FROM A SITE VISITOR: [Please see “Part One” of this series form the visitor's initial comments]
F.: For those who prefer the doingness and activities and disciplines and effort and work to "improve," as prescribed in some teaching methods and in some yogas, so it is; however, that all runs counter to living naturally (which is at the core of nisarga yoga) as opposed to living unnaturally and/or trying to live supernaturally.
F.: For those who prefer the doingness and activities and disciplines and effort and work to "improve," as prescribed in some teaching methods and in some yogas, so it is; however, that all runs counter to living naturally (which is at the core of nisarga yoga) as opposed to living unnaturally and/or trying to live supernaturally.
Unnatural living is marked by doing things repeatedly that are harmful or destructive. The following pointer posted earlier illustrates what supernatural living looks like:
Pray all the prayers that you think you need to pray; knell, bend over, stoop, or lie prostrate as much as you think you need to kneel, bend over, stoop, or lie prostrate; read all the “holy” books that you think you need to read; visit all the “sacred” sites or “sacred” men that you think you need to visit; chant or hum every chant or hum you think you need to chant or hum; ring every bell you think you need to ring; and burn every stick of incense that you think you need to burn. But when you are done with all of that, realize that you—and all persons who are fixated in a stage and are playing their religious or spiritual roles—are mistaking the dawn for the noon. Realize that praying and knelling and bending over and stooping and lying prostrate and reading and visiting and chanting and humming and ringing and burning (and every other external thing you try to use to be more spiritual or to try to demonstrate how spiritual you are) will actually block you from finding the truth which can only be found within after certain pointers are taken into quiet and solitary consideration.
Maurice Frydman wrote, “This dwelling on the sense ‘I am’ is the simple, easy and natural Yoga, the Nisarga Yoga. There is no secrecy in it and no dependence; no preparation or initiation is required. Whoever is puzzled by his very existence as a conscious being and earnestly wants to find his own source can grasp the ever-present sense of ‘I am’ and dwell on it assiduously and patiently till the clouds obscuring the mind dissolve and the heart of being is seen in all its glory.”
Combined with the Direct Path Method of teaching and then taken to its ultimate level, the nisarga/natural type of yoga can facilitate the re-purification of the warped consciousness and can free persons of their belief in supernatural nonsense and unnatural living as well. It is the only yoga that encourages persons to cast aside all false ideas and debilitating emotions and bogus beliefs and ritualized practices and formalized movements and to simply live naturally.
Granted, several years ago, “floyd” became involved in certain actions in order for some cancerous growths to be purged, but once those were removed, no one suggested that the hospital should still be visited on a daily or weekly basis forever or that the doctor be called regularly to discuss issues. Similarly, once the contaminated consciousness has been purged, nothing need happen except spontaneous, natural living for the remainder of the manifestation. No regular visitations to religious or spiritual meetings are required; no need exists that would require visiting a teacher or "holy" man on a daily or weekly or annual basis. At that ultimate level of re-purification, the Realized can see in nature the perfect models of AS IF living; by contrast, the non-Realized look to an illusory “world” and emulate the illusory personas who erroneously believe that they reside therein.
It can be seen, if one reviews carefully the six postings on the various teaching methods and the varied yoga approaches, why the Direct Path Method and the nisarga yoga approach are employed on this site: first, during all those tiresome years of searching which never resulted in any finding, all of the major books deemed “holy” were read and studied; without avail. The teachers who used that method could only advise, “Well, keep reading the holy books and keep studying them and keep praying for as long as needed and always have faith in the Lord. Eventually, your life will get better.” It did not happen.
Secondly, all of the lofty and inspirational platitudes were read and savored. While they might have resulted in a short-term sensation or in a fleeting feeling of encouragement or in feeling “good” for a brief period, they brought no permanent shift in consciousness. They did not purify the consciousness; they further contaminated the consciousness. The advice from some using that method of teaching was to “keep studying and reading these positive comments and eventually you will feel positive as a result.” That did not happen; instead, more duality was ingrained with their “positive vs. negative” concepts.
Third, all of the advice to “just be yourself…your Real Self…now go” brought about no lasting shift since the false selves were not first seen and discarded. If any of those methods work for others, so be it, but for this speck of consciousness that had been warped, only the Direct Path Method finally brought an end to all of the unnatural, self-destructive living that had been inspired by personality. Furthermore, only the nisarga yoga approach finally brought an end to all of the work and effort and doing that is involved with a supernatural style of living, specifically, the…
…reading, praying, imploring, kneeling, studying, chanting, humming, pleading, ringing, burning, meeting, supplicating, tithing, serving, soliciting, wishing, hoping, proselytizing, begging, forming circles, joining groups, beseeching, giving, holding hands and reciting words in unison, ad infinitum.
Only The Direct Path Method and the natural approach resulted in total freedom and total independence. Post-Realization, there is no dependence on scriptures, on a god, on multiple gods, on persons, on possessions, on practices, on platitiudes read daily to try to “pick up the spirits” time and time again, on disciplines, on working at “improving,” on working to gain “power,” on avoiding this or on seeking that, on co-dependent role players, on praise, on criticism, on reinforcement by persons, on thoughts, on drives, on a "mind," on personality, on concepts, on more teachings, or on adherence to any rules and regulations and tenets and traditions and dogma or principles.
To the contrary, natural living happens spontaneously and there are no needs, period. Additionally, there are no desires such as those that drove all thinking and behavior during the pre-Realization days. Ironically, though no disciplines or dogma are involved at all, a manner of living that some persons trapped in duality would classify as “moral” just happens automatically among the Realized who no longer behave in an unnatural (or destructive or self-destructive) fashion.
So, those are the methods and the approaches that are employed by Advaitin teachers. To site visitor Greg, it should now be clear why the Advaita Vedanta teachings “all seem like one contradiction after another,” to use your words. With the various methods that may be used and that may or may not be combined with certain of the many yoga approaches, contradictions will occur. Note, too, that seeming contradictions will occur no matter what method is used because pointers offered to beginners will differ from those offered to seekers that are farther along the “path.”
Also presented were the reasons that the Direct Path Method is employed, along with the natural yoga approach, on this site. Finally, the fact that this speck of consciousness remains manifested in the temporary space called “floyd,” combined with the fact that no “mind” any longer exists, prevents any thought at all from arising in regards to persons who choose another method or who choose no method at all, which will be the case among 95% or more of all persons on the planet. That absence of thought or judgment, too, is the result of the Full Realization that happened via the Direct Path Method and via the Nisarga Yoga approach that are offered on this site, in the books available through this site, and in satsanga when arranged at the request of some seekers. Please enter the silence of contemplation.
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Pray all the prayers that you think you need to pray; knell, bend over, stoop, or lie prostrate as much as you think you need to kneel, bend over, stoop, or lie prostrate; read all the “holy” books that you think you need to read; visit all the “sacred” sites or “sacred” men that you think you need to visit; chant or hum every chant or hum you think you need to chant or hum; ring every bell you think you need to ring; and burn every stick of incense that you think you need to burn. But when you are done with all of that, realize that you—and all persons who are fixated in a stage and are playing their religious or spiritual roles—are mistaking the dawn for the noon. Realize that praying and knelling and bending over and stooping and lying prostrate and reading and visiting and chanting and humming and ringing and burning (and every other external thing you try to use to be more spiritual or to try to demonstrate how spiritual you are) will actually block you from finding the truth which can only be found within after certain pointers are taken into quiet and solitary consideration.
Maurice Frydman wrote, “This dwelling on the sense ‘I am’ is the simple, easy and natural Yoga, the Nisarga Yoga. There is no secrecy in it and no dependence; no preparation or initiation is required. Whoever is puzzled by his very existence as a conscious being and earnestly wants to find his own source can grasp the ever-present sense of ‘I am’ and dwell on it assiduously and patiently till the clouds obscuring the mind dissolve and the heart of being is seen in all its glory.”
Combined with the Direct Path Method of teaching and then taken to its ultimate level, the nisarga/natural type of yoga can facilitate the re-purification of the warped consciousness and can free persons of their belief in supernatural nonsense and unnatural living as well. It is the only yoga that encourages persons to cast aside all false ideas and debilitating emotions and bogus beliefs and ritualized practices and formalized movements and to simply live naturally.
Granted, several years ago, “floyd” became involved in certain actions in order for some cancerous growths to be purged, but once those were removed, no one suggested that the hospital should still be visited on a daily or weekly basis forever or that the doctor be called regularly to discuss issues. Similarly, once the contaminated consciousness has been purged, nothing need happen except spontaneous, natural living for the remainder of the manifestation. No regular visitations to religious or spiritual meetings are required; no need exists that would require visiting a teacher or "holy" man on a daily or weekly or annual basis. At that ultimate level of re-purification, the Realized can see in nature the perfect models of AS IF living; by contrast, the non-Realized look to an illusory “world” and emulate the illusory personas who erroneously believe that they reside therein.
It can be seen, if one reviews carefully the six postings on the various teaching methods and the varied yoga approaches, why the Direct Path Method and the nisarga yoga approach are employed on this site: first, during all those tiresome years of searching which never resulted in any finding, all of the major books deemed “holy” were read and studied; without avail. The teachers who used that method could only advise, “Well, keep reading the holy books and keep studying them and keep praying for as long as needed and always have faith in the Lord. Eventually, your life will get better.” It did not happen.
Secondly, all of the lofty and inspirational platitudes were read and savored. While they might have resulted in a short-term sensation or in a fleeting feeling of encouragement or in feeling “good” for a brief period, they brought no permanent shift in consciousness. They did not purify the consciousness; they further contaminated the consciousness. The advice from some using that method of teaching was to “keep studying and reading these positive comments and eventually you will feel positive as a result.” That did not happen; instead, more duality was ingrained with their “positive vs. negative” concepts.
Third, all of the advice to “just be yourself…your Real Self…now go” brought about no lasting shift since the false selves were not first seen and discarded. If any of those methods work for others, so be it, but for this speck of consciousness that had been warped, only the Direct Path Method finally brought an end to all of the unnatural, self-destructive living that had been inspired by personality. Furthermore, only the nisarga yoga approach finally brought an end to all of the work and effort and doing that is involved with a supernatural style of living, specifically, the…
…reading, praying, imploring, kneeling, studying, chanting, humming, pleading, ringing, burning, meeting, supplicating, tithing, serving, soliciting, wishing, hoping, proselytizing, begging, forming circles, joining groups, beseeching, giving, holding hands and reciting words in unison, ad infinitum.
Only The Direct Path Method and the natural approach resulted in total freedom and total independence. Post-Realization, there is no dependence on scriptures, on a god, on multiple gods, on persons, on possessions, on practices, on platitiudes read daily to try to “pick up the spirits” time and time again, on disciplines, on working at “improving,” on working to gain “power,” on avoiding this or on seeking that, on co-dependent role players, on praise, on criticism, on reinforcement by persons, on thoughts, on drives, on a "mind," on personality, on concepts, on more teachings, or on adherence to any rules and regulations and tenets and traditions and dogma or principles.
To the contrary, natural living happens spontaneously and there are no needs, period. Additionally, there are no desires such as those that drove all thinking and behavior during the pre-Realization days. Ironically, though no disciplines or dogma are involved at all, a manner of living that some persons trapped in duality would classify as “moral” just happens automatically among the Realized who no longer behave in an unnatural (or destructive or self-destructive) fashion.
So, those are the methods and the approaches that are employed by Advaitin teachers. To site visitor Greg, it should now be clear why the Advaita Vedanta teachings “all seem like one contradiction after another,” to use your words. With the various methods that may be used and that may or may not be combined with certain of the many yoga approaches, contradictions will occur. Note, too, that seeming contradictions will occur no matter what method is used because pointers offered to beginners will differ from those offered to seekers that are farther along the “path.”
Also presented were the reasons that the Direct Path Method is employed, along with the natural yoga approach, on this site. Finally, the fact that this speck of consciousness remains manifested in the temporary space called “floyd,” combined with the fact that no “mind” any longer exists, prevents any thought at all from arising in regards to persons who choose another method or who choose no method at all, which will be the case among 95% or more of all persons on the planet. That absence of thought or judgment, too, is the result of the Full Realization that happened via the Direct Path Method and via the Nisarga Yoga approach that are offered on this site, in the books available through this site, and in satsanga when arranged at the request of some seekers. Please enter the silence of contemplation.
THE 15% OFF SALE ITEM FOR THIS WEEK IS CASTING LIGHT ON THE DARK SIDE OF RELATIONSHIPS. FOR INFORMATION:
