The Pure, Universal Consciousness, Pure Awareness, and a "Proper Perspective"

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The Pure, Universal Consciousness, 

Pure Awareness, 

and a

"Proper Perspective"

“I talk to you from the perspective of the universal consciousness.” 

---Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

[Once again, it can be seen how totally spot on Maharaj was when he spoke "from the perspective of the universal consciousness" - that is, the state to which the pure, unblocked consciousness can return if it is no longer distorted by the introduction of what Maharaj called, “learned ignorance” and the “stupidity and insanity” which result from ignorant and stupid and insane programming, conditioning, acculturation, domestication, brainwashing, and indoctrination.

His speaking "from the perspective of the universal consciousness" assured that his words would be unlike the thoughts and words and actions which are commonplace among the always "non-realized" masses who speak from the standpoint of a political agenda or a religious agenda or a spiritual agenda or a business, money-making agenda or a personality-false-identification-based agenda or a totally-dualistic agenda.]

To continue:

Early on, when Maharaj was using a religious / non-duality version of the Ultimate Medicine, he was not talking solely from the perspective of the universal consciousness. Proof? 

Religious concepts are a recent invention (some 5000 years old or so); thus, such talk cannot be “universal” in its nature. Additionally, when Maharaj was using a spiritual / non-duality version of the Ultimate Medicine, he was not talking solely from the perspective of the universal consciousness. Proof?

Spirituality and spiritual exercises and spiritual accoutrements (special bowls on special pillows being struck by special sticks, special smoke, speaking humming sounds, crystals, amulets, robes, holy books, etc.) are all relatively recent inventions, so talks about those cannot be “Universal” in their nature. 

Seeing the truth of that fact about a spiritual / non-duality version of the Ultimate Medicine, Maharaj advised: “Give up spirituality” and “follow your normal inclinations" and "forget spirituality."

So, what is “universal,” as far as humans are concerned? A composite unity (an elemental plant food body circulating air and conscious-energy) which has always had a brain but which only developed a mind within a part of the brain during relatively recent stages of evolution as the brain expanded from a one-cup size to a three-and-one-half-cup size.

The brain is “universal”; the mind is not, so Maharaj’s talks were truly offered from the perspective of the universal consciousness when he began focusing on the disastrous effects of the human mind and called for seekers to taken the action to be free from that mind which was originally an asset but has become humankind’s greatest liability.

So, Maharaj’s talks when he spoke from the universal consciousness urged seekers to be rid of the mind, to be free of all beliefs, to reach a state of zero concepts, etc. 

Those pointers were pointing the way back to the “universal awareness” and to abiding under the auspices of the presently-manifested universal consciousness and under the auspices of the universal awareness (which can be known only when the universal consciousness is manifested and only when the blockages of the consciousness have been removed, blockages which were set in place early on by programming and conditioning and domestication and acculturation and brainwashing and indoctrination).

[Note: The prerequisite for the manifestation of consciousness is the presence of a confining space formed after elements take a certain shape and which has the ability to house and sustain conscious-energy, temporarily.

The prerequisite for awareness is the presence of temporarily-manifested consciousness which has undergone the realization process (whereby belief in all learned ignorance has been abandoned), paving the way for consciousness to facilitate aware-of-ness.]

So what does (1) one of Maharaj’s key points, to “Give up spirituality” and “follow your normal inclinations" and "forget spirituality," share in common with (2) one of the New York Daily News’s points in their headline yesterday announcing “God isn’t fixing this”?

Some said that Maharaj showed great courage when he began sharing a no-religion, no-spirituality, mind-focused message. Courage had nothing to do with it. Wisdom had everything to do with it. 

Being free of magical thinking that dreams up other-worldly Powers who supposedly control events of earth had everything to do with it. Being sane and sound and free of being driven by nonsensical beliefs had everything to do with it.

Same with the Daily News: Courage had nothing to do with it. Wisdom had everything to do with it. Being free of magical thinking that dreams up other-worldly Powers who control events of earth had everything to do with it. Being sane and sound and free of being driven by nonsensical beliefs had everything to do with it.

That is what an ability to tap into the universal consciousness and to speak from that perspective looks like. It looks just like Maharaj’s pointers advising persons to give up trying to use a God to get what they want and to avoid what they do not want to face or do not want to take action in regards to. 

It looks like the New York Daily News’s pointer advising persons to give up trying to use a God to get what they want and to give up using meaningless platitudes in order to avoid what one does not want to face and avoid having to take action.

[It has been witnessed during this composite unity's 73-years that having "total faith in God" and "turning it all over to him" provides a the justification and rationalization which results in doing nothing, accepting no responsibility, and basically sitting on one's ass and ignoring.

Both Maharaj pointers above and the Daily News’s headline from yesterday were derived from the universal consciousness, not from the all-pervasive blocked consciousness and not from the agendas of the false personality identifications assigned and assumed all over the planet which determine the billions of thoughts which are thought on a daily basis by billions of persons all over the planet and which determine the billions of statements which are uttered on a daily basis by billions of persons all over the planet.

It is only that universal consciousness which can speak while “bypassing” any and all who-ness or WHO-ness, any and all personality identifications.

Anything spoken from the viewpoint of a false identity must be false. Yesterday, it was seen how many U.S. politicians on the right speak from the perspective of an ego-state (be that ego-state “The Super Religious One” or “The Spiritual Giant”).

Maharaj also saw how many were speaking from the perspective of these ego-states: “The Super Religious One” or “The Spiritual Giant” or “The Super Seeker” or “The Supreme Self” or “God.” Because all of those are false identities, any thoughts they generate or words they inspire must also be false.

Words such as “The people killed in the latest of a constant series of mass murders in the U.S. are in our thoughts and prayers” are spoken from the perspective of “The Super Religious One” and / or “The Spiritual Giant” and (especially) "The Shrewd, Manipulative Politician."

On a planet where the misery and suffering of humanity are rotted in the mind (the source of thoughts) and where dependent, fear-based persons are constantly looking to some "other-worldly Power" to guard and protect them both now and for eternity (a key motive of their prayers), then the use of a trite cliché about "thoughts and prayers" in every case of mass murder is to allow inaction to continue.

Again, to speak from the blocked consciousness rather than from the universal consciousness and to speak from the perspective of “The Super Religious One” and / or “The Spiritual Giant” is to avoid having to take any action. 

That allows for escapism and avoidance and dissociation and from having to act; it also provides a free ticket to “Foo Foo Land” or to “The Land of Hidden Payoffs.” 

The only difference in those playing the role of “The Holy Men” in India

and those playing “The Holy Man” in the U.S. after each mass shooting

is in the outward appearance which is determined by which type of silly posturing one chooses to - or is driven to - engage in.

Beyond their differing outward appearances, all of them have developed strategies which allow them to take no action. For whatever reason that one does not want to take an action which is clearly being called for, the act of trying to escape the relative - or trying to escape having to take an action that is obviously being called for – has nothing to with being “Realized” or “Holy” or Special.” It only has to do with self-serving motives and hidden agendas.

And self-serving motives and hidden agendas have nothing to do with what can be revealed via the universal consciousness and have everything to do with being driven by the selfish desires and unwarranted fears generated by false personality identifications.

To be continued.

Please enter the silence of contemplation.

 

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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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