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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
Defining Nisarga Yoga
At the simplest level, one may take “nisarga” to mean “natural.” As used most frequently, the term refers to the yoga of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj which advocates “natural living” or abidance as the natural state.
The
Natural Disposition
Every
form or space on the planet has an innate disposition. That natural, inherent,
instinctive disposition is simple and uncomplicated, allowing for a relative
existence that is undemanding, plain, minimalistic, unadorned, bare and fairly
effortless at its core.
Be the reference to a rock or a flower or a bird or a tree or a fish or a deer,
all among those happens spontaneously without thought, the result of a simple,
no-mind, no-concept, no-belief, natural manner of functioning; too, that
happens planet-wide without any exceptions, except for one exception.
When the Natural Disposition Became
Skewed
The exception: the space or form called “humans.” As the brain increased over
the millennia from a size that would fill one coffee cup to a size that would
fill three-and-a-half coffee cups, a “mind” evolved; that is, the ability to
store and retrieve data developed.
What actually came about was sections of the brain which were capable of storing
information and capable of retrieving information, a process that happened
spontaneously and naturally in order to perpetuate the species - such longing for
perpetuation being natural once consciousness manifests.
(You do not have to train a bird to fly away from a human walking noisily
through a forest. The consciousness automatically and spontaneously drives that
behavior, and there is no mind - and thus no thought - involved in the movement of
the bird. It is natural. The bird knows the I AM, even in the absence of
language which allows the “thought” I AM to happen.)
How Language-Borne Lies Began Spreading
the Ultimate Sickness Across the Globe
Focus not on “pandemics.” They affect few, comparatively speaking. If seekers
would be well and free, they are invited via the Nisarga Yoga to focus on the
Ultimate Sickness that is infecting and affecting almost every human on the
planet.
It is a sickness which prevents a seeing of the unicity and which drives
misperceived thoughts about separation and division and disharmony and
better-than-ment, eliminating any chance for the “peace on earth” wish that
some persons call for annually.
Contrary to popular belief, everything in this universe evolved from one,
single atom. There is a unity beyond the multiplicity; however, once language
developed, humans began perpetuating dualistic beliefs that reinforced a false
sense of separation.
They dreamed up the false concept of “time” and divided what is a continuous
stream of happenings into groups and subgroups: millennia, centuries, decades,
years, months, days, minutes, seconds, etc. Then they began telling lies that
they thought to be truth.
The result is this: what had been a simple, uncomplicated, undemanding, plain,
minimalistic, unadorned, bare and fairly effortless natural existence took on
the character among persons - actually, just a perceived character - of being
complex, complicated, demanding, elaborate, conspicuous, adorned, embellished,
strenuous, unnatural and / or supernatural.
How the Desire to Be Supernatural /
Spiritual and to Live Supernaturally / Spiritually Has Almost Eliminated
Natural Living Altogether
Few
persons on the planet now live naturally. Unnatural and supernatural / spiritual living
have become the abnormal norm. While a relative existence that is marked by
that which is complex, complicated, demanding, elaborate, conspicuous, adorned,
embellished, and strenuous is unnatural, it is nevertheless sought by the
masses. Why?
Magical, superstition-and-myth-based, mind-inspired, egocentric thinking has
generated concepts about a god or gods, resulting in complicated efforts among
most humans to try to live supernaturally rather than naturally.
More and more, it is lies (rooted in ignorance and misunderstanding) that have
become widely-accepted as truth, such as this belief that humans once held on a
near-global basis:
“There are powerful beings in other worlds that cause thunder” and “those
powers use thunder for ‘good’ and ‘bad’ depending on the days of the week”:
“If there is thunder on Sunday, wise men will die; if there is thunder on a
Monday, it signals the death of many women; If there is thunder on Tuesday, it
is a sign that there will be plenty of grain; if it thunders on Wednesday, then
many prostitutes will die;
“if there is thunder on a Thursday, it is a sign that there will be plenty of
sheep and corn; if it thunders on Friday, some great man or noble leader will
die and that will trigger additional murders; if it thunders on a Saturday; it
is a warning that a plague is coming and it will cause widespread death.”
An extreme example? No more extreme than believing that if you die killing
Christians, you’ll be blessed with multiple virgins, prostitutes and wives in a
paradise; no more extreme than believing that if you kill Muslims in foreign
lands, you are a patriot; no more extreme than believing that all Jews
should be exterminated; and no more extreme than believing that all Palestinians should be blown to smithereens by 2000-pound bombs.
No more extreme than a preoccupation with blood, believing it has magical power
if spread above a doorway; believing that it is “good” to beat yourself about
the head and back with spikes and to walk through the streets in a holy parade
of blood;
no more extreme than believing you will be in closer, conscious contact with a
supreme power in another world if you drink blood in weekly or monthly services
conducted in supposedly “holy” buildings;
no more extreme than believing that you should kill all persons who do believe
in your concepts.
All of that is most unnatural, but all of that is believed in by (and is
therefore driving the behavior of) billions of people on the planet. The
Nisarga Yoga invites persons to abide as all other “non-human forms / spaces”
on the planet, not in that supernatural fashion illustrated above but in a
natural manner, free of belief in unnatural and supernatural concepts that
drive such insane behavior.
The Ultimate Sickness, Mental Disorders,
and Personality Disorders Have Spread Around the Globe
Yet few will ever find the Nisarga Yoga, much less full realization; therefore,
such mental sickness as discussed above now dominates persons (the non-realized
humans) all around the globe.
The most nonsensical concepts imaginable have been dreamed up by controlling
men and women and have been shared as “The Truth” or “The Secret” or “The
Purpose” or “The Way” or “The Will of the Universe” or “The Sacred Contract” or
“The Holy This or That” or as “God’s Infallible Word.”
The result is that natural abidance - which is still common among all that is
manifest except “humans” - now happens infrequently among the vast majority of
persons. The now-common mental sickness among persons is spread via the virus
of ignorance.
The Nisarga Yoga is the vessel which carries the Ultimate Medicine that can treat the sickness.
Imagine how chaotic the relative existence would be if someone with Alzheimer’s went to the pharmacist to pick up a prescription of Donepezil, one of the cholinesterase inhibitors doctors use to treat that disease, only to have the pharmacist say,
“We’re out of the bottles that we usually put pills in, so hold out your hands and I’ll dump 30 of the pills into your palms. Taking one a day, that will cover you for a month.”
Thus
the strategy of providing seekers with a vessel which can carry the Ultimate
Medicine that is required to treat the Ultimate Sickness.
It is the yoga that can guide seekers along a “path” to being restored to
reason and logic and wisdom as a result of being free of belief in false
concepts, ideologies, myths, and superstitions.
It is the yoga that can result in an understanding of the functioning of the
totality. It is a yoga that can make clear the difference in humanity’s quest
for what is “false love” and can guide seekers to an understanding of the
Oneness (and, thus, what True Love is).
It is the yoga that can eliminate supernatural efforts to live in an unnatural
manner and can return persons (all of whom have been programmed and conditioned
and acculturated and domesticated and brainwashed and indoctrinated) to a condition of abidance in the style of
their original nature;
it is a yoga that can guide seekers to a manner of functioning by which all that happens will happens naturally and spontaneously;
and
it is a yoga that will reveal a fashion of abidance which allows the seekers who complete all of the steps on the “path” to realization to be, once again, in touch with their innate and inherent and instinctive disposition and perspective.
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.
