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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
Yesterday’s post ended with this:
To continue with
the earlier pointer that “a little un-learning can be a dangerous thing” as far
as the Advaita teachings are concerned, please review these questions shared
earlier that have been asked in the past when some seekers only grasped a small
part of what Advaita 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, quite happy young women.
The questions above can be asked when one is exposed to the teachings only via
any of the basic teaching methods but without accompanying those teachings with
the clarifying Nisarga (natural) Yoga.
Of that yoga, Maharaj disciple Maurice Frydman said:
“The Nisarga Yoga, the ‘natural’ Yoga of Maharaj, is disconcertingly simple:
the mind, which is all-becoming, must recognise and penetrate its own being,
not as being this or that, here or there, then or now, but just as timeless
being.
“The Nisarga Yoga, when persevered in and brought to its fruition, results in
one becoming conscious and active in what one always was [active in]
unconsciously and passively.
“There
is no difference in kind - only in manner - the difference between a lump of
gold and a glorious ornament shaped out of it. Life goes on, but it is
spontaneous and free . . . and happy.”
For example, if prior to the seeker persevering in and bringing the Nisarga Yoga
understanding to its fruition, what if that seeker was not happily engaged in
the activities of “The Student”?
After
the Nisarga understanding has been grasped, then “studenting” might continue or
not, but it will happen from a state of being totally awake, totally conscious,
and totally aware as well as being in touch with the beingness;
but that will happen without any erroneous belief about “being this” or “being
that” (because such assuming of any persona as an identity will generate fear
and desire and the use of ego-defense mechanisms to try to sustain a mirage and
make it appear to be real.)
From
that no-identity, no-persona, no-passivity-driven (but fully conscious and
aware) platform, non-attached Witnessing can happen so that “studenting” happily
can also happen.
Or if prior to the seeker persevering in and bringing the Nisarga Yoga
understanding to its fruition, what if that seeker was not happily engaged in
the activities of “The Husband”?
After
the Nisarga understanding has been grasped, then “husbanding” can continue,
actively, but it will happen from a state of being totally awake, totally
conscious, and totally aware as well as being in touch with the beingness;
but that will happen without any erroneous belief about “being this” or “being
that” (because such assuming of any persona as an identity will generate fear
and desire and the use of ego-defense mechanisms to try to sustain a mirage and
make it appear to be real.)
From
that no-identity, no-persona, no-passivity-driven (but fully conscious and
aware) platform, non-attached Witnessing can happen so that “husbanding”
happily can also happen.
The same applies in cases of “The Wife” vs. “wifing”; “The Employee” vs. “employmenting”;
“The Lover” vs. “Loving”; etc.
When the teachings are fully understood, and when the Nisarga Yoga is fully
understood, then the remainder of the relative existence is characterized by
being conscious rather than unconscious;
being
aware rather than being unaware; being active when called for rather than being
passive; being willing to allow life to go on rather than wanting to escape
life; and being spontaneous and free and happy rather than the opposite of each
of those;
furthermore, the difference in “relishing the solitude” vs. “seeking to isolate”
is understood; the difference in “being in the quiet at times but taking
actions required to sustain the consciousness at times” vs. “always being
passive and being inactive” is understood;
“allowing
life to go on” vs. “thinking that life should not go on” is understood; and the
difference in “being spontaneous and free and happy” vs. “being rigid and
inflexible and imprisoned by the content of the 'mind' and thus being unhappy”
is understood.
Additionally, when the Nisarga Yoga is understood, the abidance is marked by
natural living, not unnatural living and not supernatural living. Approach a
bird sitting on a limb in a tree.
At
some point, when the bird senses that you are going to continue to move even
closer, it will fly away. Has the bird been taught such concepts as “people are
dangerous” or “all humans are killers,” or “their kind are to be avoided”?
No. What is natural about the manifested consciousness is its unwavering drive
to survive . . . to continue. So strong is that desire that persons over the
last several thousand years have given away large percentages of their
hard-earned assets to preachers, teachers, priests, rabbis;
to imams, ayatollahs, “spiritual teachers” and to that group of people whom Maharaj referred to as “Big Name Teachers” (as he warned seekers to stay the hell away from those “cons”);
and to others - including the many leaders of political cults, religious cults, spiritual cults, etc. - who claim that they can show their gullible followers the way to have riches now or “life eternal” later or “eternal continuity of body and mind and personality” forever.
Some might say “hogwash” to all those hollow promises or might say “nonsense” or “claptrap” or - as Maharaj did - “BS!”
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."
teachings which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.
