RE: [RamanaMaharshi] From Conscious Immortality

[Guest guest]

Hey Harsha,

 

I'll look around this evening a bit for an Aristotle quote that supports this.

Can't think of anything off the top of my head...

 

--Greg

 

At 04:10 PM 12/9/2004 -0500, Harsha wrote:

>Thanks Alan. That is the essence of the beauty of the teaching. What will

>the Self meditate on? It is Always Self-Abiding.

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>That is why the ancients called it "One without a second."

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>I am reminded of a story. Has anyone heard it? Aristotle said that God is

>Perfect. Therefore whatever God thinks about or focuses on must be Perfect

>as well. Certainly the Perfect One will not focus on imperfection. But

>since there is only One Perfection and That is God, it follows that God's

>essential nature must be Self-Abiding or God-Abiding. So God is constantly

>and continuously only meditating on God, there being nothing else.

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>I heard that when I was in college and it seemed to me very Advaitic. Is it

>a true story about Aristotle. Perhaps Greg Goode would know.