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Here, you will find a discussion of some pointers from the first and second phases of Maharaj’s “teachings” (un-teachings). Those come from the Hindu + non-duality first phase and from the spirituality + non-duality second phase (with many talks during the second phase collected in the book I AM THAT).
Far more of the discussions here deal with the
pointers which he offered in his much later talks during the third psychology
and mind focused + non-duality phase. And as far those earlier talks are concerned:
During his third phase, he said of I AM THAT:
"That book and whatever was expounded at that time was only relevant for that period. I am speaking differently today." He then went on to advise seekers to ignore the talks in that book and to focus on the content of his final talks.
His final understanding, which was completely different from what he offered early on, is the basis of most pointers which are emphasized here nowadays.
To continue:
"WISDOM" and "LOVE"
F.: Next, the query from the seeker that once asked a question along these lines will be addressed: "If identification gives way to nothingness, how can nothing and something Real, like Real Love, co-exist?"
Actually, there is no such thing as "co-existence" in the non-dual understanding. There is only One . . . only “the advaita” . . . the "not two."
It would be like asking, "How can the two parts "I AM THAT; I AM" co-exist?" If fully realized, it is understood that "I AM THAT; I AM" does not refer to "two" and does not refer to "some thing" existing in the relative realm post-realization and co-existing with "THAT" or as “THAT.”
Nor does that summative statement of non-duality suggest that, post-realization, the Am-ness is to be denied and one is to strut about as if she / he is "all that" or "all THAT." The latter are the types who were tossed from the loft.
Here the pointer is that "Reality" is overlaid (paradoxically) upon "reality" . . . upon "the relative," but in fact, nothing is overlaid on anything else, that also being about "two." What actually happens along with the manifestation of the understanding is that “the supposedly two” merge (not in fact but in the understanding) as one, as the not-two.
Then abidance happens as the original nature and the relative unfolds in a totally nisarga fashion.
At the level of the ultimate understanding, there is no identification with either the Am-ness or with THAT or with anything else.
[Most Seekers who believe that they became Finders long ago – now trapped as they are in their supposedly-superior Seekers
/ Finders ego-states and driven by the agendas of those supposedly-superior personas -
will reject the pointers above. Why?
Because they have presently assumed new identifications such as THAT or Brahman or God or some Supreme Self or Superlative Self or Infinite Self. In truth, they are fixated in what Maharaj called “their kindergarten level spirituality.”
Many trapped in their supposedly-superior, self-assigned ego-states will hate that pointer and will hate "the one" who they think is making the point. So it is. As one person said to another recently, "Just because you disagree with a fact does not mean it is not so."]
In the final understanding, there is no identification at all: no relative identifications and no "Post-Manifestation Identifications." Most of Maharaj's earliest pointers on the subject of identification, including fifty direct discussions of that subject in I AM THAT and many more indirect references, dissuaded seekers from assuming (false) self-identifications as well as (false) Self-Identifications.
Actually, even on one early occasion, he did say, "I am free from all description and identification."
A question similar to the one being addressed here was raised by a visitor to the loft:
Questioner: "If I am eliminated, what will remain?"
Maharaj: "Nothing will remain, all will remain. Being - Awareness - Love will shine in full splendour. Liberation is never of the person, it is always from the person."
Thus, post-realization, everything (including Being and Awareness and Real Love) will remain, even as nothing (no identifications or Identifications) will remain; thus, Real Love allows for the understanding of “you are everything” while Wisdom allows for the understanding that "you are nothing.”
Even from the platform of nothingness, of identity-less-ness, Real Love Is. In fact, Real Love can only be understood during the manifestation and the nothingness can only be understood during the manifestation.
Because Real Love Is
and
because what it is rooted in is the "not two"
and
because that means there is no subject-object element involved with Real Love at all
then
it should be clear that the awareness of "nothingness" and "no subject-object love" and Real Love can all manifest at the same time as components of the understood but unstatable Truth.
Then, as a result of that understanding, all will merely happen spontaneously for the remainder of the manifestation. So what happens in terms of even Real Love if the understanding is: "I am neither object nor subject"?
Again, Maharaj taught: "Love says: 'I am everything'. Wisdom says: 'I am nothing'. Between the two my life flows."
The reality of no identification ("I am nothing") becomes a lubricant which allows abidance to happen for the remainder of the manifestation in a smooth and easy and unforced manner when “Reality” is (paradoxically) overlaid on the “relative” and which allows the "flow of life" to happen effortlessly. That is the way it can be when it is understood that "everything" and "nothing" are advaita - that is, "not two."
To be continued.
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