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NEEDLESS WORK and COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE ACCEPTANCE and THE CURSE OF HABITS
The Uniqueness of the Nisarga Yoga
There
is talk here of a "path" and the "Direct Path Method" and a
"journey." "Path" and "journey" are placed in
quotation marks to indicate that there is no actual path to be traveled and
that there is no literal journey to be made.
Yet the irony is that
1. there are steps which must be taken and
2. there is a "movement" away from or a "shifting" away
from
though the movement is not away from where one is.
The movement is away from believing that one is what one is not; a movement
toward the understanding of what one IS; a movement away from all
identification; and - in the process of discarding all previously-held and
presently-held identifiers – functioning for the remainder of the manifestation
with zero concepts and zero identifications and zero “Identifications” as well.
But why? Why even set out on such an undertaking?
If this "journey" is to move seekers
1. away from the personal (from personality, from personas) and
2. to a no-self state and
3. eventually even to a no-Self state where it is seen that what has been taken
to be some "True Self" is really nothing more than a specialized form
of energy that is capable of Pure Witnessing if all blockages have been
discarded
then
4. how is it that so many other "objectives" have been added by so
many teachers to what is supposed to be a very simple, de-accumulating process,
namely, the taking of seven simple steps in an exact order which can move one
away from the blockages set in place by programming and conditioning and
acculturation and domestication and allow for the seeing of all that is false
and allow for the seeing of the Truth than can be known but that cannot be
stated?
Yet are those not also irrelevant objectives as well? Is the "goal"
of the "journey" to know more, or to un-learn all (that
"all" being the accumulation of all learned ignorance and all else
that is thought to be known)? Who sets out on a trip without identifying a
clear destination? In terms of literal trips, almost no one. In terms of
"religious" or "spiritual" or "philosophical" or
"ideological" journeys, many.
How many can look ahead and see the end of the non-dual path? What they see
depends on which of the many methods of teaching that they have accidentally
stumbled across.
(Why
"stumbled across"? Because the fully realized do not proselytize. Seekers
had to find Maharaj; he did not seek them or find them. The realize do not
knock on doors and hand out flyers inviting persons to take this "journey."
Meanwhile, finding one that is fully realized happens as rarely as finding a
bird's nest on the bottom of the sea.)
So what are other self-proclaimed “non-dual teachers” offering that is so far
removed from the Original Understanding and from Your Original Nature and from
what only Nisarga Yoga offers?
One so-called "swami" has said that
"the goal" of the Traditional Method of teaching Advaita Vedanta is
"first and foremost the acquisition of knowledge about Vedanta."
Acquisition? So much for de-accumulation. So much for un-learning.
As for Neo-Advaita, the claim is that "there is no journey at all."
The message is, "There is nothing to learn or un-learn, no work involved,
no effort required. Just rest in what you already are." Yet Maharaj made
clear that one cannot know what one already is until one discards all of the
false beliefs about what one mistakenly thinks one already is, for all such
misperceptions block one from knowing what one already is.
As for Neo-Vedanta, the term refers primarily to the method used by Vivekananda
and his followers who have tried to make the teachings more suitable to Western
tastes (where concepts and ego-states have dominated persons for millennia).
Some
examples of the concepts they teach include: "dream on an idea and be full
of it and you’ll succeed; believe in yourself; make yourself strong; find god
and gain power; use thoughts to create a new reality; engage in the noble goal
of seeking knowledge; you are responsible for what you are; acquire power; and
seek love."
Dream rather than awaken? The duality of "success" vs. . . . "failure"? Believe? God? Power? Use
thoughts? Create your own reality? Seek more knowledge, more power, more love?
That is, live unnaturally and supernaturally (meaning, in a spiritual, magical,
other-worldly manner) that removes you from being in touch with reality even
while claiming to be in touch with Reality? Ignore the "I AM THAT; I
AM" and speak only of "I AM THAT"?
[Talk about "lofty" and "elevated" and "supercilious" and "self-flattering" and self-loving" and "Self loving." Having such thoughts and using such words having one's actions being driven by such beliefs are the propellant which rockets so many seekers into "Foo-Foo Land."]
Such concepts are in direct opposition to the teachings presented via the
Direct Path, Nisarga Yoga approach. So the "goal" of the
"journey" of those non-Direct Path, non-Nisarga Yoga approaches is to
gain, to know, to seek forever, or to believe that the effects of programming
and conditioning and acculturation and domestication can be undone by merely
saying it is so?
Do seekers who stumble across one teacher or another even know what the
"goal" of that teacher's method is and how any given goal might
different from the goals of other teachers using different methods? If not,
then those seekers are among the types referenced earlier, setting out on a
trip without identifying any clear destination at all.
Only the Direct Path Method used in conjunction with the Nisarga Yoga makes
clear a final destination that involves abiding as Your original nature (which
in turn allows for abiding naturally rather than unnaturally or supernaturally
and which therefore allows for being totally free of all that has been
"added" and which is totally contrary to Your original nature).
What marks the non-original nature of the non-realized? That nature is one that
is false, bogus, counterfeit, inauthentic, an imitation and a sham forged in
the fiery hell of programming and conditioning and acculturation and
domestication and domestication and indoctrination. In the process of removing
all of those "add-on" effects, the Nisarga Yoga will not claim that
there are no steps to be taken. Here, it is made clear that there are seven
steps that must be taken.
The Nisarga Yoga will not claim that you need more knowledge. The Nisarga Yoga
will not claim that you need to employ soaring and elevated and noble sayings
that inspire dreaming and believing and acquiring and "creating your own
reality" (as if that is possible).
The rare messages - which are offered here - are that (1) you do not need to be taught anything but are invited to be un-taught all and that (2) you do not need to learn more but are invited to un-learn all.
What irony that an understanding which is based in de-accumulation nevertheless has so many who accumulate more and more and more:
more identities, more "Identities," more experiences, more special clothing, more special activities and exercises, more bells and bowls and crystals, more special teachers, more knowledge (which is actually just learned ignorance), ad infinitum.
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."
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