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FROM A SITE VISITOR: I have a basic question. I am aware that i exist, this happens only in the relative, but u said everything in relative is "false". And u again said the realization should happen here and now in the relative. Then how can the relative (false) realize the truth or can even point towards truth. Please explain.
And If I do realize, how do I know it. And how do you know that I am not realized currently. Raja
F.: Your question last week received no response because you again wanted to play a game involving speculation and setting up imaginary, what-if scenarios dealing with relative circumstances. These inquiries, however, will be addressed.
First, find what is false about your claim that you are aware that you exist. While there may be no WHO involved with that claim, most of your past e-mails have certainly revealed a belief that some WHO called “Raja” exists. That is what is false.
Again, persons who take the relative to be real will look at what is called “a steel beam” and claim that it really is a steel beam because they have been taught to accept and apply that label. That is false. They will also claim that what is called “a wooden board” is indeed a wooden board. That is also false.
To study each under an electron microscope is to see that they are the same thing (not-two); specifically, what would be seen is a swirling mass of atoms. Further enlargement will reveal that the atoms are composed of subatomic particles called “electrons” and “protons” and “neutrons.” [That was explained to you in a posting from December of 2007, was it not?]
The relative is about falsely differentiating as a result of distorted perceptions. If You Realize the oneness, the not-twoness, you would know that there is no differentiation and that all appearances of supposed differentiation result from varying vibrational rates of the energy involved. It is those appearances, and the belief that appearances are real, that is false.
If you cannot grasp the falsehood involved with the relative, can you at least grasp the fact that nothing in the relative is perceived as it truly is by the non-Realized?
Next, “the relative (false)” does not realize the truth. The consciousness—warped or blocked by the processes of programming, conditioning, enculturation, and domestication—cannot differentiate true from false. If one follows the Advaita “path” and finds all that is false and understands that it is all false, then the Truth within will be revealed.
Truth is revealed via the “inner resource” or the “inner guru” after the consciousness is re-purified or unblocked, not via the false concepts that are taught and learned during the manifestation.
As for what you know and do not know, four stages have been noted by some teachers:
Stage One: Persons and seekers alike do not understand, but they do not even know that they do not understand. [This group includes the masses as well as those assuming the persona of “a religious one” or “a spiritual one.” They mistake the dawn for high noon but believe that they are fully in the light…fully enlightened.]
Stage Two: Seekers do not understand but realize that they do not understand. [Here begins a reassessment of all beliefs that had been previously accepted without question.]
Stage Three: Seekers understand but do not yet realize that they understand. [Here, the readiness manifests and seekers become willing to take all seven steps on the “journey” that will shift them from body identification to Full Realization.]
Stage Four: Concepts dealing with “seekers” and “seeking” and “persons with attributes” all disappear as the consciousness understands and knows that it understands.
Which stage are you in, as revealed by your questions and comments? The Realized who read your words know exactly, but you do not yet know. A thorough set of responses to your many questions was offered in December 2007. The invitation was for you to take those responses into the quiet and consider each response until your belief in all concepts and all duality ends.
That same invitation is extended again with these words: Please enter the silence of contemplation.
