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IN TERMS OF “REALIZATION” AS A NON-DUAL PROCESS, THE MATH AIN’T MATHING
“The math ain’t mathing.”
Taraji P. Henson
“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.”
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“Go
forth, unburdened with ideas and beliefs.”
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
. . . “Go home, take charge of your father’s business, look after your parents in their old age. Marry the girl who is waiting for you; be loyal, be simple, be humble. Hide your virtue, live silently.”
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“ . . . Question wisely. You will find you know nothing for sure - you trust on hearsay.”
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“A little learning can be a dangerous thing.”
--Alexander Pope
“Anything short of total un-learning is a far-more-dangerous thing.”
--floyd
Again,
it is the Nisarga understanding that makes this pointer clear:
In the end, THAT is not about THAT at all. It is all about “this,” right NOW,
because later, THAT Which Is will not even be known to be.
It is the Nisarga understanding which ends unnatural living.
It is the Nisarga understanding which ends efforts to live supernaturally, to
be super religious, to be gigantically spiritual, and to be trapped, thereby,
in magical thinking.
It is the Nisarga understanding which allows the relative existence to unfold
in a happy and joyous and free manner.
It is the Nisarga understanding which allow the Advaita understanding to be “applied”
to the relative, even in the absence of any belief in “An Applier.”
It is the Nisarga understanding which answers the question, “Why should I live
and do what has to be done in this relative existence when suicide could be my
means to ultimate freedom?”
It is the Nisarga understanding which can address every nihilistic question
such as that one and allow Reality to be overlaid on the reality without
developing a detached attitude toward “life” and “this existence.”
It is the Nisarga understanding which will preempt any devaluation of the
remaining post-realization beingness and AM-ness.
It is the Nisarga understanding which will prevent the manifesting of any “teaching-only”-but-no-yoga-inspired,
only-a-little-un-learning-motivated pessimism, gloominess, dullness, murkiness
and any nihilistic and darkness-mistaken-for-lightness self-delusion; and
it is the Nisarga understanding which will instead allow for the manifestation
of the vivacity, the excitement, the sparkle, and the verve that come when the
Truth of THAT and the truth of the AM-ness are seen so clearly that they become
the decontaminated water which allows not only survival but provides a life
worth continuing.
THAT
is the “H” to the beingness's “2-0,” resulting in the life-producing,
life-giving H20 that is at the root on all Is-ness on this planet.
As so many attached to THAT only miss out on the bliss which can only be known
NOW during the relative existence, it is the Nisarga understanding which can answer some of the more obtuse questions as those above.
Only the additional filtration that comes after the long-handled spoon has
removed the larger chucks of contamination from the jar of water can allow what
seem to be sensible questions to be clarified and seen as nonsense.
Based in “teachings alone,” those questions might be valid. Use the additional
tool of the Nisarga Yoga for filtration and their insanity is made clear.
Disallowing the Nisarga Yoga from Generating More Insanity Rather than Eliminating All Insanity
A while back, a friend was suffering from an infection that required antibiotics. As is always the case, a shift from feeling as if one is “at death's door” to feeling “quite normal” happened within 48 hours of beginning the antibiotic regimen.
Most
antibiotics must be used for a specific period of time, often between 6 and 10
days, but if one begins to feel better and therefore does not complete the
entire regimen, there is the likelihood that the infection can re-manifest,
that all of the miserable symptoms can return, and that suffering and even
death can eventually follow.
Similarly, there are presently four steps on the “path” as offered here, steps
which seekers here are invited to complete initially. To complete only part of
the regimen can result in one being (A) at least as sick as one was before
seeking treatment for the Ultimate Sickness, and, sometimes, (B) even worse.
So
to continue with the earlier pointer that “a little un-learning can be a
dangerous thing” as far as non-dual pointers are concerned. Please review again
these questions shared earlier that have been asked in the past when some
seekers only grasped a small part of what the non-dual understanding has to
offer and who seemingly grasped nothing of what Nisarga Yoga has to offer:
“Once realized, why even go on living? What would it matter if I kill myself?”
Or, “If I shoot myself, I'd just be releasing a speck of conscious energy and
allowing the air to return to the pool of air and the elements to return to the
universal pool of elements?”
Or, as two young teens who were practicing “cutting” put it to Me years ago: “Life
sucks. How cruel are you to try to talk us into being exposed to any more of
this crap?” (Both are now, years later, contented young women.)
More on that tomorrow.
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."
teachings which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.
