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Recieved: 2002/12/05 16:47
Subject: [K-list] Re: Third Eye/Pineal Gland Health
From: Riversoma

Hi Holly,

> I'm butting in unasked -- this is an important misconception.
>
> Kundalini awakening does not necessarily lead to enlightenment,

Very true. Kundalini awakening often does not lead to
enlightenment. I am sure many people become enlightened without
kundalini symptoms and I suspect that these are people who are having
a smooth and effortless development and/or took care of all that in
some other lifetime. But that is my personal theory which could
easily be wrong. :-)

> Enlightenment relieves suffering, not pain -- big difference. Two
modern
> holy men, Sri Ramana Maharshi and Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, both
died painful
> deaths from cancer. Enlightenment changes one's relationship to
pain because
> one is no longer felt to be an individual person to whom the pain
is
> happening. But as far as I know, pain is always possible as long
as there is
> a body around. HollyI understand the concept of not identifying personally with the
pain. But at that point is it the same? Do dips into Samadhi work
as a natural anodyne? If you are not experiencing the pain as an
individual do you at that point take drugs to relieve it? Perhaps
once the enlightened state has been reached drugs are no longer so
problematic. A good example would be the way developing bodies can
be disrupted in their healthy growth by the wrong substance at the
wrong time. A substance that would not be a problem at other times.
Mysteries, mysteries.

I have heard of yogis taking large amounts of LSD with no effect. If
you are one with the source of all bliss would ibuprofen make any
difference? It seems unlikely.

Namaste' R

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