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ARE YOU AT THE WET CHARCOAL STAGE OR THE GUNPOWDER STAGE?
(Most haven’t a clue and must be told)
Most of the pointers offered on this site - or via the rare talk or the even rarer Q and A session - are for seekers at the gunpowder stage. More on that shortly.
When Maharaj was asked why he contradicted himself - saying this one day but saying that the next - he never answered such inquiries. If one were awake and paying attention, it would be obvious that he let visitors talk for a short while merely to allow their words to indicate where on the path they were.
Then, he provided pointers that were specifically for that seeker. The next day, he might offer totally different pointers to a seeker at a different step on the path.
Initially he used a seven-step path; later, he modified that to a four-step path. Either way, he had to find where on the path a seeker was in order to offer level appropriate pointers. On step two? He would offer pointers to allow the seeker to move to step three.
The next day, he might have a visitor at step one. Pointers to shift one to step two would be offered.
Also, it took only a few comments for Maharaj to determine if a seeker was at “the wet charcoal stage” or “the gunpowder stage.” Very little offered to a wet charcoal level seeker would lead to a deeper understanding of what Maharaj was offering.
If a seeker happened to be at the gunpowder stage, that seeker would receive more time and attention as Maharaj would offer pointers intent to blow up that seeker’s belief systems and mind content and then be free of the no-ability-to-consciously-choose push and pull of ignorance and stupidity and insanity
and
be free of having all thoughts and words and actions determine by programming, conditioning etc. and by the hidden agendas of false personality identification.
Note that the pointers here are not for the seeker that is on the early steps
along the path, nor for those attached to beliefs which are based on the content
of supposedly holy texts or based on ignorant concepts passed down by
one's influencers and programmers.
The pointers that were offered in response were (as always) level-appropriate.
Maharaj never offered a gunpowder level response to one whose words indicated
that the seeker was still at the wet charcoal stage. The same applies here.
Therefore, these pointers are for those that have done it all, sought it all, gotten most of it, and yet realize that there is some final piece that is still missing; thus, these discussions are mostly relevant only for those at the highest state of readiness.
To clarify what “the
manifested” are:
The only prior something in your case was a series of ancestors, and those
ancestors were basically plant food. All who have been considered your ancestors
and your so-called parents were nothing more than a conglomeration of food
particles - just the essence of whatever was eaten.
Those combined
particles resulted in a form or space in which conscious-energy manifested for
a spell and through which the air moved for a spell.
Seekers who have studied Traditional Advaita Vedanta - and some who have
studied via the Direct Path Method here - want to be able to define some
pre-manifestation who-ness or what-ness as well as some post-manifestation who-ness
or what-ness. At a certain level, fine.
Some guides will suggest that seekers at certain levels find where they were
days prior to conception (a consideration offered here on occasion).
But for the seekers moving farther along the path, it is to be understood that
at a certain point, even the egg and sperm did not exist as the forms that
would later be involved in the impregnation that nine months later resulted in
what was called the birth of what was called you.
But here, at the ultimate level, the focus in the end is not on what is taught
and learned (or un-taught and un-learned). Here, at the higher levels, the
focus is on that which can happen via an understanding of the Nisarga Yoga and
the natural style in which the remainder of the relative existence can unfold
when all notions of who-ness and what-ness dissolve.
The totally-contented deer that live in the copses and smaller pockets of trees
that surround the house are the model. The difference is, unlike programmed and
conditioned persons, the deer do not have to go through the Direct Path Method
steps as offered here in order to be prepared to understand the means to
nisarga living as offered here.
They go straight to it, automatically . . . spontaneously. They enter into a
style of natural living and are never diverted from the path they travel. That
only happens to humans.
So let the
discussion move forward in order for the diversions to be dissolved and in
order for the natural, free, blissful, non-dual, no-concept, no-beingness, and
no non-beingness abidance to begin and to be enjoyed . . . NOW.
Thus, the invitation is (to those ready, and only for those ready) to receive
the higher understandings. With that prerequisite, consider: how could any you
have existed prior to if even the food (which would be converted to an egg cell
and a sperm cell that would unite and result in an impregnation) had not even
been eaten in those days prior to conception and if - even earlier - the food
that would become an egg cell and a sperm cell did not yet even exist in its
edible form?
Go back - follow the trail in order to trace what you think yourself to be.
Move back from (8) the conception to (7) a sperm set into motion to
spontaneously seek an egg to (6) an act of friction to (5) plant food cells
being transformed into sperm and egg cells to (4) plant food being prepared and
eaten to (3) plant food being acquired to (2) plants growing to (1) the
elements.
Where in that chain - which can be traced back and can be seen to have been
repeated for trillions upon trillions of times for millions upon millions of
years on this planet - could anyone possibly claim the existence of any you-ness
or You-ness?
WHO would want to make such a claim? Only the one motivated by arrogance, as is
a woman in Louisiana who is totally pre-occupied with her genealogy. Only one
so trapped in one or more ego-states and in so much egotism that one would want
to trace his or her lineage back to some famous, big name people and beyond
that to God or a god or a goddess or some Supreme Self.
All of that talk is fine along the way, but at the end of all of the talk, is
one merely attached to newly-acquired “non-dual concepts” or is one free to
abide naturally? The end game here is not to allow a new ego-state to emerge,
namely, The Non-Dual Expert;
the end game here lies not in one “teaching method” or another but in the yoga
. . . not in acquiring new knowledge but in being free of all knowledge and
living as naturally as everything else on the planet except humans.
The option should be clear: (A) the personal- you, persona-game will trap you
for the entirety of the manifestation in the fluctuations between gladness and
sadness, between efforts to generate chaos out of boredom or efforts to control
in order to eliminate chaos; or (B) the end-game will allow for the freedom to
merely witness persons as they try to control and as they generate chaos or as
they react to chaos and try to eliminate it.
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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