Origional Sin... and India

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>You did absolutely the right thing. Any religion or sect which inhibits the

>spiritual growth or individuation of a person should be abandoned. Maybe

you

>didn't need to hear this from me, but I just wanted to affirm your statement.

*Wow. Blow me away, Gene.

>in all fairness, India is NOT n never has been a denigrator of the feminine!

>Mother India venerates the goddess as well as gods n women are to be treated

>theoretically as incarnations of the goddess. India, the land, has its chief

>temples marking the great body of the goddess.

*My dear Alice. Sad to say, over the past few years particularly, India HAS

become a denigrator of the feminine and it is a well-documented fact that

women are being married there now for their dowries and then cast out,

often with their faces and bodies disfigured by acid burns, and that this

filth is often being plotted by the mothers of the men involved...

I certainly don't say it is happening on all levels of Indian society, but

that it DOES HAPPEN, and that it happens in a society whose traditional

relation to the Mother Goddess has certainly, up to now, never been in

question... Why?... The great god Moloch brooks no rivals... Especially not

mere women...

Sorry.

Bo asked the other day about Prajña Paramita: Prajña ('insight') Paramita

('peerless'/'transcendent') is the clarity of awareness that sees into the

nature of openness, its innate power as pure awareness (vidya), and its

manifestation as 'the dancing display of the myriad things'... It perceives

all that is in both enlightenment and obscuration and is thus the mother of

all that exists, buddha, sentient being or container universe. Symbolised

by the syllable A - the first sound in the Sanskrit alphabet, cognate with

the glottal stop sound in the pronunciation of the Hebrew primal syllable

Aleph - it represents the roots of all thought and speech and thus contains

all knowledge. In the Tibetan system it is visualised as a golden yellow

goddess, seated cross-legged in the vajra posture upon a thousand-pettalled

lotus or on rainbow-coloured clouds in the deeps of space, Her lower body

is adorned with beautiful robes, the upper totso bare except for a light

scarf thrown round her shoulders and dancing in the breeze. She has four

hands, the lower two of which, in meditation gesture upon her lap, hold the

inexhaustible jar of wish-fulfilling, while the upper pair, one to each

side of her, hold a rosary of 108 golden-cloured beads and the volume of

the Great Discourse on Peerless and Transcendent Penetrating Insight, the

one symbolising the trenchant acumen of the enlightened mind and the other

the all-encompassingness of its teaching.

She is surrrounded by an aura of rainbow-coloured light resounding with the

sound of her mantra: TAYAT'A - OM GATE GATE PARAGATE PARASAMGATE BODHI SOHA

(TADYATHA - OM GATE GATE PARAGATE PARASAMGATE BODHI SVAHA in pure Sanskrit)

" Thus it is - OM Gone (from here), gone (from there), gone beyond (both

here and there), gone utterly beyond. (This is) enlightenment. Let it be so. "

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