F.: Many confuse the Realization moment with a momentary elucidation, with an occasional glimpse of truth, or with certain transitional moments. Thus, many mistake the dawn for the noon, convinced that they “have it” rather than knowing there is no one to have anything or to gain anything. They want to “have it” when the Teachings are an invitation to “lose it.” Why is there no “one” to “have it” or to “get it”? There is only the consciousness that is either corrupted or that becomes re-purified after the understanding comes. You might review the post of two days prior, note the three drama terms that describe the “shift,” and then understand what happens on the “path” to Realization:
Rather than any “one” to claim “I have it” or “I’ve finally got it,” the understanding is that It Is Consciousness that can speak temporarily…not some person/persona. And the Consciousness, being a form of energy, could never say “I have gained something.” (Remember the anagnorisis, the “discovery” or “recognition”?) The Consciousness merely recognizes that it had been warped via programming and conditioning and enculturation. So what happens next is a sudden change. (Remember the peripetia, that “sudden change”?) The change involves no longer taking oneself to be a body or mind or person/persona, including a dogmatized persona or a spiritualized persona.
Once the consciousness is concept-free, it can witness all that is false and then know THAT Which Is Real. Then, Consciousness can speak, and knowing that there is no “one” to gain or lose anything, Consciousness can say, "I now know all that I am not, I now understand that I Am (that is, that 'I Am a quantity of energy that is temporary manifested in a temporary space')" and that "I realize that THAT Which I Truly Am is beyond both beingness and non-beingness as well." An awareness of the functioning of the totality happens, abidance even as the Consciousness is transcended, and abidance as the Absolute continues for the remainder of the manifestation. It really is all so simple, once the miasma lifts (namely, the miasma of concepts and dogma and ideas and beliefs) so that the Consciousness can see the Truth clearly. (Then the catharsis comes and there is a sense of freedom and peace that happens after the purging of the impurities of programming and conditioning and enculturation.)
When a seeker moves from one of the seven steps to the next on the “journey” to Reality, that can be called a “transitional moment,” but that should not be mistaken for Realization. All seven steps must be transitioned, and to move from one stage to the next is not Realization. For example, look at Stage Three, where a seeker may have cast aside a prurient fixation with body and has begun to seek via a religious or spiritual approach. That is a required step, but “The Religious Person” and “The Spiritual Giant” are nothing more than newly-adopted, but false, personas that must also be transitioned eventually if the seeker is to continue on the “journey” and Realize Fully. The movement from (a) a focus on the body only to (b) an undertaking of religious or spiritual practices and study is a transitional moment. To stay in either role will prevent movement along the “path” to the actual Realization moment. At that third stage, more than half of the yet-untraveled portion of “the path” still remains. Here’s an example of the way one transitional moment happened with a Stage Three seeker who visited for satsanga:
Rather than any “one” to claim “I have it” or “I’ve finally got it,” the understanding is that It Is Consciousness that can speak temporarily…not some person/persona. And the Consciousness, being a form of energy, could never say “I have gained something.” (Remember the anagnorisis, the “discovery” or “recognition”?) The Consciousness merely recognizes that it had been warped via programming and conditioning and enculturation. So what happens next is a sudden change. (Remember the peripetia, that “sudden change”?) The change involves no longer taking oneself to be a body or mind or person/persona, including a dogmatized persona or a spiritualized persona.
Once the consciousness is concept-free, it can witness all that is false and then know THAT Which Is Real. Then, Consciousness can speak, and knowing that there is no “one” to gain or lose anything, Consciousness can say, "I now know all that I am not, I now understand that I Am (that is, that 'I Am a quantity of energy that is temporary manifested in a temporary space')" and that "I realize that THAT Which I Truly Am is beyond both beingness and non-beingness as well." An awareness of the functioning of the totality happens, abidance even as the Consciousness is transcended, and abidance as the Absolute continues for the remainder of the manifestation. It really is all so simple, once the miasma lifts (namely, the miasma of concepts and dogma and ideas and beliefs) so that the Consciousness can see the Truth clearly. (Then the catharsis comes and there is a sense of freedom and peace that happens after the purging of the impurities of programming and conditioning and enculturation.)
When a seeker moves from one of the seven steps to the next on the “journey” to Reality, that can be called a “transitional moment,” but that should not be mistaken for Realization. All seven steps must be transitioned, and to move from one stage to the next is not Realization. For example, look at Stage Three, where a seeker may have cast aside a prurient fixation with body and has begun to seek via a religious or spiritual approach. That is a required step, but “The Religious Person” and “The Spiritual Giant” are nothing more than newly-adopted, but false, personas that must also be transitioned eventually if the seeker is to continue on the “journey” and Realize Fully. The movement from (a) a focus on the body only to (b) an undertaking of religious or spiritual practices and study is a transitional moment. To stay in either role will prevent movement along the “path” to the actual Realization moment. At that third stage, more than half of the yet-untraveled portion of “the path” still remains. Here’s an example of the way one transitional moment happened with a Stage Three seeker who visited for satsanga:
The seeker had been unable to move beyond the third stage. The fear instilled by years of religious programming, combined with threats of punishment “if faith was not firm,” had caused a 32-year old woman to experience a paralyzing fear whenever she even thought about questioning things that she found ludicrous on one level but sacred on another. (Talk about duality…talk about the fact that “a dual-minded person will be unstable in all ways.”) At one session, she had finally begun to question, timidly, but the questions dealt with concepts that she found so baffling that she had remained fixated at the third of the seven steps on her “journey,” clinging to identification with her dogmatized persona. At best she could only ask “Well, how do I find out which part of the dogma is true and which part is false?”
She had not seen that all of the puzzling questions were coming from a standpoint of complete deception. She was obsessed with making some kind of sense of “limbo” and “purgatory” and “heaven and hell” and her contradictory “God of unconditional love who was, nevertheless, capable of withholding forgiveness and punishing her eternally.” She was shown that she had been calling herself “a Christian” but had been ignoring the words of Christ which he spoke after he was exposed to the Advaita Teachings: “Before Abraham was, I AM”; “When you speak of Me, speak of Me as I AM”; “No one will ever see the kingdom of heaven—it’s within”; and “Heaven and earth shall fade away.” After considering those words and their implications, the anagnorisis happened. She recognized that his words and “their” teachings could never be reconciled, that she had spent frustrating decades in her efforts to try to fit a square peg into a round hole, that she had been engaged in maddening exercises that were trying to make sense of nonsense.
Suddenly, (remember perepetia), she saw how she had been fooled for so many years. She became very quiet as another puzzling set of concepts were beginning to fall away. She was seated on the floor and was looking down at her feet. Someone tried to add something, but a hand came up to stop the interruption. She was understanding, yet a few more moments of quiet were required. Then, she looked up and eyes met, and her mouth was slightly twisted, and her body moved when a quiet “humph” was expelled. And then she shook her head a little, as if to say, “I cannot believe that I have been so blind.” And then, eventually, she smiled. She was then told that she should not blame herself and that she need not blame those who had passed along their learned ignorance either: “They know not what they do.”
After another period of quiet, she said peacefully, “There’s no more a god of mass destruction than there were weapons of mass destruction, is there?” A movement of the head that indicated the negative happened...in order to confirm her understanding. Then, it was said to her, “It was all a lie, all intended to control you just as it’s all been intended to control the masses for thousands of years. For thousands of years as well as in the present, ‘they’ have wanted you to go along with their hidden agendas in their efforts to control and to have power and to get whatever their ego-states were driving them to desire or to fear at any given moment.” She nodded in agreement, in understanding.
What happened with her as she began to shift from the third to the fourth stage might be called “a realization,” but it was not the Realization moment. More remained that had yet to be understood, so she was experiencing only a transitional moment. Seven of those are required to reach the Realization moment.
When the Realization moment happens, persons exit the stage of the "Drama of the Lie" entirely and are fully in touch with reality after truly understanding just how fooled they have been for the entirety of their lives. Then, all questions end and an understanding of the functioning of the totality begins to happen. Cycles become understood, and what cycles and what does not cycle is understood. It becomes understood how trillions and trillions have been deceived. It becomes understood why one Advaitin said that only one in ten million will ever realize, meaning that 9,999,999 out of every 10,000,000 persons will be fooled, will remain a fool, and will never touch reality.
The Realization moment is the moment when all of the confusion ends. It is the moment that happens after a seeker who never questioned anything begins to question everything until even the questions end. Why? Because it is seen that all questions were being asked from a relative standpoint…from a standpoint of deception…from a standpoint of duality. To confuse momentary elucidations, occasional glimpses of truth, or certain transitional moments with the Realization moment will guarantee that the total “journey” will not be completed and that Full Realization, therefore, will never happen. Please enter the silence of contemplation.
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She had not seen that all of the puzzling questions were coming from a standpoint of complete deception. She was obsessed with making some kind of sense of “limbo” and “purgatory” and “heaven and hell” and her contradictory “God of unconditional love who was, nevertheless, capable of withholding forgiveness and punishing her eternally.” She was shown that she had been calling herself “a Christian” but had been ignoring the words of Christ which he spoke after he was exposed to the Advaita Teachings: “Before Abraham was, I AM”; “When you speak of Me, speak of Me as I AM”; “No one will ever see the kingdom of heaven—it’s within”; and “Heaven and earth shall fade away.” After considering those words and their implications, the anagnorisis happened. She recognized that his words and “their” teachings could never be reconciled, that she had spent frustrating decades in her efforts to try to fit a square peg into a round hole, that she had been engaged in maddening exercises that were trying to make sense of nonsense.
Suddenly, (remember perepetia), she saw how she had been fooled for so many years. She became very quiet as another puzzling set of concepts were beginning to fall away. She was seated on the floor and was looking down at her feet. Someone tried to add something, but a hand came up to stop the interruption. She was understanding, yet a few more moments of quiet were required. Then, she looked up and eyes met, and her mouth was slightly twisted, and her body moved when a quiet “humph” was expelled. And then she shook her head a little, as if to say, “I cannot believe that I have been so blind.” And then, eventually, she smiled. She was then told that she should not blame herself and that she need not blame those who had passed along their learned ignorance either: “They know not what they do.”
After another period of quiet, she said peacefully, “There’s no more a god of mass destruction than there were weapons of mass destruction, is there?” A movement of the head that indicated the negative happened...in order to confirm her understanding. Then, it was said to her, “It was all a lie, all intended to control you just as it’s all been intended to control the masses for thousands of years. For thousands of years as well as in the present, ‘they’ have wanted you to go along with their hidden agendas in their efforts to control and to have power and to get whatever their ego-states were driving them to desire or to fear at any given moment.” She nodded in agreement, in understanding.
What happened with her as she began to shift from the third to the fourth stage might be called “a realization,” but it was not the Realization moment. More remained that had yet to be understood, so she was experiencing only a transitional moment. Seven of those are required to reach the Realization moment.
When the Realization moment happens, persons exit the stage of the "Drama of the Lie" entirely and are fully in touch with reality after truly understanding just how fooled they have been for the entirety of their lives. Then, all questions end and an understanding of the functioning of the totality begins to happen. Cycles become understood, and what cycles and what does not cycle is understood. It becomes understood how trillions and trillions have been deceived. It becomes understood why one Advaitin said that only one in ten million will ever realize, meaning that 9,999,999 out of every 10,000,000 persons will be fooled, will remain a fool, and will never touch reality.
The Realization moment is the moment when all of the confusion ends. It is the moment that happens after a seeker who never questioned anything begins to question everything until even the questions end. Why? Because it is seen that all questions were being asked from a relative standpoint…from a standpoint of deception…from a standpoint of duality. To confuse momentary elucidations, occasional glimpses of truth, or certain transitional moments with the Realization moment will guarantee that the total “journey” will not be completed and that Full Realization, therefore, will never happen. Please enter the silence of contemplation.
INTERESTED IN TAKING ALL SEVEN STEPS AND REALIZING FULLY?
