"THE VISION" and "The Seven-Step Path," "The Three-Leg 'Journey'," "Reaching the Borderline," "The Gross, Subtle, and Causal Bodies," "Manifesting and Unmanifesting," and More, PART SEVEN

TODAY'S CONSIDERATIONS

[You are being invited to come along and join in as if you are a part of the "live action" that occurred years ago as the ultimate undoing of the mysteries unfolded and to "look over floyd's shoulder" as the final obscurities to knowing "the Real Floyd" were eliminated via the messages of the vision, allowing the understanding of the functioning of the totality to manifest. You are being given access into the consciousness "in real time" in order to see exactly how the understanding unfolded, step-by-step, as every part of the vision - and The Understanding - eventually became clear. What is being quoted (in green) are the revelations that were emanating from the inner resource - that is, via the pure consciousness . . . the inner guru - as the final blockages were falling away and allowing access to that which had always been known, within.]

The last post left off reporting that this question came after investigating the three birds and their symbolism and relevance: 

"So with these three birds representing different 'bodies' / 'stages,' might they also provide some simpler understanding of the very confusing and convoluted discussions about 'the gross, subtle, and causal bodies? Hummm." 

"No . . . wait. It's clear that the representation of the physical body or gross - the elemental plant food body - is presented prior to the birds: it's that body that's left outside the arch. That's the body-cum-consciousness which needs gross food, drink and air.

"But what about the subtle body? That's the vehicle of consciousness and the vehicle of desires and the vehicle that also houses the mind and intellect, so in the vision that would be the body walking through trees and across water. I know Maharaj said that body is 'created with the emergence of the ‘I am’ idea' and 'is momentary. Real when present, unreal when over.' 

"In the vision, that's also before the birds appear, so the birds aren't representing either of those 'bodies.' That leaves the causal body that many in the East consider to be a higher subtle body, beyond even the mental body that was seen moving through the arch. Seems I read that when belief in personality ends, the 'essence' of You is absorbed into the causal body . . . or shifts to the causal body form? 

"In the vision, that happens when the raven - when belief in the religious-spiritual self - comes to an end and is transformed into the gull. So that's where the birds come in. But I also read that there will eventually come an awareness of all 'others' and that there will no longer be anything 'seen' as another - as an 'other' - and that what will then seen is the unicity, Love, wisdom, bliss, everythingness, nothingness. 

"So that begins with the manifestation of the gull and comes into its fullness in the cave": 

To your left and to your right drift millions of forms, and on closer inspection, You see that they are . . . You! Each looks to be a clone maybe a transparent clone but a clone nevertheless of You! 

Then, it was recalled that Maharaj taught: " . . . there is something that may be called the memory body, or causal body, a record of all that was thought, wanted and done. It is like a cloud of images held together." 

At that point, what flashed into consciousness was "Jung" and "archetypes" and the genetic codes serving as a storehouse of images of the entire human experience." Then I went back to the readings and found this: 

Maharaj: " . . . what prevents the insight into one’s True Nature is the weakness and obtuseness of the mind and its tendency to skip the subtle and focus on the gross only." 

It became clear that the gross body is required for the manifestation of consciousness but that there's so much more to grasp beyond that. It also became clear that the focus and preoccupation with the gross body had to be transcended in order for any understanding of that which is beyond the physical only to manifest. Yet it was also clear that it was not the Am-ness that had to be forsaken but merely the tendency to focus on the gross alone. I searched for another passage that flashed into consciousness at that moment and found this: 

Maharaj: "Abandon all self-concern; worry not about your welfare, material or spiritual; abandon every desire, gross or subtle; stop thinking of achievement of any kind. You are complete here and now, you need absolutely nothing." 

"Yes! There it is. Confirmation of what I was concluding about the raven coming to end - bringing to an end the playing of the false religious and false spiritual roles. 'Worry not about . . . [the] material or [the] spiritual. Abandon it all!' Yes!" 

Then another passage flashed into consciousness and the readings were searched through again until this was found: 

Maharaj: "Your true being is entirely unself-conscious, completely free from all self-identification with whatever it may be . . . gross, subtle or transcendental" 

as well as this exchange: 

M: "Again, you take yourself to be the body." 

Questioner: "Even if I dismiss this body of bones, flesh and blood as not-me; still I remain with the subtle body made up of thoughts and feelings, memories and imaginations. If I dismiss these also as not-me, I still remain with consciousness, which also is a kind of body." 

M: "You are quite right, but you need not stop there. Go beyond." 

"Beyond the three bodies? Is that an invitation to go to the borderline, and then move even beyond that . . . to the void? To the nothingness?" Wow. This vision is packed chock full! So many of the final pieces of the puzzle which had been missing are now falling into place! Now to find where the borderline is . . . and what the borderline is." 

To be continued. 

Please enter into the silence of contemplation. 

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