... It looks like you're limiting T/R to the cells of this puny primate body - This bothers me.
So, anyways, I used to post here(I had my own thread) but I deleted everything I posted, with your posts included. Sorry for deleting all that content that could've been helpful for other people and sorry for wasting your time - By sending everything you wrote into nothingness.
Anyways, I'm back here because I just COULDN'T find any religion/cult/whatever that wasn't full of bullshit. They were full of things like karma, sin, saints, etc...
I've been reading the blog of a disciple of a supposed enlightened chinese man. This guy said his master had superpowers and that the only way to reach enlightenment was to mantain yourself celibate and to mantian yourself in samadhi for 100 days, this way you could use your sexual energy to feed a spiritual fetus living inside you - Without that spiritual fetus you couldn't get enlightened, you couldn't realize the Tao. Shame I believed that for even a second!
He also said people like you("advaitas") only display a minor level of enlightenment(arhat) and don't have full buddhahood. That guy was honest and altruistic and fully believed on what he taught(I think)
I also talked with other disciple from that guy. He left everything in life to become a celibate monk that focuses only on enlightenemnet. He has attainment of the 8 jhanas and looks like he's an stream enterer too... He keeps saying that a human birth is extremely rare and that we should focus our entire time on enlightenment otherwise we can be born into hellish realms in the future. Anyways, he is too very altruistic about his beliefs and fully believes in what he says, and yet, how can he be so delluded? Well, maybe he isn't deluded and what you consider enlightenment is just a minor thing on their superior path of buddhahood like they say s/
I've also re-read parts of Yogi's autobiography by Yogananda and what a load of crap! The book was full of talk about sainthood and sin.... In the book Yogananda's master even materialized himself after death and talked to yogananda saying that now he is living on an astral plane and that everyone that's living there has to behave in the right manner otherwise they feel intense pain. Anyways, the thing is, Yogananda was a sincere guy and probrably didn't lie about his master materializing after death so, how can we explain this? Was it Maya petrending to be his master? Did Yogananda allucinate?
The fact that a dead person talked with Yoganada confirming his beliefs to be true creates inside me the illusion of autority for everything he says - thus making everything he says true cuz after all he knows what happens after death...
I know that he was deluded and yet my mind can't accept he was deluded because he talked with a dead person and that person said he was right(it was implied)
Whenever I see a spiritual master talking about celibacy, bramacharya, sainthood, morality, sin... I think to myself: What does it matter if you're a saint or sinner? It's not like I'm a sex addict that is clinging to the habit(in fact I'm still a virgin) it's just that the obsession those so called saints have with sex is just so great....
Who knows why the
**** hell celibacy and morality is the central point in almost all religions...