Advaita Vedanta realization, enlightenment, nisarga yoga site discussing non-duality (nonduality), your original nature, and dwelling in the natural state as revealed by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.
F.: [Continued from yesterday] The remainder of this series is being cancelled. The invitation, repeatedly, has been to sit in the silence and in contemplation (for days or longer if necessary) in order to see if the pointers offered might apply;
instead, replies are being sent immediately to try to explain how the offered pointers do not apply. That behavior--that inability to sit in the silence and to consider pointers that some ego-state finds offensive or “wrong”--shows that personas are present that are not ready to forfeit the beliefs and concepts that are sustaining the illusions that they are.
When such persona-identification happens, the egotism that tries to defend such delusion reveals that your concepts are too firmly entrenched at this point for the readiness to manifest.
Thus, these final pointers will be offered to conclude the series:
1. Egotism, which is used to support all false roles, is also the force that inspires persons to stand in the dullness of the dawn while being convinced by that egotism that they are being bathed in the brightness of the noon-time sun.
2. The irony among non-Realized persons is that they can be an egomaniac on one hand while suffering from an inferiority complex on the other. That will motivate them to exert power in the workplace or in the community because they have assumed a subordinate role at home. They can be convinced that they know it all when there is really nothing at all to know.
3. To the contrary, there is only a great deal to un-know instead.
4. The “path” is unavailable to those not willing to question, and eventually cast aside, all concepts.
5. I, the re-purified consciousness, believe in no concepts or ideas or persons or personality. The books that are recommended in the “Advanced Seekers’ Package” are for those specks of Fully Realized consciousness that are ready for the Reality that exists even beyond Self-Realization. Before you were, there was a void. After any physical coming together of elements ends, there will be the void that remains. It is in that truest state of nothingness that no-concept abidance happens.
6. Since there is no do-er, there is nothing to do to begin the “journey” except to witness nonsense as nonsense; otherwise, one is no different from a man dying of thirst in the desert, certain that he is seeing something that is going to bring relief and that it is something other than a mirage.
He can run to his illusions and try to drink from an oasis of sand, even as a guide is pointing to the real waterhole nearly. Those lost in the concepts that support their belief in such illusions will ignore the water of enlightenment that is being presented, constantly chasing instead the next mirage or illusion that might offer something that will end the suffering and bring peace and happiness and joy.
7. It does not matter what “steps” persons might be using, whether their steps promise to “get them into contact with power and be of service to others” or to “move away from delusions and touch Reality,” specks of consciousness can be in a state of fluctuation.
The 12-Steppers who are so sure that they are fixated in 11 and 12 can instantly show signs of insanity that reveal they’re back at 2 and needing to be “restored to sanity.” Advaitin seekers can speak in a manner in one e-mail that suggests they are at Step Three, but the words they use later can show that they are still in a pre-step-one “mindset,” trapped in body identification.
8. Fluctuation is guaranteed in the relative, and fluctuation is guaranteed to those who do not know their original and true nature but accept as fact the concepts and beliefs that convince them that they are the body and mind and personality.
