[Advaita-l] Physical death of the Jnani and related issues

[Anbu sivam2]

BMI is the body, mind and intellect.  This abbreviation was popularised by
Swami Chinmayananda.

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Ramakrishnan Balasubramanian <
rama.balasubramanian at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Vidyasankar Sundaresan <
> svidyasankar at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >
> > > praarabdha karma includes teaching you and me. If it is insisted that a
> > > Gnaani has BMI then there would not be any jeevanmukthas and one would
> > only
> > > be advocating vidhEhamukthi. I do hold that Gnaanam is imparted in many
> > > ways unique to each mumukshu. Actually Bhagavan Ramana employed
> different
> >
> >
> > Au contraire, only if it is insisted that a jnAnI continues in the
> > preconditioned BMI
> > can one even begin to talk of jIvanmukti. The straightforward meaning of
> > the word
> > jIvanmukta is that this person is enlightened even when continuing to
> live
> > in the
> > body. Continued functioning of the body and continued functioning of the
> > mind are
> > accepted and described by no less than Sankara bhagavatpAda himself, as
> has
> > been
> > shown through numerous quotations from the bhAshyas.
> >
> >
> > No advaitin (at least on this list) is suggesting that a jnAnI identifies
> > with this BMI.
> > That would be a grave misreading of the intentions of those who say that
> a
> > jnAnI
> > has BMI, because that is clearly not the intention of those who say that
> a
> > jnAnI
> > does have a functioning body and a mind
>
>
> Sorry to sound stupid - but what's BMI?
>
> Rama
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