Friday, December 15, 2006

THE END OF NISARGA YOGA?

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From a site visitor: i found your site after a long search. i read I AM THAT but it left me confused. I googled a term the editor used \"Nisarga Yoga\" to search for information to help me understand more, but none of the so-called \"Nisarga\" sites were really discussing what Maharaj talked about. Then on the fourth page of the google listings i found your site. It seems closer to what he said and cleared up some of the statements i didn\"t understand until now. i guess my question is, is \"Nisarga Yoga\" dying out? Are there other books or sites that offer \"pure\" Nisarga Yoga?

F.: Your conclusion seems accurate that these exact discussions have become a rarity. In fact, many have revealed that the continuity of the lineage (and message) as Maharaj "intended" has been broken. Now, reports show that only a personal message and a relative agenda is being delivered in a cloak of Nisarga Yoga. That debate will not be entered into here, but the veracity of that charge has been witnessed. As a result, many are claiming to be disheartened and discouraged. In fact, if that disheartenment or discouragement moves those seekers away from worship of a guru or away from an attachment to any outer resource, then the result will be an opportunity for those seekers to return to the true “path” that must be followed if they would Realize fully.

Nowadays, the only close neighbor to Nisarga Yoga in its purest form might be found among some adherents to the Jnana Yoga approach, but even that’s a stretch; otherwise, Bhakti seems now to dominate with all its talk of "worship of a god" and "connecting with a god" in order to get desires and hopes fulfilled and to gain some things thought to be positive and to avoid other things thought negative. Such teachings support duality, not non-duality. Then there is Raja and Karma and Kundalini and Hatha Yoga, and all the others. Even “Power Yoga” is now offered. More nonsensical concepts are being generated than are being eliminated, yet has that not been the case for thousands of years? The Original Understanding is being ignored while much of the focus today has been shifted to doingness even as the talk is about beingness. Talk of the non-beingness happens almost not at all. So it is.

With this turn of events, some like you have asked, “Is this the generation that will witness the end of the Nisarga approach, the end of the understanding as accessed via that approach?” The answer is “No.” Why? Because these alone—among all the teachings—are accessed via the inner resource, via the inner guru, not via any "holy" text or outer source. Dependence on a guru is still dependence. This approach is about being totally free of all concepts and about being totally free of all of the dependencies that concepts generate. For those seeking the truth, the inner resource will be available until the dissolution of this universe, and it will survive after that dissolution as well. In the meantime, some seekers will travel the world and climb to the tops of many mountains in their effort to associate with "famous Advaitans," but those futile efforts will not prevent other seekers from finding internally that which so many persons are seeking externally. Please enter the silence of contemplation.

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