F.: Is it any wonder that so few will ever Realize ... that so many will spend the entire relative existence talking in their sleep, but, mainly, just talking and talking and talking?
Persons who refuse cannot Realize, meaning those persons who refuse to adhere to the plan that they only verbally - rather than truly - commit to with their teachers; who refuse to give up attachment to things relative;
who refuse to abandon every last belief and idea and concept; who refuse to accept that neither The Absolute Truth - nor any "relative truth" at all - can be spoken; who refuse to accept that the talks they hear from a Realized teacher have not an iota of anything to do with anything relative until it is time to overlay Reality upon it;
who refuse to listen and to hear with something other than the ears; who refuse to abandon all attachments, all identifications, and all dependencies; who refuse to allow pointers to be processed via the inner guru other than the "mind";
and who refuse to stand above it all and witness from a platform of neutrality but who are driven instead to take a stance in the middle of all of the relative nonsense and ignorance and instability and shiftings and fluctuations - ever in motion between the constantly oscillating extremes of pleasure and suffering that are guaranteed when they try to live out a relative existence without accepting the endowment offered by a Realized teacher and, therefore, without the subvention of being in touch with Reality.
Maharaj: "... ideas of movement, of restlessness, of pleasure and pain are all in the mind. The Self stands beyond the mind, aware, but unconcerned."
They will also never Realize who refuse to abandon every notion that they have about timelines and things being born and living and dying rather than understanding the cyclings. Consider the wisdom offered in this exchange:
Questioner: "Are you not afraid of death?"
Maharaj: "I am dead already."
Q: "In what sense?"
M: "I am double dead. Not only am I dead to my body, but to my mind too."
Realization will never come to those who refuse to adhere to "the three moon rule," either, whereby the seeker hears all from a position of neutrality, draws no conclusions, forms no opinions, reacts to nothing heard, and instead stays in the silence for at least three days in order to consider pointers and suggestions in the silence.
So many times this has been heard here: "Oh yes - I'm ready to follow that plan," only to offer a pointer, have the seeker immediately challenge it, raise an objection, argue the point, offer a counterpoint or counter-interpretation (as if the teacher needs pointers from the student) and rejects the point instantly with the message, "No, that can't be right ... I don't believe that at all," meaning "I believe something else instead."
Meaning, more significantly, that "I still have beliefs, so I shall not accept a pointer that requires me to transition beyond all of 'my' beliefs (which are really 'their' beliefs) and allow a pointer to un-teach a lie that I believe to be truth."
Yes, there is a point when seekers must be allowed to raise questions, but it is at the final stage when the door must be opened enough for the teacher to toss in the torch that provides the spark that will ignite the gunpowder that will blow away the last few blockages that remain.
The time to question in not when nothing other than blockages are in place. How could any question raised when in that condition have any relevance at all? Those cases are not unlike the stubborn teenager who is (a) trying to assert his or her total independence but who is (b) incapable of functioning in a totally independent manner yet who is nevertheless ...
... (c) challenging authority, questioning no falsehoods but rejecting all facts, seeing the ignorance and stupidity of adults, but unable to glimpse even slightly her or his own ignorance and stupidity.
As with seekers who are not yet totally ready, the teen supposedly knows it all, cannot be reasoned with, and actually abhors logic and sense, attracted far more to the illogical and to the nonsensical.
Maharaj: "Are you ready to follow my example? I am dead to the world, I want nothing, not even to live. Be as I Am .... You are judging Me by my clothes and food, while I only look at your motives; if you believe to be the body and the mind and act on it, you are guilty of the greatest cruelty - cruelty to Your own real being. Compared to it, all other cruelties do not count."
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
