The Wisdom of Listening for BOTH Non-Dual AND Duality-Based Messages: FROM JESUS TO SHAKESPEARE

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The Wisdom of Listening for BOTH Non-Dual AND Duality-Based Messages: FROM JESUS TO SHAKESPEARE

The quotations and pointers by Maharaj being drawn from the book QUOTATIONS AND POINTERS dealing with NON-DUALITY, ADVAITA, NISARGA YOGA and more are being arranged by category and subject matter. The quotes offered today will deal with: 

THE AMNESS and MAYA and CONSCIOUSNESS 

"This 'I Amness' is the very source of all misery." 

"The problem is universal - suffering and the ending of suffering. The cause of suffering is dependence and independence is the remedy." 

"Life and death do not create problems; pains and pleasures come and go, experienced and forgotten. It is memory and anticipation that create problems of attainment or avoidance, coloured by like and dislike. Truth and Love are man's real nature and . . . the heart is the means of its expression." 

"The I-am-ness is the power of maya." 

["Maya" was mentioned in the George Harrison song shared yesterday. Take maya to mean "illusion" or "magic." 

"Illusion" is defined as "a thing that is or is likely to be wrongly perceived or interpreted by the senses" or "a deceptive appearance or impression" or "a false idea, concept, notion, theory, image, thought, view, or impression (a.k.a., "belief").

An illusion / delusion is a result of an inability to perceive accurately, an inability to differentiate the true from the false; and / or a desire to accept the false as true in an effort to reinforce existing belief systems; and / or a result of being driven by the symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness (per Maharaj, "ignorance, stupidity, and insanity"); and / or an inability to separate the real from the perceived / misperceived.

"Magic" especially alludes to the manner used by the masses to process information vs. the manner in which the few among "the realized" witness information. The masses use "magical thinking" (a.k.a., "thinking rooted in supernatural and / or unnatural thinking" and / or in supposedly "spiritual or dogma-based thinking" and / or in "supposedly-noumenal thinking."]

"This touch of 'I Amness' is in each being; this beingness has that touch of love for the Absolute and it is a representation of the Absolute." 

"When you got yourself separated from the Absolute with this identity 'I Am', you felt fragmented, isolated, and that is why your demands started. In the Absolute there are no needs."

"Only the Absolute prevails. [With] the touch of beingness, with 'I Am', separation started; 'otherness' has come. But this "I Amness" is not just a small principle; that itself is the mula-maya, the primary illusion." 

"What I am expounding is not meant for the common people because they have not reached the stature to understand what I am saying. Therefore I tell them to do bhajans, japa, meditation. After doing that, when the purifying takes place, they will be worthy enough to receive my talks." 

"That maya is so powerful that it gets you completely wrapped up in it." 

"All these activities go on, but they are only entertainment. The waking and deep sleep states come and go spontaneously. Through the sense of 'I', you spontaneously feel like working. But find out if this sense of 'I' is real or unreal, permanent or impermanent." 

"The 'I' which appears is unreal. How unreal it is I have proven. The moment the 'I' is proven unreal, who is it who knows that the 'I' is unreal? This knowledge within you that knows the 'I' is unreal, that knowledge which knows change, must itself be changeless, permanent." 

"You are an illusion, Maya, an imagination. It is only because I know that I'm unreal that I know you also are unreal. It is not like this: 'Because I am real, you are unreal.' It is like this: 'Because I am unreal, everything is unreal'." 

[Understand first that "consciousness" refers to conscious-energy, which is only one of many forms of energy. It is nothing more and nothing less than that, and it is no more "special" than any other form of energy. It can only manifest in a space or form or "instrument," and it can only manifest temporarily. Just as the form of energy called "lightning" manifests temporarily and functions the way that it functions automatically and spontaneously, so too does consciousness manifest temporarily and functions the way that it functions automatically and spontaneously. The only rub with consciousness is that it can be blocked from being accurately conscious of - from being able to witness clearly - via programming, conditioning, etc.; thus, it can facilitate the manifestation of illusion and delusion and maya.]

"Consciousness depends on the body; the body depends on the essence of food. It is the Consciousness which is speaking now." 

"If the food-essence is not present, the body cannot exist. Without the body, would I be able to talk? Can you do anything to retain this sense of 'I'? As it came spontaneously, so will it go. It will not forewarn you by announcing, 'I am going tomorrow.' A doubt has arisen and you are trying to find the solution, but who is it who has this doubt? Find out for yourself." 

"In deep sleep, consciousness was in a dormant condition; there were no bodies, no concepts, no encumbrances. Upon the arrival of this apparently wakeful state, with the arrival of the concept 'I Am', the love of 'I Am' woke up. That itself is Maya, illusion." 

"One must understand how clever this fraud of Maya is; first it shows us our body and makes us believe that we are the body, but the body is nothing but a speck of fertilized sperm, and in that sperm the consciousness is latent. You see what a fraud it is?" 

"Out of that no-being state comes the beingness. It comes as quietly as twilight, with just a feel of the 'I Am', and then suddenly the space is there." 

"What is called 'a human body' is also mainly space." 

"In the space, movement starts with the air, the fire, the water, and the earth. All these . . . elements are you only." 

"Out of your consciousness all 'this' [that is, all things in the relative existence] has happened. There is no individual. There is only You, the total functioning of You." 

"Consciousness depends on the body; the body depends on the essence of food. It is the Consciousness which is speaking now. If the food-essence is not present, the body cannot exist. Without the body, would I be able to talk? Can you do anything to retain this sense of 'I'? As it came spontaneously, so will it go. It will not forewarn you by announcing, 'I am going tomorrow.' A doubt has arisen and you are trying to find the solution, but who is it who has this doubt? Find out for yourself" 

"You must have a thorough knowledge of this consciousness, and having known everything about the consciousness, you come to the conclusion that it is all unreal, and then it should drop off." 

"The principle that can pass judgment on whether 'the world' is or is not, that principle antedates 'the world'." 

"When pure awareness is attained, no need exists any more, not even for ‘I Am’, which is but a useful pointer, a direction-indicator towards the Absolute." 

"The awareness ‘I Am’ then easily ceases. What prevails is that which cannot be described, that which is beyond words. It is this ‘state’ which is most real, a state of pure potentiality, which is prior to everything. The ‘I Am’ and the universe are mere reflections of it." 

"What I am expounding does not relate to worldly knowledge. You do not want to give up either worldly knowledge or so-called 'spiritual knowledge', and yet, through these worldly concepts, you want to understand the riddle of your existence, and that is precisely why you are not able to understand." 

"Before you were 'born', could you have felt or sensed or known that you exist? A jñani is free because he sees that the body is made up of five elements and it works according to the nature of these elements. I see that body, but I am not concerned with whatever that body does. There is nothing in it with which I identify." 

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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