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As for Maharaj, you will find here some of his early pointers for beginners but some of his later pointers that are for seekers farther along the "path." During his last years, he said of I AM THAT: "That book and whatever was expounded at that time was only relevant for that period. I am speaking differently today" and am "emphasizing different aspects." What he offered later differed considerably from his earlier talks, making clear that the pointers in I AM THAT will take you to the midpoint of "the race" but that his final talks point the way to "the finish line."
[The following post is an excerpt from this soon-to-be-released book]:
GOING CRAZY / GOING SANE
F.: Next, if you become aware of the vocabulary of non-Realization and stop using it, then you will simultaneously be freed from being controlled and influenced by those who do use the vocabulary of the non-Realized ... and that is the way that the Ultimate Sickness was contracted to begin with, was it not?
Those who would control the masses plant nonsensical thoughts in the “minds” of persons and inspire them to speak nonsensical words—selected from “The Vocabulary of ‘Mind-Language’”—in order (consciously or unconsciously) to program and condition and domesticate and acculturate others.
Short of Realization, programming and conditioning and domestication and acculturation continue throughout a person's entire relative existence, aggravating the personality disorders which are already manifest and that are already leading to psychic deterioration and to one level or another of insanity.
Persons will eventually become even more unstable (i.e., will suffer from varying degrees or forms of insanity) as the “The Vocabulary of ‘Mind-Language’” uses emotional constructs and mental implantations to drive the naive and susceptible masses into far deeper levels of emotional intoxication and mental illness.
Yet addressing the "mind" issues alone will not restored one to sanity. These teachings in the early stages warn against body-mind-personality identification, so not only must identification with the body and with the fallacious content of the "mind" be addressed but also, this must happen: the assumption of personalities / personas as identification must end if the use of the language of insanity is to end and if sanity is to be restored.
When roles are assumed, mind-speak must follow. Personality-driven words will be spoken in an effort to support identity. When ego-states go, silence comes. The deer make little noise, having nothing to prove, having no mind-language with which to think, and, therefore, having no vocabulary with which to engage in mind-speak. That is what nisarga functioning looks like.
Become awake to - and aware and conscious of - the vocabulary being used each day to see if one or more personas might be inspiring your thoughts ... and therefore your words. To that end, you are invited to witness your self / selves as talk happens throughout the day, then ask:
Was everything that was said really necessary? What was the motive behind the words spoken? What are you trying to prove? Why do talking and impressing often have more appeal than the quiet? WHO feels the need to speak, to be "loved," to be admired, to be respected, or more often, just to be heard?
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO "CHECK OUT" OF THE RELATIVE AND ABIDE "THERE" IN ORDER TO BE FREE OF THE USE OF THE VOCABULARY OF NON-REALIZATION (WHICH REINFORCES THE NON-REALIZED STATE)
Realization and nisarga-style living are not about ignoring relative happenings and “requirements” of the Is-ness; are not about relocating to a new “mental residence” in the ether (that is psychosis and shifts one into even deeper levels of insanity); and are not about denying the Am-ness for the period of manifestation.
Nisarga living happens when Reality is overlaid on the beingness; when all ego-states and magical / supernatural thinking ends; when there comes an end to believing that a relationship with a mirage can be real and can be empowering; and when all that happens unfolds in a mode of living that is as sane and logical and reasonable and natural as that of the deer.
If magical / supernatural thinking ends, then magical / supernatural speaking will end, yet that cannot happen unless one discards all of the nonsense that one has been taught and which has been stored in a "mind" and which - from there - inspires insane talk and insane behaviors.
The Advaitin understands that questioning it all is required if programmed, conditioned, domesticated, and acculturated persons are ever to be free of their belief in—and attachment to—falsehoods and nonsense.
And only if belief in—and attachment to—falsehoods and nonsense finally ends can the restoration of sanity begin, marked thereafter by an end to the use of the language of non-Realization ... an end to the use of the language of insanity.
Functioning spontaneously is a marker of Realization, so questioning must begin to happen spontaneously as well, for those who would be free of the insanity-reinforcing language of duality.
How many have heard someone spout some nonsense about a god causing tornadoes or earthquakes or floods in order to "to send a message to people," only to see the listeners nod in agreement?
How many heard that mother talking about "the Hand of God" that pushed her daughter to the bank of a raging river so she could be saved and merely nodded in agreement?
For those that would be freed from "The Dream / Nightmare of the Planet" - and for those that would finally leave the stage of "The Theater of the Lie" once and for all, then as soon as something is heard or “seen,” it must be questioned.
If one is to stop accepting as truth any of the billions of examples of nonsense heard around the globe on a daily basis, then the sleepwalking habit of accepting all that is heard - of accepting everything stated by use of the vocabulary of non-Realization and insanity - must end.
Yet even that is not sufficient. Even if blind acceptance of the insane comments being heard comes to an end, there must also be a simultaneous awareness of every word and phrase that make up the vocabulary of non-Realization and insanity.
So if one on this "path" hears a person use the vocabulary of ignorance and insanity to say, “I turned it over to god and now I am free of worry,” a variety of options are available. In the early part of the “journey,” the seeker's questioning and the seeker's cautious and careful and wary analysis might move through these stages:
“Ok, let’s see ... that might be true or that might be false … I’ll question that … let’s see … god is a concept … concepts cannot free anyone of anything … they actually trap persons … that’s mind stuff, stated by using the vocabulary of the ignorant and insane ... all mind stuff is false … my BS detector has been activated … I call ‘BS’ on that.”
Once Realized, that slow process of moving through the stages of analysis which lead to the discarding of all statements that are false, is no longer required.
As one moves closer and closer to Full Realization, the spontaneous questioning of all that is heard moves at warp speed and activates the detector instantly. Later, once Realized Fully, the process unfolds immediately and thusly:
Claimant: “I turned it over to god and now I am free of worry.”
The Fully Realized (instantly) : BS.
Yet when one is attached to mind-language and engages in mind-speak, then mind-thinking and mind-speaking prevent questioning. Why? How? Here's why, and here's how:
Mind-speak always takes the forms of declarative, imperative, or exclamatory sentences. It never employs the interrogative form, so it prevents questioning, prevents the receipt of sane and logical pointers, and prevents the seeing of falsehoods.
No one “learns” while speaking, and no one “unlearns” while speaking. Speaking reinforces false beliefs—it does not eliminate them. If one understands that Truth can be known but cannot be stated but still does not go into the silence as much as possible - then Full Realization has not happened.
Additionally, it is only by questioning what one has been told and taught, by questioning what one believes, by questioning what one hears, and by questioning what one reads (and, yes, that includes the pointers offered here) only then is there an opportunity to be free of the belief in - and attachment to - nonsense.
And only if freed of the belief in nonsense and ideas and concepts and dogma and myths and superstitions and principles and blind-faith-based convictions can there be any opportunity thereafter to "go sane."
Please enter the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)
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From the I to the Absolute; Consciousness / Awareness; From the Absolute to the Nothingness; The Final Understanding; The Advanced Seekers' Series in paperback; the two Meditation Guides
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The BLISSFUL ABIDANCE SERIES, PART ONE
What BLISS Is and What BLISS Is Not; Why You Must Be Empty If You Would Be Full; When Reality Is Overlaid Upon the Relative; There's No Such Thing As "Peace of Mind" (There Is Only Peace If You're Out of Your Mind); Freedom from Shifting Between States of Happiness and Unhappiness; Liberation; The Blissful Abidance Series (6 books) in paperback
What BLISS Is and What BLISS Is Not; Why You Must Be Empty If You Would Be Full; When Reality Is Overlaid Upon the Relative; There's No Such Thing As "Peace of Mind" (There Is Only Peace If You're Out of Your Mind); Freedom from Shifting Between States of Happiness and Unhappiness; Liberation; The Blissful Abidance Series (6 books) in paperback
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THE MAHARAJ TRILOGY, including: (1) Why NISARGA YOGA in addition to the ADVAITA TEACHING? (2) Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj and His Evolution and (3) A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE via the NON-DUALITY TEACHINGS and the NISARGA YOGA; The Ultimate Sickness, The Ultimate Medicine; Dancing Lightly; Overcoming the Fear of Being Totally Independent; I AM THAT (vs. "This Is Who I Think I Am"); The Essence of the Teachings; There Is Nothing That Is Personal (Including You and Including God); Lessons in Non-Duality from Travels in South Africa
THE MAHARAJ TRILOGY, including: (1) Why NISARGA YOGA in addition to the ADVAITA TEACHING? (2) Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj and His Evolution and (3) A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE via the NON-DUALITY TEACHINGS and the NISARGA YOGA; The Ultimate Sickness, The Ultimate Medicine; Dancing Lightly; Overcoming the Fear of Being Totally Independent; I AM THAT (vs. "This Is Who I Think I Am"); The Essence of the Teachings; There Is Nothing That Is Personal (Including You and Including God); Lessons in Non-Duality from Travels in South Africa
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A Twelve-Step Journey to SELF-Realization [Kindle]; A Twelve-Step Journey to SELF-Realization [Paperback]; A Guide for Working the Twelve Steps (In the Manner Used by the Founders); The Twelve Steps and Advaita / Non-Duality: A 21-Day Plan for a Psychic Change; Instability / Insanity: What the Advaita Teachings Can (and Cannot) Address; The Path to Freedom vs. the Path to Misery; Finding Real Love in An Unreal World; What Happens When I Die?; Casting Light on the Dark Side of Relationships; The Myth of Death
A Twelve-Step Journey to SELF-Realization [Kindle]; A Twelve-Step Journey to SELF-Realization [Paperback]; A Guide for Working the Twelve Steps (In the Manner Used by the Founders); The Twelve Steps and Advaita / Non-Duality: A 21-Day Plan for a Psychic Change; Instability / Insanity: What the Advaita Teachings Can (and Cannot) Address; The Path to Freedom vs. the Path to Misery; Finding Real Love in An Unreal World; What Happens When I Die?; Casting Light on the Dark Side of Relationships; The Myth of Death
FREEDOM FROM PROGRAMMING, THE ADVAITINS, NON-DUALITY IN FICTION, FINANCIAL SANITY
PROGRAMMING, CONDITIONING, DOMESTICATION, AND ACCULTURATION: The Sources of the Ultimate Sickness and the Non-Duality Treatment; Jesus Christ the Advaitin; William Shakespeare the Advaitin; The Twice-Stolen Necklace Murders (Non-Duality) [Kindle]; The Board of Directors of Wars (Non-Duality) [Kindle or Paperback); Living Within Your Means; How Your Personality Type Shapes Your Spending Habits
PROGRAMMING, CONDITIONING, DOMESTICATION, AND ACCULTURATION: The Sources of the Ultimate Sickness and the Non-Duality Treatment; Jesus Christ the Advaitin; William Shakespeare the Advaitin; The Twice-Stolen Necklace Murders (Non-Duality) [Kindle]; The Board of Directors of Wars (Non-Duality) [Kindle or Paperback); Living Within Your Means; How Your Personality Type Shapes Your Spending Habits
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