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HOW TO (AND WHAT TO) REALIZE
Recent posts have focused on the first three steps on the “path,” inviting seekers to move beyond body and mind and personality identifications and return to what is the fourth step on the path to reversing out of all of the relative damage that has been done via ignorant and insane programming, conditioning, etc.
In explaining how the body-cum-consciousness came to be, Maharaj invited seekers to understand (1) what was happening prior to the manifestation and how a simple act of friction set off a chain of events which involved nothing more than the cycling of elements and air and energy and to understand (2) what was happening with the awareness-energy which manifested as conscious-energy within the framework which came about as a result of an act of friction and the transformation of plant cells into humans cells and the cycling of elements and air and conscious-energy.
So what did he explain is what is to be realized next about the “prior to manifestation” state? Namely, this:
U. "Out of my existence as the Noumenon has come this state of the phenomenal”
and
"My true state, which is whole, undifferentiated, is beyond birth and death. I am never bound by my body and mind. I am limitless."
Maharaj also explained: "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, to seek what you are. The consciousness has to know the consciousness. When it realizes itself, then only do you return to normal”
and
“Before this knowledge ‘I Am’ appeared on you, you were absolutely unattached. As soon as the knowledge dawned on you, you became attached to everything around you. Only that false ‘I’ is attached. Everything is just happening, and the false ‘I’ is taking the credit for doing things.”
More will be discussed later about that “prior state,” but for now, the key point which is to be realized involves understanding what happens post-manifestation that sets persons up to need the Ultimate Medicine to treat the Ultimate Sickness and its ultimate distortions and delusions and illusions and ignorance and insanity:
V. In the days after being pulled from that prior state and moving through the “coming in” leg which results in "the manifestation of consciousness" within a composite unity, what is to be realized is that programmers and conditioners erroneously referred to the framework or the composite unity as “you” - leading to a belief that the composite unity or the framework or the physical body really is you.
Since, per Maharaj, “realization” is merely a process by which persons can become freed from believing all of the learned ignorance which they have been taught, then the first three steps on “the path” each focus on one of the three main sets of lies, distortions, misunderstandings, falsehoods, etc. which make up a large part of the nonsense stored in each human mind (if not realized).
So the first step deals with being freed from beliefs involving body identification.
To review:
REGARDING “THE BODY”
For the sake of discussion, the “you” is that which was in a prior state, prior to manifestation; that which is but is not understood by the masses; and that which shall be post-manifestation, all devoid of body or mind or personality when unmanifested and capable, via full realization, of being free of body identification and a corrupted “mind” and belief in personas while manifested.
[In response to one who claimed that he "has had the same body" for "his entire life"] the reply was:
"Billions and upon billions of cells involved with what you call “your adult body” have 'come and gone,' so with the exception of a few organs, a chain of bodies that you took to be you has 'come and gone.”
That is, skin cells have been replaced every 28 days; stomach cells have been replaced every few days; etc., so the body which exists by the time I complete the typing of this post will not be the same body that existed when I sat down and began typing this post.
Only memories (which also happen to be bogus distortions) lead person to identify with the body and to belief in body continuity, even though they can look at pictures taken when they were 6 and 7 and 8 and 9 and 10 and 11 and 12 and 13 and 14 and 15 which clearly show - when compared - that none of those bodies are the same.
So it should be asked, “Among all of those different body forms, which one of those 'me's' would any person claim to be 'the real me'? What 'me' would a 'mind' assume to be 'the one, real me'?" What a distortion to talk of a 'me’.”
The gatekeeper of your prison is, surprisingly, the one that can open “The Door to Realization” and that can guide you along a path which can free you from belief in the body-you and from belief in the roles being played via that body and can then lead to freedom from all of the needless drama which plagues the relative existence of persons.
Yet most persons are so addicted to the chaos, so lost in the drama, and so removed from reality that they will never search for a way out of their prison. They will move about within the confines of their prison and believe that they are free. How insane would it be for a prisoner to be allowed to leave his cell and go to an exercise yard outside and belief, "Ah! I am free! Thank goodness, free at last!"
Additionally, few will ever have any desire to be totally independent. Fewer still will follow the path to reality and know true freedom and absolute independence. Most will fight to the end in defense of nonsensical, magical beliefs that were dreamed up by uneducated men during ancient times.
The question is: “What is the case with you? How free do you want to be? How soon do you want that freedom?”
Frustration results from a sense of limitation. Frustration cannot end, therefore, as long as humans are identified with that which is limited: a physical body, a warped “mind,” and multiple personalities.
I am not personal; I have no individuality, so how could I have individual meaning or an individual purpose? For now, the consciousness is manifested, so whatever happens . . . happens. All happens spontaneously and is merely witnessed. Nothing more is involved.
To review:
REGARDING THE MIND
Efforts to quiet the mind or to ignore thoughts cannot succeed with any consistency. Only when full realization strikes, only when the "Oh my gosh!" moment happens - only then does the mind dissolve because the belief in “their” beliefs dissolves.
What to consider meanwhile? It is true that, if you are instructed to "avoid thinking about an elephant," the only thing that you can think of is an elephant. So, what is the answer? The answer is not to try to be rid of a disturbing thought. The answer is to ask when a thought is interrupting the peace, “WHO is thinking that thought?”
(That is, what ego-state is feeling so threatened or hurt or interfered with that the false identity can inspire the "mind" in which that false self resides to begin an endless flurry of thought-activity?)
Only by relinquishing belief in the false identities that inspire thoughts can the thoughts come to an end. Only by abandoning the "this" and "that" in such beliefs as "I am this" (role) or "I am that" (role) will the peace and quiet of only the "I Am" ever happen.
The "mind" is the instrument which supports your personality with thoughts, and those thoughts are the instruments which will forever prevent "peace of mind"; in fact, there is no such thing as "peace of mind." There is only peace if freed of the "mind." There can only be peace if you are out of your "mind."
Consciousness is rooted in the Absolute. The brain is rooted in the elements. The "mind" is rooted in wrong programming and faulty conditioning and perverted domestication and xenophobia-based acculturation as well as lies and concepts and ideas and superstitions and falsehoods which were passed along via brainwashing and indoctrination.
If not realized, then you are in a play, playing a role, and believing that the role and the play are both real. Why would you believe such nonsense? Because "your mind" - which is really "their mind" - is the playwright, the author of every scene.
When Maharaj said, "You are not in the world . . . the world is in you," what did he mean? He meant, "You are not in the world," that is, there is no "you" that is real or in any world.
"The world is in you" means that the world is in your "mind" and is nothing more than a figment of your programming-and-conditioning-induced imaginings and beliefs.
Everything that is said here is to be used to get rid of another false belief until all ideas and emotional intoxication and beliefs are gone and nothing remains but the unstated understanding. Only then can the constant churning and re-churning of the false beliefs of the corrupted "mind" finally cease.
Be free of the mind and abide under the auspices of the inner resource, the inner guru.
What is that inner resource, that inner guru? It is the vestige of pure consciousness which remains, deeply buried beneath the waste called “your mind,” presently inaccessible to the consciousness because of the near-limitless obstacles and blockages called “beliefs.”
“Your mind” obscures the consciousness because that "mind" is so marred with its belief in lies and superstitions and all of its so-called "knowledge" (that is, its accumulation of learned ignorance), that it leaves persons insane . . . so insane that they believe the lies and dreams of the planet.
For their suffering to end, persons must understand the functioning of the totality; must see that all suffering is rooted in the assumption of ego-states as false identities; must realize that they have no “mind” but instead are being driven by the “minds” of others (which they now think is their own "mind");
must be aware of the fact that a “mind” is nothing more than the storehouse of all the lies and beliefs and ideas and concepts that must be cast aside in order to end human suffering; and must see not only the limitations of doingness but the timelessness and limitless nature of beingness . . . and non-beingness as well.
In this relative existence, nothing is going on but a breeziness of play, but persons are caught up in a tornado of religious or spiritual workaholism, in a storm of seriousness, and in a tempest of drama.
So-called “life” in this sphere of consciousness is just a process of functioning, and while the “mind” of a person will dream up notions about separation or differentiation, none exists. The process just keeps on happening.
A belief or a concept, a religion or a philosophy, a state or a nation, a hero or a villain . . . all are just part of the process of duality-based functioning. All those are just dreamed up names, and all such dreamed up labels (dreamed up by that accumulation of corruptions called "the mind") generate a false sense of reality.
The "journey" aims to put you fully in touch with reality. To be out of touch with reality is to be insane.
This "journey" is about getting in touch with reality in order to be free of the bondage of the illusions and falsehoods of a "mind" exposed to years of enculturation.
Among religions and philosophies, there is no means by which the necessary brain-flush can be provided. Only the non-dual “journey” proposes the dissolution of all of the contamination that is “the mind.”
Ultimately, the so-called "non-dual teachings" have the "goal" of becoming the non-teaching by way of un-teaching.
You should see by now that there is no such thing as “your mind.” You were born with a brain and like all life-forms on the planet, it’s all you needed for the body / elements to function. To your detriment, your culture decided otherwise.
"They" decided you needed their “knowledge,” which is really nothing other than their learned ignorance (including "their" ideas and beliefs that were rooted in superstitious and mythical explanations for what they could not explain factually or scientifically).
In pumping those lies into you, they created a “mind” - a repository of ideas and beliefs and non-truths. It contains what was put into their "minds" - which they never questioned even once - and then passed along faithfully and dutifully and, unfortunately, to you.
"They" dreamed it all up, "they" forced you to accept their concepts as a child, you have internalized "their" beliefs into a “mind,” and you now allow "their" fiction to define your beliefs, your values and your “mind.”
In fact, most of the (dualistic) beliefs in your "mind" are the beliefs of the earliest self-appointed “religious or tribal or spiritual leaders” who dreamed up those beliefs, adopted them, and then passed them on in order to control the masses.
And all those values were based in duality, in terms of what those persons decided was “right or wrong” and “good or bad.”
Which terms they used to label other persons was determined by their agenda to gain power over the masses and to gain benefit from the subsequent power and control.
The invitation:
Use the brain. Use the intuitive sixth-sense. Sense the fourth dimension beyond the three dimensions of a body’s height, width and depth. But abandon any notion that a mind is real or that you have a mind that is yours. It is "theirs," has always been "theirs," and shall always be "theirs" if you do not abandon it and then realize;
otherwise, those persons can still reach forward—from millennia ago or from days ago—and control you via the compilation of that mass of learned ignorance and contamination called “your mind.”
Religions want to "cleanse" your mind. Spiritual movements want to "purify" your mind or "heal" your mind. Many professionals want to “straighten out the thinking” of your mind. Many groups want to move you from “wrong thinking" to “right thinking.”
Some want to guide you to your “right mind.” Some want to teach you to "halt the constant movement" of your mind. None of those have a clue that they are missing the point completely:
nothing needs to be done to your "mind" and nothing needs to happen to benefit your "mind." The mind is illusion.
One may as well go to a desert and try to benefit and improve or cleanse or purify or straighten out a mirage.
How can anyone cleanse a mirage, purify a mirage, heal a mirage, straighten out a mirage, make a mirage that is wrong into a mirage that is right, or stop mirages? It is impossible. The mind will dissolve if you see every lie that is stored in it.
Then the brain, the sixth-sense, the intuition, and the inner resource will move you through this relative existence - just as happens with every living thing on the planet and which works just fine for every living thing on the planet with one exception, namely, humans - and you will live the remainder of the relative existence in a natural fashion rather than in an unnatural fashion or in a supernatural fashion that is dominated by magical thinking which results from a wrongly-programmed mind.
To be continued.
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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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