An Advaita Vedanta realization, enlightenment, nisarga yoga site discussing non-duality (nonduality), your original nature, and dwelling in the natural state as taught by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.
FROM A SITE VISITOR: Just “found” Advaita and just found your site. Been reading some recent entries. Have dealt with the fallacy of the body idea. All these years, looking for peace of mind—never considered there’s no such thing, as you say. Makes sense now. Problems with personality though I don’t get yet. Can you give me in a nutshell something that would help me understand that and the Nisarga yoga you mention? Thx. Frank.
F.: (Continued from yesterday) The deer’s lifestyle provides an example of natural living (as opposed to supernatural living or unnatural living): the deer functions spontaneously and unthinkingly under the auspices of the “laws” of nature. It does nothing that is unnatural or self-destructive, and it has no supernatural beliefs. It has no dogma, no practices, no rules, no beliefs, and no concepts.
That plant-food-body-cum-consciousness (thought to be "a deer" by humans only) functions with a brain but no "mind." The deer burns no sticks and rings no bells. It does not knell and it has no "special way to sit" during "special times," such differentiation being the province of the not Fully-Realized.
It experiences no emotional intoxication. It experiences neither dependency nor co-dependency. It knows that it is, but it does not believe that it is “something” or even that it is “anything.”
The sense of Am-ness manifests with the deer, but the sense of “I am this” or “I am that” does not. (Note that even though the speck of consciousness called “a deer” knows it is, it does not "know" either the “I” or the “i.” Though the beingness is sensed, no thought of an "I" occurs. )
The closest that a seeker beginning the "journey" can come to understanding that natural state is to understand that when the Realized say "I," there is no doubt at all that the "I" that is speaking is a speck of manifested consciousness and nothing more.
Note the other "lessons" that the deer can offer by way of contrasting natural living vs. unnatural or supernatural living: Having never been programmed, the deer will never wonder, “Who am I, really”? It will not ask, “Wonder what will happen when I die”? It will not shout in frustration someday, “I don’t even know who I am!”
It will not leave the doe by which a speck of consciousness called “a fawn” manifested, proclaiming, “You just don’t look as appealing to me since you had that fawn.” The doe will never announce, “I’m leaving you for another buck because you’re not good enough for me…your beliefs don’t mirror mine and I can only be in a relationship with a deer that is compatible with me...meaning, a deer that is really an exact, opposite-sex version of me."
Unencumbered by ego and egotism, no deer will find itself trapped someday in a mindset that believes "I am really only capable of loving me or a mirror image of me...of this image that I take myself to be."
And if the doe were to leave, the buck would not hunt her down and kill her (which is the scenario that accounts for 59% of all murdered human females killed annually in the U.S. during a breakup with "him").
The buck would never eat fermented berries to celebrate a happening or to mourn a happening, would never run down a trail at a high speed while intoxicated from such berries, would never veer off the deer trail, and would never crash into a tree and kill itself.
The deer will never have to focus repeatedly on the “I AM…I AM…I AM” to free itself of having been programmed to believe that it really is all of the labels that can follow the words “I am.” It does not believe that “I am this doe’s husband” or “I am that fawn’s father.”
Do “husbanding” type happenings happen nevertheless? Yes. Can “fathering type” happenings still happen? Yes. Yet there are no false identifications that accompany those happenings.
Do feelings rise and fall? Yes. Do emotions and emotional intoxication happen (a phenomenon that can only occur if an ego-state is assumed and then believes it is being hurt or threatened or interfered with)? Of course not. That would all be unnatural, and the deer that has not been programmed or domesticated can only live naturally.
Since seekers have been programmed and domesticated to define "self" by following the words “I am” with dozens and scores of labels, at the earliest stage of nisarga yoga they are invited to become aware of that same sense of beingness, of “Amness,” but of the I-Amness only.
Eventually, belief in the “i” and the “I” will end. All sense of "I-ness" and "self-ness" and "Self-ness" will end. THAT Which Is beyond beingness and non-beingness will be understood.
Then, a sense of beingness only remains, but abidance as THAT happens as well: I AM THAT; I AM. Functioning for the remainder of the manifestation then happens with an incredible lightness of being. That is what dwelling in the natural, nisarga state looks like. A mindless deer can pull that off. Can you/You? Please enter the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)
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