Acharya Peter Wilberg's Bulletin

Edited by author 23-08-2009 01:37 AM
Thank you Acharya for your further expanding and clarifying. It does appear still, that ultimately, with Awareness expanding our choices of reponse, it remains a free choice of response, not always aware, constructive and helpful in nature, as we would hope.
If we are "under the sway" of positive or negative aspects of the Gunas within,(including the Sattvic as you correctly remind), correct choosing as I understand it, returns to the practice of abiding in a heightened state of awareness to discriminate more fruitfully the "forces" of the Gunas at the present moment. This appears in other references to point to our "buddhi" discriminating aspect, or "sheath" or, perhaps seen in the New Yoga as a specific potential quality of our greater Awareness, but one that is "realized" by expanding our individual awarenss.
The understanding of the Gunas, which is my current focus of learning at present, appears to show their eternally contributing aspect of the very nature of Be-ing/Non-Being within Awareness. By becoming more aware of the postive and negative aspects of each of the Gunas actions in our Be-ing, we learn to work fruitfully with them, rather than allowing them, (because of avidya), to work us. It appears they are centrally required aspects of the "Great Drama", arising within ParamaShiva.
The concept of our continuous "avatar-ing", our learning, growing, "godding" is indeed rich.
PS. It is pleasing that you and Karinji have had what appears to have been a lovely time of retreat in Slovenia.