[Continued from yesterday]
R.: What is the concept of realization?
F.: Take the term to be nothing more than a teaching tool that points toward a happening, specifically the end of belief in all concepts even as the consciousness remains manifested.
More specifically, what happens is that the contaminated or blocked consciousness becomes re-purified or is no longer blocked. At that instant, the pure consciousness will realize when a lie is a lie, will realize that all religious and spiritual beliefs amounted to nothing more than learned ignorance and are to be discarded, and will then realize the Truth.
R.: Are we born in this world to attain realization or liberation?
F.: No, and no.
R.: What is there for our eternal souls to realize if there's anything to realize?
F.: Since there is no soul, then there is no eternal soul; therefore, there is no soul to realize anything. There is consciousness manifested now, which cannot realize truth if contaminated or blocked. There is consciousness manifested now which can realize truth if re-purified or if beliefs and concepts—which are the blocking agents—are forfeited. Post-manifestation, there is no “one” to be conscious of anything.
As far as this “Raja” should be concerned—all there is, is consciousness...for now. Should the warped consciousness be re-purified, then (1) you will realize all of the ways that “they” fooled you and (2) you will realize the Truth.
R.: If there is so, then suppose a person dies without realization, will he(Atman) unite or remain with Brahman who is One infinite?
F.: It is also required, if you would grasp the no-concept, non-dual Reality, to be free of your confusion around such terms as “Brahman.” Your inquiry above is an adumbration of the Christian dilemma dealing with their concept of salvation and their concept of a god who supposedly "loves unconditionally": “If I die without being ‘saved’—without accepting Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior—will I still go to heaven, or will I go to hell, and if so, why if love is 'unconditional'?”
Is the term “Brahman” used accurately by some Advaitins? Yes, but too often it is used to refer to some “supreme spirit,” which does not exist. (“Supreme” vs. “not supreme” or “supreme” vs. “worst” is itself a duality.)
The term also, as used by many, often carries a connotation of being “Divine,” which is another dualistic term. Some consider it to be the source of a creator god called “BrahmÄ,” but no such creator god exists. Why?
It’s simple: because all is energy/matter and because neither energy nor matter can be created nor destroyed; therefore, nothing has ever been created or destroyed, so a god of creation and a god of destruction are both fiction.
(The same applies to a god—or gods—of sustenance). The fact that you refer to Brahman as “who” is evidence that you have personalized a field of energy and that you currently perceive the boundless space wherein potential but unmanifested energy moves as being a personal space with form, just like the plant-food-bodies on earth which are the models for all gods-cum-bodies.
When a bug hits the windshield of a vehicle, the released energy does not have to go “there” to be “at rest.” That space is here and is now. The transfer is immediate. Yet the space is neither confined nor restricted, so the movement of energy is potentially limitless.
R.: If he doesn't then where does the Atman go?
F.: There is no Atman to go anywhere, post manifestation. Understand, too, that the “Cosmic Substance” to which all in this universe can be traced was nothing “supreme,” nothing “spiritual,” and nothing “created.” Instead, it was one, single atom that manifested in a vacuum.
Whatever you think you are seeing on this planet and taking to be "numerous, different things," and all of these "pools" of elements, air, and energy, and all of the planets and galaxies as well, can be traced to the manifestation of that one, single atom. Please enter the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)
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http://floydhenderson.com/nothingness.htm
http://floydhenderson.com/consiousnessawareness.htm
http://floydhenderson.com/iamabsolute.htm
http://floydhenderson.com/theessence.htm
http://floydhenderson.com/whenidie.htm
http://floydhenderson.com/liberation.htm
http://floydhenderson.com/peaceofmind.htm
http://floydhenderson.com/spiritualsobriety.htm
http://floydhenderson.com/bullshit.htm
http://floydhenderson.com/twicestolen1.htm
http://floydhenderson.com/twicestolen2.htm
http://floydhenderson.com/spiritjourney.htm
http://floydhenderson.com/twelvestep.htm
http://floydhenderson.com/castinglight.htm
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