From a site visitor: “You wrote: ‘But once Realization happens, the ‘I Am’ is seen for its worthlessness.’ If you’re saying the consciousness is worthless, I don’t get that at all.”
F.: If you are giving worth and value to the consciousness, you’ve failed to understand that the consciousness is a sickness that has been visited upon the food essence without choice. You're also revealing the fact that you're still fixated at the body-identification level, wanting to give the consciousness value since it is sustaining the body that you think you are (and since it is sustaining the "mind" that you probably take pride in as well). The consciousness is a limitation, no matter its condition, since it is the source of all concerns. Should you Realize and thereby be done with the consciousness, then you too can be free of concerns. The consciousness is also the source of all that is fraudulent but that is taken by persons to be truth. Stop valuing the consciousness and you stop valuing fraud. And the consciousness is the blight which serves as the carrier of all of the misery and suffering which plague persons in the relative existence. “What about the re-purified consciousness?” some have asked.
Even re-purified, the consciousness is still an impediment unless it understands itself fully, transitions itself fully, and thereby facilitates the understanding of—and the abidance as—the Absolute. The Fully Realized do not abide even in pure consciousness. You Are prior to consciousness. I Am prior to consciousness. Knowing that, where does any consideration of consciousneess enter the picture? (Again, this is for those proteges who are at a level that is prepared for Realization to explode into awareness. For others at the beginning of the "journey," focus on the I AM.) The Realized abide as the Absolute. The consciousness will depart the space at some point. Let it happen now if you would be free now. You must give up even that sense of “I-Amness” if you would be firmly fixed as the Absolute. If you still want consciousness to have some worth in the relative existence, then its worth can only be this, and this is relatively speaking: it is the vehicle by which you can be transported beyond consciousness and abide as the Absolute for the remainder of the manifestation. That will get you as close to any experience you'll ever have with "freedom" or "bliss"; however, since that will not satisfy you at the point you’re reached on the “journey,” consider some pointers regarding that consciousness which you value:
Consciousness have two facets, for the sake of discussion. Consider one “type” to be the consciousness of concepts; take the other to be the consciousness that has transcended concepts (or the “re-purified consciousness”). Evidence of the re-purified consciousness include: (1) it is free of desire and (2) it is free of role-playing. Persons who are into playing roles are still desiring, and it has been shown earlier that those desires (even among the religious or spiritual role players) are not about non-physical desires but are very much about body identification and the desire for body continuity and for body pleasures (as opposed to body pain) to be enjoyed in some “other realm.” And how long do they desire to experience body pleasures and avoid body pain and punishment? “Forever.” They have been deceived. Since there are no “experiencers” beyond the manifestation, there are no “experiences” either—painful or joyful. And since there are no doers even in the relative, there certainly are no “experiencers” in that pool of energy called “the Absolute.”
Persons who value the consciousness and its "purification" are far from Realized since the Realized have no desires. Along with having no desires, the Realized certainly have no desire to gain anything. Quite the opposite is the case. De-accumulation happens post-realization, not more accumulation. Persons, on the other hand, still want to gain something—usually “happiness”—but as long as conceptual consciousness remains, duality remains (since all concepts are dualistic). That means that happiness and unhappiness must both be experienced; therefore, as long as persons cling to that which other persons have dreamed up via conceptual consciousness, then they will believe that there is a “God” or “Brahman” that has created humans and that their human desires can be fulfilled by some powerful super-human entity residing in “another realm” but micro-managing the events in “this realm.” The result is chaos and instability as ego-states constantly shift from “experiencing happiness” to “experiencing unhappiness.” Persons on such a quest usually attain what they call "happiness" about 5% of the time and the other 95% of their time is spent in unhappiness...or in sheer boredom. Persons will challenge that pointer every time. They will claim that they "are too happy" and "are not depressed" and "are not anxious" and that they “have a great life.” That’s both self-deception and denial at work. If that were actually true, then 95% in the U.S. would not be addicted to something, as is the case, using something or doing something repeatedly in their efforts to escape their misery or dis-ease or boredom. What they do, not what they say, speaks loudest in revealing their actual condition and the actual condition of the consciousness. If they were able to recognize the true state of their condition, most would have sanely refused the birth if they had been given a choice beforehand. So much for "worthy consciousness."
To the contrary of their belief that there is a “God” or “Brahman” that has created humans, persons with desires have created “God” or “Brahman.” Why? Because personas are driven by two desires which they become addicted to: the primary desire is to be able to control while the secondary desire is the desire to have power…in order to control. To be free of conceptual consciousness is to be free of desires or a sense of “need” or “longing.” To be free of desires, needs, or longings is to be free of the desire to have control and power. And to be free of the desire for control and power is then to be free of concepts dreamed up by men who promise they can hook you up with a power that can provide to you an avenue for gaining control, be that power called “God”; “Brahman”; “G-d”; “Allah” (or any other the other 98 names given to their God by Muslims); “YHWH” or “Yahweh”; “El” or “Elohim”; “Ishvara”; “Jehovah”; “the Father”; “Svarog,” ad infinitum. And all of that nonsense has been generated by—or is being clung to by—persons who pride themselves for being engaged in their process of purifying the consciousness, “cleaning up their lives,” and “becoming better persons.” Via transcendent consciousness, even the “I Am” is not there, much less any man-made concepts about control, power, personas, lives, doership, happiness, unhappiness, being "better," or about “gods who have dominion over all” and that “meet needs and fulfill desires and longings…now and forevermore.”
For the most part, the conceptual consciousness can be gone, post-Realization. Can certain residue of it surface on occasion, prior to abiding altogether as the Absolute? Yes, but should that happen, what can follow happens at “the borderline”: the Pure Witness/Real Self can “emerge” from a state of dormancy, observe the residue as it rises and as it falls, and then cross over “the borderline” again and continue abidance as the Absolute. Eventually, even that can pass as fixation in the Absolute happens for the Fully Realized. Please enter the silence of contemplation. [To be continued]
F.: If you are giving worth and value to the consciousness, you’ve failed to understand that the consciousness is a sickness that has been visited upon the food essence without choice. You're also revealing the fact that you're still fixated at the body-identification level, wanting to give the consciousness value since it is sustaining the body that you think you are (and since it is sustaining the "mind" that you probably take pride in as well). The consciousness is a limitation, no matter its condition, since it is the source of all concerns. Should you Realize and thereby be done with the consciousness, then you too can be free of concerns. The consciousness is also the source of all that is fraudulent but that is taken by persons to be truth. Stop valuing the consciousness and you stop valuing fraud. And the consciousness is the blight which serves as the carrier of all of the misery and suffering which plague persons in the relative existence. “What about the re-purified consciousness?” some have asked.
Even re-purified, the consciousness is still an impediment unless it understands itself fully, transitions itself fully, and thereby facilitates the understanding of—and the abidance as—the Absolute. The Fully Realized do not abide even in pure consciousness. You Are prior to consciousness. I Am prior to consciousness. Knowing that, where does any consideration of consciousneess enter the picture? (Again, this is for those proteges who are at a level that is prepared for Realization to explode into awareness. For others at the beginning of the "journey," focus on the I AM.) The Realized abide as the Absolute. The consciousness will depart the space at some point. Let it happen now if you would be free now. You must give up even that sense of “I-Amness” if you would be firmly fixed as the Absolute. If you still want consciousness to have some worth in the relative existence, then its worth can only be this, and this is relatively speaking: it is the vehicle by which you can be transported beyond consciousness and abide as the Absolute for the remainder of the manifestation. That will get you as close to any experience you'll ever have with "freedom" or "bliss"; however, since that will not satisfy you at the point you’re reached on the “journey,” consider some pointers regarding that consciousness which you value:
Consciousness have two facets, for the sake of discussion. Consider one “type” to be the consciousness of concepts; take the other to be the consciousness that has transcended concepts (or the “re-purified consciousness”). Evidence of the re-purified consciousness include: (1) it is free of desire and (2) it is free of role-playing. Persons who are into playing roles are still desiring, and it has been shown earlier that those desires (even among the religious or spiritual role players) are not about non-physical desires but are very much about body identification and the desire for body continuity and for body pleasures (as opposed to body pain) to be enjoyed in some “other realm.” And how long do they desire to experience body pleasures and avoid body pain and punishment? “Forever.” They have been deceived. Since there are no “experiencers” beyond the manifestation, there are no “experiences” either—painful or joyful. And since there are no doers even in the relative, there certainly are no “experiencers” in that pool of energy called “the Absolute.”
Persons who value the consciousness and its "purification" are far from Realized since the Realized have no desires. Along with having no desires, the Realized certainly have no desire to gain anything. Quite the opposite is the case. De-accumulation happens post-realization, not more accumulation. Persons, on the other hand, still want to gain something—usually “happiness”—but as long as conceptual consciousness remains, duality remains (since all concepts are dualistic). That means that happiness and unhappiness must both be experienced; therefore, as long as persons cling to that which other persons have dreamed up via conceptual consciousness, then they will believe that there is a “God” or “Brahman” that has created humans and that their human desires can be fulfilled by some powerful super-human entity residing in “another realm” but micro-managing the events in “this realm.” The result is chaos and instability as ego-states constantly shift from “experiencing happiness” to “experiencing unhappiness.” Persons on such a quest usually attain what they call "happiness" about 5% of the time and the other 95% of their time is spent in unhappiness...or in sheer boredom. Persons will challenge that pointer every time. They will claim that they "are too happy" and "are not depressed" and "are not anxious" and that they “have a great life.” That’s both self-deception and denial at work. If that were actually true, then 95% in the U.S. would not be addicted to something, as is the case, using something or doing something repeatedly in their efforts to escape their misery or dis-ease or boredom. What they do, not what they say, speaks loudest in revealing their actual condition and the actual condition of the consciousness. If they were able to recognize the true state of their condition, most would have sanely refused the birth if they had been given a choice beforehand. So much for "worthy consciousness."
To the contrary of their belief that there is a “God” or “Brahman” that has created humans, persons with desires have created “God” or “Brahman.” Why? Because personas are driven by two desires which they become addicted to: the primary desire is to be able to control while the secondary desire is the desire to have power…in order to control. To be free of conceptual consciousness is to be free of desires or a sense of “need” or “longing.” To be free of desires, needs, or longings is to be free of the desire to have control and power. And to be free of the desire for control and power is then to be free of concepts dreamed up by men who promise they can hook you up with a power that can provide to you an avenue for gaining control, be that power called “God”; “Brahman”; “G-d”; “Allah” (or any other the other 98 names given to their God by Muslims); “YHWH” or “Yahweh”; “El” or “Elohim”; “Ishvara”; “Jehovah”; “the Father”; “Svarog,” ad infinitum. And all of that nonsense has been generated by—or is being clung to by—persons who pride themselves for being engaged in their process of purifying the consciousness, “cleaning up their lives,” and “becoming better persons.” Via transcendent consciousness, even the “I Am” is not there, much less any man-made concepts about control, power, personas, lives, doership, happiness, unhappiness, being "better," or about “gods who have dominion over all” and that “meet needs and fulfill desires and longings…now and forevermore.”
For the most part, the conceptual consciousness can be gone, post-Realization. Can certain residue of it surface on occasion, prior to abiding altogether as the Absolute? Yes, but should that happen, what can follow happens at “the borderline”: the Pure Witness/Real Self can “emerge” from a state of dormancy, observe the residue as it rises and as it falls, and then cross over “the borderline” again and continue abidance as the Absolute. Eventually, even that can pass as fixation in the Absolute happens for the Fully Realized. Please enter the silence of contemplation. [To be continued]
