TODAY'S CONSIDERATIONS
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Yesterday:
Understand what is actually to be understood and there will be no further need for rationales, routes,. seeking, perceived problems, that which is "effective" or "not effective" and endless, energy-consuming, energy-wasting seeking.
How can that happen?
By being guided to a way to be free of the influence of the manifested conscious-energy and to abide as your original nature as unmanifested awareness-energy.
The difference? That tomorrow.
Today, further explanations of the the way that an understanding of science proves that beliefs about "you-ness" and the You-ness" are complete fallacies. (This post is longer than usual, but all of the steps in today's reasoning process being laid out call for their being combined as one and considered in one sitting, or more.)
Maharaj said: "Awareness is primordial; it is the original state, beginning-less, endless, uncaused, unsupported, without parts, without change. Consciousness is on contact, a reflection against a surface, a state of duality. There can be no consciousness without awareness, but there can be awareness without consciousness . . . ."
To understand the consciousness / awareness "linkage," consider these examples. In the first, note the water / ice linkage:
Water has the potential to be formed into the shape of an ice cube; however, if not exposed to the temperature at which water freezes, then "an ice cube" shall not manifest.
Similarly, there can be water without freezing, but there can be no cubes without frozen water.
Similarly, there can be awareness (or the universal pool of aware-energy), but there can be no conscious-energy except when aware-energy is pulled into manifestation within an elemental body.
In the second example, consider the potential energy in a flashlight (Br., "torch") and the manifested light-energy when it is turned on.
A flashlight sitting on a table and turned off still has energy within, but then, if switched on, it can function and provide a different type of energy outside the flashlight. The light has the potential to cast light, but unless certain things happen in a certain order that will not happen. Same with awareness and the manifestation of conscious-energy.
Awareness, not confined within any specific space in its original state, has the potential to manifest within a space in the form of conscious-energy / consciousness. In its original state, it is not aware-of and is not conscious-of. It is merely energy with a potentiality. If the manifested conscious-energy (which is always blocked via programming, conditioning, etc.) is unblocked, then there can be a consciousness of awareness and awareness can also then be aware of itself. Post-manifestation, there will be no conscious-of-ness and no aware-of-ness (as was the case prior to manifesting).
Many seek the single-word answer to the question, "Where were you prior to conception?" The fact: there is no single-word answer. This "you" that supposedly people are seeing or talking to is a composite unity comprised of an elemental plant food body (with elements constantly coming together and coming apart); the manifested conscious-energy within (which is manifesting within the body but then leaving the body and requiring new replacement quantities of said energy in order to be, to function, and to "live"); and the oxygen which continuously circulates in and out as well.
So the presence and combination of three parts require three answers to where those parts were prior to conception.
The elements were on planet earth; the oxygen was in the earth's atmosphere; and the conscious-energy was in that universal pool of energy which was, prior to manifestation, free-ranging awareness-energy which has no ability to be aware of unless manifested as consciousness within a confined space or composite.
If manifested in a confined space or composite, then awareness-energy for the sake of discussion can be called "conscious-energy" or "consciousness" which has the potential to be conscious-of.
Again, should the conscious-energy within that space realize (that is, become freed of learned ignorance and come to understand the functioning of the totality), then consciousness can become conscious of awareness and awareness can become aware of itself. As what? As the composite unity's original nature, which was a quantity of energy which was not manifested within a confined space and which - as a result - had no ability to be aware of anything.
So much for any bogus belief in some version of a composite unity existing post-mahasamadhi, be that version a "soul," "a spirit," "a ghost," "an angel," or anything else dreamed up by ignorant persons thousands of years ago.
What exists post-manifestation is the awareness-energy / THAT which returns to the universal pool of energy wherein it will once again not be aware of anything, including the awareness itself. Nor are the formerly-manifested specks of consciousness which were present within the composite unity at the time of the taking of mahasamadhi any longer conscious of anything else or itself, either.
Nor do the billions of specks of energy which were introduced into the composite unity via the eating of elemental plant food (or things which consumed elemental plant food) move along with the three parts of the composite unity as they return to the universal pools of elements, oxygen, and conscious-energy.
The elements came and went for the entire manifestation, helping form a plant food body for a time but then moving away and being replaced by other plant food cells which were consumed and converted into human cells; the oxygen came and went throughout the entire manifestation, circulating into and then out of the body space; and conscious-energy came and went throughout the entire manifestation, quantities of said energy being "used up" and then replaced via the consumption of conscious-energy-bearing plants or things which had eaten such plants.
Were the same conscious which manifested originally always present within the composite unity, then no one and no thing would ever have to eat again. To the contrary, specks of conscious-energy constantly come and go, entering the space and existing the space. At the point when mahasamadhi is taken, whatever conscious-energy might be present at that moment will exit one last time, slowly. Thus, after Yeshua ("Jesus") heard and began sharing certain non-dual pointers, he said, "Heaven and earth shall fade away."
That is, eventually, "heaven" and "earth" will be no more because they are nothing more than concepts dreamed up by men and believed in by those who listened to those men and who repeated what those men and thousands of subsequent generations have passed down to others.
But why "fade away?" Because after the taking of mahasamadhi, the "gross body" (the one which provides the elemental part of the composite unity and provides a space in which conscious-energy can manifest and through which oxygen can circulate) shifts to stages which can be called for the sake of discussion the "subtle body" and the "causal body."
One-hundred percent of the consciousness manifested within a composite unity at the time of the taking mahasamadhi does not exit the gross body instantly. It "fades away." (Ever heard anyone say they "they felt they "died" but hovered above their body - the 'gross body' - and watched as rescuers tried to revive them?" That was not the remains of a gross body watching itself but was the consciousness fading away in its transitional forms. Should the consciousness of the "patient" be restored, the "life" might continue to another day because all of the conscious-energy had not departed the gross body instantly..
Similarly, at the point of mahasamadhi, any concepts which any composite was conscious of at that point shall also just fade away. Why? They were all nothing more than the product of the blocked consciousness, mere mirages, all leaving the gross body's mind because they were nothing but dreamed up notions to begin with.
The key point is this:
none of the three components of the composite unity triad (the ever-circulating elements, the ever-circulating oxygen, and the ever-circulating conscious-energy) ever remain as a part of the ever-evolving, ever-changing composite unity for even a day, much less for a lifetime, much less for eternity.
How the masses misunderstand that! It would be as if a bomb were to fall on a stone house and shatter it into a million tiny stones, only to have a human come along and pick up one stone and lift it into the air and tell anyone and everyone who would listen to him, "Behold, I have in my hand the house which once stood right here on this very spot."
No-the-hell you don't. Nor can anyone correctly claim that whatever "their seventy-year-old composite unity" might be during the seconds prior to taking mahasamadhi, it contains all of the oxygen which earlier moved through that space and all of the elements which made up that space and all of the conscious-energy which came into that space and then left that space. Those parts came and went throughout the manifestation for a number of times which would be in the millions and billions.
All of those parts came and went constantly, so nothing that was there one day is there the next. If you have the collection, look at your school pictures taken during the first twelve years of enrollment and see what they are showing: there is no "you" that can be defined as "this . . . as 'this is me," because one second this is the composite unity supposedly known to others (and maybe to "yourself") as "you" but it is not the same composite unity as a second before.
You might as well claim that the hairs on your head are the same hairs which have always been in view for people to see. No they are not. Hair follicles resides in the skin and generate the shafts which are the parts that are visible above the scalp.
Your hair has been growing (and the shafts have been dying) forever, unless one of your mother's gene set up up for baldness. The part you see is made of layers of protein, but the protein is dead. That is why barbers and hair stylists to not have to anesthetize their clients before cutting their hair. It is dead and cannot feel any sensation.
So much for capitalist advertisers who claim their shampoo and conditioner products will make your hair "vibrant," which mean "alive, full of energy." Again, no-the-hell they can't do that. Hair shafts are dead and cannot be resuscitated by any product. And if a gross body is accurately deemed to be dead, it cannot be resuscitated by anyone or Anyone or any Power or any Supreme Being.
The hair you see this month is not the hair you saw last month, and the gross body and its outer skin which you see in the afternoon is not the same gross body you saw in the mirror before leaving home this morning.
If there were a "me" (which there is not), then one speaking of that "me" - if accurate - would have to saw, "This is me. No wait . . . now this is me. No wait . . . now this is me. No wait . . . now this is me," revising their truth every second. And that would have to continue right up until the manifestation ends.
People ask, "When you came to this understanding, weren't you devastated by fear, knowing that this is all there is and when you're gone that's the end?" Of course I laugh, very hard and very loud. Then I respond:
"If you like the steaks at your favorite restaurant and are then told by the owner that he's retiring and will be closing, would you not go there often during the restaurant's final days and would you not absolutely savor each and every meal you could eat for the remainder of time that is available to you?
"The case with me is the same: Understanding that "this is all there is" inspires me to enjoy what remains, NOW. It leads me to savor absolutely each and every remaining moment that is available."
The focus is on NOW, not on some dreamed up "later" in some dreamed up upgraded world ("heaven") or in some dreamed up downgraded world ("hell") or in some dreamed up series of lives and incarnations to come and not in some dreamed up Celestial Brothel with 72 virgins and thousands of wives and thousands of whores to pleasure a dreamed up gross body which can survive the taking of mahasamadhi only in someone's dreams or delusions or distortions.
And that is the closest that realization can come to providing any 'benefit." the freedom to enjoy each moment, freed from the effects of learned ignorance and / or imposed insanity.
Maharaj made clear that realization is what leads to a free-of-all-learned-ignorance state which one enters into and abides in for the remainder of the manifestation if truly and fully realized. That requires truly and fully discarding all beliefs, period, understanding that they were all just so much dreamed up nonsense in the first place.
To understand scientific facts and truth, Maharaj made clear, is the prerequisite for understanding the functioning of the totality and thereby being free of all of the dreamed up nonsense which has been passed down, including dreamed up nonsense about "the better or worse worlds which are awaiting you, for eternity"; about "Heavenly Whore Houses";
about continuous incarnations and reincarnations which one must find a way to break out of; about males becoming gods of their own worlds and whispering their wives' secret names and pulling them through slits in veils, supposedly the only way by which women can enter into heaven; and about thousands of other beliefs about what happens to gross bodies / composite unities which supposedly exist post-manifestation but cannot.
Do you see why fanatics who try to use dogma or spirituality to control your thoughts and words and actions find scientific facts abhorrent? Do you see why dictatorial politicians who want to have absolute control over the masses hate the truth and the free press and non-religious universities and the wisest among the masses and instead prefer lies which tap into the fears of the masses which are rooted in the personal identifications which they have been assigned or which they have assumed?
And do you see why Maharaj turned away from versions of the Ultimate Medicine which combined either dogma and non-dual pointers or combined spirituality and non-dual pointers and told people to ignore those and pay attention to pointers rooted in the sciences of psychology and physical cosmology and its branches of physics and astrophysics which address the actual roots of the Ultimate Sickness, namely, the programmed and conditioned and domesticated and indoctrinated and acculturated and brainwashed mind along with countless other distorted beliefs about the cosmos?
Finally, let it be clear that an adept guide can reveal the truth in understandable terms, so those with OCD and those trapped in fanaticism need not succumb to the influence of those drivers if seeking freedom from learned ignorance and reaching a state of full realization. One does not need a doctorate in psychology or physical cosmology or physics or astrophysics to understand how to discard nonsensical concepts and notions and ideas (a.k.a., "beliefs").
As I heard one "non-dualist" explain years ago, "“The point is to wake up, not to earn a Ph.D. in waking up.”
See? Easy peasy. No Master's Degree required, and no Doctor's Degree required. No dogma required. No supposedly holy tests required. No lifetime of visiting supposedly holy sites required. No daily spiritual exercises required. No wailing wall required. No prayer blankets required. No incense required. No special pillows with special bowls to be struck with special sticks required.
No special garments required. No accoutrements required. No special buildings required. No special hair cut required. No priests or ayatollahs or preachers or rabbis or lamas required. No government required. No lifetime of seeking and going and doing and zooming required. No kneeling-rising-kneeling-rising required. No crosses required. No gourd rattlers required. No chants required.
No killing of non-believers required. No killing of infidels required. No special food plan required. No speaking in foreign tongues and rolling around on the floor required. No cult or sky cult required. No exposure to sexual abuse by religious leaders required. No being struck on the forehead and swooning in order to be healed required. No work, work, work and endless doingness required. And no judging and punishing others required.
Just wake up to the lies and then wake up to the truth.
As Maharaj explained, the process here is really is so very simple, especially when compared to all of the other methods being used out there.
To be continued.
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