NO BIRTH, NO DEATH, AND NO FURTHER BELIEF IN ANY OF THE OTHER TALES TOLD BY PREVARICATORS, Part Twenty-Two, The Conclusion

An Advaita forum focusing on Realisation, enlightenment, non-duality, Real Love, peace, freedom, Your original nature, abiding naturally, the Oneness, the Nothingness, and Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.

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.: The seeker of the no-concept, non-dual Reality that moves far enough along “the path” notices that the use of words and phrases such as “better off” or “worse off” or “good” or “bad” automatically vanishes.

Such words and terms are non-existent in "The Vocabulary of Realization," so there is never even the slightest tendency to apply one label or the other to any happening. I Am - Presence Is - and whatever is … well, it just is. That is all.

Speaking in the thought-language of the fictional “mind” - using the vocabulary of the non-Realized - it is guaranteed that the “mind” will function like a runaway train. As that train passes by the non-Realized masses, they jump aboard. If the train leaves the state of Reason on its journey to the state of Delusion with a stopover in Distortion, the non-Realized have their boarding passes ready and waiting.

Meanwhile, they listen to the words of the one who is blind - the one who cannot see - when that person uses the vocabulary of ignorance and insanity and duality to point the way for them. Why do they listen to such?

Because persons prefer the familiar, and "The Vocabulary of Realization" is quite unfamiliar while the vocabulary of ignorance and insanity and duality - the only vocabulary used among the non-Realized - is the vocabulary they typically hear and the vocabulary they typically use.

Thus, the vocabulary of ignorance and insanity and duality - containing the words that are commonly-used in almost all of the talking that is happening around the globe - is customary and is, therefore, both recognizable and seemingly "comfortable."

In George Orwell’s 1984, there is “Newspeak”—a vocabulary that is used to intentionally distort Reality by re-writing any historical facts which the powers-that-be do not like.

"Newspeak" is used millions of time a day as persons distort the facts and erase the line that differentiates true from false. With 97% claiming affiliation with one organized religion or another and believing in their god or gods, they also employ “Oldspeak.”

That is the talk that goes back thousands of years when the most ignorant persons on the planet talked about Greek or Roman or Hindu “sustainer gods,” gods they believed were willing to intervene in the “affairs of mortals” and manipulate events to the advantage of “faithful believers.”

Today, those trapped in their learned ignorance still speak of sustainer gods, but "Oldspeak" also talks of "creator gods" and "destroyer gods." The Newspeak version combines all of those past beliefs about multiple gods and goddesses and now describes the one god of Abraham as a "composite god."

Therefore, billions on the planet believe in, and talk constantly about, a god who supposedly creates persons, sustains persons, but then will also destroy persons if they make him angry (indicating that their god is co-dependent with them, allowing them to determine how "He" feels and what "He" does).

Understand, though, that the very fact that a person can verbalize a concept is the proof that it cannot be the Truth. Trapped as they are in the “mind” and its distorted thinking, non-Realized persons cannot see the complete foolishness behind their claims and concepts and beliefs and ideas. As a result, the magical thinking that is driven by their concepts and beliefs and ideas will generate magical talk.

Yet magical thinking is also “spin-thinking.” If prayers are not answered exactly as desired, mind-speak will be used to rewrite reality with an Orwellian 1984-style Newspeak; if outcomes are not as promised, Newspeak will put a spin on what did not happen and why.

So, the "state of the planet" is a noisy state, a delusion-based state, a hate-the-silence state, a "let-me-make-loud-sounds-and-noises-so-you'll-look-at-me-and-listen-to-me-" state.

Mind-clatter produces mouth-chatter that generates all across the face of the planet "Power Talk," "God Talk," "Political Talk," "Magical-Thinking-inspired Magical Talk," "Theory Talk," "Philosophical Talk," "Ideological Talk," "Religious Talk," "Spiritual Talk," "Nonsense Talk," and "Ignorance-Based Talk";

also, "Personality-Disorder-inspired Talk," "Insanity-inspired Talk," "Dualistic Talk," "Mind-inspired Talk," "Persona-inspired Talk," and "I'm-going-to-impress-you" Talk. Above all, though, the result is talk, talk, and more talk ... unending talk ... forever distorting, forever deluding (self and others), forever false (since the Truth cannot be stated), and forever using what Maharaj called “mind-language” to “put a spin on the facts.”

The result? The non-Realized masses will, with few exceptions, spend the entire manifestation being fooled by the words of others and being fooled by the mind-words and mouth-words of one's self (or selves).

Post-Realization, the registering of nonsense as nonsense starts happening spontaneously, so the Realized cannot be fooled any longer. Talk that evolves from the vocabulary of non-Realization and ignorance and insanity does not register among the Realized.

Ironically, it is logic and reason that register with the non-Realized as nonsense, but that is true-to-form among the non-Realized who ...

(a) think they know

but who

(b) do not know that they know not.

Non-Realized persons form rigid opinions about experiences that they never had and then use the vocabulary of ignorance and insanity to broadcast those baseless opinions to all who will listen.

Talking without knowing what one is really talking about is the planet-wide standard now, and such talking happens consistently among the non-Realized via the use of mind-language which, in turn, promotes mind-speak.

The Realized, by contrast, tap into the silent inner voice - the voice of the inner guru or the inner resource. That voice inaudibly speaks Truth. The only voice that the masses hear is one that speaks falsehoods via mind-language and then converts distorted or ignorant or insane thoughts into audible words heard via the vocabulary of mind-speak.

In those cases, mind-speak sanctions the supposed benefits of being delusional and of persons fooling themselves and of allowing others to fool them as well. The first opportunity for seekers to find truth is to share the ideas and concepts they believe with a Realized teacher and then be willing to at least consider any feedback that leads them to contemplating the contrary. (You may arrange that at floydhenderson.com by scheduling a one-hour Advaita session).

Also, another suggestion offered earlier is this: "Take every idea you believe, find the 180-degree opposite, and consider that." No one can escape the personality-disorder-and-insanity-producing programming and conditioning and domestication and acculturation that are happening around the globe.

However, a few can, via Full Realization, escape the effects that will otherwise last for the entire relative existence. The subject of mind-language and concepts and words will end with this pointer from Maurice Frydman:

"The mind was originally a tool in the struggle for biological survival. But, in the process the mind acquired the art of symbolic thinking and communication, the art and skill of language.

"Ideas and abstractions acquired an appearance of reality, the conceptual replaced the real, with the result that man now lives in a verbal world, crowded and dominated by words."

When Realization happens, worry ends and the relative existence is no longer dominated by words and talk and noise; then, real worry-free, quiet peace begins; furthermore, the peace is not interrupted with the egotistical need to talk-talk-talk all day long.

It is the arrogant who feel the need to be heard; it is the ignorant who are driven to pass along their ignorance; it is those who are suffering the chatter of a thousand monkeys in their heads who must talk and talk and talk in order to try to drown out that internal, unending, peace-robbing chatter and noise.

Among the Realized, the silence becomes the “norm,” as it is with the deer today and as it was with human-like beings for millions of years prior to the manifestation of the current, very noisy condition around the globe.

The invitation is to enjoy the quiet more and to use the distorted and distorting vocabulary of the masses far less until its use comes to a final and complete halt with Realization.

Peace. Love. Light. Quietness. Truth.

Please enter the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)

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THE ADVANCED SEEKERS' SERIES
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

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

The BLISSFUL ABIDANCE SERIES, PART TWO
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

RECOVERY LITERATURE, the NO DEATH books, the RELATIONSHIP books
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

NON-DUALITY BOOKS, EACH CONTAINING A SERIES OF ESSAYS DISCUSSING ONE OF THE SEVEN STEPS ON THE PATH TO REALIZATION

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NO BIRTH, NO DEATH, AND NO FURTHER BELIEF IN ANY OF THE OTHER TALES TOLD BY PREVARICATORS, Part Twenty-One

An Advaita forum focusing on Realisation, enlightenment, non-duality, Real Love, peace, freedom, Your original nature, abiding naturally, the Oneness, the Nothingness, and Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.

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)

Available in the following book, available at Amazon, is a collection of 278 perspectives that differ from the distorted views of the masses:



You may click the link below for more information or to order:
A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE via the NON-DUALITY TEACHINGS and the NISARGA YOGA

If you would like to support the site or to help insure that those seeking this understanding have someone available, you may click here to donate.

For those seeking the full explanation of the topics addressed on this site: there are non-duality books offered below as well as retreats and Skype or telephone sessions available at

Floyd Henderson's Website

The full explanations are also available in the books in the author's collection that explain in detail all of the non-duality, nisarga teachings offered here:
1. Most non-duality books below are available through Amazon.com.
2. Buy a Kindle reader at the end of this posting or
3. Read Kindle books on your own device by downloading a free app.

The available books are arranged on the carousels below. Use the arrows to move each book to the forefront; then, you may click on any book that you might be interested in to find more information or to purchase.

THE ADVANCED SEEKERS' SERIES
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

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

The BLISSFUL ABIDANCE SERIES, PART TWO
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

RECOVERY LITERATURE, the NO DEATH books, the RELATIONSHIP books
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

NON-DUALITY BOOKS, EACH CONTAINING A SERIES OF ESSAYS DISCUSSING ONE OF THE SEVEN STEPS ON THE PATH TO REALIZATION

FOR THOSE WHO PREFER PAPERBACK, THE FOLLOWING PAPERBACK BOOKS ARE ON SALE NOW
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(FOUR BOOKS IN ONE)

(SIX BOOKS IN ONE)

FOR THOSE SEEKING FURTHER EXPLANATION

An online Advaita Internet Course is offered here. The price of the course includes the four Advaita eBooks used as the texts; questions sent after completion of the assigned readings; replies to your answers; and follow-up as required.

The price of the course includes the four Advaita eBooks used as the texts; questions sent after completion of the assigned readings, replies to your answers, and follow-up as required.

You will be guided through all seven of the steps, in order, that lead from identification with the false "I" to the Absolute (and beyond). For more specific information and details about the course, you may click on the link to the right. To get started now now, click the pay button below and receive the $365 course for a discounted price of $325.00.

Purchase at Discount the Advaita Internet Course with Floyd


by
Clicking the Buy Now Button below:

Or, if you prefer, begin by arranging a one-hour Advaita session via Skype with Floyd:

Next, you can now receive for $40 a downloadable computer file version of the same 7-hour satsang that seekers receive when they visit for the Advaita Retreat with Floyd. You will be guided through the seven steps from identification with the false "I" to the Absolute (and beyond).

For more information or to order, click:

DVD or Downloadable computer file versions of the Four-Day Advaita Retreat

SIX WAYS THAT SEEKERS HAVE REALIZED:

1. BY WATCHING the 4-Disk, Seven-Hour Video (DVD) Set of an advaita retreat, or the downloadable file version. To find out more or to purchase the DVD or downloadable computer file version of the retreat, click:
DVD or Downloadable computer file versions of the Four-Day Advaita Retreat
International buyers: note the separate option for those outside the continental U.S.

2. BY READING the explanations offered in the collection of non-duality books that are available on this site.

3. BY ENROLLING in the Online Advaita Classes

For information, visit Information on the Advaita Classes on the Internet
To enroll visit Enroll in the Advaita Internet Course

4. BY ATTENDING an Advaitin retreat for satsang with floyd and being guided through all seven steps. For details of the retreats offered, please visit the retreat information site.

5. BY ARRANGING satsang by telephone in the U.S. or by Skype internationally. Use the Contact link for information or use the link below to pay for your first Advaita session.

You may click the BUY NOW button below to begin arrangements for your first Advaita session with Floyd via Skype and he will contact you to schedule:

6. BY ARRANGING for floyd to travel to your location and meet with you or your group. Use the contact link below to discuss details.

NO BIRTH, NO DEATH, AND NO FURTHER BELIEF IN ANY OF THE OTHER TALES TOLD BY PREVARICATORS, Part Twenty

An Advaita forum focusing on Realisation, enlightenment, non-duality, Real Love, peace, freedom, Your original nature, abiding naturally, the Oneness, the Nothingness, and Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.

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

MOUTH-NOISE, MIND-LANGUAGE, + UNNATURAL, SUPERNATURAL, AND MAGICAL THOUGHTS AND WORDS

F.: Some might ask, "What does word choice or vocabulary matter when those are about the relative while the non-duality understanding is about the Absolute and being free of the relative?"

There is likely no greater misunderstanding about why the "path" is to be followed and why "the journey" is to be completed. In the first pages of the book FROM THE I TO THE ABSOLUTE, this pointer is offered:

It has been found that one must either find a working philosophy or be doomed to adopt "their" ideology instead, and my experience shows that nothing is more destructive than buying into "their" ideology. For the most part, however, the version of the Advaita Vedanta (Non-Duality) message that I offer has been characterized by one protégé as being “Applied Advaita.”

Once mahasamadhi is taken and the consciousness unmanifests, there is no "one" that will remain to know anything or to "apply" anything. Whatever is understood along the "path" or "on the journey" can only be "relevant" now, during the relative existence.

As explained in other writings, that means that the non-duality understanding is about the Absolute to the point that Realization happens, after which the non-duality understanding is about the relative, about abiding sanely and logically. Again, the summative statement "I AM THAT; I AM" remains the same, both before and after Realization: the "I AM" is never removed from the summative statement.

Moreover, to suggest, as some do, that "nothing is real" is nonsense. All in the relative is energy / matter, and both are real. What can be said is that "nothing is as it appears to be to the non-Realized during the relative existence."

Maharaj spoke of freedom from body-mind-personality identification to those on the first three steps of the "path," but after that, he spoke of freedom from "learned ignorance" and from "stupidity" and from "insanity." All of those freedoms deal with functioning normally and naturally and sanely NOW ... DURING THE RELATIVE ... not later after the consciousness un-manifests.

As has been shown, freedom from insane behavior begins with freedom from insane words, and freedom from insane words begins with freedom from insane thoughts.

The treatment for insane thoughts? Taking the steps required that will generate a state of no-mindedness, of concept-lessness, of idea-lessness, of belief-lessness. The treatment for insane words? (1) Being aware and awake and conscious of what is actually being said and (2) preferably, saying far less in the first place. If talk happens, then conscientiousness with word usage is recommended.

If one must talk, then why else is meticulousness with word usage recommended? In the absence of Full Realization, any concepts that a person utters are generated by the fiction-filled “mind,” and utterances frame all of the misunderstandings that the non-Realized believe about the relative and also lead to all of the unnatural or nonsensical behaviors that can be witnessed as they happen across the globe.

For example, a local weather forecaster once reported that “our area is in for a bad week with the possibility of rain every day.” Never mind that the area had been in a drought for months, as is the case again now.

Never mind that vegetation and crops needed the rain. Never mind that the foundations of houses were cracking from shifts in the dry soil. According to his thoughts and words, an entire week was going to be “a bad one,” that assessment offered to an entire community by a person with preconceived notions (that is, with firmly-fixed, pre-conceptualized beliefs) about what makes a day “good” or “bad.”

Once such dualistic notions are applied not only to weather but also to spouses, neighbors, and “foreigners,” the roots of disharmony, fighting and even war become evident to the observant. It becomes clear how one can ignorantly declare that the populations of various nations are members of "an axis of evil."

Once the words “good” and “bad” have been introduced and stored as thoughts, then the basis of duality has been set in place. Once dualistic thinking begins to control what persons say and do, their vocabulary will undergo a near-limitless expansion and only dualistic words will be used to adumbrate their dualistic belief systems.

Thereafter, all people and states and nations - trapped in their dualistic beliefs - will be mentally divided and will be spoken of in terms of being either moral or immoral; right or wrong; righteous or evil; deserving to live or deserving to die. Then, an understanding of the no-concept, non-dual Reality is almost impossible.

Dualistic thoughts and dualistic words become the tools that the non-Realized use to fabricate illusory (but seemingly real) gulfs, splits, schisms, divisions, subdivisions, separations, hierarchies, and dreamed up multiplicities.

From that point, fluctuations and instability and disharmony mark the relative existence. Because the quiet is anathema among the non-Realized, dualistic words must be used to try to drown out the screaming thoughts coming from the disjointed, dualistic “mind.”

The preference for excessive levels of noise adumbrates the clamor and the pandemonium that occur in the “minds” of the non-Realized, and excessive levels of mouth-noise (a.k.a., talk via mind-language) is used to garner attention, to try to earn “love,” and to attempt unconsciously to support ego-states.

When thoughts and words inspire an egotistically-based “quest” for attention and illusory “love” and the sustaining of false identities, then persons will consider no alternatives and will undergo a restless, chaotic existence marked by the instability that was pointed to by the words of the post-Realization Advaitin called "Christ" when he said, “A dual-minded person is unstable in all ways.”

Nowadays, that could be modified to, “Minded persons are unstable in all ways.” Furthermore, their vocabulary will reflect that instability, and their actions will generate unsteadiness, insecurity, volatility, flux, and disharmony.

Those become the legacy of dualistic thoughts and dualistic words, passed down from one generation to the next, accepted as “normal parts of life” by persons who have also accepted unquestioningly that “that’s just the way it is and that’s just the way it has always been and that’s just the way it is always going to be.”

And for the masses who have been programmed and conditioned to accept by faith alone all of the dualistic nonsense that they have been told, with the threat of eternal pain and suffering awaiting those who do otherwise, a nisarga style of functioning will most likely never be found.

With unnatural or supernatural / magical thoughts leading to unnatural or supernatural / magical words, the result will be that the 95% or more of the masses who are prone to follow along in a sheep-like, sleep-like fashion—never questioning what they hear from “authorities”—will behave in an unnatural or supernatural/magical fashion.

Distorted beliefs and distorted thoughts will lead to the use of words that express distortions and which, in turn, will lead to destructive behaviors (relatively speaking) that further separate persons from Self and from peace and from freedom and from knowing the unicity and Love.

Therefore, the invitation is to utter none of the words and terms and phrases that are rooted in duality. With the use of words, practice impeccability, exactness, and accuracy. Begin to purge your self / selves of what Maharaj called the use of “mind-language” when he said:

“…Mind-language will talk only about the impressions it has collected. The knowledge ‘I Am’ is not a thought but observes the thoughts.”

By reaching on “the path” the two witnessing stages, the dualistic words and the dualistic thoughts that drive separatist deeds can be seen, and the seeing—the objective witnessing of nonsense—might lead to:

a completion of the entire seven-step “journey” to Reality; to a purging of cultural corruptions; and to replacing the use of mind-language with the use of a vocabulary that might be referred to as “The Vocabulary of Reality” or “The Vocabulary of Sanity and Non-Delusion.”

The purification process is complete when the “mind” is eliminated (which happens when the last belief in any concept or ideas ends.) "Surely" there can be no complete end to the "mind." I have to think of things."

To those, the pointers are (A) again, note that Maharaj said that even "I AM" is not a thought, and (B) just as one driving along a dry, hot highway need not eliminate a mirage in the road ahead to continue with one's journey (but needs only to see that it is a mirage and then ignore it), one need do nothing more to eliminate the "mind's" influence than to see that all of its content is also nothing more than a mirage that is to be ignored.

As with the weather forecaster - and with his listeners who never question his dualistic assessments and his telling them if they are going to have a "good" day or a "bad" day - believing that only a sunny day can be a “nice day" can corrupt your perception of the next rainy day and negatively shape your mood. From that, see then how such dualistic distortions can shape an entire "world" view.

Dissenters say: “But some of my concepts are about things that are beautiful.” Then it would follow that some others are not beautiful or that some are even "ugly." Welcome to the artificial "world" of duality.

Remember, Maharaj taught that all concepts take rise in you and you took rise from the dirt. Wherefore “pride” in the content of the “mind”? And if abandonment of unwarranted pride in the content of one's "mind" happens, then abandonment of unwarranted pride in one's words must, and will, necessarily follow.

Please enter the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)

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