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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.
A DEEPER LOOK AT SOME OF THE POINTERS OFFERED BY SRI NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ
At the request of some visitors, further discussion or explanation of some of the Maharaj pointers shared recently is being provided.
To continue with three quotations related to yesterday’s pointers:
5. “Out of my existence as the Noumenon has come this state of the phenomenal. The homogenous understands the play of the attributes, the projection of the mind, but the play, the projection of the mind, cannot understand the homogeneous."
The “homogeneous” is also referred to as “the unicity,” “the oneness,” “the singleness,” “Advaita” (a = “not,” dvaita = “two, thus, “not-two”), or “the non-dual.”
If a state of awareness is reached during the manifestation as a result of discarding all learned ignorance, then the homogeneous is understood. Understanding the unicity / the not-two-ness then allows for understanding the projections of the mind and for seeing the mind's nonsensical beliefs which can then lead to freedom from what Maharaj alluded to, namely, the “ignorance and stupidity and insanity” which is stored in the mind.
6. "Prior to taking this form, you were formless; spontaneously the form came, and when the form came there was a natural longing to return to the formless state. When you want to return to the formless, desireless state, then only you come here. The consciousness has to know the consciousness. When it realizes itself; then only do you return to normal."
As noted yesterday, the manifestation of conscious-energy within the space formed by an elemental plant food body (or within any other space in any other thing for that matter) happens spontaneously, automatically, naturally, and without cause or purpose.
The formless state refers to the “original nature,” meaning the state prior to manifestation. It was a desireless state (and also a fearless state) because there was no “one” there to desire or fear anything.
The “no one there” expression points to the fact that in the pre-manifested state, there is no aware-of-ness and no conscious-of-ness.
The potentiality for either or both of those to occur rests in the chance happenstance that a speck of consciousness / conscious-energy becomes pulled into a series of events which allows conscious-energy to manifest in a space which, in turn, facilitates an opportunity for conscious-of-ness to experience realization which can lead to aware-of-ness happening as well.
7. "The world is nothing but the picture of your own 'I' consciousness.”
Should conscious–energy manifest within a human version of a composite unity but involved human human never becomes totally awake, aware, and conscious, then a play will happen during which the mind never understands the homogeneous nor the unicity nor the oneness nor the singleness nor Advaita / the not-two nor non-dual.
(As one man reported recently, “So what. It's obvious that does not matter because we've see that such persons can now grow up to be the President of the United States.”
F.: “No argument from me there. Ha.”)
When freedom from belief in lies does not happen and when realization (the recognition of and discarding of all learned ignorance) does not happen, then persons will believe in a false image of “a world” and believe they know exactly what it is like as their minds take the false impressions and bogus perceptions which come from their blocked / “contaminated” consciousness as “the real.”
Then, as happens with the non-realized masses who habitually "upgrade and / or downgrade everyone and everything," they will take their belief in this imaginary world and will upgrade it and invent an imaginary "heaven" and believe in that or they will downgrade it and invent an imaginary "hell" and believe in that.
Then they'll spend an entire relative existence exhausting themselves with their religious workaholism or their spiritual workaholism in their efforts to try to earn the reward of an eternity in one as they try to avoid the punishment of an eternity in the other.
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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