WHEN REALITY IS OVERLAID ON THE RELATIVE, Part Fifteen

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F.: [The embedded links are only for those seeking a thorough explanation of pointers offered] When Reality is not overlaid upon the relative, then the entire existence of the non-Realized will be driven by both conscious and subconscious desires and fears. Personality will rule, and since personas are mirages, then the lives of the non-Realized will always be ruled by delusion.

How did that speck called “maharaj” describe the post-Realization existence? He noted that, when pure awareness happens, then neither needs nor desires exist any longer. Even the attachment to, and glorification of, the “Am-ness” ends. Rather than the “life is precious” argument being one’s core belief, the Am-ness is seen as nothing more than “a useful pointer, a direction-indicator” to the Absolute.

Some who believe in concepts will say, “It is only if you are willing to die that you become able to live fully.” While their point is understood, the Advaitin's take is that it is by understanding the simplicity of the unmanifestation process and the simplicity of re-absorption into the peace of non-aware awareness which allows the manifestation to pass in peace and to happen spontaneously.

To “identify with” the awareness even as the manifestation continues will make clear that the unmanifestation process is nothing more than "crossing over" into a state that You are abiding as already; therefore, there can be no fear of “change” or “loss” and no effort exerted to try to assure “eternal reward” over “eternal punishment.”

For those who erroneously believe that they were born and who therefore fear “dying,” Realization offers a “try before you buy” method of understanding which can alleviate all of the mystery and the fear and the desires that trap the non-Realized in their anxiety-producing false beliefs.

Those who are justifying and minimizing their present suffering because they are convinced that they shall receive “a reward of eternal life and eternal bliss later” could be relieved of that misconception and could know the bliss at the only time it can be known…now, during the manifestation, if only they completed all seven steps on the “journey” to Reality.

Once Reality is overlaid on the relative existence Post-Realization, then even awareness of the I AM ends as awareness ItSelf displaces even that by-product of consciousness manifest (specifically, undue concern with the Am-ness). Whatever happens with the Am-ness at that point excites no more interest than standing outside in the sun and having someone step on your shadow.

When Truth is seen, then an always-clear perspective marks the relative. Of course sensible care is provided for the body for whatever period the manifestation continues, but concern for all of those shadows (for all of those shadow-selves) comes to an end.

What prevails is that which cannot be described, that which is beyond words. You have been told on this site many times that the Truth can be understood but cannot be stated. Post-Realization, it is the non-stated Truth—not the formerly-cherished lies—that prevails.

It is then during the period which is post-Realization / post-identification-with-the-Is-ness that the Real is finally seen. It becomes understood that this temporary manifestation of consciousness is nothing more than a fleeting “relocation” from that former state of pure potentiality. It is that state that was prior to manifestation…that was prior to conception.

[It will only be the “most advanced” seekers that grasp what was prior to the Absolute.]

Maharaj taught that an understanding of the Absolute (of the pure awareness) guarantees the further understanding that the Am-ness—and all that is perceived as “this world” or “this universe”—are mere reflections of That. “It is this reality which a jnani has realised,” he said.

The state that Maharaj discussed is the state that came into being after an atom entered into what can be called “The Void.” Understand that abidance as the Absolute / the unmanifested awareness certainly provides peace during the remainder of the manifestation;

however, it is only the “most advanced” who will abide as the pre-Absolute Nothingness state. Imagine the level of non-attached freedom and peace that can mark the relative if identification with some Infinite (Absolute) Self gives way to abiding as…nothing…as The original Nothingness. Nothing can ever be bothered by anything.

Consider the degree to which the relative will unfold in a natural and spontaneous manner when there is no attachment to any identity, which also means that there can be no attachment to outcome involving any relative happening.

Only those attached to Am-ness control and to Is-ness power will find such a pointer to be an abomination, refusing to forfeit their delusional notions about a self that is able to dominate others and about a self that can have “power now.” [Witness there the slaughtering of another very popular sacred cow with the debunking of that concept of "power now." WHO wants power? To what end?]

Alongside the invitation to consider the pointer above regarding non-attachment is an additional understanding offered by Maharaj: understand that no person is addressing seekers and understand that questions happen and that answers happen…that is all that is going on. Only persons believe they can attach to anything and that they are talking to persons. It is consciousness that speaks when Reality is overlaid on the relative.

That is not unlike the pointer offered here that “husbanding can happen without an assumption of the ego-state of ‘The Husband’.” Only then is there no attachment to the player of the co-dependent counterpart to that illusory role, a co-dependent counterpart that is always required for the belief in any role to continue.

After understanding that no persons are involved, then “husbanding” or “wifing” can happen…or not. In a conversation with a couple that had enrolled in the enneagram classes, it was shown that both had been driven blindly throughout their entire existence; that he had not the slightest clue about Who/What He Is, that she had not the slightest clue about Who/What She Is, and that neither had the slightest clue about the bogus nature of “love” or the true nature of Real Love.

As both considered whether or not they had even the slightest desire to remain married, the suggestion was that—before they race off to find a lawyer and a divorce court—they might try one alternate approach.

It was explained, “Before trying to settle such issues as child custody, disposition of jointly-owned property, etc., you might both try something different first. See, you’ve been married to the not-Him; you’ve been married to the not-Her; and you’ve both been attached to not-Love.

“If a marriage were to evolve in which a Real Self and a Real Self and Real Love are all manifested…You might find the resulting relationship to be rather pleasant, relatively speaking. Of course, that’s just a suggestion.”

If such Reality is overlaid upon the relative, then that which persons call “a healthy relationship” can have a far greater chance of happening. Please enter into the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)

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FROM SIM IN KENTUCKY, U.S.A.: How about a donate button? I give monthly to a blog about locations and reviews of a particular type of restaurant we like. I’d sure donate to this blog.

FROM “ANONYMOUS”: Almost every visitor brought Maharaj food or flowers. I’d like to treat you to a meal if you tell me how to do so with my credit card!

FROM LOUISE, SOUTH AFRICA: [Consider the case of an acquaintance who] added a donate button to his site. Regular blog readers were happy to support the site in this way.

F.: Okay—so it’s done, but note that the postings and responses are offered without charge, as is access to the library of 1,300 Advaitin essays archived on the site.

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WHEN REALITY IS OVERLAID ON THE RELATIVE, Part Fourteen

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F.: [The embedded links are only for those seeking more explanation about pointers offered] When Reality is overlaid on the relative, the irony is that nothing changes even as everything changes. What is Real was always Real; What You Are post-Realization is That Which You Were prior to Realization; that which You sought is What You Already Were; and where You would Be, You have always been. Nothing that is real can change.

Everything in the relative will seem to change simply because the former, faulty perceptions about things relative will end. Whatever You witness post-Realization will be witnessed accurately, so that is the only “change,” really, a change from seeing in error to seeing clearly. The steel beam is understood not to be a steel beam at all but is seen to be a swirling mass of energy.

Last week when a man came to the house to begin the second session of a one-on-one retreat, he set his copy of a book he had bought the previous day on the table between the two chairs where sessions occur.

He turned on the lamp, and then began reading pointers about being liberated from personality, a liberation that is required to move to the fourth of seven steps on the “journey” to Reality. Once I sat in the opposite chair, he said, “I’m not convinced I’ll ever really understand the Oneness at all.”

It was explained that he cannot even imagine now what he will see post-Realization, “but it will include looking at this table and that lamp and at Me and seeing ONE thing only because You will understand:

that everything in this universe began as a single hydrogen atom; that the only reason that there appears to be a difference in the table and the chair and Me is because of the variance in vibrational rates of energy; and that the table is a table-cum-conscious-energy, that the lamp is a lamp-cum-conscious-energy, and that what he takes to be “body-floyd” is just a body-cum-conscious-energy…all three vibrating at different rates."

When his expression revealed a lack of understanding, this pointer was offered: “Try not to see with eyes that have only looked at things through a mask of darkness the things that can only be seen in the unmasked light.”

That is another of the post-Realization “changes”: the uninterrupted light (which is cast forth when the consciousness is no longer blocked) allows for perceiving all as it truly Is.

All that was formerly thought to be a certain way is no longer thought to be that way at all because all thoughts will end. How could thoughts possibly occur after it is seen that the content of the “mind” was all false and after all that is false has been discarded?

The post-Realization, AS IF relative existence happens for humans as spontaneously as it does for all else that exists in nature…birds, squirrels, plants, deer…whatever. The brain that is rooted in the elements, as well as the consciousness that is rooted in the Absolute, begin to manage all of the operations that had occurred in the past under the auspices of the “mind” which was rooted in faulty programming and bizarre conditioning.

After completing all seven steps on the “journey” to Reality, the sixth sense is tapped into once more; the intuition becomes a driving force, replacing the body-mind-personality set of motivators that drove all thoughts and words and deeds before; and the inner guru—that inner resource, that center of discernment—become the compass that points out the way by which the remainder of the relative existence can unfold spontaneously.

The relative “changes,” then, include a shift from what you thought (false) “love” to be to an understanding of what Real Love is. What was thought to be “special” and “precious” will no longer be perceived in that manner—all ego-generated and all egotism-based differentiating having ceased.

There will no longer be the belief—held by 87% of the non-Realized persons in the United States—that “making babies” involves three parties (a female, a male, and a creator god). No elemental body (that resulted from what was merely an act of friction involving two plant-eating bodies) will be thought to be “god-given” and “unique” and “exceptionally distinctive.”

Yes, Real Love might be witnessed, but what will not be believed in is the notion that a particular impregnation is a result of two very special individuals having accomplished something that is very special and having “made” something that is also very special.

Dance the dance of joy if you choose, but be not deceived that the elemental body (which results some nine months after conception) is a result of a ménage-à-trois with you and a mate and a god. Dance the dance of happiness, but do not believe that you are dancing to music that is being provided by a celestial choir.

Such deception cannot happen post-Realization, and that is another change that can happen: because all beliefs are cast aside, then belief in myths and superstitions and tales and nonsense also fall away.

[Has Real Love manifested in regards to that which is labeled “floyd’s daughter”? Of course. What is absent is the love of self…the pride in self…the notion that some “Super Father” really exists who has “created” a “Super Child.” What is also absent, therefore, is any “Super Parent” making perfectionist demands that someone must play flawlessly the role of “Super Daughter” in order to sustain the phony role of a flawless “Super Dad.”]

Moreover, with the post-Realization absence of a "mind", “The Thinker” will vanish, as will all of the chatter that rattles about in the heads of the non-Realized. That head-noise will necessarily end (as will a seeking out of loud, ambient noises) since there will no longer be a device by which that former process of “thinking” took place and since there will no longer be a need to try to escape the unbearable sounds of insanity.

Furthermore, what was thought to be an unshakable source of peace and strength will be seen to have been an illusion. The evidence was there before because the “supposedly unshakable” was thoroughly shaken when put to an actual test.

Those testifying to sufferers that they need but put their faith in what the testifiers describe as an “unshakable power” were able to talk with conviction until it came time for them to face their own misery and suffering and relative challenges.

Then, more often than not, the whines began as the sufferers asked why the power had forsaken them (even as they continued to testify from a position of dissociation that they were "doing fine…hanging tough—tapping into some external, other-world power for comfort”).

That which can provide fixation in a state of unshakable peace is that which allows abidance to happen as the original state. It is the tapping into an internal resource which can sustain the unshakable peace. When abidance as that original state manifests, even as the manifestation of consciousness continues for a time, then nothing changes even as everything (relative) changes.

That Which cannot change is That Which You Are...That Which Is Real. That which can change is the way the relative was formerly perceived to be (when it was not actually that way at all.) With that shift in perception, then the remainder of the manifestation can be—and most certainly will be—enjoyed, post-Realization. Please enter into the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)

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FROM SIM IN KENTUCKY, U.S.A.: How about a donate button? I give monthly to a blog about locations and reviews of a particular type of restaurant we like. I’d sure donate to this blog.

FROM “ANONYMOUS”: Almost every visitor brought Maharaj food or flowers. I’d like to treat you to a meal if you tell me how to do so with my credit card!

FROM LOUISE, SOUTH AFRICA: [Consider the case of an acquaintance who] added a donate button to his site. Regular blog readers were happy to support the site in this way.

F.: Okay—so it’s done, but note that the postings and responses are offered without charge, as is access to the library of 1,300 Advaitin essays archived on the site.

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WHEN REALITY IS OVERLAID ON THE RELATIVE, Part Thirteen

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F.: [Imbedded links are only for those seeking further understanding of any particular pointer] The next “gauge” for seeing that Reality has been overlaid on the relative is seeing that all delusions about (false) “love” have ended and that REAL LOVE is understood because the Oneness is understood.

During the “journey,” this can be seen: just as THAT can be overlaid on the AM-ness, a phenomenal manifestation of Love and a noumenal manifestation of Love can also happen concurrently and be demonstrated concurrently.

When Full Realization happens, it becomes understood (more specifically than the initial understanding above) that "two things" are not happening in a concurrent fashion at all; instead, all is realized to be One.

Thus, the current Reality is that—just as this speck lost any and all ability to believe in even one single concept—so this speck has lost any ability to differentiate ItSelf (its present beingness) from the manifestation of all beingness. The illusory belief in a multiplicity has dissolved and given way to an understanding of the Reality of the Unicity.

Those exploring or absorbed in these teachings understand how the atonement, the At-one-ment, manifests among the Realized: yesterday, those interested in Advaita gathered at this site, including visitors from 34 of the 50 U.S. states as well as visitors from multiple sites across the globe:

Greetings to visitors that were As-One here yesterday (though seemingly “apart” physically), including visitors from Delhi, Nagpur, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Madurai, London, Corby, Wombwell, Swanley, Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Kingston (CAN), Wynberg (SA), Melbourne, Sydney, and Paris.

To all visiting from several hundred locations and from all continents, greetings from YourSelf to YourSelf. When Reality is overlaid on the relative, that greeting is understood completely. Were that speck called “maharaj” manifested and witnessing all of this, surely he would say…well, OK, he’d probably just say, “So what? What about that do you take to be new?”

Only knowing specifically where the speck of conscious energy touched down during its supersonic journey yesterday, that is all. Only knowing where on the planet the inner gurus were that were open to receiving pointers toward the truth.

Consider the faster-than-the-speed-of-light-movement of consciousness that traveled around the globe in seconds yesterday, the manifestations of the inner resource serving as a landing strip for a brief moment when a spark of “yes-ness” touched down and triggered a resonance in centers of discernment that are, paradoxically, one center.

Once Reality is overlaid on the relative, it is understood that those various locations and the variety of physical appearances have nothing to do with what is Real.

To those not yet Fully Realized, you are invited to understand this: to think that one is witnessing another person is to be in delusion. That which is real is “not two”; that which is real is One…without “differentiation.”

No two persons (the non-Realized) will ever be the same in terms of thinking or speaking or in terms of behavior or physical looks. All of that supposed variety erroneously supports the false belief in differentiation. Understanding that should make it possible to see, therefore, that persons cannot meet the criteria for being That Which Is Real.

Furthermore, when persons judge the Realized, trying to overlay their relative, personal concepts onto what they erroneously perceive to be what is real, they fail to understand that nothing personal which they try to assign to the Realized will be true.

My teacher taught that, while all pancakes are actually the same substance, no two pancakes will ever have the same appearance. Some will take one shape, some will take another. Some will bubble in this fashion, and some will bubble in that fashion. Some will be thin and some will be thick. Yet they are all the one, same thing (supposed differentiations in appearance notwithstanding).

Revel in that understanding. Join in and dance the dance of joy, the dance of knowing the Oneness, the dance of being the unicity, the dance of overlaying Reality upon the relative, and the dance of being free of belief in any duality or separation or aloneness...knowing the all-one-ness instead. Please enter into the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)

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FROM SIM IN KENTUCKY, U.S.A.: How about a donate button? I give monthly to a blog about locations and reviews of a particular type of restaurant we like. I’d sure donate to this blog.

FROM “ANONYMOUS”: Almost every visitor brought Maharaj food or flowers. I’d like to treat you to a meal if you tell me how to do so with my credit card!

FROM LOUISE, SOUTH AFRICA: [Consider the case of an acquaintance who] added a donate button to his site. Regular blog readers were happy to support the site in this way.

F.: Okay—so it’s done, but note that the postings and responses are offered without charge, as is access to the library of 1,300 Advaitin essays archived on the site.

That said, any donation will be appreciated. Thank you.

WHEN REALITY IS OVERLAID ON THE RELATIVE, Part Twelve

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FROM SITE VISITOR SIM: You made a very key point regarding Realization a couple of days ago. It's not a matter of acting stoical, rational, calm, or non-emotional. It's simply that is the byproduct of being Realized (so you say).

F.: Yes. As the non-Realized wander or ricochet through the relative, they take their “world” to be a stage (to use a Realized poet’s words). Their imagined “world,” then, is conceived to be a stage and “all the men and women, merely players.” Each plays a role in the Theater of the Lie, in the Drama of Fiction, and eventually they all become convinced that they are the roles being played.

When Reality is overlaid on the relative, then the acting ends. There is no one to “act stoical, rational, calm, or non-emotional.” There is no one left to continue living in the mirror as happened before. Realization is about not acting and about seeing that the stage is a stage and that persons are all actors;

about seeing that so many are merely putting on an act; about walking off the imaginary stage; about no longer accepting roles that inspire depression, anger or fear; and about moving through the remainder of the manifestation fully awake, aware, and conscious.

[Add “in a totally spontaneous and natural fashion” if the Realization happened via Nisarga yoga.] The “Night of the Living Dead”-type of robotic-like, trance-like walking about as if asleep ends.

The way the relative unfolds post-Realization was also addressed in this exchange yesterday after a comment about the ways in which “the humours” fluctuate:

F.: By the way, to consider the sanguine and phlegmatic and choleric and melancholic humour states to be a part of what is natural is not outside the nisarga understanding—back to the biorhythms and the body's cycles—as long as it is clear that all of that involves a body and nothing more.

Louise: A couple of years back, I had the sense that a feeling (joy, sadness, love, pain) blows through consciousness like a wave. Then human beings caught in that wave, personalize it. We say “I am sad because … blah blah”).

F.: Or that could be said to be “mind-alizing” it as well as personalizing it. If Fully Realized, then there can be no thought following a witnessed feeling.

L.: Is this true – the idea of a feeling wave? With personality in place, the humours or even the fundamental feeling tone of the enneatype must play its tune. How is that natural? Or is it only unnatural when we personalize rather than just witness the feeling?

F.: It is natural in that the efficiency level of the brain’s operations—as well as the fluctuations in the body’s levels of energy—continually fluctuate in all humans, animals, birds, etc.

You infer accurately when noting that it becomes unnatural when the “mind” personalizes that which is not a “feeling” but is an “emotion.” Only ego-states can generate emotions...the emoting that leads to emotional intoxication, acting out, etc.

It is the unblocked, post-Realization consciousness that can Witness feelings rise or fall without emotional intoxication. Consider: Maharaj noted that the body pain from his throat cancer had nothing to do with “Him” (the witnessing consciousness).

Just as “He” pointed out that “He” was merely the witness of the body and the pain, You and I could as easily say, "Ah, the space has some of that black bile stuff going on - the stuff Shakespeare mentioned." The body has certain imbalances in its chemistry today, so the consciousness is registering or noting some sense of “melancholia,” but that has nothing to do with the witnessing agent.

To watch a train plowing through a truck that stalled on a railroad track is not to be plowed through Your Self. Maharaj explained that Westerners usually display tamas (darkness, melancholia, passivity) and rajas (motion, restlessness, the going-doing-zooming syndrome) rather than sattva (being as opposed to doing).

Tamas and rajas can indicate a lack of Realization if involved with “personalizing” sadness or if rooted in fears or desires that trap persons in their continuous efforts to accumulate and escape. When that is the case, there is no going into or out of harmony and disharmony. The disharmony dominates the existence.

Yet fluctuations in what were once called “the humours” can also manifest as a result of the body’s physical condition. As is the case when a mix of water and gasoline are introduced into the tank of a car and the engine misfires, such is also the case when a food plan is being followed that is not the plan for a particular body type—three different types being in existence.

Maharaj addressed that very effect, making note of the way that the body’s chemistry can be out of balance, (the body being nothing more than a plant food body, chemical at its core.) Either an absence of Full Realization or a body’s chemical imbalance can result in one exhibiting similar behaviors, but the causes are obviously quite different and require quite different approaches in addressing the real issue.

No matter what, however, the body has nothing to do with What You Are or with What I Am.

L.: Ok – that is clear. So there may be effects that arise from the body (pain from illness; biorhythms, hormones, effects of diet or poor quality of food, etc) – but since I am not the body, these can simply be witnessed.

F.: Exactly. Sickness and health can be associated with the body and are aspects of the consciousness, yet I am not the consciousness—neither are You. How is that known? Sickness and health are dualities and dualities have nothing to do with You or Me. That Which You Are and That Which I Am is beyond the consciousness, beyond the beingness and even beyond the non-beingness.

The body needs so many things, but neither You nor I need anything. As for consciousness, it too is restless in that it is always in motion. Stability can only come via first abiding as the original nature, as that original state. Then, unwavering peace and resolute freedom come when abiding as the Void. Please enter into the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)

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From the I to the Absolute (A Seven-Step Journey to Reality)
It's All Bullshit (and Why Knowing it Sets You Free)
Meditation Guide (Advanced Volume)
There's No Such Thing as ''Peace of Mind''
Ending Financial Problems by Understanding Your Personality
The Essence of the Teachings
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Most titles are also available as eBooks
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FROM SIM IN KENTUCKY, U.S.A.: How about a donate button? I give monthly to a blog about locations and reviews of a particular type of restaurant we like. I’d sure donate to this blog.

FROM “ANONYMOUS”: Almost every visitor brought Maharaj food or flowers. I’d like to treat you to a meal if you tell me how to do so with my credit card!

FROM LOUISE, SOUTH AFRICA: [Consider the case of an acquaintance who] added a donate button to his site. Regular blog readers were happy to support the site in this way.

F.: Okay—so it’s done, but note that the postings and responses are offered without charge, as is access to the library of 1,300 Advaitin essays archived on the site.

That said, any donation will be appreciated. Thank you.

WHEN REALITY IS OVERLAID ON THE RELATIVE, Part Eleven

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F.: The actual peripetia—that “flash moment” when ALL that is false is finally seen to have been false—does not come in a flash for most seekers but happens at the end of a long search that led to the Advaita teachings which led, in turn, to questioning past beliefs rather than these present teachings. Two contrasting e-mails were received in the last 24 hours:

1. FROM A SITE VISITOR: [After yesterday's post] I have to work for a living. I HAVE to plan my day to accomplish what I have to accomplish

F.: WHO is that “I”? As with marriage, it has been explained that “wifing” or “husbanding” can happen even while there is no belief at all in the person/persona of “The Wife” or “The Husband” (roles which are always soon upgraded to the status of “The Super Wife” or “The Super Husband,” leading to divorce when one becomes convinced that he/she is “super” but the partner is not).

If planning happens without a belief in "The Planner" or “The Super Employee” or “The Super Boss,” then so it is. More to the point was the invitation to abandon the belief that there is some “Great Planner in the Sky” that is subjecting you to anything and everything that happens in the relative, including that which generates misery and suffering and pain.

Further, the invitation was to stop assigning supernatural cause to entirely natural happenings.

In contrast to those questioning the teachings rather than their own bogus belief systems, the following excerpts from an e-mailed update (written by Dan in the U.K.) show what can happen if the opposite approach is taken, namely, questioning beliefs instead of pointers:

2. FROM A SITE VISITOR:

Hi Floyd, Just reading your latest book Finding Real Love and thoroughly enjoying it! Thanks again for another one. For me this is one of your best books yet. I feel the reader is given more of a window into what the realised life looks like in the life of 'Floyd' and as a result I have found the understanding to deepen.

For me your books have been a great help. “…Since coming to the recognition of ego states and roles and how destructive they are in one's life, I have not been pulled around or emotionally intoxicated as much by them (although, I don't think I'm anywhere near Realised yet). Realizing failure as a concept as that 'teacher' is merely a role I'm playing on a theatre of a lie, means my days flow by much more peacefully. I couldn't handle criticism or failure before and now they have really lost a lot of their sting and when they do 'bite' I can observe more and the feelings subside very quickly.

Also, I'm in a relationship where I don't need my partner to agree with everything I say, or snap out of a low mood to come and worship me...." It's freedom, and it's very nice indeed. As you can probably tell I am still not really devoid of concepts, but have come a long way since I started reading your works and for this I thank you again. Dan.

The paradox of the Realization process is this: seekers formerly never questioned anything; then, the teacher that invites seekers to question must also be willing to accept questioning from seekers. At some point, though, a willingness on the part of the seeker to accept pointers as a viable possibility worth considering objectively—rather than debating continuously—becomes a requirement for Full Realization to happen.

As Dan admits, though the “Final Shift” may not have happened yet—though the moment of peripetia may not have yet struck—there are shifts (or “gauges,” as Ashley called them) that are indicating movement away from the trappings and traps of programming and toward the peace and freedom.

Even if the entire relative existence has not yet been wrapped completely in the cloak of Realization, the warmth of covering many parts of it—as is the case so far with Dan—provides a palatable shift away from angst and toward comfort. Please enter into the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)

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FROM SIM IN KENTUCKY, U.S.A.: How about a donate button? I give monthly to a blog about locations and reviews of a particular type of restaurant we like. I’d sure donate to this blog.

FROM “ANONYMOUS”: Almost every visitor brought Maharaj food or flowers. I’d like to treat you to a meal if you tell me how to do so with my credit card!

FROM LOUISE, SOUTH AFRICA: [Consider the case of an acquaintance who] added a donate button to his site. Regular blog readers were happy to support the site in this way.

F.: Okay—so it’s done, but note that the postings and responses are offered without charge, as is access to the library of 1,300 Advaitin essays archived on the site.

That said, any donation will be appreciated. Thank you.

WHEN REALITY IS OVERLAID ON THE RELATIVE, Part Ten

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.

Following the post, details on the 50% off sale of the remaining Non-Duality paperback books in the store and details for starting your own “Advaita In-Home Study Group.”

FROM A SITE VISITOR: Dear Sir: everything happens for a reason.

F.: ???

If that is a counterpoint to yesterday’s post explaining that there is no personal god (and therefore no personal god that is directing anything), the fact is that you have reached three erroneous conclusions which can all be discarded thusly:

1. I am not “dear” (but you don’t really think that anyway, do you?)
2. There is no justification for an appellation of respect such as "sir," (but you don’t really feel that anyway, do you?)
3. Everything happens not for “a” reason but is caused by all causes.

When you claim “Everything happens for a reason,” the closest thing to fact that can be said is that, yes, there are reasons for everything, but no one who has ever said that truly knows what the reasons are. In every case, the speaker of that line goes on to reveal that "the reason" is some god-conceived “divine plan.”

More accurately, though, there are trillions and trillions of causes that preceded (and set the stage for) any given happening, but not even one of those reasons is a god who is micromanaging every event in the universe. [Since all is energy and matter and since neither can be created, then there cannot possibly be a “creator.”]

Moreover, such a belief always ends up being used to justify suffering, misery, pain, and an assortment of other afflictions or agonies that would drive logical persons away from that god—not closer to any god—if that god were really employing such methods and working in what is called “mysterious ways.”

Furthermore, the use of such a phrase so minimizes and normalizes suffering, misery, pain, afflictions and agonies that no effort at all is made to alleviate suffering, misery, pain, afflictions and agonies. Why?

The non-Realized who believe such a concept always conclude that their suffering and misery and pain and affliction and agony will eventually be revealed to have been "beneficial in the long run" by the god who is believed to keep such implements in his celestial toolkit and who is believed to use them with such ease and abandon.

How insane can persons be when they believe such nonsense? A woman yesterday said, "I think that there was a reason I was assaulted. God is using that attack to make me better in some way." A man said yesterday, "I am about to lose my family because of continuous sexual misconduct over the years, but so far god has kept me from drinking or drugging around that."

[If it sometimes seems that an Advaitin site or an Advaitin teacher is a clearinghouse for insanity, that might be the case.]

When Reality is overlaid on the relative, such nonsensical beliefs end. The functioning of the totality is understood, and the cause of all is understood, so no single cause is assigned blame for any particular happening. The result is an elimination of the use of reasoning fallacies (a practice that dominates and perverts the relative existence of the non-Realized).

Other evidence of what the relative is “like” when a Nisarga-style Realization is overlaid upon it is revealed via an exchange several decades ago with a U.S. expatriate who had been living in Venice, Italy for years. During one of many visits there, she asked during a conversation about Nisarga yoga if the word sprezzartura might capture the essence of “the natural life.”

After a discussion of what she understood the word to mean, the reply was “Not quite.” Sprezzartura, she said, is about “making the difficult look easy.” Nisarga-style living, by contrast, results in an actual ease that suddenly characterizes the post-Realization, simplistic existence that had previously been perceived to be “difficult.”

Understanding the difference in sprezzartura and in AS IF, natural living might, nevertheless, facilitate an understanding of the post-Realization existence. Sprezzartura refers more to a “rehearsed spontaneity” which means it is about image and appearance (as typifies the pre-Realization relative existence and the notion among persons that it is better to do whatever is required to "look good" than to take the steps required to "feel good").

Whereas sprezzartura refers to a “well-practiced naturalness,” the post-Realization understanding is that there is no “one” to practice anything; then, natural functioning happens without any beliefs at all, including the belief that there is a “functioner” involved when such natural functioning occurs.

When the word sprezzartura points to a “studied carelessness” or to a “studied absence of attachment or assurance,” then it misses the mark as well when trying to describe the post-Realization manifestation. Recall the comment make by site visitor Ashley at the beginning of the month when she said, “I can 'train myself' to live in the moment, and not grasp, or reflect, or obsess, etc. But how do I know that’s not my mind conforming to a new pattern?”

She understood that such “training” of a “self” would not be an indicator of true and Full Realization. When Reality is overlaid on the relative, then there is no “one” to train a “self” and no one to work at being one way or another. Neither would happen during a naturally-spontaneous, post-Realization existence.

Post-Realization, all simply happens...simply. All simply happens automatically and spontaneously. When the deer arise this morning and begin moving about this area, there is no “plan.” There is no “Great Planner and Director in the Sky” who will be "guiding them throughout their day," either.

Where they go and do not go will not be planned. Their day will be marked by “an actual ease,” human interference notwithstanding. They will perceive nothing as being “difficult.” They will not rehearse a "posture" of spontaneity that they will then display for others to see.

They will not "practice" being natural…natural living will just happen. There will be nothing displayed that is "rehearsed" or "studied." They will, instead, move through the hours of the day without attachment, without a need to feel guided by "A Great Guider from Another World."

They will function without playing the role of “The Spin Doctor,” so if another fawn is stillborn outside the window of this office, as happened once before, they will not dream up some supernatural, other-worldly explanation for something that occasionally happens during the manifestation.

If a deer can go through the day in so free and easy a manner, why could you not do the same? The many causes might include the fact that Realization has not been overlaid on the relative.

If Realization via the Nisarga understanding has happened, then the deer's manner will also be the exact manner in which your day will unfold today and every day…naturally, spontaneously, and automatically without a need to try to “put a spin” on anything…without the need to try to work at being content…in fact, without, period. Please enter into the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)

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FROM SIM IN KENTUCKY, U.S.A.: How about a donate button? I give monthly to a blog about locations and reviews of a particular type of restaurant we like. I’d sure donate to this blog.

FROM “ANONYMOUS”: Almost every visitor brought Maharaj food or flowers. I’d like to treat you to a meal if you tell me how to do so with my credit card!

FROM LOUISE, SOUTH AFRICA: [Consider the case of an acquaintance who] added a donate button to his site. Regular blog readers were happy to support the site in this way.

F.: Okay—so it’s done, but note that the postings and responses are offered without charge, as is access to the library of 1,300 Advaitin essays archived on the site.

That said, any donation will be appreciated. Thank you.

WHEN REALITY IS OVERLAID ON THE RELATIVE, Part Ten

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.

Following the post, details on the 50% off sale of the remaining Non-Duality paperback books in the store and details for starting your own “Advaita In-Home Study Group.”

FROM A SITE VISITOR: My husband and I have been reading your blog lately. Like the woman Ashley and her husband, we left organized religion several years ago and have been searching for something to fill “the void.” Then Tom heard about a connection between Christ and Advaita so we googled “jesus advaita” and found you. Thank goodness! My husband and I have wondered why a few of your words have had more impact than years of sermons, then your explanation of praying to a god versus hearing your words explained it. Tell us more! Thank you. Katherine and Tom

FROM LOUISE IN SOUTH AFRICA: These daily writings are so much a part of me now; and I enjoy the relaxation of being able to just trust what is written – to be able to let go of the hypervigilant bullshit detector that operates so strongly here. I am glad there was the momentum to continue. I find it hard to believe sometimes that it was through the relatively recent accidental stumbling onto the blog that I first heard the words “advaita” and “Nisargadatta” … and “floyd henderson”. You must be aware of the effect of the blog on regular site visitors. This excerpt from yesterday’s blog had a resounding impact, although I don’t know why:

And how does the "God-you" differ from the You-Me? The difference deals with duality vs. the unicity, with consciousness speaking to ItSelf. When Floyd the speck of consciousness speaks and that resonates simultaneously with Ginny in the northeast, with Raja in India, with Louise in South Africa, with Jean in France, and with Peter in England, it is not "Them" hearing "Floyd's voice" from afar. There is merely a speck that is speaking and triggering an internal center of discernment that is not different from, that is not separate from, the center of discernment wherein the pointers originate.

F.: As for the passage, that pointer was originally offered years ago during satsang when an accusation was leveled by a religious attendee who said that Advaita's claims and my claims were not different at all from his claims about prayer except that Advaitins and I were so arrogant that we were placing ourselves in the god role. The passage you referenced is close to the response offered to him in the late 1990's or so.

As for the impact, a part of that is likely the result of understanding a pointer that was not stated but that can be inferred by awakened specks: there are no persons, so there are no persons talking and there are no persons listening. That is really the essence of what is Realized when Realization happens and is overlaid on the relative:

all belief in anything personal ends, and it is realized that there is no personal petitioner, no personal hearer, no personal god speaking, no personal god listening.

There are simply waves of energy that ride along streams of consciousness, and at times the waves are diverted from their boundless, undirected path...drawn to an inner source, and allowed to surge on occasion into the quiet cove called "the inner resource" and settle in that place.

(At least that is what can happen in the case of a cove that has not been blocked in the fashion that most specks of consciousness are blocked because of the dams of programming, conditioning, and acculturation which prevent the flow of those waves from reaching that peaceful bay known as "the inner guru.")

The other difference is, with that "You-Me," there is an energy transmission that travels directly from one center of discernment to one center of discernment with no stopover in a “mind.” With this Advaitin, nisarga approach, such stopovers are not required since “both” centers are understood in the end to be the same center. In Reality, there is no "from here to there," no "from this center to that center" going on; there is only the "here."

I am not talking to you or to You. I am talking to My Self, which is You. Thus, there is really no message "going" anywhere—only the triggering of a message that is already within. Consciousness speaks...that is all that happens.

That is far different from the claims based in the magical thinking that dominates religious persons and (kindergarten level) spiritual persons. They adhere to a concept—to a dualistic belief—that there is an "A" talking to a "B" and a "B" answering an "A."

The truly Realized understand that the notion that one is “hearing god speak” is really just a case of the “self” talking, not of a god talking. The Realized understand that the belief that “a personal god in another world is talking specifically and personally to me in this world” is just an erroneous belief held by an ego-state that is being driven by a sense of “special-ness” which is a result of the influence of massive egotism.

The Realized understand that a schizoid-style “hearing of voices in the head” is nothing more than nonsensical “mind stuff”…pure nonsense…total "BS" as Louise said.

So understand that there is no “floyd” and there was not a “maharaj.” Again, I am not talking to anyone. Understand too that whatever you might think either did or has done is insignificant. Understand, too, that what either might know is meaningless.

The question is always, "What do You know? What is it that You can come to understand via the inner guru…the inner resource? What is it that is blocking You from tapping into that which the inner guru is aware of but that you cannot bring into consciousness because the pure consciousness which You Are (and which can know ItSelf) is blocked from 'being aware of' by all of the bogus content of the 'mind'?"

When Realization happens, when the blocks are cast aside, and then when pointers to the truth resonate via that inner center of discernment, then the Truth rushes into consciousness and peace and freedom finally begin. Please enter into the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)

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From the Absolute to the Nothingness
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From the I to the Absolute (A Seven-Step Journey to Reality)
It's All Bullshit (and Why Knowing it Sets You Free)
Meditation Guide (Advanced Volume)
There's No Such Thing as ''Peace of Mind''
Spiritual Sobriety (Recovering What Religions Lost)
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FROM SIM IN KENTUCKY, U.S.A.: How about a donate button? I give monthly to a blog about locations and reviews of a particular type of restaurant we like. I’d sure donate to this blog.

FROM “ANONYMOUS”: Almost every visitor brought Maharaj food or flowers. I’d like to treat you to a meal if you tell me how to do so with my credit card!

FROM LOUISE, SOUTH AFRICA: [Consider the case of an acquaintance who] added a donate button to his site. Regular blog readers were happy to support the site in this way.

F.: Okay—so it’s done, but note that the postings and responses are offered without charge, as is access to the library of 1,300 Advaitin essays archived on the site.

That said, any donation will be appreciated. Thank you.

WHEN REALITY IS OVERLAID ON THE RELATIVE, Part Nine

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.

Following the post, details on the 50% off sale of the remaining Non-Duality paperback books in the store and details for starting your own “Advaita In-Home Study Group.”

F.: Yesterday’s post ended with this pointer:

Realization is marked by an end to the acceptance of BS, not by the development of a blind tolerance for, and acceptance of, BS.

Blind tolerance for BS and proud acceptance of BS are not markers of being either Realized or “highly spiritual”; they are markers of either insanity or serious personality disorders.

When the center of discernment does not reverberate or activate because of the blocks set in place by programming, conditioning, adulteration, domestication, and acculturation, then among the non-Realized…

***fact is thought to be fiction
***fiction is thought to be fact
***an accurate pointer toward the truth is taken to be BS
***BS is assigned value, and
***concepts and beliefs deactivate an ability to use logic and reason

The end result of such distortion is not unlike this scenario involving an aunt: bedridden with bone cancer for eight years before the manifestation ended, she was told by her doctors that the best she could hope for was to find some effective means of pain management.

When living under the influence of programming, conditioning, adulteration, domestication, and acculturation, the best that most persons (the non-Realized) can hope for is to find some effective means of misery management and suffering management. Most, however, turn to ineffective means of misery and suffering management: drugs, alcohol, shopping, gambling, sex, food, nicotine, religion, spirituality, accumulation, ad infinitum.

Moreover, the non-Realized are seldom ever in touch with their misery and suffering. They are in total denial, their egotism and their dual-minded condition driving them to claim that “their lives are good,” that “their marriages are good,” and that “they are really happy”;

yet 99.9% are addicted to something and are using their addictive practices to try to escape the suffocating conditions of their relative existence, even as their dissociation and their denial and their reframing of falsehoods as truth combine to influence them to upgrade the actual status of their lives and to ignore the facts surrounding a relative existence that is pockmarked with illusions.

The result is a global population of persons who are walking about in their sleep while thinking they are awake; who are thinking that their dreams are real; who are mistaking images for the actual;

and who have not only normalized misery but have also subjected their suffering to a process of "spin doctoring" whereby they believe the lies that they tell themselves...that misery is happiness, that suffering is bliss, that their lives and relationships are "good," and that "this is just the way it is and just the way it has to stay."

Realization brings to an end the self-deception that otherwise prevents the non-Realized from seeking that which could end misery and suffering once and for all, convinced as they are that “everything’s good…really…it’s all good.”

Post-Realization, when Reality is overlaid upon the remainder of the relative existence, then fact is never thought to be fiction, and fiction is never thought to be fact; accurate pointers toward the truth are accepted and understood; nonsense is no longer valued; and logic and reason displace all beliefs and concepts.

In short, those persons who were made into fools as a result of warped programming, perverted conditioning, stifling adulteration, oppressive domestication and twisted acculturation—and who have continued to fool themselves via denial and dissociation and reframing and dual-mindedness and egotism—will never again be fooled, post-Realization.

All of the ego-defense mechanisms that ego-states used to sustain their false image are discarded; all of the effects of having been misled by cultures that teach nonsense fall away; all dual-mindedness ends with the end of belief in the content of the “mind”;

the ability to differentiate true from false manifests and happens…always and automatically; the conscious efforts to manipulate and to control (along with the unconscious agendas that drive personal thoughts and personal words and personal actions) all come to end;

then, the remainder of the manifestation—at least for Realized Nisargans—happens in a natural, spontaneous, agenda-less fashion. That is further evidence of the way the relative unfolds when Reality is overlaid upon it. Please enter into the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)

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1. REALIZATION AIDS
The Advanced Seekers’ Book Set
From the I to the Absolute
Consciousness / Awareness
From the Absolute to the Nothingness
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2. ADVAITA / NON-DUALITY BOOK SET
THE FOLLOWING BOOKS ARE IN THE STORE IN LIMITED SUPPLY AND WILL BE OFFERED AT 50% OFF WHEN BOUGHT AS A PACKAGE:

From the Absolute to the Nothingness
Consciousness/Awareness
From the I to the Absolute (A Seven-Step Journey to Reality)
It's All Bullshit (and Why Knowing it Sets You Free)
Meditation Guide (Advanced Volume)
There's No Such Thing as ''Peace of Mind''
Spiritual Sobriety (Recovering What Religions Lost)
The Essence of the Teachings
$79.00 for all eight books + free S&H in the U.S.

Most titles are also available as eBooks
Visit
The Official Website of Floyd Henderson

3. DONATIONS

FROM SIM IN KENTUCKY, U.S.A.: How about a donate button? I give monthly to a blog about locations and reviews of a particular type of restaurant we like. I’d sure donate to this blog.

FROM “ANONYMOUS”: Almost every visitor brought Maharaj food or flowers. I’d like to treat you to a meal if you tell me how to do so with my credit card!

FROM LOUISE, SOUTH AFRICA: [Consider the case of an acquaintance who] added a donate button to his site. Regular blog readers were happy to support the site in this way.

F.: Okay—so it’s done, but note that the postings and responses are offered without charge, as is access to the library of 1,300 Advaitin essays archived on the site.

That said, any donation will be appreciated. Thank you.

WHEN REALITY IS OVERLAID ON THE RELATIVE, Part Nine

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.

Following the post, details on the 50% off sale of the remaining Non-Duality paperback books in the store and details for starting your own “Advaita In-Home Study Group.”

F.: Yesterday’s post ended with this:

With all having been found and nothing being sought or desired, then boundaries become set for the first time ever. Tomorrow, the discussion will reveal how those playing the role of “The Spiritual Giant” will claim that “living in a mode of total acceptance” is the key to their happiness. An alternate consideration will be offered and discussed, namely that the ennobling of the concept of “acceptance” will lead to the senseless acceptance of anything.

I AM THAT; I AM is not a contradiction, but it does have an element that seems paradoxical at first glance, yes? Similarly, being and abiding as that which is limitless—even as the limited relative existence continues—is not a contradiction but it does have an element that also seems paradoxical.

And for that which is boundless to set boundaries during the remainder of the relative manifestation is not contradictory, but the pointer does seem to have an element that is paradoxical, if not outright ambiguous, to some seekers.

Thus, many seekers who reach the third step—along with most persons who take themselves to be religious or spiritual—believe that “acceptance” becomes a hallmark of their newly-elevated status and a barometer that can be used to gauge just how "spiritually-fit" they are.

That belief is just further evidence of deception of the type revealed in the content of e-mails shared earlier. Remember, How can you claim that maharaj was realized and at peace when he got mad and ran people out of his house? Remember the belief that if one is Realized, he can and will tolerate loud noise? And the implication that Realization has obviously not happened if one does not accept whatever is happening in life and all around her/him?

The fact is that once Reality is overlaid on the relative, then spontaneously there is a shift away from nonsense, insanity, and chaos. Persons are not only tolerant of nonsense and insanity and chaos but actually think they are thriving on all three, are willing to contribute to the perpetuation of all three, and are, in fact, quite attached to all three.

They set no boundaries and tolerate all three. And all of that non-nisarga, unnatural behavior is rooted in fears and desires, such as the fear that you will not be “loved” and the desire that you will be...forever. That really just sets the stage for you to tolerate the most intolerable nonsense—relatively speaking—that is imaginable.

Do your actions reveal you believe that fifteen minutes of sex is worth tolerating the most outrageous conduct from a partner for the remainder of your 24-7 existence? Then your failure to set boundaries and your ennobling of the concept of “acceptance” will cast you into prison.

Do your actions show that a certain elevated lifestyle is worth accepting misery and tolerating suffering? Then your failure to set boundaries and your ennobling of the concept of "tolerance" will lock you in a maximum insecurity jail.

You will believe, “Better to be incarcerated with company than to be free but ‘alone’.” And nothing will lock persons into tolerating a continuing state of misery and suffering more than when they desire others to believe that they have reached some superior state of spiritual rank and use “acceptance” to provide evidence of that rank and to perpetuate their bogus image.

It is not blind acceptance of anything that the sane would see is intolerable that marks the post-Realization existence. What is accepted is anything that cannot be changed during the relative, so the indigenous people of America did not complain about weather but knew that “when it’s hot it’s hot, and when it’s cold it’s cold.” That is sensible acceptance.

It is also a freeing perspective. But it is not a freeing perspective to conclude, “When he’s nice he’s really nice but when he’s mean he’s really mean, and I accept that” or to conclude, “When she’s here it’s really good but when she’s out running the streets and doing drugs it’s really bad, but I accept that.”

It is not a freeing perspective to conclude, “When he’s showing me attention, even if it’s just to use me for his personal gratification, it still feels pretty nice, but when he ignores me completely, it’s pretty bad, but I accept both.”

It is not a freeing perspective to conclude, “When she’s not stealing money from me and the children and our families, it’s really nice, but when she is doing that, it really feels bad, but I love her and I took a vow so I will practice acceptance and will continue to sleep with my greatest enemy whom I blindly take to be my greatest friend.”

It is not a freeing perspective to conclude, “Life in our home is nothing more than continuous chaos and going and doing and zooming, but at least it’s not boring so I not only accept that...I welcome it.”

And it is neither a sane perspective nor a freeing perspective to conclude, “If someone is spiritual or Fully Realized, they can and will put up with anything.” To the contrary, when Reality is overlaid on the relative, de-accumulation happens. And along with all else that is discarded is a tolerance of nonsense, insanity, chaos, and the acceptance of being used and abused.

There is an end to accumulating lovers to treat an absence of Self-Love and esteem; less seeking of anything occurs—not more. There is an end to accumulating sources of noise and seeking opportunities for chaos; suddenly, less of both follows Realization and the quiet result is enjoyed.

There is an end to seeking to accumulate status and respect and glory for being “so religious” or “so spiritual” and “so tolerant of anything and everything” and “so accepting of whatever comes my way.”

Rather than tolerating more and accepting more and accumulating more, there is de-accumulation which happens automatically and spontaneously in every aspect of one’s relative existence since peace cannot be compartmentalized and neither can BS.

Thus, one might conclude that maharaj was not realized and at peace as evidenced by that fact that he did not accept and tolerate the behavior of everyone who walked into his loft;

in fact, the occurrence of that automatic and spontaneous and natural act of “discrimination” during the relative existence is precisely the evidence which proves that Full Realization has happened and that the peace and the quiet have automatically become the norm rather than the exception.

Therefore, for that which is boundless to set boundaries consistently during the relative manifestation is not a sign of any lack of Realization but is confirmation that Realization has happened fully.

Realization is marked by an end to the acceptance of BS, not by the development of a blind tolerance for, and acceptance of, BS. Please enter into the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)

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WHEN REALITY IS OVERLAID ON THE RELATIVE, Part Eight

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F.: In the last posting, the pointer was offered that—once Reality is overlaid on the relative—then all relative happenings unfold spontaneously. This was received this morning:

I understand, at least today, your comment that you don't know what you would do if.... I used to send you a lot of "ifs." One was if [your daughter] was murdered. But, you said you don't know what you would do in any situation until it occurred but it would be natural, spontaneous. I suppose, what you didn't say was that neither would I or anyone else know what we would do. We think we know.

Whatever is felt around any given happening is merely witnessed, post-Realization. Feelings rise and fall but do not trigger the emotional intoxication that ego-states think they are experiencing. Feelings are natural—emoting is not; too, since the cause of all is all, no predictions can be made about what will follow a cause that has not yet manifested.

The pointer was offered in the previous post that, since all happenings among the Realized happen spontaneously and naturally, then it is understood that nothing is happening supernaturally.

Post-Realization, desire and fear both fall away, as do all infantile things, so no “Supernatural Caretaker” or “Celestial Parent” is erroneously thought to be needed; thus, total independence happens. If not independent, one is not free; if not free, then one cannot possibly know happiness or bliss.

Because the basic personality type is set by age six, then persons not yet liberated from personality will behave as a child, no matter their chronological age. That freedom from the fears and desires of the internal six-year-old that is really just the influence of personality is never known by persons who are driven throughout an entire relative existence by personality. To understand that is to see another “trait” which evidences the fact that Reality has been overlaid on the relative:

“They” may have fooled you and thus made you into a fool, but that ends, post-Realization. Post-Realization, there is the You—that unblocked pure consciousness that witnesses Truth and witnesses foolishness and then differentiates between the two spontaneously and automatically.

Post-Realization it can also be seen clearly the way that any dependency—even on a "power-giving god"—generates misery:

a man who is tolerating near-intolerable conditions in the workplace is also a man who has been overwhelmed with childish fears all his life. He has expressed for months that he wants to quit the job…that he is now even dreaming about telling the boss that he is leaving.

Yet the fear of searching for a job during a recession has paralyzed him, as if he could not look for employment while being employed, a point shared by his wife who has said that she is sick of his being sick over the abusive conditions at work.

Yet note the supernatural (magical) thinking that has evolved from his fear of change and action. Excuse-making and justification for non-action have manifested thusly: he said he told his wife, “This discussion is over. I don't want to hear another word about a job change because I prayed about this and God told me that I was right where he wanted me to be for now.”

So his God is one that accepts his suffering and misery and would prolong it? Yet the personality Type Eight that he disintegrates into when stressed is the power seeker, seeking both relative power in all its perceived forms and seeking supernatural power that can give him even more control over relative issues. That is how obsessed the Type Eight is with having power and Power and control.

He wants the power to change his life, but since fear is blocking the way, he employs his concept of a greater power not in order to face but in order to escape…which has always been a marker of his relative existence: avoidance...escapism...neglect...evasion.

Is it just chance that the way “his God” thinks is exactly the way that the man thinks, or is it possible that what he is claiming to be “a voice from without” is really just a “voice from within”? Is it possible that he is not hearing god but is hearing himself...his false fear-based self?

In the book SPIRITUAL SOBRIETY (Recovering What Religions Lost) Dr. Jeffrey A. Schaler’s explanation of what is really happening in the instance above is shared:

“Hearing voices in one's head is normal. We generally call it “our conscience.” [Other times, it is just our self-will, our ego, granting itself what it wants in the guise of God. Most often, it is just a self-generated thought, not an “other-worldly message” picked up by some internal, supernatural receiver. f.h.]

Psychosis is the belief that the voices in one's head belong to another person. The denial of voices-as-self is an attempt to deny the truth. It is a way of saying "this is not me." Pretending that the self is split or dissociated is a way of avoiding responsibility.

The person with accurate perception can clearly differentiate the symbolic from the real and the metaphorical from the literal.

Claims that auditory, mental locution is happening between two entities living in two different worlds is not evidence of "spiritual development" but is evidence of schizophrenia and many other disorders;

additionally, the desire to claim that one knows exactly why everything is happening the way it is happening as a result of a special relationship with a god that is communicating regularly with so special a person is evidence of egotism and dissociation from Reality.

For persons to claim that they want to break their old dependencies and that the way to do that is to create a new dependency is a peculiar machination that could only be thought to make sense by use of the always-warped and always-fiction-filled “mind.”

This was also received recently and is relevant here:

I liked the analogy of the backed up traffic and the tow trucks. Still, there is this futile attempt to understand with the mind. Instead, what has seemed most successful here is simply read the pointers – again and again – within an environment that is stress-free and quiet; to allow the direct communication between You and Me without throwing up distracting obstacles.

Exactly. And how does the "God-you" differ from the You-Me? The difference deals with duality vs. the unicity, with consciousness speaking to ItSelf. When Floyd the speck of consciousness speaks and that resonates simultaneously with Ginny in the northeast, with Raja in India, with Louise in South Africa, with Jean in France, and with Peter in England, it is not "Them" hearing "Floyd's voice" from afar. There is merely a speck that is speaking and triggering an internal center of discernment that is not different from, that is not separate from, the center of discernment wherein the pointers originate.

There is no claim that there is an "I" in one place that is speaking to some "You" in another place. The understanding is that when consciousness speaks, it is sensed via the inner resource or the inner guru, but there is no suggestion at all that there is "an entity in one place" and "an entity in another place" that are communicating.

To the contrary, the teaching is that there are most definitely not two...that there is only the advaita...the "not two." All else is "mind stuff"...a "mind" thinking it is hearing the voice of a Power that resides in some other sky world.

Further, freedom and peace cannot come when the “mind” is engaged. Peace of mind is a pipe dream, an impossibility, because that which is the source of the lack of peace cannot also be the source of peace.

Furthermore, freedom and peace cannot come when God is sought because that which is being sought can never be found. Freedom and peace can come when the Self is sought because that which is being sought can be found.

Are you seeking a god or gods? Is your search a result of fear and desire, including relative fears that are without basis and relative desires for both relative things and “eternal things” as well, such as continuity of the body and mind and personality?

Have occasional glimpses happened which allowed the opportunity to see nonsense as nonsense? Did you ignore that and then begin again to give a nod to god, just to cover all bases? WHO is playing such a game?

Are you proud of giving up dependencies while unconsciously forming new dependencies? When Reality is overlaid on the relative, nothing is sought. All has been found, and no dependencies remain.

With all having been found and with nothing being sought or desired, then boundaries become set for the first time ever. Tomorrow, the discussion will reveal how those playing the role of “The Spiritual Giant” will claim that “living in a mode of total acceptance” is the key to their happiness.

An alternate consideration will be offered and discussed, namely that the ennobling of the concept of “acceptance” will lead to the senseless acceptance of anything. Meanwhile, the reminder is that these discussions are never offered publicly to try to "reform" or "educate" anyone. They'll either kill you or at least want to. Please enter the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)

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THE FOLLOWING BOOKS ARE IN THE STORE IN LIMITED SUPPLY AND WILL BE OFFERED AT 50% OFF WHEN BOUGHT AS A PACKAGE:

From the Absolute to the Nothingness
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From the I to the Absolute (A Seven-Step Journey to Reality)
It's All Bullshit (and Why Knowing it Sets You Free)
Meditation Guide (Advanced Volume)
There's No Such Thing as ''Peace of Mind''
Spiritual Sobriety (Recovering What Religions Lost)
The Essence of the Teachings
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Visit
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FROM SIM IN KENTUCKY, U.S.A.: How about a donate button? I give monthly to a blog about locations and reviews of a particular type of restaurant we like. I’d sure donate to this blog.

FROM “ANONYMOUS”: Almost every visitor brought Maharaj food or flowers. I’d like to treat you to a meal if you tell me how to do so with my credit card!

FROM LOUISE, SOUTH AFRICA: [Consider the case of an acquaintance who] added a donate button to his site. Regular blog readers were happy to support the site in this way.

F.: Okay—so it’s done, but note that the postings and responses are offered without charge, as is access to the library of 1,300 Advaitin essays archived on the site.

That said, any donation will be appreciated. Thank you.