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2. 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 green text after today's post for the full meaning and implications of that.
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The point in this series is that the non-dual message has long been widespread but has seldom been understood either then or now.
ADDITIONAL QUOTES
from
SRI NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ
(continued)
RETURNING TO YOUR TRUE STATE / ORIGINAL STATE / NATURAL STATE
[Explaining why persons seem to grasp the understanding and then seemingly “lose” it]: “You are so used to the support of concepts that when your concepts leave you, although it is your true state, you get frightened and try to cling to them again.”
“ . . . You should go back, reverse, to the source.”
“Follow the same path by which you came.”
ON BELIEFS
"Whatever spiritual things you aspire to know are all happening in this objective world, in the illusion. All this is happening in the objective world. All is dishonesty. There is no truth in this fraud."
"After the information given to you by the mother, that you are a boy or girl, all your further acquisitions are by hearsay."
“When the birth is disproved, the great noble meaning of spirituality and the meaning of this world—everything—is disproved.”
"If you are not, can others be there?"
"Only that person will visit this place whose virtue and sin have come to an end."
"Both the mantra and the faith in the mantra will get dissolved."
“Whatever you have tried to understand during your spiritual search will prove false.”
“I have no faith in anything which has ever been told, not even what has been told by the Vedas. Only my own experience.”
ON “BENEFITS” AND “GROWTH” AND “DEVELOPMENT” AND “ADVANCEMENT” AND “IMPROVEMENT”
"There is no question of elevating to a higher level. Here it is only a question of understanding."
"There is no progress."
"First of all you identify something as being good or bad for yourself. Then, in an effort to acquire good or to get rid of the bad, you have invented a God. Then you worship such a God and . . . you pray to that God for something good to happen to you."
"Both experience and experiencer will disappear."
“You have some experiences and you try to benefit from them, but remember that whatever is going to be of use to you ultimately is going to harm you. Wherever there is use, there is also dis-use in this world of duality. Whatever you like is going to create harm for you. Whatever you like most is, in the end, going to be most harmful for you.”
"Go to zero concepts."
“I am stabilized. There is no going into samadhi, or coming down from samadhi. That is over.”
“People who depend on the intellect only always will be swinging like a pendulum.”
“At the time of the emotions, you were one with the emotions—you were not witnessing.”
"There are two witnessing stages."
ON UNDERSTANDING THAT ANY AND EVERY IDENTIFICATION IS FALSE
(including the "really great ones")
“That mind-language will talk only about the impressions it has collected. The knowledge ‘I Am’ is not a thought but observes the thoughts.”
[Emphasizing that you are not the body]: “When you travel in a car, are you the car?”
“ . . . You are the light.”
[I.e., the closest that one can come to clarifying what “THAT” is is to understand that “THAT” is – generally speaking - “the eternal, never created, always-in-existence compilation of energy / matter / elements, etc.” (none of which is either “special” or “Special” in any way).
Next, the truth can be known but cannot be stated, so to state “I AM THAT” is really not stating a truth but is merely using a term in the short run and only temporarily to point during a discussion towards what was, is, and shall be, specifically, the energy / matter which was not created and which has therefore always been, an understanding which ends any and all belief in a “creator” or “Creator.”
No parent has ever created a baby; parents engage in an act of friction which sometimes sets in motion a chain of events which only involves the recycling of elements that already were, are and shall be as opposed to making any “new elements.”
Maharaj: “If they come face-to-face with that root, they will be stunned into silence.”
Moreover, to follow “I am . . .” with any noun or adjective and to leave it at that is to state an outright falsehood.
Thus, though people will tell you that “Floyd has a daughter,” there is no belief here in the identity of “The Father,” much less “The Super Father.”
If one wants to argue that this composite unity called “Floyd” played a part in triggering a series of events which involved the recycling of things which already existed and which led to another composite unity having manifested, okay; however, if the notion of “father” is that "it was I who helped create another person,” that’s hogwash.
Even more ludicrous is assigning the label to refer to “a priest” who is supposedly functioning as a higher-level “parent or guardian or guide or man of God on earth,” a practice which compels all those dealing with him to assume the identity of “The Child.”
And the most ludicrous of all is the use of the label to refer to a “Creator” / “Super Father Figure” who has supposedly “made everyone and everything” and who really wants everyone to treat him like a father in charge of his brood – meaning all humankind and everything else to boot.]
Maharaj: “From birth what has made the body grow? It is no power in the world. It is the power of beingness: the atom, the consciousness . . . call it what you will.”
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"
--Yeshu'a (Jesus)
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 reject a core concept of their dogma - namely, "hell" - would find the additional courage required to question the very existence of their institution in light of the 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. Why?
Because what the masses think and say and do is most influenced by the international crime families which hold sway over the masses as criminals conduct their planet-wide operations. What are the major international crime families and which are the most influential and have the largest memberships?
The Mafia / La Cosa Nostra; the Catholic Church (with it 1.2 billion followers) whose Vatican Bank worked for decades with the Mafia while laundering mob earnings (for a 15% all-profit charge by the Bank); Protestant and Evangelical Churches (with over 1.2 billion followers) like the one I was raised in where the youth director molested and sexually assaulted young girls; big business which has long created environments in which people have been abused; powerful political bodies like the U.S. Congress, etc., etc., etc.)
With all of those crime families, neither the followers nor the leadership ever voluntarily step down or shut down their criminal activities. Be they gangs, organized crime families, religions, big business, politicians, etc., they all want control and they all want power and they all want money, and nothing internal will interfere with the driving forces at play.
The masses must demand that all those in charge must step down and their groups and institutions must shut down, and there's the real problem because the continuation of their crimes are enabled not as much by the people running such crime organizations as they are enabled by the masses of people who - wanting some perceived "payoff" - remain involved with them and give them money and support them and aid and abet the continued existence of those criminal enterprises and thus facilitate the ability of church criminals and political criminals and other types of criminals to continue to commit their crimes.]
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