Advaita Vedanta enlightenment, realization, nisarga yoga site discussing non-duality, nonduality, your original nature, and the means for dwelling in the natural state per Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.
FROM A SITE VISITOR: Just “found” Advaita and just found your site. Been reading some recent entries. Have dealt with the fallacy of the body idea. All these years, looking for peace of mind—never considered there’s no such thing, as you say. Makes sense now. Problems with personality though I don’t get yet. Can you give me in a nutshell something that would help me understand that and the Nisarga yoga you mention? Thx. Frank.
F.: Yesterday’s post offered this pointer:
Only is you truly understand all of the false beliefs regarding body and mind, beliefs that all persons (the non-Realized) think are true, can you be ready to discuss the relative dilemmas that are produced by belief in personality.
If it is not understood that there is an exact order to the process by which the manifested consciousness came to view the body and mind as self, then seekers will not be able to reverse out of being stuck in those misconceptions and move along the "path" and “find” the True Self.
Regarding this matter, Maharaj said, “…You should go back, reverse, to the source” and “Follow the path by which you came.”
Dennis Waite says, "As ever, in the philosophy of Advaita, the teaching is graded to suit the level of understanding of the student - and it is no use trying to 'jump levels' if we have not yet grasped the lower level principles."
He also says, "All levels of identification must be transcended and this should be done in a controlled and stepwise manner that has been validated through millennia of teaching. Attractive though it might seem, it is not possible to jump straight to the end."
When Maharaj advised seekers to “follow the path by which you came,” he was referring specifically to the path by which you came to believe that you are a body and that the content of your “mind” is truth and that you are the roles you play.
To be free of all three of those deceptions, you must take in an exact order the “seven steps” by which you and all persons came to be blocked from knowing THAT.
If you understand the hoax called the body and the hoax called “the mind,” only then can the hoax of personality be understood. Thus, Dennis cautions that you cannot “jump levels” on this “journey” of being free of believing in every hoax.
Many seekers want to “jump straight to the end” (often exclaiming in frustration, “Stop with all these pointers and just tell me who I am”). That is impossible. Each seeker must first find everything that he/she is not. Only then can an understanding of What You Are explode into consciousness.
Only then can you understand Your original nature; only then can you dwell in the natural (nisarga) state for the remainder of the manifestation of the consciousness; only then can attachment to ignorance and suffering and chaos end; only then can peace and joy happen. Please enter the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)
