QUOTATIONS AND POINTERS dealing with NON-DUALITY, ADVAITA, NISARGA YOGA and more

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QUOTATIONS AND POINTERS dealing with NON-DUALITY, ADVAITA, NISARGA YOGA and more

INTRODUCTION

Sometimes, a realized teacher needs only to hear a few comments from a person to know exactly where on "the path" that person is.

Most times, only a few statements are required to reveal that a person is not on "the path" at all. In some rare cases, a few comments will reveal that the one speaking has transitioned all sense of personhood and has completed the "journey" to full realization in its entirety.

If one is traveling along "the path" - or is fixated at some point on "the path," which is presented nowadays as a four-step "path" which can shift one from identification with the false "I" to abiding as the Absolute - then the teacher will know which pointers to offer that might guide the seeker to the next step.

For those who will only have the opportunity to read these writings, there will be a set of pointers offered by category in a later section. The rationale for that?

When offering non-duality quotations, some collections provide key pointers that are offered in no particular order, but here the approach in one later section of the book will be to group pointers according to subject matter so that a seeker dealing with "body identification issues" can find quotations dealing with body identity which can lead the ready and earnest seeker to move beyond that identification;

thus, if a seeker has not transitioned beyond body identification, then that seeker will be able to visit the section that offers quotations and pointers under the heading "REGARDING 'THE BODY'."

However, in PART TWO, "Quotations That Other Seekers Found Significant," a variety of pointers will be shared that some readers of other books by this author took note of and marked for further consideration.

Those quotations and pointers can be shared with you as a result of the technological advances developed by Amazon.com. When readers highlight lines in a book that they are reading, that information can then be shared with others who might also be interested in those same passages.

QUOTATIONS THAT OTHER SEEKERS FOUND SIGNIFICANT

Over the years, readers of some of my books marked many quotes (labeled "Popular Highlights") which were read online.

Here are some of the quotes from my books which were highlighted by readers, along with some related pointers which were credited to Maharaj (S.N.M.):

"I do not have consciousness. I Am the consciousness—the consciousness currently manifested in what you perceive as a body."

"Persons experience; consciousness experiences nothing. Impure consciousness believes experiences to be real; pure consciousness simply witnesses."

"All personas are false. Nothing false can help differentiate the true from the false.”

All needs and desires are figments of the corrupted mind. Joy begins where desire ends."

"The irony is that anyone seeing 'a horrible world' is simply projecting himself / herself onto what he or she calls ‘the world'."

“To realize is to know that the world was only in you, in your mind, and that you've never been in the world. It's to know that you can't be 'in the world,' for the world is an imagining in the mind of persons. As many worlds exist as there are persons to imagine the way things are."

"When I speak of transcending, I refer to the fact that you must transcend all body identity, all mind identity, and now ... all religious or spiritual personalities as well."

“Ego is believing that there’s a vast multiplicity arranged in a hierarchy and that you’re the pinnacle; humility is knowing that you’re nothing, no-thing; Love is knowing that You, with a capital ‘Y,’ Are Everything.”

"It's useless to try to use your mind and its knowledge to seek outside yourself for the truth of your self, which is within. It is that very mind—the conditioned mind—that has prevented the knowing.”

"You must see each and every ‘thing’ that you are not. For now, seek not the truth. Only seek to realize all that is false. That is your beginning. When you eventually come to know The Great Reality, You will realize that all which is perceived via the five senses is false and is nothing more than learned ignorance. It is learned ignorance that spoiled your pure consciousness and resulted in a ‘mind'."

"Those alone who understand that I, the Absolute, am beyond the states of being and non-being realize my true nature, and all others are fools." (Krishna)

"Of the post-manifestation state, there is no 'knower' or 'experiencer' or 'one'."

". . . Not even of "I am." In that state one does not know that one is."

"You might take consciousness to be the essence of beingness, the re-purified consciousness to be the essence of non-beingness, and Awareness to be the essence of the Reality beyond both beingness and non-beingness."

"In the Absolute, no consciousness of the 'I-Amness' or the 'Beingness' or the 'Is-ness' happens."

"That which is perceived is not that which is real, and even that which is perceiving is not the real."

"Only after realization can the movement to the next level happen, which is abidance not merely as the (re-purified) Consciousness but as the Absolute."

"What persons take to be an experience is actually just the consciousness experiencing itself."

"Awareness removes all identification with anything other than the void or nothingness."

"'Spirituality' is merely understanding that (1) a spontaneous play is happening, (2) recognizing the play is a fraud, and then (3) finding the basis of the play."

"You understand that you are as you always were, are, and shall be: just being and just aware." (Later, post-manifestatation, even the awareness will not be aware-of.)

"Whatever persons take to be 'something' or 'something really important' is actually just much ado about nothing."

“Life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” (William Shakespeare)

"Maharaj said, “Just live your life as it comes, but alertly, watchfully, allowing everything to happen as it happens, doing the natural things the natural way . . . .”

"I got involved in spirituality, in the business of spirituality, [but] finally I lost that love of the Self." (S.N.M.)

". . . The 'end-game' will allow for the freedom to merely witness persons as they try to control and as they generate chaos or as they react to chaos and try to eliminate it."

"The option should be clear: the "personal you, persona-game" will trap you for the entirety of the manifestation in the fluctuations between gladness and sadness."

"Many claim to be totally realized, which would require that they presently abide in a no-concept, no-identity, non-dual manner."

["J.C. and Christ and Jesus" refer to Yeshu’a. He received and shared parts of the non-dual understanding after he abandoned organized religion.]

"Most Christian preachers and priests steer clear of those pointers since they do not understand Advaita and do not understand at all what he [Christ] was talking about."

"Cleave a piece of wood and I am there; lift up the stone and you will find Me there." (J.C.)

"Thus, it is not the heart or soul that hears, and it is not a human that hears. It is that inner resource that can hear. When it hears a point that is accurately pointing to Truth, then there is an inward resonance that is 'hearing'."

"It is the consciousness or awareness that hears via the inner resource."

"In fact, focusing on 'now' is just another mental exercise that reinforces the 'mind' and is as much a myth as 'the past' and 'the future'.”

At the moment one says, Right now, it is " . . . already 'not now'."

"You are manifested consciousness, and consciousness cannot 'have' anything, including power."

"To realize is also to understand that only an ego-state would seek 'meaning' and 'ambition'."

"The quintessence of the talk is clear. Your most important asset is the 'knowledge' that ‘you’ - the unmanifested energy which would combine with plant food elements – existed prior to emanation of mind. Hold on to this 'knowledge' and meditate. Nothing is superior to this, not even devotion to a guru." (S.N.M.)

“Whatever you have tried to understand during your spiritual search will prove false.” (S.N.M.)

". . . All persons nowadays have been exposed to far more programming and conditioning and acculturation and domestication than ever before, so their blockages are more comparable to a 'seventy-car pileup' than to a 'one-car accident' ...."

Maharaj said, “I am stabilized. There is no going into samadhi, or coming down from samadhi. That is over.”

". . . Most cultures reinforce maintaining image over being authentic."

Persons " . . . speak of attaining earthly power, and they will speak of utilizing 'other-worldly power' or tapping into 'the power of the universe' . . . ."

". . . Knowing that the non-realized can never attain enough power and will willingly search in all 'places' and will willingly pay for whatever they think will provide them with power."

". . . The source of all misery and suffering, so why would anyone want to fulfill that which will guarantee misery? Maharaj advised that seekers should seek to be free of their dreams, not seek to have them 'fulfilled'."

"You . . .  try to find stability at 'the level of experience'; might you be ready to find stability at the level of reality?"

"Accept that you cannot handpick right ideas and wrong ideas. Let them all go. That belief-free state is freedom."

The Mind

"Who fears something? Who is claiming something?"

". . . Trying to meet the expectations and demands of others’ beliefs is blocking you from a peaceful existence."

"Once persons 'see' that they are not a body that was born, once they 'see' that they are not defined by their thoughts, once they 'see' that they are not the spiritual or religious roles they have played, then the de-accumulation of beliefs and concepts and ideas can lead to the peace of Child Ignorance, and to being in touch with reality. From there, the doing stops and the being begins."

“ 'Thinking' (which is generated from an illusory mind that is nothing more than the storehouse of lies, myths and concepts) will disappear to the degree that attachment to, and belief in, lies and myths and concepts disappear."

"There is an alternative to trying to force a variable mind to be still. See the lies that are generating the troublesome thoughts. A person can never control the 'mind'.”

“You don’t have a drinking problem; you have a thinking problem” is pointing in the proper direction.

" . . . All roles are false and block the path to reality unless one transitions beyond them."

“Peace comes when we give up all roles and identities, knowing that we are not this body. Only then can you give up all attachments."

" . . . ‘Mind’ is merely the compilation of all the lies that humans are programmed to accept as truth."

"When angry or hurt, WHO is feeling the anger or hurt? What persona is causing you to be miserable or to suffer or to generate conflict?"

"He [Maharaj] spoke of memories as being time-bound and transient, so they cannot be real. He made the point that only that which is free of memories is timeless and therefore real."

". . . There are as many imaginary worlds as there are persons. 'The world' for each is in them, in their 'minds'."

"Since the 'mind' is the sum total of memories, and because all memories are distortions, then the 'mind' is the sum total of your distortions."

"You cannot go beyond the 'mind' when you are constantly looking at the 'mind' (that is, paying attention to 'thought')."

"Differences in appearance are caused by nothing more than a variance of the vibrational rate at which 'that' moves when manifested.)"

"What is not real is the [steel] beam as it appears; what is real is that swirling mass of energy that is not visible to the naked eye."

"The 'mind' is neither elemental nor energy, so it is not real and it will fade away."

"The 'contemporary 'mind' . . . is nothing more than a repository of lies."

". . . All learned ignorance - stored as a 'mind' - must be tossed if peace is to happen."

"Find the ego-state that is thinking the thought. When You realize that the so-called thinker of the thought is fictional, her / his fictional thought is spontaneously discredited and discounted."

"The Absolute has no nervous system. It is an energy field. The Absolute has no personal traits."

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)

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"Heaven and earth shall fade away."

--Yeshu'a (Jesus)

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"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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