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3. Here, with those who are still driven to talk about "God," the "Son of God," the "Holy Spirit," "Buddha," "Krishna," etc., etc., etc., the invitation to them is to view those as verbs, not nouns. See the end of the post for the full meaning and implications of that.
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[To continue with the look at "intellect" (the capacity for understanding) vs. "knowledge" / "learned ignorance" that clarified the role of the intellect and the uselessness of knowledge]
To review: turning back to the vision, it was seen that the capacity for understanding also still remains even as the crystal cave is crossed and as the trek up the steps to the dome is taken.
Then, this came: "The capacity to understand remains as long as the final vestiges of Awareness during the manifestation remain. That Awareness was able to see all of the universes and to know that the Awareness - just one of many specialized forms of energy - was present for all of those."
Then this: "Whoa! Specialized energy. That's all consciousness is . . . all that awareness is. Just a specialized form of energy (which does not suggest that either is "special" at all but merely denotes that they function in a unique manner - as do all forms of energy). "
Next, this: "At the most basic level, this scientific fact can be understood: all is energy-matter. Neither can be created. Neither can be destroyed. There's scientific proof that there's no creator! Nothing is created. Nothing have ever been created. Not 'this world / universe'; not 'planets and stars / suns'; not 'galaxies'; not a 'first man' and not a 'first woman.' Nothing has been created. "
Suddenly, this: "All is just like a human body: things coming together and thing coming apart. The ancients with their creator-sustainer-destroyer gods - which were rolled into one god by Abraham, coming up with what would amount to a schizo god . . . all fiction.
And THAT'S why in the vision the raven had to come to an end, and fairly early on during 'the journey': the body that carries about the belief that there's some spirit inside - something spiritual inside - that can develop 'a spiritual malady' - nonsense! Moreover, nothing is destroyed, and nothing has ever been destroyed.:
Then a question came: "But wait a minute. What about the lines wherein Maharaj spoke about creation and destruction?"
"All through the creation and dissolution of the universe, I remain ever untouched. I have not expounded this part: my state never felt the creation and dissolution of the universe. I am the principle which survives all the creations, all the dissolutions."
"So what did he mean? He must have really meant that he - a speck of the forever-existing energy non-dualists speak of - was actually there for the coming together of every universe and the coming apart of those that have come apart. There's another piece I haven't understood until now! I'm blown away by how much this vision is revealing!"
The revelations continued:
The capacity to understand remains even at the final stages of "the journey" discussed above; thus, it was concluded: "So the capacity for understanding remains even up to that final point in the vision."
Yet was it something beyond the intellect which felt or which grasped the earlier realization? The one that . . . millions of forms . . . are . . . You!
Then this came: "That capacity for understanding must have come via the inner resource, and that can only happens fully when the Awareness is in touch with ItSelf after the consciousness is re-purified. So the Awareness knew that it was moving back, closer and closer, second by second, to that no-place place (that no-specific-but-universal-'place') from which it had first come. So even then the 'intellect' had not yet 'subsided' but was working as one with Awareness."
The vision reported: There is only the slightest vestige of any you as you draw closer and closer to . . . You. "That sounds like subsidence of the intellect is finally beginning to happen at that point."
Here, it came that Maharaj had said, "World is experiential but 'You,' the Absolute, are non-experiential.' On the other hand, 'This 'you-are' experience has come . . .. "
He coaxed his listeners to go to the borderline, because he understood that it is at the borderline between THAT / the Absolute and the experiential, relative existence that Reality is discovered.
Maharaj: "The borderline between 'i am' (beingness) and 'i am not' (non-beingness) is the precise location where the intellect subsides. It is the Mahayoga state. Be there!"
So Reality can only be known during the manifestation and only if the consciousness has been unblocked and the Awareness is aware of ItSelf.
Then, I recalled how willingly I saw "the dissolution" - Nirvana - as millions merged with the light at the dome; and I saw how willingly I stepped forward. No fear. No trepidation. Just a pervasive sense that "everything is going to be okay." And upon "returning" to the relative post-vision / post-Realization existence via the third leg of "the journey," it was that sense of fearlessness and courageousness which manifested at that point (and which has prevailed ever since)
Maharaj spoke of that sense that came to him post-Realization, a sense of fearlessness and courage that comes when one finally understands what most will never understand. It became clear that that condition manifests because there is no longer "a fear of the unknown."
Then another question came? "Why?" And the answer came on the heels of the question: "Because there is no longer 'the unknown.' The functioning of the totality is clear. Here's the way Maharaj described it:
"I do not need convictions, I live on courage. Courage is my essence, which is love of life. I am free of memories and anticipations, unconcerned with what I am and what I am not. I am not addicted to self-descriptions, soham and brahmasmi ('I am He', 'I am the Supreme'); these are of no use to me, I have the courage to be as nothing and to see the world as it is: nothing. It sounds simple, but just try it!"
That's has also always been the invitation here: "Just try it!"
To be continued.
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Here, with those who are still driven to talk about "God," the "Son of God," the "Holy Spirit," "Buddha," "Krishna," etc., etc., etc., the invitation to them is to view those as verbs, not nouns.
THE EXPLANATION
If looked at as nouns, they point to illusions and are, therefore, a total waste of time to even discuss; if looked at as verbs which are resulting in certain sane but rare behaviors among humanity, then they are worthy of some attention during the relative existence.
Meaning? There are members of certain groups who say things such as "My concept of God in the past was of a weak God, an absentee God, A Santa Claus-type God, a mean, punishing, vindictive God, etc. Today, I am in close contact with a loving and caring God whom I worship and praise and glorify and give thanks to."
The reply to that usually goes like this: "If you are in contact with a God that wants to be worshipped and praised and glorified, then you're dealing with someone like yourself - a narcissist - and hanging out with narcissists will never bring an end to your narcissism (that narcissism evidenced by the fact that you think you are "godly").
Next, in the phrase 'loving and caring God,' any supposed God that truly had her or his act together would tell you that the totally irrelevant part of that phrase is 'God' and that the only part that is relevant is the "loving and caring" part.
"That is, a non-narcissistic god / goddess would say, "I care not an iota about being worshipped and praised and glorified by you or anyone else. How arrogant and insecure and needy would I have to be to want that? Forget the man-made, dreamed up noun 'God' and focus on the 'God as a verb' understanding and then go forth and let loving and caring be verbs - not adjectives - and let them generate the act of love and the act of caring and let those actions manifest through you."
Yeshu'a (Jesus) and Pope John Paul II and Pope Francis were spot on:
"No one shall ever see 'the kingdom of heaven.' It is within"
and
"Heaven and earth shall fade away."
--Yeshu'a (Jesus)
and
"Heaven and hell are not geographic places but are states of mind, nothing more than concepts dreamed up by men."
--Pope John Paul II
"There is no hell."
--Pope Francis, the current pope
[in an interview with journalist Eugenio Scalfari,
a writer used by the Pope to issue off the record
teachings
which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.
That said, would that the popes who have shown the courage to dispute a core principle of their institution's teachings - "there is no hell" - had found the additional courage required to question the continuing support of their institution in light of its centuries-long cover-up of their history of raping children and in light of the mental and emotional and psychological scarring of billions of their members past and present. And that need for courage also applies as questions need to be asked about why so many other sky cults are still being supported and allowed to continue to exist as well. When certain types of programming and conditioning have been shown to blind the masses, they should end. Will they? Not likely.]
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of the "Awakening Together" satsang session with Regina and Jacqueline referenced earlier, 18 MARCH 2018
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of that session.
