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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
What Exactly Does “Nisarga” Mean? Part Two
The
term “Nisarga” points to a way of functioning throughout the manifestation that
is natural rather than unnatural or supernatural.
It is natural when earth elements combine to form a space - a body-cum-consciousness - and as air
circulates into and out of an elemental plant-food body throughout the period
that the consciousness remains manifest. It is unnatural to believe that that
there is anything more at play than a temporary manifestation of an
elements-air-energy triad.
It is natural throughout nature for elemental bodies to form brains that
function in tandem with the manifest consciousness, be the elemental body
called “bird” or “fish” or “fowl” or “deer”; it is unnatural, however, if a
brain-consciousness-”mind” triad happens, as is the case among non-realized
persons.
It is unnatural for a “mind” to form and to use its false content to conclude
that one’s identity is a body-mind-personality triad.
It is supernatural for a “mind” to form and to believe that an
element-air-energy triad is something “special,” “holy,” “godly,” “religious,” “spiritual,”
or “other-worldly” as opposed to “worldly.”
It is unnatural and nonsensical to believe that naturally-occurring events such
as tornadoes, hurricanes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, floods, etc., have an
origin that is supernatural
and
to
believe that they are set into motion by some “supreme being” in another world
in order to “send a signal” or “a message” or “a punishment” to persons
residing on this planet who have offended a god living in some other world.
No nonsense can be believed - and no unnatural / supernatural living can happen
- without the formation, first, of a “mind.” Thus, considerations regarding
freedom from living under the influence of the fiction-filled mind continue:
What is that inner resource, that inner guru? It is the vestige of pure
consciousness that remains, deeply buried beneath the waste called “your mind.”
“Your mind” obscures the consciousness because that “mind” is so marred with its belief in lies and superstitions and all of its “knowledge,” all that learned ignorance, that it leaves you insane . . .
so
insane that you can’t differentiate between what you are and what you are not and
so insane that you believe that the lies you've been told are true and that the
dreams of the planet are real.
If your body has disappeared, how can any person remain? And if no person
remains, how can a mind remain?
In order to know (the great) Reality, you must be sane. In order to be sane,
you must be out of your mind.
For their suffering to end, persons must understand the functioning of the
totality; must see that all suffering is rooted in the assumption of ego-states
as false identities; must realize that they have no “mind” but instead are
being driven by the “minds” of others (which they now think is their own “mind”);
must be aware of the fact that a “mind” is nothing more than the storehouse of all the lies and beliefs and ideas and concepts that must be cast aside in order to end human suffering;
and must see not only (a) the limitations of doingness but also (b) the timelessness and limitless nature of beingness . . . and non-beingness as well.
In this relative existence, nothing is going on but a breeziness of play, but persons are caught up in a tornado of work, in a storm of seriousness, and in a tempest of drama. So-called “life” in this sphere of consciousness is just a process of functioning, and while the “mind” of a person will dream up notions about separation or differentiation, none exists.
The process just keeps on happening. A religion or a philosophy, a state or a nation, a hero or a villain . . . all are just part of the process of functioning that has been marred by the adoption of dualistic beliefs and concepts that are stored in the mind.
All
those are just dreamed up names, and all such dreamed up labels (dreamed up and
then stored in that accumulation of corruptions called “the mind”) generate a
false sense of reality.
The “journey” aims to put you fully in touch with reality. To be out of touch
with reality is to be insane. This “journey” is about once again being in touch
with reality in order to be free of the bondage of the illusions and the
effects of the falsehoods of “a mind” exposed to years of acculturation.
Among religions and philosophies, there is no other means that can produce the
necessary brain-flush save completion of the entire non-dual “journey” which
invites the dissolution of all of the contamination that is “the mind.”
Ultimately, the Direct Path Method is the method which has the “goal” of
becoming the non-teaching by way of un-teaching.
Natural (Nisarga) living happens when the brain and consciousness and intuitive
sense inspire self-constructive behavior (relatively speaking);
unnatural
and supernatural living happen when the brain and blocked consciousness and
fiction-filled “mind” drive self-destructive behaviors (relatively speaking) or
nonsensical behavior.
Nisarga functioning is naturally simple, naturally light; unnatural and
supernatural living are complex and burdensome and weighty.
The
Nisarga Yoga, used here in combination with the Direct Path Method, invites
seekers to be aware of the way that
(1) programming and conditioning and acculturation and domestication and
brainwashing and indoctrination have inspired the drive to live unnaturally and
induced efforts to live supernaturally; and to be aware that
(2) there is an alternate means of abidance throughout the manifestation which
allows for movement through the relative existence with a natural ease and
grace and calmness and freedom and peace.
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.
