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Living in the Nisarga Fashion
Now we’ll pause briefly to review some of the key points regarding what can happen if one completes the four-step path to realization and understands as well the relative toll of abiding unnaturally or trying to abide supernaturally as opposed to simply living naturally:
The Nisarga Yoga, in conjunction with the Direct Path Teaching Method which can lead to full realization (i.e., full freedom from belief in learned ignorance), offers a direct but very specific route to an understanding that results in a natural way of AS IF living (that is, to a natural way of functioning as if anything matters though understanding full well that nothing matters).
That leads to living / functioning spontaneously for the remainder of the manifestation,
(1) knowing that the “world” is illusory
but
(2) living as if any of “all this” matters.
(Thus, for example, employment can happen even without the assumption of an "employee" persona.)
To further understand the Nisarga Yoga, re-consider what the Advaita poet William Shakespeare wrote:
“The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre observe degree, priority, and place. Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, office, and custom, in all line of order.” Natural living recognizes that the laws of nature have the right of "insisture":
either
(a) life is lived naturally according to the “customs” of the universe
or
(b) persons violating the natural “order” will collapse and self-destruct.
The realized move through the relative existence in a manner that is fixed by nature even though they appear to be moving as they please. Rather than trying to exert any force, they accept that happenings happen. Among the realized, nature has “priority” over efforts to control or manipulate.
The realized abide within the framework of the natural laws that have “insisture,” understanding that all is to happen per the natural order and also understanding that all is to happen in “proportion.”
On the other hand, persons (i.e., the non-realized, attached to what they have learned and attached to a host of personal identifications), seek to control and manipulate so they will not have to accept “proportion.” They work to accumulate and to have more and to appear to be greater than what is proportional. They imagine that they have an actual need for more than is proportional or necessary.
The realized move along lines that are “customary” rather than along paths that are unnatural or supernatural. To think supernaturally is to think magically, and magical thinking is delusional.
Recall that the Advaitin Shakespeare also said: “ . . . There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
Understand the implications of that pointer via syllogistic reasoning:
“Good vs. bad” duality can only happen via thinking. If there is no thinking, then there can be no (belief in) duality. Thinking is of the “mind.” The presence and use of “the mind” leads to thinking which, in turn, leads to dualistic beliefs. If the intent is to end belief in duality, then thinking must end. If thinking is to end, then “the mind” must end.
To put to an end "the mind"—that is, to put an end to believing the false content which has been stored in a portion of the brain—does not end the brain; nor must the brain's functioning end. To put an end to "the mind" does not mean that the consciousness must un-manifest.
Once more, the understanding in this regard is this:
Consciousness is rooted in the Absolute (at that point, as unmanifested Awareness with the potential to be aware of). The brain is rooted in the elements. The "mind" is rooted in faulty programming and faulty conditioning and lies and concepts and ideas and superstitions and falsehoods.
Next, either there is One (which there is) or there is duality and / or multiplicity. That which is natural is rooted in non-duality; all which involves unnatural thinking and / or supernatural thinking is rooted in duality.
Whether speaking of Maharaj's lesser focus on the Nisarga Yoga in the beginning or discussing his near-total focus on abiding naturally in the end (as opposed to trying to live supernaturally and / or unnaturally), it is granted that all of that is relevant only to the AM-ness, but what happens within the present AM-ness - anything to do with the THAT-ness - is all that can or will impact every “one.”
There is no currently-present “one” that will even be post-manifestation because that state is beyond both beingness and non-beingness; therefore, there cannot possibly be a post-manifestation judgment, a post-manifestation conviction or acquittal, a post-manifestation eternal reward, nor a post-manifestation eternal punishment. Why?
Because there are no Creator-Sustainer-Destroyer gods or goddesses and there is no Creator-Sustainer-Destroyer God to engage with you in any post-manifestation judging, convicting or acquitting, rewarding or punishing.
Either there is a prime cause and creation (and therefore a Prime Causer and Creator) or there is neither creation nor destruction. How can that be understood? Through, as Maharaj said, understanding the relevant, scientific facts.
Science has proved that there is neither creation nor destruction.
Again, all is basically energy / matter, and energy / matter can be neither created nor destroyed. Wherefore a Causer or a Creator in that reality?
The cause of all is . . . all. Where is there any possibility of a Creator (or a Creator-Sustainer-Destroyer God) when that which is has always been, when That cannot have been created, when That cannot be destroyed, and when all merely cycles . . . or not?
Persons who are programmed to believe that their bodies-minds-personalities shall last "for infinity after death" do not pause to consider that, if infinity is a possibility in one "direction" on their timelines, then it must also be a possibility in the opposite "direction" on their timelines. Infinite is infinite.
Whatever has the ability to exist "forever after" necessarily had to have the ability to exist "forever before."
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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