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- Path: sparky!uunet!ogicse!abulsari
- From: abulsari@abo.fi (Abhay Bulsari VT)
- Newsgroups: soc.religion.eastern
- Subject: Re: What is pleasure, fun, joy ?
- Message-ID: <47842@ogicse.ogi.edu>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 08:18:31 GMT
- Article-I.D.: ogicse.47842
- References: <47569@ogicse.ogi.edu> <1hg750INNa89@sandman.caltech.edu>
- Sender: nabil@ogicse.ogi.edu
- Distribution: world
- Organization: Abo Akademi University
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- Approved: nabil@cse.ogi.edu (Aaron Nabil)
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- In article <1hg750INNa89@sandman.caltech.edu> Roger Adams <RADAMS@cerritos.edu> writes:
- >In article <47569@ogicse.ogi.edu>,
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- >If you are depressed or sad and come into the presence of someone who is
- >joyful, you immediately cheer up, don't you? Being joyful then uplifts others
- >and when it is unconditional, it is unselfish and of service to others by
- >your very presence. So the mind simply decides (for most) whether or not to
- >allow the joy within us to manifest, depending on whether or not a desire is
- >fulfilled - based on conditioning which is varies from person to person.
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- Perhaps Paramhansa Yogananda did not state clearly enough that the
- world is an illusion (Maya), but this is what I am trying to
- understand. I think many of our concepts are hollow and lead to
- illusions.
-
- Abhay
-