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   Re: Is Advaita just another Cult??   
   13 Jun 21 00:08:29   
   
   From: tfetty333@gmail.com   
      
   What you said about Advaita or enlightenment in general as causing psychosis   
   is true, but you can't go back.  Even if what you learned was bad you or at   
   least I can't go back, it's like eating the steak in the matrix, it is not as   
   good plus it's a dead    
   animal, you can't ever un-know it.   
      
   What you said about revealing the nature of everyone's insanity to them and   
   forcibly enlightening them through psychiatry sounds cruel to me.  It's a   
   harsh process and everyone would feel victimized.     
      
   Enlightenment, heaven on earth, what does it require?   I'm afraid of death   
   and I feel guilty for my behavior, what would it take for me to reach   
   enlightenment right now?  Well I could realize that I'm not a body and I am   
   everything, life is a dream and    
   there is no free will.  That's one method.  If I didn't use Advaita I would   
   have to accumulate a lot of wealth in order to buy the best medical care and   
   military protection,  repent of my misdeeds and change my ways, and that is   
   virtually impossible.  In    
   that way only a select few are ever going to attain peace in a dualistic world   
   and that peace is theirs alone.  No one can share in happiness achieved by   
   exclusivity, it's always sad, imo.   
      
   Cheers   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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