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

 

(Also from the eBook A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE: Additional Perspectives Which Came During The Movement Along The Direct "Path" To Realization):

Among persons, only a child—existing in a pre-programming, pre-conditioning, pre-domestication, per-acculturation, per-indoctrination, per-brainwashed state—will witness without judgment, without thoughts, and without beliefs based in duality.

A child - prior to being exposed to programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, indoctrination, brainwashing - will be in the state which Maharaj (in his later talks especially) invited all seekers to return to, namely, a no-mind, zero-concepts, no-beliefs, and, therefore, non-dual state.

For adults to be able to witness without judgment, without thoughts, and without beliefs based in duality requires a shift “back” to the state of child ignorance (or the no-knowing, “zero-concepts” state) by casting aside all of the nonsense which has been generated by conditioning, programming, etc.

Nothing is more at peace than a healthy child if its physical needs have been met and if it is still free of mental and emotional contaminants. Only later - when driven blindly and unconsciously by belief-induced ignorance and insanity - will that child as an adult experience fear, and frustration over unmet desires, and angst, and anger, and delusions, and hatred and all of the other nonsense and chaos which accompany the warped perspectives which were passed down to them during childhood and which their cultures will continue to reinforce throughout adulthood.

As long as health and food and shelter requirements have been met, perfect peace happens among those that reach a no-mind, zero-concepts, no-beliefs, and non-dual condition. Contentment can only happen consistently in that pre-mind state of existence. If “Realized,” then contentment happens as a result of "returning to" that no-mind state.

Contentment happens as a result of removing the layers of concepts that obscure the universal, formerly-unblocked consciousness so that it is as available now as it was during the brief period of childhood which happened prior to the obscuring or blocking of the pure, universal consciousness. A key consideration:

Why should one who currently takes himself or herself to be "an adult" settle for less contentment than that experienced by a child?

That which the childhood stage offers (when the consciousness manifests but before eventually deteriorating into identification with the "I") is nothing more than an opportunity to know that you exist, period.

As steps are taken to shift from belief in the false "I" to abidance as the Absolute or as one’s "Original Nature," the no-mind, zero-concepts, no-beliefs, non-dual stage is again nothing more than an opportunity for you know that you exist (that is, to know "I AM," at least for now).

During the child no-knowing stage, a fictional mind had not yet come about as a result of hearing the lies about who or what you are and had not yet come about and assumed any false role or identity or personality or sense of different-from-ment or better-than-ment. All merely happened via natural instinct and body chemistry rather than programming, conditioning, etc.

Here is why worldwide ignorance has not been stamped out and will not be stamped out: persons believe that the planet-wide epidemic of ignorance could be solved if only people would acquire more knowledge.

The non-dual understanding is that the knowledge is the learned ignorance and that the learned ignorance is the knowledge.

The ignorance is that which the masses have been taught and have learned and have unquestioningly accepted as “wisdom” and “truth,” and their ignorance will only be compounded if more of the same type knowledge is injected into the equation.

Yet that is exactly what happens on a regular basis as the 97% of the population who claim to be affiliated with one organized religion or another show up regularly to present their minds to programmers and say, basically, "Hey, leader, fill 'er up"; 

and it is exactly what happens as millions shows up regularly at their spiritual meetings to present their minds to their newest programmers / re-programmers and say, basically, "Hey, leader of the program, fill 'er up"; 

and that is what happens all over the planet when any persons show up anywhere on a regular basis to allow persons to implant in their minds new messages of programming and conditioning and brainwashing, etc.

With only a few exceptions did Maharaj allow seekers to visit his two daily sessions for more than a few weeks. Then, he sent them home to contemplate in the silence, alone, the pointers he offered. Never was their an invitation to join anything; 

to support anything with tithes amounting to 10% of one's income; to become "a member" or "a follower"; or to attend regularly meeting or services or sessions for the entire remainder of one's lifetime. 

If one with a need to be restored to sanity finds an ethical, competent counselor, and if the restoration to sanity is a possibility and happens, then that ethical counselor will free that client up to move on and to abide sanely for the remainder of the manifestation. 

It is only an unethical counselor who will write in that client's name on a weekly calendar for sessions which are to happen for the next twenty or thirty years (or until the counselor's retirement, whichever comes first).

Ignorance could be stamped out if persons were to forfeit their revered ideas and concepts and dogma (a.k.a., “beliefs”). Since that happens so rarely but is a prerequisite for realization, only a few will ever Realize (that is, be restored to sanity).

There is no lever to pull or handle to push that can produce a brain-flush; here, nothing other than the Advaitin / Nisargan process was ever found that was able to do that.Why? 

Because only the Advaitin / Nisargan process encouraged un-learning it all rather than recommending that one should "learn it all, learn everything we know and everything we teach and everything in our holy or big book which will tell you exactly how to think and feel and talk and behave.

(Were the brain to be flushed of all of the concepts / beliefs that make up the "mind," then the peace of the Child Ignorance Stage could happen. Unlike adult-age ignorance, the Child-age Ignorance Stage (which is really a misnomer) actually refers to the "no-mind," pre-programming, pre-knowledge, pre-ignorance state.

Children early on have not yet accumulated the ignorance / knowledge from which adults must eventually be freed if those adults are ever to return to that former, sane, peaceful stage.)

The level of peace which a child enjoys in that so-called "state of ignorance" or "not-knowing"

(a) prior to programming, conditioning, etc. and 

(b) prior to being assigned false identities, 

will – in most cases - never be "realized" again in its lifetime. The exceptions are those that take all of the seven steps (referenced but never enumerated by Maharaj) and thereby return to that "state" of peace which exists when we can once again be free of learned ignorance and the influence of the illusions of the body-mind-personality triad.

However, subject-object witnessing, or objective witnessing, still involves duality (at least as far as the not-totally-unobstructed consciousness "sees" it), so more on that shall be offered.

To be continued.

Please enter into 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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