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IF ONLY THREE HOURS OF MANIFESTATION REMAIN: The “Final” Talks of Floyd
Above All: Be Love, But Then Live In An “As If” Fashion So That You Can Enjoy Love As A Relative Expression Of ABSOLUTE, REAL LOVE As Well
(Part Four)
Prior to realization, there is no THAT ONLY, and post-realization there is no THAT ONLY. The summative statement “I AM THAT; I AM” points as much to Reality post-realization as it did prior to realization.
[Consider
the added confusion among the masses after Moses plagiarized that Eastern
phrase, claimed he heard the words being spoken from a “burning-bush-cum-god,”
failed to include the semicolon, and reported that god has identified “himself”
as “I AM THAT I AM.” Ah, so profound in its sound, yet so totally distorted.]
So for thousands of years, “I AM THAT; I AM” has been misunderstood by billions
upon billions of non-seekers . . . and by far-too-many seekers as well.
Here,
the invitation is to know the THAT-ness in order that freedom from delusions
and distortions can manifest in order that the remainder of the AM-ness can be
marked by sanity and then freedom and then peace and then happiness.
For those who think that THAT is all that matters, they have missed the point
completely: the only thing that really “matters” post-realization IS the
remaining IS-ness.
(Who
would go to the effort of journeying to a store during the winter, buying a
coat, but then not wearing it when venturing outside on especially-cold days?
Who would journey to a store during the winter, buy a coat, but then stay in
the store forever? No one that is sane.
This deal is about completing the “journey” to find that which has been sought
in order to be free of the insanity and chaos and dis-ease and disharmony or
instability that mark the relative existence when not realized.
It
was that drive to be free of the insanity and chaos and dis-ease and disharmony
or instability during the relative existence that precipitated the search to
begin with.
What sense would it make, therefore, to find that which was being sought and
then try to abandon the relative existence without ever having enjoyed the
insanity-free, chaos-free, disharmony-free, and instability-free existence that
can happen via realization? None. That would make no sense at all. Consider:
Thoreau: “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front
only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to
teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I have not lived.”)
Post-manifestation, after the elements forming the plant food body recycle into
the universal pool of elements, and after the formerly-circulating oxygen
merges into the universal pool of air, and after the conscious-energy merges
into the Absolute, there will be awareness; however, there will be no
aware-of-ness and there will be no conscious-of-ness.
Whatever is to happen with the composite unity - and via the composite unity
that “you” presently are - must happen now. Why? Because there will be no “one”
remaining, post-manifestation, to be . . . or to know / understand . . . or to
enjoy anything.
To
claim that one has realized but then to fail to overlay the newly-understood
Reality on the relative existence in order to allow the remainder of the
manifestation to unfold in a sound and logical and rational and (to use Maharaj’s
terms) a stupidity-free and insanity-free manner is clear evidence that the
life of the one making such a claim is most assuredly continuing to happen in
the same insane and unsound and illogical and irrational manner as it was
happening prior to any beliefs about “having realized.”
Deer in the wild know the I AM, but they do not know THAT. Deer in the wild
abide in a sound and logical and rational and stupidity-free and insanity-free
manner, focusing only on the AM-ness while focusing not at all on the
THAT-ness.
Those who would live supernaturally are actually living unnaturally and,
therefore, are not living naturally at all. The actual “end goal” of engaging
in all of the “work” and “effort” that goes into realization is not to know
THAT and to abide as THAT ONLY, forsaking all of the joys and pleasures that
can only happen during the relative.
The “end-goal” is to be free of all ideas and concepts and beliefs and
attitudes that drive efforts to abide supernaturally (i.e., in a spiritual or
magical or mythical or “kindergartenly” fashion) and to be free of the
influence of all thoughts and words and deeds that result in non-natural
living.
That
is, the end goal is to abide as the deer abide, enjoying the enjoyable parts of
the AM-ness and / or witnessing the not-so-enjoyable happenings during the
AM-ness without ever being occupied or pre-occupied with THAT at all.
Here, in October of 2011, when the heart with a 95% blockage in a main artery reached
its peak of functioning most unnaturally, there was a constant awareness of the
heart’s presence because of stabbing jolts of pain, because of its irregular
and arrhythmic beating, and because of its pounding away in a manner that made
it impossible to ignore.
By contrast, when the heart is functioning naturally, neither you nor I nor
anyone else is aware of the presence of the heart. So it is post-realization
when natural abidance merely happens spontaneously.
There
is no need for awareness of awareness. All just happens spontaneously. While
the natural functioning of a heart can allow the relative existence to unfold
in a peaceful and even enjoyable manner without the slightest need to focus on
the heart, so too can the understanding of THAT allow the relative existence to
unfold in a natural and peaceful and even enjoyable fashion without any longer
needing to focus on THAT at all.
The deer that function in a manner that is not plagued with programming, conditioning, domestication, and acculturation are abiding in the manner that should be the end goal of every seeker.
The
deer are fully and automatically and spontaneously and instinctively and
mindlessly and unthinkingly engaged in the AM-ness. There is nothing more than
that which should be sought by any seeker.
Again, the truly realized do not run. They do not run to and they do not run
from. They abide with a sense of impartiality, witnessing all objectively and
accurately from a platform of neutrality.
They are fully and automatically and spontaneously and instinctively and mindlessly and unthinkingly engaged in the AM-ness, no longer working to focus primarily on the THAT-ness; therefore, there is no disparity between the I AM and the I AM THAT;
there
is no disparity in the AM-ness and the THAT-ness among the fully realized; and
there is no disparity in Real Love and the expression of relative, physical
love when the latter is understood to be as much an expression of the Oneness
as Real Love itself:
Maharaj said, “Love is knowing that I am Everything,” and among the Realized
still engaged in the physical expression of the unicity, there is no disparity
and there is no misunderstanding about what the physical expression is actually
representing or expressing.
Among those not engaged in the AM-ness aspect of expressing the Oneness, some
are abstaining because their partner left, because their partner “died,”
because of health issues, because of aging issues, and for a number of other
all-natural or understandable reasons. That is normal.
The realized are not immunized against all things relative, so such effects as
the above can result, naturally; those people are completely prepared for
whatever the relative brings and will feel whatever feelings arise as a result
of whatever happens while being exempted from ego-state-driven emotional
intoxication around relative events. Thus, they remain at peace, whether “with”
or “without” things relative.
There was a time when Maharaj enjoyed sex and a time when he no longer engaged
in the act. Yet at no time, post-realization, did he avoid sex because he had a
belief that abstinence would render him “supernatural” or “spiritual” or “lofty”
or “noble” or “exalted” or “elevated.”
And at no time, post-realization, did he not know Love, and at no time post-Realization
was he not aware of the Oneness (such awareness being a prerequisite for
understanding what Real Love is). Expressed in a relative manner or not, Real
Love was known, whether shown literally or not.
By contrast, consider those who offered the advice that “you should encourage
abstinence.” They are not engaging in the AM-ness aspect of expressing the
Oneness because they believe it makes them “more spiritual” or “more pure” or “better
than other persons” or “more pleasing to god.” The result?
They
are abiding in an unnatural and abnormal fashion. They are as deluded as they
were prior to claiming realization. They are not free of beliefs but are as
trapped in beliefs as ever.
Here, it is freedom from beliefs (and desires and fears) which guarantees that
there is no running after sex (or anything else) and there is no running away
from sex (or anything else).
Here, the abidance happens naturally and spontaneously, as if the relative existence were a pleasurable journey that is happening in an AS IF manner and AS IF it were happening via an airplane that is in “auto-pilot” mode and that is sailing smoothly and calmly above the fray.
Furthermore,
there is no advice here to engage in sex that is an expression of the Oneness
or not to engage in sex at all . . . no advice to “do this” or to “not do that.”
The pointer is that when persons are lost in the role of “The Spiritual Giant,”
they will behave in a supernatural and / or unnatural manner, and that is
exactly the case with the two who are now playing the role of “Religious and
Spiritual Giants Who Are the Givers of Unsolicited Advice and Who Would Control
What All Persons Do and Do Not Do With Their Own Bodies.”
Offered above were some logical reasons why some no longer engage in the
expression of Love via the relative act of expressing Love (though they most
assuredly still know True Love);
yet
here, the pointer is that to believe that one is better (and better than “others”)
for choosing abstinence in a most unnatural and illogical conclusion and has
nothing at all to do with actual realization.
Finally, for those who are using persons as sex objects to build up their own
egos, yes, abstinence for a period of time might be indicated if it would allow
their focus to shift away from self-gratification and self-focus to a focus on
the search for authenticity and for a complete understanding of the statement
that “Love is knowing that I am Everything.”
Here, meanwhile, where Nisarga (Natural) living is the only rule, no natural act can or will be blacklisted, advice from those assuming the role of “Spiritual Giants” notwithstanding.
To be continued.
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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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