Vigneshwar: Hi Floyd, Great excitement and joy in coming across your website. Can\'t tell you how much I had wanted to ask someone about this question that\'s in mind. There are moments when the unreality of all that\'s around us, including the body and mind, is clearly seen and discarded. A wonderful state comes where not-even-the-I exist. This of course, is known only after coming out of that state. Now, the mind wants to repeat this again and stay put in that state. Its making all conscious efforts possible to get back to where it came from. Now, why is it very anxious? I sometimes, want death also to occur at the moment when this realization is strong. Afraid a bit that i might again forget to be THAT, like forgetting my TRUE SELF. What\'s the remedy for the aching mind?
F.: From the volume of e-mail coming in from at least a dozen different countries since Vigneshwar wrote and the responses began, it is obvious that many Advaitans seem to have been "caught up" in his story and are expressing feelings of compassion. Your inquiries in his regard are hereby passed along. To the contrary, one e-mail was received from "Claudiu" (of Romania?) who wrote to ask some questions and then to give an order about the way that the remainder of this consciousness is supposed to function for the remainder of its manifestation:
Why isn\'t silence at all? why spreading seeds that already are spreaded? why offering pointers? just live your life after it\'s said I AM and nothing else should happen but it could be offered an answer.
In response, these questions for consideration are offered to Claudiu: If you are recommending silence, why are you not keeping silent? If you oppose spreading seeds, WHO is writing to spread seeds? If you oppose giving pointers, WHO wrote to this site to give a pointer? If you have said, “I AM” and then “nothing else” should happen, then the considerations for you are:
WHO used a search engine and why is something else happening?
WHO took the actions to find this site and why is something else happening?
WHO read something on this site and why is something else happening?
WHO wrote to offer pointers and why is something else happening?
WHO is claiming that nothing else should happen when so much else is happening with you?
[No need to reply. No more response will be made to you. You can take these questions into consideration for several weeks...or not.] Such “self”-contradictory conduct reveals the presence of false selves/ego-states as well as this duality of inconsistency: “I say to do this, but I do that.” Finally, WHO thinks, if someone writes to say that, at times, they are wanting death that the only response should be this?
In response, these questions for consideration are offered to Claudiu: If you are recommending silence, why are you not keeping silent? If you oppose spreading seeds, WHO is writing to spread seeds? If you oppose giving pointers, WHO wrote to this site to give a pointer? If you have said, “I AM” and then “nothing else” should happen, then the considerations for you are:
WHO used a search engine and why is something else happening?
WHO took the actions to find this site and why is something else happening?
WHO read something on this site and why is something else happening?
WHO wrote to offer pointers and why is something else happening?
WHO is claiming that nothing else should happen when so much else is happening with you?
[No need to reply. No more response will be made to you. You can take these questions into consideration for several weeks...or not.] Such “self”-contradictory conduct reveals the presence of false selves/ego-states as well as this duality of inconsistency: “I say to do this, but I do that.” Finally, WHO thinks, if someone writes to say that, at times, they are wanting death that the only response should be this?
“Well, just say I AM. Now, there is nothing else to say and nothing else should happen, so goodbye.”
All of that is related to pointers offered today. In order to understand the remainder of the response to Vigneshwar’s inquiry, please read the content of the vision presented at:
http://floydhenderson.com/article1.htm
The question can be asked, “If the seeker should begin by focusing on I AM, if there is no ‘one’ to die, if there is no ‘one’ to be ‘saved,’ if there is no eternal reward to gain, if there is no everlasting punishment to avoid, if the elements shall merely merge with the universal pool of elements, if the breath shall merely merge with the universal pool of air, and if the energy shall merely merge with the universal pool of energy, why Realize? If no WHO is present to benefit, why Realize?” The answer is simple, “Because it is natural.” Is it true that Realization can only have a relative corollary in a relative existence? Of course. As has been reported, “I AM the Absolute. I Am beyond any states of being and beyond any state of non-being as well. Those who understand that realize My true nature. All others are fools.”
The answer to the question, “Why Realize?” can be inferred from an understanding of the content of the vision and the way that energy cycles…or not. So the suggestion for today is to contemplate upon these two considerations: “After reading the vision and seeing how seven degrees of obstruction block the ‘I’ from knowing the Reality and how the seven degrees can be transcended, how would completing that shift and understanding fully the Absolute lead to natural, AS IF living for the remainder of the manifestation?” and "How can the Realization that I AM THAT have any bearing on the I AM?" Please enter the silence of contemplation.
All of that is related to pointers offered today. In order to understand the remainder of the response to Vigneshwar’s inquiry, please read the content of the vision presented at:
http://floydhenderson.com/article1.htm
The question can be asked, “If the seeker should begin by focusing on I AM, if there is no ‘one’ to die, if there is no ‘one’ to be ‘saved,’ if there is no eternal reward to gain, if there is no everlasting punishment to avoid, if the elements shall merely merge with the universal pool of elements, if the breath shall merely merge with the universal pool of air, and if the energy shall merely merge with the universal pool of energy, why Realize? If no WHO is present to benefit, why Realize?” The answer is simple, “Because it is natural.” Is it true that Realization can only have a relative corollary in a relative existence? Of course. As has been reported, “I AM the Absolute. I Am beyond any states of being and beyond any state of non-being as well. Those who understand that realize My true nature. All others are fools.”
The answer to the question, “Why Realize?” can be inferred from an understanding of the content of the vision and the way that energy cycles…or not. So the suggestion for today is to contemplate upon these two considerations: “After reading the vision and seeing how seven degrees of obstruction block the ‘I’ from knowing the Reality and how the seven degrees can be transcended, how would completing that shift and understanding fully the Absolute lead to natural, AS IF living for the remainder of the manifestation?” and "How can the Realization that I AM THAT have any bearing on the I AM?" Please enter the silence of contemplation.
