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Evidence of Realization: "Dancing Lightly and Naturally"
Maharaj: “It is the dance of the conscious presence.”
Looking back over past but erroneous "realizations," is so easy to relate here to those who are so certain that they either (A) know the answer to all of the questions regarding "this life" and "the after-life" and therefore need not seek or (B) those who think they have some clue about what is to be sought and believe that they are going about the business of seeking and finding in the proper manner.
As was the case with Maharaj at certain points and as was the case here at certain points, the operative, accurate descriptor could be, "Been there; done that."
For those in group "A," most depend of some sort of supposedly-holy text (which most will never read but will depend on religious leaders or spiritual guides to tell them what the texts have to say about any specific thing and also about everything in general as well).
As for those in group "B," most are seeking by way of an ideology or some philosophy or by way of one of the five main methods of teaching non-duality.
In most every case, though, that
which is being sought does not exist. Most adult seekers are like a child
seeking an Easter egg underneath a Christmas tree or seeking Christmas presents
wrapped inside eggshells and hidden in a field of grass.
One day, 680 visitors from every continent on the planet came to this site
seeking . . . something. Some will find pointers that are diametrically opposite of
what is offered by many discussing the issues addressed here. Yet some keep
coming back because - they explain - it is the pointers which are offering a
totally different perspective which are resonating with them.
Again, as some non-dualists have explained, "You might as well seek an eagle's nest on the floor of the ocean as seek . . . what?"
Indeed, as seek what?
As seek what trillions trapped in ignorance have sought over the last 5000 years, such as seek:
the number of angels who can
fit on the head of a pin; as seek "salvation"; as seek "eternal life"; as seek
"one's eternal soul"; as seek an understanding of one's "spiritual
malady" and how to treat it with faith and prayer; as seek the best
"faith-healing" method; as seek "a Supreme Self" or "an Infinite Self";
as seek "personal power"; as seek "God" or many gods and goddesses;
as seek "the right way to live so one can be guarded by a loving, caring
god or by that god's surrogates (a.k..a, "guardian angels)"; as seek
karmic balance; as seek a holy food plan; as seek escape from the cycles of
birth, life, death, and rebirth; as seek the reason that the Power(s) who
supposedly control everything that happens on planet earth "think that
it's okay to let bad things happen";
as seek "success"; as seek "special knowledge"; as seek supernatural causes for what are actually all-natural events; as seek
the answer to why "bad things happen to good people"; as seek an
understanding of how "unconditional love" can co-exist alongside
"eternal punishment"; or seek how to mentally dissociate from the
Am-ness without being mentally ill.
And right alongside all of those, one might as well seek at the same time "The Will-of-the-Wisp," a sasquatch, a unicorn, a mermaid, a dragon, a fairy, a werewolf, a yeti, a kappa, a centaur, a troll, a ghoul, a leprechaun, a gnome, and pixie.
After abandoning the use of religious versions of the Ultimate Medicine and spiritual versions of the Ultimate Medicine, Maharaj offered seekers a psychology-based version of the Ultimate Medicine and encouraged them to seek freedom from the mental roots of the Sickness (including the symptoms of believing the learned ignorance which has been taught and being strapped with the relative curse of stupidity and imposed insanity).
He made clear at the end that realization is about . . . nothing more than being free of ignorance.
From the book Dancing Lightly:
LIGHT IS USELESS IF IT IS NOT INTENSE ENOUGH TO BURN AWAY THE MIND
If the light is received, then the lightness can follow. If the lightness manifests, then dancing lightly throughout the manifestation can happen. In terms of the Absolute, all of this—all of this dance, all of the discussions, all of the false identifications—all of it is admittedly meaningless. So why not dismiss it all with the point that “the results of believing that personas are real cannot occur in the Absolute . . . end of story”?
To one trapped in misery as a result of being fixated with the concept of death, the following was shared: Maharaj pointed out that if one were to realize, then she / he would “have come to the end of personality and there is no more human being. There is only impersonal consciousness.”
Let the belief in the personal "die" and be done once and for all with all these counterfeit concepts about “birth” and “death.” So the question to consider is, “WHO or WHAT is there to ‘die’?” The answer is “No one . . . no thing.”
Maharaj made clear that there is nothing more than a play in consciousness that is going on and that “the play will come to an end.” It is not a “human” that it “dying.” It is a play that is ending. That is all.
[If one were to enter a theatre and watch the play Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, one would see or hear about the following supposedly dying: Polonius, Laertes, Claudius, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, Ophelia, Gertrude, and Hamlet. The wise that leave the theatre at the end of "Act Five" will understand that all of those on that list are merely actors walking about for a time on a stage. It will be understood that all of those actors will be back on stage the next night, not having died at all.
Only those dominated by ignorance will believe that those persons really died that evening in the theatre.
The realized Advaitin poet Shakespeare knew that it all involved a stage and actors who were not real, playing a role, assuming for a time a persona - a personality, a false identity. But he understood much more, namely that "All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players."
He knew his stage was a metaphor for the stage on which the masses move about; that the theatre can served as a metaphor for "The Theatre of the Lie" on which the masses live and play their false roles; he understood that none of the actors on the literal stage in the theatre or on the abstract stage of "The Theatre of the Lie" ever die.
He realized that only an illusion - a false dream - can "die" along with the false beliefs about those players and their roles and what they really are and what they actually are not.
Again, the relevant facts are these:
(1) there is nothing more than a play in consciousness that is going on
and
(2) “the play will come to an end”
and
(3) It is not a “human” that it “dying”
but instead
(4) it is a play that is ending. That is all.]
See that all of the fluctuations and changes and all of the unsteadiness and instability throughout a relative existence are happening as part of the “mind”-flow.
Tired of the nonsense? Then understand this:
Be rid of the “mind” to be rid of the chaos. Light is useless if it is not intense enough to burn away the mind, meaning – more specifically – to burn away the ignorant and insane beliefs stored in the mind.
Stability can only happen as the Absolute. Abide as that now, and be done with “life” and “death” both. Then, dance the dance and merely witness whatever happens, knowing that problems can only come with “life” and that “death” is no problem at all.
THE MOST DEBILITATING BELIEFS
To be free of the pain associated with roles and ego-states and false identities requires freedom first from belief in all roles and ego-states and false identities. Thus the dance between the seeker and an Advaitin teacher:
as pure awareness leads in the dance, the movement can liberate the consciousness of the seeker from the effects of the programming and conditioning that have prevented persons from enjoying the music and moving spontaneously with the natural rhythms that happen when abiding in the natural state.
As the dance continues, liberation from the effects of “the mind” can happen. By the end of the dance, there is freedom from “the mind” and even from consciousness itself since it, too, is relative. While the consciousness is an attribute, it is awareness that is beyond all that is relative . . . beyond the beingness . . . beyond the non-beingness.
NISARGA-STYLE, AS IF LIVING
So what is to happen with “the realized” and these teachings? Something. Or nothing. It was noted at the beginning that the "end game" is not to sit around discussing Advaita all day. Some of the Realized might choose to teach; some might choose not to. Either way, the relative is enjoyed on a daily basis with no preoccupation with Advaita.
Such preoccupation itself would indicate that the fullness of the understanding has not manifested. These teachings are not to be focused upon in the end. In the end, they are to lead to nisarga (natural) living. They are to lead to a condition whereby all can be relished, whether that "all" includes what some dualistic observers might call "bad things" or "good things."
To one protégé who was witnessed recently to have realized what I share, these words instead were offered: “Now you are done here. No more visits or discussions or questions-and-answers are indicated. Via the unblocked consciousness that you are, the teachings could happen very easily. They may or they may not. So it is. Now, go.”
It was understood that AS IF living would now happen which simply involves living as if anything to do with this IS-ness is meaningful while knowing full well that it is not. It was also understood that the dance can be danced . . . or not. And that’s that.
As for you, you are invited to be free of being controlled by the nonsensical content of the mind so that you, too, can dance lightly.
To be continued.
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THE EXPLANATION
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"
and
"Heaven and earth shall fade away."
and
"Heaven and hell are not geographic places
"There is no hell."
