TODAY'S CONSIDERATIONS
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The Pure, Universal Consciousness,
Pure Awareness,
and a
"Proper Perspective"
Maharaj said, “I talk to you from the perspective of the universal consciousness.”
It was not some “maharaj” with a body and mind who eventually spoke of the mind-based roots of the Ultimate Medicine. It was not some “maharaj” identified with a body and driven by the content of a mind who addressed the universally-blocked consciousness.
Consider “blockage”:
Several years ago, a visitor came here, a woman who knows that I am left-handed and knew that I had suffered an injury to the left arm which has pretty much left it useless.
The arm was being treated for what one doctor said is "an injury beyond acute tendinitis which might take six months to heal but which can require a full year for total healing." With minimal response to physical therapy at the five-month mark, that extended time-frame seemed a possibility.
So the woman came to lend a hand (or
an arm) because she had noticed on previous visits that the windows in the
front and back of the house had accumulated a "buildup" which left them coated in a heavy film of water stains and
grime and dust. She also knew that less light is available during the fall
and winter months and can result in an undesired effect on humans.
To that end, she set up a ladder and gathered up some window-washing materials and – by the time she left – all of the windows were spotlessly clean and clear. That is exactly what the "non-dual teacher" that shares the Nisarga Yoga does:
She or he clears away all of the blockages which have been set in place by an accumulation - a "buildup" - of ignorant and insane programming and conditioning and domestication and acculturation and brainwashing and indoctrination, and which block the light which is required for seeing with a clear perspective.
It was those blockages which that speck of pure (unblocked) consciousness called “Maharaj” addressed.
If the readiness was present in a visitor, then Maharaj set about trying to clean and clear away all of the mental stains and grime and dust stored in each visitor’s mind, removing the content of the mind which he saw as nothing more than a storehouse of “knowledge” (which he said is a body of accumulated concepts which amount to nothing more than "learned ignorance”);
thus, he said to one visitor: “You give reality to concepts, while concepts are distortions of reality,” so he advised seekers to reach a state of zero concepts, believing nothing that has been placed in the mind by one’s programmers, conditioners, etc.
To review, also from yesterday:
He suggested that seekers: “Learn to look without imagination . . . to listen without distortion. That is all.”
He noted in regards to the mind: “Remove its distortions and impurities.”
His invitation to all was to understand that “what is seen or heard, touched or smelt, felt or thought, expected or imagined, is in the mind and not in reality.”
He called for visitors to develop a “proper perspective,” a very different perspective, a perspective that is accurate by virtue of being free of distortion and misperceiving.
That is the intent of the content of a book entitled “A Different Perspective via the Non-Duality Teachings and the Nisarga Yoga”
from which some excerpts will be shared.
Therein, this is offered:
The invitation offered in this book is to understand that "the Fully Realized" are no different from anyone who visits this site. That includes “the actually realized”; “the non-realized” who are seeking; “the non-realized” who are not seeking;
and “those claiming realization” who think they have completed the entire "journey" but have not and are, therefore, trying to satisfy their ego-based desire to control or influence others while also trying to reinforce their new, assumed "Supreme Identity or Identities."
The only possible difference among those in the groups referenced above is in perspective, so certain perspectives here which might differ from perspectives held by "others" are being shared for consideration and, possibly, for further enlightenment.
That said, realization - accompanied by the Nisargan
understanding - can result in another perspective which differs from a non-dual
understanding alone.
There are 278 perspectives identified and / or discussed in this book. They
are perspectives which are completely different from those held by “the
non-realized” and they differ from the perspectives held by many claiming to be
realized.
For many years, these perspectives
have prevented the author from playing again the formerly-assumed roles of
"The Truly Religious One," "The Spiritual Giant," "The
Non-Duality Expert," "The One at One with Brahman," "The
Godly One," or even "God."
These different perspectives, to the contrary, have allowed for the abidance to unfold
in an all-natural fashion; have allowed for the "Reality" to be overlaid on "reality" - that is, on the
relative; and have allowed for a life to happen as spontaneously and as freely
and as independently and as happily and as naturally as the lives led by a naturally-abiding deer
or bird or fish.
Only those who would live that freely might find an interest in the
awarenesses and understandings revealed in these 278 most different
perspectives.
One of the 278 offered is this:
Most who come to understand the pointers in this book might reach a state of
zero concepts, but many will feel as if they are dying or being robbed of their
“true identity.”
Some will feel that their “true identity” is being minimized and not
recognized for the glorious post-manifestation "SOMETHING" that it is
. . . all “heavenly” and “celestial” and “splendid” . . . maybe even
“saintly” or “godly” or “cherubic” or “spiritual” or “divine” or “holy” or
"something" which they believe will be "even above and
beyond" all of that.
Here, there is a
"no-something-special-at-all" perspective and also a "no-anything-special-at-all" perspective.
How about . . . “there”?
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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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."
