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IF ONLY THREE HOURS OF MANIFESTATION REMAIN: The “Final” Talks of Floyd
It Is All Very Simple
No
other teacher gave us such insight - via the transcripts of his final talks -
than Maharaj provided by allowing the reader “to sit beside him” in the loft
and to see how a realized guide “handles” mahasamadhi. (It turns out that it is
the exact, same way that the realized guide “handles” the relative existence.)
Maharaj modeled the way that the relative existence can happen with dignity,
even though a body is racked with pain. No other guide displayed so precisely
and intimately and transparently
(a) by way of the content of his final talks and
(b) via his demeanor during the final days of the manifestation,
the calm and peaceful way that the relative existence can happen and the calm
and peaceful way that the end of the relative existence can happen. And his
sharings showed the way that a guru that knows his final talks are being
offered will focus his message on the basic and bare essentials.
In his case, he made clear that there is so much more to this “journey” than “the
spiritual part.” (Here, it is acknowledged that the religious and / or
spiritual step must be completed but that the religious and / or spiritual step
is the third step on the entire “path” and that the third step must be
transitioned if the “journey” is to continue to completion and to full realization.)
So what topics did Maharaj deal with in his final talks?
1. The source of all relative problems.
2. The maya.
3. The nature of consciousness prior to manifestation (that is, the nature of
Awareness).
4. The falsehood of all things thought to be personal.
5. How the relative can and should continue post-realization, but with Reality
having been overlaid upon it.
6. The uselessness of knowledge (a.k.a., learned ignorance).
7. Stabilizing in Reality (and reality) and truth.
8. The sickness (that is, the ultimate sickness) and its treatment.
9. Transcending body, mind, personality and, eventually, the consciousness
itself, paving the way for only the impersonal consciousness to continue for
the remainder of its manifestation.
10. Why realization cannot happen unless one transitions beyond all fear and /
or anger about having one’s so-called “knowledge” devalued and debunked.
11. How the end of the manifestation of an elemental plant food body and the
cycling of conscious-energy is the beginning of freedom from bondage.
12. The nothingness.
13. The freedom that comes by allowing all knowledge to go into liquidation.
14. Being unconcerned.
15. Abiding with dignity and taking mahasamadhi with dignity.
If all that is to be understood about those fifteen topics were understood, it
would be enough. Here, there is no presumption that Maharaj’s final talks could
be “improved upon” . . . or need to be. Any final talks here would be quite
similar.
One topic that would be included in any final talks here was introduced
earlier, namely, the invitation to see - as Maharaj offered - how very simple
these teachings really are (or should be, if the guide understands how to
present them in a forthright and simple and easy-to-grasp manner.)
The invitation is also to see how simple (that is, “natural”) the relative existence becomes with the understanding of these teachings (or, actually, these “unteachings”).
Maharaj said to one of his visitors in the loft that realisation is but the opposite of ignorance. To take the world as real and THAT as unreal is ignorance . . . the cause of sorrow. To understand the authentic as the only reality and all else as temporal and transient is freedom, peace and joy.
And
ended with these words: “It is all very simple.”
Yes . . . it really is “all very simple.”
Maharaj: “Truth is simple and open to all. Why do you complicate? Truth is
loving and lovable. It includes all, accepts all, purifies all. It is untruth
that is difficult and a source of trouble. It always wants, expects, demands.
“Being false, it is empty, always in search of confirmation and reassurance. It is afraid of and avoids enquiry. It identifies itself with any support, however weak and momentary. Whatever it gets, it loses and asks for more.
Therefore put no faith in the conscious. Nothing you can see, feel, or think is so. Even ‘sin’ and ‘virtue’ [and] ‘merit’ and ‘demerit’ are not what they appear.
Usually
‘the bad’ and ‘the good’ are a matter of convention and custom and are shunned
or welcomed, according to how the words are used.”
Also, consider the implications of this exchange:
Questioner: “What distinguishes your world from mine?”
Maharaj: “My world has no characteristics by which it can be identified. You
can say nothing about it. I am my world. My world is myself. It is complete and
perfect. Every impression is erased, every experience - rejected. I need
nothing, not even myself, for myself I cannot lose.”
Questioner: “Not even God?”
Maharaj: “All these ideas and distinctions exist in your world; in mine there
is nothing of the kind. My world is single and very simple.”
See, it really is all so very simple: if you transition your belief in all
identification, you will be free of the debilitating influence of body and mind
and personality, and it is always either body and / or mind and / or
personality that “wants, expects, demands”;
that
is “empty, always in search of confirmation and reassurance”; that is “afraid
of and avoids enquiry”; that “identifies itself with any support, however weak
and momentary”; and that always “asks for more.”
If you are not the body or mind or personality - which are “the cause of sorrow”
- then what are you? That, too, is so very simple: you are a composite unity -
which is a triad consisting of elements, air, and energy.
The body is a plant food, elemental body that is temporarily circulating air and that is temporarily a body-cum-consciousness - that is, a body temporarily housing conscious-energy.
At
the time that the consciousness unmanifests, the elements will return to the
universal pool of elements; the air will merge with the universal pool of air;
and the conscious-energy will be released into that universal pool of energy
from whence it manifested.
There is no beginning, middle, end, or afterlife; thus, there is no eternal
reward or punishment. (Talk about a freeing fact!) There is no time and there
is no truth to the concept of timelines.
There
is nothing that is linear - there is only that which cycles. It is all very
simple. And if the composite unity is understood, the relative existence
becomes simple too, devoid of “the causes of suffering,” namely:
body identification, the fiction-filled mind, and the agenda-driven
personalities which cast the masses into a personality trance which strips them
of all ability to choose, which strips them of all ability to cast aside their
learned ignorance, and which strips them of all ability to transition beyond
their family-and-culture-induced-insanity.
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."
teachings which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.
