam2000.tamu.edu (Ravisankar S.
Mayavaram) wrote in soc.religion.hindu:
>Past is in the memory and future is in imagination. Both of them
>has to do with mind. Once the mind is thrown out the window, both
>are gone! I am convinced, but I am far from realizing it.
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>But what is present? To me it looks like a myth. All I can
>visualize is, in the time scale, future runs into past. Is there a
>sandhi, the great meeting point, the NOW? If the time is
>continuous, present is like a singularity. What is a point in a
>straight line. All I can think is near past and near future. By
>chance is if the flow of time is not continuous, may it is too
>subtle for ordinary like me to perceive, but it will give a
>chance for the "now" . A hole to escape through! That now will
>not be different from the eternal now!
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>Does this all imply that everything is in the mind?
>Once you transcend it you are free!
>May be you folks can comment on this!
Far from being a myth, the present is all there is.
This is more clearly seen in the space in between thoughts.
Namaskar,
Ken
kstuart@snowcrest.net
"The ego arises from the mistaken notion that the light of consciousness
reflected in the intellect and coloured by objectively perceived phenomena
is the true nature of the Self. Thus, the personal ego falsely identifies
the Self with that which is not the Self and vice versa." - Mark Dyczkowski
