I totally understand what you are saying regarding sensory pleasures like the smell of a rose or witnessing a beautiful sunset. Yes, those are divine experiences because they bring us a step closer to divinity, to happiness. As Yoga is not the denial of desire or happiness but the fulfillment there of. The problem with Tantra or with our physical sensory experiences is that habituation quickly sets in with repeated stimulation and with it the diminishing returns of pleasure. Thus a wandering mind develops along with a loss of steadfastness. It doesn’t matter which sensory stimulation we are talking about, they are not sustainable as a repeated source of pleasure. This is a factual reality. Additionally, using one’s own sound reasoning, discernment and contemplation is not yoga. And it is not our conceptual ego of ourselves which keeps us bounded to this material existence. It is our sensory perceptions which binds and traps us firmly to this very real material conceptualization. Each morning you wake up in the same body but a day older. Rich or poor there is no escape from this corporeal existence. That is except through one path. The human conscious mind alone is capable of such a feat, to actually experience the un-manifested nature of reality which underpins this manifest corporeal reality.
I think I’m still welcome to comment on this subject as long as it is back up by scripture. The Buddha said it was his own sensory perception which was deceiving him all along. Lord Krishna said the slayer doing the slaying and the person being slayed upon are both deceived. It is not our ego that is the source of Maya.
I totally understand what you are saying regarding sensory pleasures like the smell of a rose or witnessing a beautiful sunset. Yes, those are divine experiences because they bring us a step closer to divinity, to happiness. As Yoga is not the denial of desire or happiness but the fulfillment there of. The problem with Tantra or with our physical sensory experiences is that habituation quickly sets in with repeated stimulation and with it the diminishing returns of pleasure. Thus a wandering mind develops along with a loss of steadfastness. It doesn’t matter which sensory stimulation we are talking about, they are not sustainable as a repeated source of pleasure. This is a factual reality. Additionally, using one’s own sound reasoning, discernment and contemplation is not yoga. And it is not our conceptual ego of ourselves which keeps us bounded to this material existence. It is our sensory perceptions which binds and traps us firmly to this very real material conceptualization. Each morning you wake up in the same body but a day older. Rich or poor there is no escape from this corporeal existence. That is except through one path. The human conscious mind alone is capable of such a feat, to actually experience the un-manifested nature of reality which underpins this manifest corporeal reality.
I think I’m still welcome to comment on this subject as long as it is back up by scripture. The Buddha said it was his own sensory perception which was deceiving him all along. Lord Krishna said the slayer doing the slaying and the person being slayed upon are both deceived. It is not our ego that is the source of Maya.
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Thank you Chris. Brilliant start to Sunday with this podcast.
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