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[Continued from yesterday]
So it was seen that Maharaj’s answer to “Why realize?” - namely, he said, “to be free of all learned ignorance” - is at the core of the overall treatment plan for the Ultimate Sickness.
It was also seen that in addition to that key reason for realization are a host of other symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness which are to addressed and eliminated.
Based on some feedback received yesterday, this was also seen by some among “the wise”:
The list made no mention at all of things dealing with “post-manifestation” happenings or with “things Noumenal.”
Well noted!
And that is the striking difference in the Direct Path, Nisargan Yoga approach to treating the Ultimate Sickness vs. everything else involving a “religious approach,” a “spiritual approach,” a “supernatural approach,” an “evangelical approach,” a “salvation-focused approach,” an “ideological approach,” a “philosophical approach,” a “SELF-Enquiry approach,” a “mystical approach,” or any other approach which is intended to inspire a zealous or fanatical or obsessive or fervent or over-enthusiastic or besotted affect.
And why is that? Because all of those other approaches focus on - and offer supposedly unassailable and unquestionable dictates about - “post-manifestation” happenings or “things Noumenal” which (in the absence of any science which most of those approaches dismiss or even condemn) have no basis in fact at all.
In other words, what they have to say about “post-manifestation” happenings or with “things Noumenal” is based in bogus, dreamed up beliefs recorded in myths and superstitions and tales and a huge body of ignorance which is passed down in a plethora of supposedly “holy” books.
No approach, save the Direct Path / Nisargan Yoga approach, focuses on (a) what can be proved and what can be understood about things phenomenal and (b) what can be proved - and disproved - via scientific facts about anything else.
Thus, there is no need to include in a treatment plan for the Ultimate Sickness (which only deals with the issues that humankind faces in the AM-ness) anything which also supposedly deals with whatever comes after the AM-ness.
To the contrary, every “religious approach,” “spiritual approach,” “supernatural approach,” “SELF-Enquiry approach” etc., etc., etc., focuses more on “post-manifestation” issues and concepts and dreamed up ideas.
Only the no-agenda Direct Path, Nisargan Yoga approach provides an understanding which differs from all of the other approaches which are agenda-laden.
[WHO will oppose that perspective? Those who believe that their focusing on the THAT-ness keeps them in touch with Some Special Self, such as "An Infinite Self," "A Supreme Self," "An Ultimate Self," etc.]
The summative statement of non-duality is “I AM THAT; I AM.”
In terms of “relevance,” the summative statement of the no-agenda Direct Path, Nisargan Yoga approach might be represented thusly:
[Let's test the validity of that consideration:
If you are married or have a mate, would you rather share all of the remaining years of your existence with (1) a spouse or mate who is just being, or with (2) a spouse or mate who believes that he or she is "A Supreme Self"? If the latter, then prepare for war under that shared roof.]
Also regarding that consideration, once Yeshu’a (“Jesus”) reached a non-dual understanding, he did not say: “When you speak of me, speak of me as THAT.” Instead, he said, “When you speak of me, speak of me as I AM.”
“I AM THAT; I AM.”
[Let's test the validity of that consideration:
If you are married or have a mate, would you rather share all of the remaining years of your existence with (1) a spouse or mate who is just being, or with (2) a spouse or mate who believes that he or she is "A Supreme Self"? If the latter, then prepare for war under that shared roof.]
Also regarding that consideration, once Yeshu’a (“Jesus”) reached a non-dual understanding, he did not say: “When you speak of me, speak of me as THAT.” Instead, he said, “When you speak of me, speak of me as I AM.”
Additionally, once Yeshu’a (“Jesus”) reached a non-dual understanding, he did not say: “Before Abraham was, I AM THAT.” Instead he said, “Before Abraham was, I AM.”
See, the THAT-ness, both prior to human manifestation and after human manifestation, always "takes care of itself" because it functions naturally and automatically and spontaneously.
Post-manifestation, there is no "one" that will have needed to take steps to “avoid eternal punishment” and there is no "one" that will have needed to take steps to “receive an eternal reward.”
Why?
The "non-dualist" Yeshu’a explained the curse of non-dual thinking:
“A dual-minded person shall be unstable in all ways.” That endorsement for realizing is about effecting change regarding what is now, not about anything which is going to come “later.”
As for the AM-ness vs. the THAT-ness, he explained: “Heaven and earth shall fade away”
and
“No one shall ever see ‘the kingdom of heaven.’ It is within.”
His focus, once he began sharing non-dual pointers, was on the AM-ness alone.
That is the “Advaitin approach” message, but there is also a science-based message which also proves the point above:
There cannot be any “one” post-manifestation to dodge punishment or earn reward because there is not even any “one” now.
What there is now is a composite unity consisting of an elemental plant food body, forming a space within, through which air comes and goes and through which conscious-energy comes and goes.
At the point of mahasamadhi, the elements will return to the universal pool of elements; the air will return to the universal pool of air; and the conscious-energy will return to the universal pool of conscious-energy.
Whatever happens to the no-you-ness and no-You-ness elements and air and energy after that will all happen naturally and automatically and spontaneously; therefore, what possible cause for concern can there be about anything post-manifestation or anything dealing with the THAT-ness? Among the sane and informed, there can be no such cause for concern.
Whatever comes from that which is mainly space and nothingness will simply return to that which is mainly space and nothingness.
Thus, yesterday’s list of the reasons to realize contained nothing about the THAT-ness because the THAT-ness is much ado about nothing. The post-manifestation “near-nothingness” has been erroneously inflated into “The really something / Something,” and that is the way it is with the “non-realized” masses in regards to everything else as well:
They take the illusions which they believe in - which are nothing more than images - and then upgrade them or downgrade them:
“The Wife” upgrades herself to “The Super Wife” and “The Husband” upgrades himself to “The Super Husband.” Again, prepare for war under those shared roofs.
Persons who believe in “this world” upgrade it into "another even better world" called “heaven” (or “Paradise, Elysian fields, Elysium, the Great Beyond, the Abode of the Dead, Olympus, Arcadia, the Home of the Gods, God's Kingdom, Valhalla, Asgard, bliss, abodes of bliss, Zion, Holy City, Nirvana, welkin, the Celestial City, the throne of God, the Land of Beulah, the Garden of Eden, the Happy Isles,” ad infinitum);
or,
they downgrade it into "another even worse world" called “hell” (or “rebirth to a lower form or the lower world, the infernal regions, Sheol, Hades, Tartarus, Gehenna, abyss, Tophet, Styx, Acheron, Dis, Cocytus, Avernus, Abaddon, Satan's Kingdom, abode of the damned, abode of the dead, everlasting fire, perdition, purgatory, limbo,” ad infinitum).
Persons do not constantly concern themselves with breathing or with making the heart pump 60 to 100 times per minute or with inflating and deflating the lungs in order to circulate oxygen, so why do they concern themselves so much with what supposedly comes with the post-manifestation THAT-ness state?
Because of nonsensical programming, conditioning, etc.
The invitation from Maharaj and here as well is to realize and be free of all learned ignorance.
The invitation is to realize in order to be able to enjoy a relative existence marked by wisdom and by freedom from foolishness and idiocy and by sanity and by reason rather than being marked and controlled unconsciously by “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity.”
The actual reasons for realization all deal with what is happening “now” during the IS-ness, during the AM-ness, not with whatever involves the THAT-ness which is guaranteed to happen in an automatic, spontaneous, and natural manner “later.”
The masses who have been deluded and thus fooled into focusing on “post-manifestation” happenings or “things Noumenal” cannot grasp that it is only the AM-ness which can be impacted and that the THAT-ness cannot.
In satsang, every session in the past began with a disclaimer that what is discussed here can be pointed to with the term “Applied Advaita.”
The non-dual understanding is to be “applied” now (even in the absence of any “Applier” or any "one" else) and is to be used to treat the Ultimate Sickness now (even in the absence of "A User").
As “The Only Reason(s) to Realize” are discussed, the reason(s) will all have to do with the AM-ness now, not with the THAT-ness later.
As Maharaj eventually made clear, that perspective calls for engaging in “(false)-self-inquiry” rather than in “SELF-Enquiry” or in "An Infinite SELF Enquiry," "A Supreme SELF Enquiry," "An Ultimate SELF Enquiry," or any other type of enquiry into "Special or Different Types of Selves."
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 their god / their 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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