Effects of meditative trance

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Originally Posted by demonsbane

a) To hear the doctrine from the lips of an Awakened master (here a supernatural element plays a key role, too), installed in the consciousness of Brahman. The fruit of this hearing is the intelectual understanding of the teachings.

b) To reflect about the already heard until the attainment of a rational conviction of its truth.

c) To meditate about it continuosly until that the theoretical and rational conviction is converted in live experience, for then reaching to

d) know intuitively -that is, through the Intellect or Buddhi, nor through the mere faculty of the reason-, for seeing directly that the only true reality is Brahman.

The first is a Teaching roll, or a series of Teaching rolls.

The second is the acquisition of skill in Philosophy (Upanishadic) or (Vedanta), and the making of one or more skill rolls in it.

The third is a series of Meditation rolls, almost exactly as provided for in GURPS.

The fourth is probably a Discipline of Faith, or maybe True Faith, or both together; anyway, it's not of the nature of a skill, I don't think. Shouldn't knowledge of the Absolute be, well, absolute?

Bill Stoddard