Advaita Vedanta: NEEDLESS WORK, COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE ACCEPTANCE and THE CURSE OF HABITS

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NEEDLESS WORK, COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE ACCEPTANCE and THE CURSE OF HABITS

What Exactly Does “Nisarga” Mean? Part Two

“There are three means of abidance - natural, unnatural, or supernatural - and only one of those allows for the abidance to happen in a sane, logical, realized, awakened, and no-false-beliefs manner.”

--Floyd Henderson

Maharaj on the Unnatural

“Just look at this mad pursuit that you have been indulging in or have been conditioned to indulge in by society: ‘I am so-and-so’, ‘I must become this’ or ‘I must become that’- ambition, status, name, fame and what not! It’s quite unnatural; you are trying to become what you are not. Even before you could say or feel the ‘I am’, you are! This feeling ‘I am’ has appeared on your True state and is dependent, transient and false. The identification of the ‘I am’ with the body has completely tricked you and now you are trapped. Understand all this and get out of it.”

Maharaj on the Supernatural / Spiritual

“Whatever spiritual things you aspire to know are all happening in this objective world, in the illusion. All this is happening in the objective world. All is dishonesty. There is no truth in this fraud.”

and

“There is no question of elevating to a higher level. Here it is only a question of understanding.”

and

“When the birth is disproved, the great noble meaning of spirituality and the meaning of this world - everything - is disproved.”

and

“First of all you identify something as being good or bad for yourself. Then, in an effort to acquire good or to get rid of the bad, you have invented a God. Then you worship such a God and . . . you pray to that God for something good to happen to you.”

and

“Whatever you have tried to understand during your spiritual search will prove false.”

and

“I have no faith in anything which has ever been told, not even what has been told by the Vedas. Only my own experience.”

The term “Nisarga” points to a way of functioning throughout the manifestation that is natural rather than unnatural or supernatural.

It is natural when earth elements combine to form a space - a body-cum-consciousness - and as air circulates into and out of an elemental plant-food body throughout the period that the consciousness remains manifest.

It is unnatural to believe that that there is anything more at play than a temporary manifestation of an elements-air-energy triad.

It is natural throughout nature for elemental bodies to form brains that function in tandem with the manifest consciousness, be the elemental body called “bird” or “fish” or “fowl” or “deer”;

it is unnatural, however, if a brain-consciousness-”mind” triad happens, as is the case among non-realized persons.

It is unnatural for a “mind” to form and to use its false content to conclude that one’s identity is a body-mind-personality triad.

It is supernatural for a “mind” to form and to believe that an element-air-energy triad is something “special,” “holy,” “godly,” “religious,” “spiritual,” or “other-worldly” as opposed to “worldly.”

It is unnatural and nonsensical to believe that naturally-occurring events such as tornadoes, hurricanes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, floods, etc., have an origin that is supernatural and to believe that they are set into motion by some “supreme being” in another world in order to “send a signal” or “a message” or “a punishment” to persons residing on this planet who have offended a god living in some other world.

No nonsense can be believed - and no unnatural / supernatural living can happen - without the formation, first, of a “mind.” Thus, considerations regarding freedom from living under the influence of the fiction-filled mind continue:

What is that inner resource, that inner guru? It is the vestige of pure consciousness that remains, deeply buried beneath the waste called “your mind.”

“Your mind” obscures the consciousness because that “mind” is so marred with its belief in lies and superstitions and all of its “knowledge,” all that learned ignorance, that it leaves you insane . . . so insane that you believe that the lies you've been told are true and that the dreams of the planet are real.

If your body has disappeared, how can any person remain? And if no person remains, how can a mind remain?

In order to know “(the great) Reality”, you must be sane. In order to be sane, you must be out of your mind.

For their suffering to end, persons must understand the functioning of the totality; must see that all suffering is rooted in the assumption of ego-states as false identities; must realize that they have no “mind” but instead are being driven by the “minds” of others (which they now think is their own “mind”);

must be aware of the fact that a “mind” is nothing more than the storehouse of all the lies and beliefs and ideas and concepts that must be cast aside in order to end human suffering; and must see not only (a) the limitations of doingness but also (b) the timelessness and limitless nature of beingness ... and non-beingness as well.

In this relative existence, nothing is going on but a breeziness of play, but persons are caught up in a tornado of work, in a storm of seriousness, and in a tempest of drama.

So-called “life” in this sphere of consciousness is just a process of functioning, and while the “mind” of a person will dream up notions about separation or differentiation, none exists.

The process just keeps on happening. A religion or a philosophy, a state or a nation, a hero or a villain . . . all are just part of the process of functioning that has been marred by the adoption of dualistic beliefs and concepts that are stored in the mind.

All those are just dreamed up names, and all such dreamed up labels (dreamed up and then stored in that accumulation of corruptions called “the mind”) generate a false sense of reality.

The “journey” aims to put you fully in touch with reality. To be out of touch with reality is to be insane. This “journey” is about once again being in touch with reality in order to be free of the bondage of the illusions and the effects of the falsehoods of “a mind” exposed to years of acculturation.

Among religions and philosophies, there is no other means that can produce the necessary brain-flush save completion of the entire non-dual “journey” which invites the dissolution of all of the contamination that is “the mind.”

Ultimately, the Direct Path Method is the method of teaching that has the “goal” of becoming the non-teaching by way of un-teaching.

Natural (Nisarga) living happens when the brain and consciousness and intuitive sense inspire self-constructive behavior (relatively speaking); unnatural and supernatural living happen when the brain and blocked consciousness and fiction-filled “mind” drive self-destructive behaviors (relatively speaking) or nonsensical behavior.

Nisarga functioning is naturally simple, naturally light; unnatural and supernatural living are complex and burdensome and weighty. The Nisarga Yoga, used here in combination with the Direct Path Method of teaching the non-dual understanding, invites seekers to be aware of the way that

(1) programming and conditioning and acculturation and domestication have inspired the drive to live unnaturally and induced efforts to live supernaturally; and to be aware that

(2) there is an alternate means of abidance throughout the manifestation that allows for movement through the relative existence with a natural ease and grace and calmness and freedom and peace.

Tomorrow: A Little Learning Is A Dangerous Thing, But Only a Little Un-Learning Can Be Even More Dangerous

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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