An Advaita Vedanta philosophy site, focusing on Realization, enlightenment, nisarga yoga, non-duality (nonduality), your original nature, dwelling as your natural state, and the teachings of Maharaj.
FROM A SITE VISITOR: You say that Christ was taught the Advaita Vedanta message and talked that message at the end, so why not encourage people to go to church and hear his words?
F.: As expected, the pro-Christ, pro-God, anti-“floyd,” pro-church, pro-meetings mail streamed in. The question is always asked of those complainants:
“Why are you visiting this site? Why are you still searching if that which you promote is truly providing peace?
“If not to find something else, if not to find truth, if not to find Self, then that leaves…in order to proselytize…in order to force your beliefs on others. Blogs are free. Begin one to further your cause, but here, there is no debate about a god or gods, and there are no beliefs being offered.
“There is, instead, an invitation to abandon all beliefs since none of them are ‘yours.’ They are all ‘theirs.’ Should ‘their’ beliefs be abandoned, you might find that which You have always known but which ‘their’ programming and conditioning have blocked you from being aware of.
“Here, there are considerations presented as alternatives to myths thought to be true, to superstitions held sacred, to the bondage of programming and conditioning, to the darkness of learned ignorance.
“These considerations could enlighten all but will, instead, be understood only by a few. There is no concern here about persons’ beliefs. Again, there is an invitation to abandon all beliefs since they are not yours…they are 'theirs,' and they haven’t a clue.
“As for the existence of a god or gods, everyone is an atheist. For thousands of years, people believed with all their hearts that Zeus, with his long gray hair and his uncut beard and his flowing white robes, was the supreme god.
“Now, thousands of years later, it is understood that Zeus was a myth, dreamed up by ignorant men. Technically, though, all who refuse to believe in the god Zeus are atheists. Which gray-haired, white robe-wearing god—modeled after Zeus—will be the next to be exposed as an invention of ignorant people?”
“This site offers an alternative that most will never even consider: abandon ‘your/their’ beliefs, Realize what You already know, and be done with it all.”
From the “platform” of My abidance as My natural state, I witness that You Are just as much the ass as You Are “The Christ”—not the form of the ass nor the form of the Christ but the same conscious-energy. So to conclude the discussion:
Christ got off his ass in
That blood-spattered drama was what marked the final period of the manifestation of that speck of consciousness called “The Christ,” but what was the remainder of the ass’s existence like, by way of contrast?
It was quite natural. A relative existence that unfolds in the style of an ass or a deer is far more peaceful and far saner than an existence that is passed in the style of that speck called “The Christ” with its struggle-to-the-end effort to maintain an upgraded illusion (“man” upgraded to “holy man,” “human” upgraded to “The Son of God”).
But “struggled-to-the-end to maintain his upgraded illusion”? Yes. If the words reportedly spoken from the cross are accurate (though three written accounts all contradict each other) then he obviously abandoned in those final hours of the manifestation his prior Advaita understanding as he recited once again elements of the Jewish dogma that he had been taught early on.
Yet see the truth of his Advaita pointer, if you will, when he said that “a dual-minded person is unstable in all ways.” Thus, if chaos is be abandoned and if stability is to manifest, then the non-dual same-ness…the non-dual oneness must be seen.
Yet I also see from My “platform” that your relative existence can be as miserable as was the case of the one called “The Christ” or that your relative existence can be as free as was the case of the one called “That ass.”
If you would be free of all nonsense, worship neither the Christ nor the ass nor your “self” nor any form nor any words nor any thing, period. If you would Realize, then heed not any teachings that come from those who take themselves to be bodies and minds and personalities and who tell you that you need to learn more of what they have to teach.
If you would Realize, then ignore any who tell you that they know the way for you to be “saved.” Ignore any who report absurdly that the contradictory dualities of “eternal punishment” and “unconditional love” can co-exist.
If you would Realize, then ignore any who talk of The Word without understanding the Advaita words offered by the Christ post-exposure to Advaita teachings. Ignore any who talk of peace and togetherness but foment war and separation, if you would Realize.
Instead, know ThySelf and be free of seeking…in any place. Realize that there’s nothing to save, nothing to gain, nothing to lose. Just be. Don’t be an ass; don’t be “A Christian”; don’t be “A Muslim”; don’t be “A Hindu”; don’t be “An Advaitin”; don’t be any false role. Just be. That is the invitation.
Try for a period to understand what that speck called Jesus was really pointing to when it said, “Before Abraham was, I AM” or “Heaven and earth shall fade away” or “No one shall see the kingdom of heaven for it is within” or “A dual-minded person is unstable in all ways.” If you grasp the Advaita teachings, you will be free.
If that understanding does not come, but you would live spontaneously and naturally and freely, then try to emulate the ass rather than Christ. Why?
Because the ass never assumed any identity and never moved beyond the consciousness of being…beyond the I AM. Conversely, The Christ originally accepted the content of his programming and assumed the persona of “The Son of God.”
He did abandon that ego-state after he was exposed to the Advaita teachings and thereafter downgraded the illusion to (a) “The Son of Man.” Later he would further downgrade the illusion to just being (b) the I AM. But “in the end,” he abandoned the Advaita understanding and returned to his false identities.
If you would be in touch with Reality, “downgrade” your present identity from “The Super Christian” or “The Special Gift from God” or “The Child of God” to the I AM.
Now three options are before you: (1) you can try to live as Christ lived, but why? (2) You can live naturally, as the ass lived. Or (3) you can live naturally, as the I AM. For a time, Christ understood the Advaitin pointers that he was nothing special; that he was merely the son of a man; and that he was the Amness.
Yet he did not Realize Fully and abide for the remainder of the manifestation as his natural state. He succumbed to the power of his early programming. Thus, he was not free and was reportedly complaining at the end about having been “forsaken by God.”
If you can grasp that you and Christ and the ass and “floyd” and “maharaj” were/are nothing more than a speck of temporarily-manifested consciousness, then you have the opportunity to know truth and to be free. Please enter the silence of contemplation.
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