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QUOTATIONS AND POINTERS dealing with NON-DUALITY, ADVAITA, NISARGA YOGA and more
Quotations and Pointers by Category and Subject Matter
Some have found it beneficial to receive individual pointers on which they can focus in the silence. Occasionally, removed from a book-length treatise on a topic, that singular-focus-opportunity might be more enlightening; hence, the quotes being offered now.
This reference
was made earlier to the content of "PART TWO":
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
which 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'."
REGARDING THE BODY
The closest thing to a “you” are the eternal elements and energy which have
come together temporarily; it is those which are, which were, and which shall
be. They are devoid of body or mind or personality when unmanifested and
capable, via full realization, of being free of body identification and a
corrupted “mind” and personas while manifested.
You are invited to see how all desire and longing and fear can be transcended
when you no longer embrace the limited identity of a physical body or the
corrupted “mind” or any fictional personality.
If you would realize, then you must understand how this body came to be and
where you were during the days prior to conception.
Find what you
are when nothing is because that which you truly are NOW is what you were
before and what you will truly be “LATER.”
[In response to one who claimed that he "has had the same body" for
"his entire life"]: "Trillions of cells have 'come and gone,' so
with the exception of a few organs, a chain of bodies that you took to be 'you'
has 'come and gone.'
"It must be asked, 'Among all of those different body forms, which one of
those 'me's' would any person claim to be 'the real me'? What 'me' would a
'mind' assume to be 'the one, real me'?" What a distortion to talk of a
'me'."
[To one talking about suicide in response to "marital problems"]:
"If you cling to the false identity of 'husband,' you shall never find the
real so peace will never happen consistently. If you find the real, then
'husbanding' or 'not husbanding' can happen . . . and consistent peace will
happen either way."
Understand that persons always take an illusion and either dualistically
upgrade the illusion or downgrade the illusion. For example, consider the lie,
“This world is real and after death, there is another world that will provide
eternal continuity for the body-mind-personality.”
Persons upgrade the illusion of “this world” with the promise of another world
in heaven for the “good people” and they downgrade the illusion of “this world”
with the threat of another world called "hell" that awaits the “bad”
people. Similarly, “I am a man” can be an initial illusion.
Egotism can generate the belief that “I am a spiritual man,” which is nothing
more than an upgrade of the illusion. Guilt can take the initial illusion that
"I am a man" and generate the belief that “I am a bad man,” which is
nothing more than a downgrading of the illusion. At the root, though, is
misidentifying the Self with the body.
The gatekeeper of your prison is, surprisingly, realization. Realization can
free you from the roles, and freedom from those roles will free you from the
drama.
Most persons are
so addicted to the chaos, so lost in the drama, and so removed from reality
that they will never search for a way out of their prison. They will move about
within the confines of their prison and believe that they are free.
Few will ever have any desire to be totally independent. Few will ever begin
the movement toward total independence by first abandoning identification with
the body.
Fewer still will take the seven-step “journey” to reality and know true freedom and absolute independence.
Most will fight
to the end in defense of nonsensical, magical beliefs that were dreamed up by
uneducated men during ancient times. What about you? How free do you want to
be? How soon do you want that freedom?
Frustration results from a sense of limitation. Frustration cannot end,
therefore, as long as humans are identified with that which is limited: a
physical body, a “mind,” and personality.
I Am not personal; I have no individuality, so how could I have individual
meaning or an individual purpose?
For now, the consciousness is manifested, so whatever happens . . . happens. Nothing more is involved.
The word “ends” is placed in quote marks when reference is made to what happens to a body after the consciousness unmanifests. Why?
Because a body -
for example, that of a human - is an elemental, plant-food body, and neither
energy nor matter can be created or destroyed.
The elements that “make up” a body (human or otherwise) were not created during
the gestation period or at the event most call “birth.” The elements already
existed. They have always existed.
There was no one or One who created them. The elements are permanent and will always exist, though no physical body will ever exist permanently. The temporary shape of a body, the elements will forfeit.
Moreover, the nonsense revealed when a couple claims "We made a baby"
is being taken to new heights of ignorance-based distortion and misunderstanding
by those who are claiming that "personhood" begins at the moment of
conception when in actuality the concept of "personhood" itself is a
myth.
The fact is that, from the time an act of friction triggers the formation of a
body process to the time that the "end" of the body comes about -
that is, from the moment of conception to the happening that the non-realized
call "death" - any beliefs about there being things that are
"personal" and any belief that there is any real "person"
(meaning, real persona or true role or actual assumed ego-state or real
identity) is a figment of the imagination generated by a fictional-filled
"mind" (to be discussed in detail in the next chapter).
All that ends, therefore, is an appearance, a combination of elements that
appeared to be a certain shape. That “shape” is not what it appears to be at
all since it is mainly space, so the elements - as will be the case with the
elements here which some call "floyd" - can eventually fit into
something as small as an urn.
How did the elements—which can combine in manners that appear to be various
shapes (human, animal, plant, etc.) combine into the space called “you”? After
an act of friction by your parents that transferred a sperm cell from one body
to another and resulted in the fertilization of an egg, all of the development
of what they would call “their child” nine months later happened automatically.
Your "mother" ate plant-food (or ate animals that had eaten plants)
and the elements that she ate—which contained the conscious-energy—automatically
combined inside her womb in a fashion that persons take to be a process of
"creating." Nothing is being created.
The elements already existed; then, they merely "came together" in a
different form, and they will eventually "come apart."
(See "The
Second Law of Thermodynamics" as another example that supports Maharaj's
assertion that science would someday provide proofs that affirm each and every
non-duality principle.)
The conscious-energy was contained in plants and / or animals, and your
"mother" consumed those elements-cum-conscious-energy.
Such
transference of energy had originally sustained her cells, regularly replacing
many of them and resulting in a change in her appearance. Similarly,
post-fertilization, some of what she consumed re-grouped automatically as cells
/ space / chemicals that would form a space / body / form that would eventually
be called “you.”
Nothing was created, so how can anything be destroyed? What Is, IS. Only faulty
programming and wrong conditioning have convinced persons that what is is
something other than what it truly is. There is no such thing as “creating a
baby” or “creating a body.”
By comparison, H2O can appear to an uninformed observer to become many
different things (vapor, rain, a lake, mist, ice, etc.) The uninformed can
claim that they placed water in a container and "made" ice cubes. Not
true. They made nothing.
As with the process that automatically allows elements to form a body, no one
is creating anything. Be it the process that allows plant cells to transform
eventually into "human cells" and take the form of a body or be it
the process that allows a container of water placed inside a freezer to
eventually take the form of ice cubes - no process requires any human to do
anything once the process has been set into motion.
H2O is H2O in spite of how persons perceive it, in spite of how persons might
label its various manifestations, in spite of the fact that the masses wrongly
perceive that all the appearances it can assume are really different things,
and in spite of the fact that persons wrongly believe that they are creating
things.
So it is with the elements and bodies that only appear to be different and only
appear to be "created" bodies. What was not born cannot die. What already
exists cannot be created. What exists cannot be destroyed.
Only the appearance of something observed with a physical eye or eyes can be
mistaken for the real by those who do not know Truth. (Take an electron
microscope to be tantamount to "The Third Eye" which allows seeing
beyond the physical appearance and "seeing" / understanding what is real
beyond any outward appearance.)
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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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."
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