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HOW TO (AND WHAT TO) REALIZE
[Originally, the “path” to realization as set forth by Maharaj was a seven-step path (even though he never enumerated them).
Per that approach, the Pure Witnessing stage was the fifth step. But a change came later on. Eventually he stopped recommending SELF-Enquiry and made clear that “You need not seek to find the answer to the ancient question, ‘Who Am I, Really?’; it is enough to know who – or what – you are not.”
At that point, he shifted to the use of a four-step approach to realization; however, if a seeker moves through the first three steps where body and mind and personality identifications are rejected, then that seeker will shift into - will have “returned” to -“The Child Ignorance State” or “The No-Knowing Stage”; then, the practice of Pure Witnessing will spontaneously and automatically manifest.
Per Maharaj’s original seven-step-path-approach, the witnessing stages were two of the final “degrees of separation from reality” to be transitioned. For the ready and wise seeker, both "the witness" and "the so-called Pure Witness" (actually, "Witnessing") will be “experienced.”
Maharaj made clear . . .
- because 97% of all persons on the planet are introduced early to the dogma and practices of the religion of their parents and are unquestioningly inducted into that religion and become “initiates” of some church or temple or mosque or other type of religious community -
that almost all humans are locked into a non-seeking posture, convinced as they are that they have found or know any and every “noumenal thing” that they will ever require.
A few may someday seek outside whichever venue they were inducted into early on.
They may eventually try to follow some path to “realization” or “enlightenment” or “liberation” or, instead, try to find relief from the discomfort generated by that nagging, inner twitch that has been saying, “There’s got to more than this, and I need to find it.”
Even the ones that try to negotiate some “path” to “realization” or “enlightenment” or “liberation” almost all stop at the third step (where the "religious persona" or the "spiritual persona" are played) and, therefore, never complete the “journey” to the full understanding and full realization and total freedom from ignorance and insanity.]
So what is to be realized next?
An understanding of the difference in . . .
V. Pure Witnessing vs. Subject-Object Witnessing
Subject-object witnessing (S-O) involves duality (at least as far as the not-totally-unobstructed consciousness "sees" it). An example: "I" (subject) see you" (object).
The consciousness which was once obstructed but post-realization is no longer blocked, can be aware of the fact that "I am not that which you think you are seeing when you look at me and that I am not that which the culture would label me";
yet the S-O manner of viewing, which involves some supposed one "seeing" some supposed other one or other thing, results in this distortion: "I see a mirage but I believe it is real and is what it appears to be."
By contrast, the unblocked consciousness is able to be conclude: "I see a mirage and I know it is a mirage and is not real."
Sometimes so much misery and suffering can come with the blindness generated by the blocked consciousness that a duality-based conclusion is drawn, such as, "I (one part) cannot live with myself (second part) anymore."
What that really means is that "I" (that which I am but am not in touch with) feel as if I (this false self or the many false selves which have been assumed) cannot live with like this anymore."
Those S-O observations still obviously involve perceived dualities.
Not until the Pure Witnessing state (which manifests with “The Child Ignorance State” or “The No-Knowing Stage”) does subject-object witnessing end and the Pure Witnessing of the unicity finally happen.
At that point, when the consciousness is totally unobstructed, all that was thought to be either "subject" or "object" is witnessed to be One, to have always been One, and to forever be One.
In other words, to shift from S-O witnessing to Pure Witnessing, it must be realized that (as the non-dual understanding is grasped) that talk of "subject" and "object" will have to give way to "subject only," that is, to knowing what Maharaj called "that everlasting, timeless, imperishable Subject."
Shifting beyond object witnessing also sets the stage for understanding the nothingness. Then, Pure Witnessing can lead to an awareness of the "everything" . . . the Oneness of it all . . . the Truth. The actual unicity beyond the imagined multiplicity will be understood.
The Pure Witnessing (which some see as the closest thing to a "True Self") can then understand the Oneness which comes via the awareness that a tiny "building-block" of energy-consciousness and matter is all there is and that all supposed differences are merely varying appearances which result from energy vibrating at varied frequencies.
From the platform of Pure Witnessing, the beingness and the non-beingness can be understood and the "state" of Absolute rest and peace can be seen.
Then, the remainder of the relative existence can be passed simply in the "I Am-ness," in the "Is-ness," in the Pure Witnessing "mode," in the AS IF style, and—finally—by simply abiding as the Absolute . . . as one’s Original Nature.
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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