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Nisargadatta Maharaj, Truth focusing on the untruth

2011-04-06T17:07:00Z

Some great one liner’s from Nisargadatta Maharaj talking to seekers, which may cause some confusion.

“That which focuses attention is prior to attention.”

“The Truth cannot be seen or perceived; but the Truth can observe the untruth.”

Maharaj, “That which focuses attention is prior to attention.”

There are two attentive states of being that will allow the focus of attention, and with both states the attention originates from the inside of an entity focusing outside of itself. The difference between the two states is: one is a permanent state and the other is a temporal state of being. One state is Eternal and the origin of life and the other state is our personal life attention continuously working until it runs out of energy and disappears. Both of these states are controlled by the Eternal Soul focusing its eternal Attention outside of itself.

While in the body the eternal Soul has its Attention placed within the mind giving direction by directing what to focus on, working in unison with the minds attention it passively directs by being always Aware and watching. This connection allows the Soul to actually move energy particles. Temporarily hooked into a new connection the Soul is the passive working principal behind the aggressive mind using the eyes as an alternative form of focusing within matter. This is an extension of the Soul’s eternal Attention allowing it the freedom to direct and refocus with a physical attention within another dimension. An unusual increase in power and versatility, we are the ultimate operator and boss of the energy particle for a short time.

In the body you are prior to focusing and the minds directed attention but in Eternity you are the Focuser of Attention.

“That (the Soul) which focuses its attention (within the body) is prior to (the focusing and the attention placed in the body) attention”

While in Eternity the eternal Aware Soul is able to direct its gaze or its Attention (Awareness) within Eternity without the use of energy, mind or eyes. This is the power granted to all Souls and that allows a certain type of freedom which translates into birth and body control. Birth takes the eternal power of Awareness and commits it to the brain on a subtle level via the mind and once that gains ground in control and intelligence that in turn delivers the resources and mobility that we enjoy so much but at a cost, that otherwise wouldn't be there.

Energy and matter have no effect or control over Eternal Space, but Eternal Space and the Souls focusing Attention do have an effect on energy. Eternal Space is dense and impermeable by energy so it has the upper hand by forcing it to move on its direction, but that happens on a subtle level which has a chain reaction onto grosser levels. Because of this one-way street Eternity is invincible and untarnished by time and this dynamic makes Self-realization possible. You have the ultimate power to withdraw your Attention in and away from the new attention until it falls away and reveals the Truth behind everything.

The minds changing attention starts with the Soul changing its Attention first within Eternity, and without the Soul’s focus of attention would render the body useless without its pilot.

That which focuses Attention is prior to the attention placed in time.

The deepest state of meditation is created by withdrawing your eternal Attention away from the attention placed in the mind, separating the temporal attention away from the eternal Attention. This sort of retraction with your attention forces it back onto the Eternal Focuser, which creates a turnabout and you see the Real Reality behind the temporal one. You actually see the Eternal Heavenly Space, which is called Self-realization or Enlightenment and not loose your connection to the body and world.

Realizing your Self Spiritually is to surrender the false attention for the only True Attention that’s lasting.

Or in other words; you are surrendering consciousness for Awareness.

Nisargadatta, “The Truth cannot be seen or perceived; but the Truth can observe the untruth.”

What he is saying is God, Eternity or the Truth can’t be seen or perceived by the senses or by anything else here. The eyes can’t go there and the mind cannot enter for these things are impure made up of gross energy particles which are far too imperfect, impure, unstable, untrue and unable to enter. The senses are completely obsolete in the ultimate Realm called the Truth, and the Truth is the only thing that can see the Truth.

Only That which it is can observe the Truth, and That being the Soul which is able to bear witness to Eternity and God.

The Truth can also bear witness to the universe or the untruth.

The Truth or the Soul is a fragment of God and it has its attention temporary ensnared by gross matter observing the untruth evolve. It’s called the untruth because it has to change and dissolve while the Truth is changeless and eternal. You are prior to the untruth, prior to attention, prior to consciousness and prior to the connection. The Truth cannot be seen or perceived by the untruth but the untruth can be perceived and seen by That which is prior to it.

Your focusing of attention originates with the Truth just blocked by elusive impurities of the untruth that has your True Attention temporally captivated. This captivation has to end and the energy connection completely abandoned upon death for then your return home to the Truth will be completed, and the meaning of your life concluded.

The Truth which focuses attention within the untruth is prior to attention.

The Truth looks forward and sees the untruth but the untruth can’t look back to see the Truth.

The mind is the go between and that which you think you are because this new attention of the untruth thinks there is no predecessor for it is the ultimate controller; however this aggressive attitude is a characteristic of the mind and not the Truth.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj; Nothingness to I-am-ness

2011-02-10T16:28:00Z

Maharaj: “Unknowingly this knowingness has appeared. How? From Nothingness this I-am-ness has appeared. How? Prior to your birth, did you ever experience I-am-ness?”

Visitor: Definitely no.

Maharaj: “Why do you clasp that knowingness now, since you are going to meet death definitely? Prior to birth you did not know you were. You are going to die, then why are you clinging to all these concepts of heaven, hell, virtue and sin? Will you care to turn around and observe, now that you have heard the information?”

“Unknowingly this knowingness has appeared.”

At Rest in Eternity you did not know about life or of anything besides being what you really are, and then out of nowhere this Eternal Being turns into being-ness when it appears from of the womb. Now with a strong sense of being you get to know your physical existence and the universe. Thus, a certain knowingness of life is taking shape and that develops into becoming something different, other than who you really are.

The Soul well engaged in knowing life is completely occupied and dominated by the mind and world. That domination has an elusive form called the personal identity which keeps all the information stored in a haphazard but personal order. This form centered on personal experiences is played forward in order to survive and get something out of life. Strictly a personal creation created for and by the environment it was never intended to be played forward after death. Because this mind made ego that comes from knowing was never real, consistent or lasting to begin with and by its own nature it’s doomed to fail as it evolves.

So, fortunately for everyone this new stuff that evolves isn’t possible to take with you upon your return to Eternity. The eternal state of ‘Unknowingly’ or ‘Nothingness’ is ground zero, where time is nonexistent and that includes the mind and all its attachments.

Unknowingly this knowingness appears on you and you’re face to face with all these interim opposites of life. This new bio-form that resulted from life started from the unknowable state of being nothing in particular, and in the end it will have to return to that state of Nothingness, but for now this knowingness and I-am-ness has you time bound and captivated.

“From Nothingness this I-am-ness has appeared.”

There was no physical existence before life and that means no material differences as well. From the Eternal land of Pure Awareness with no visual forms and empty of all matter and energy doesn’t mean it is completely empty, because being empty is really being empty of appearances and differences through separation. So, despite the invisible nature of Eternity it is nonetheless very full and complete, lacking nothing and not empty at all, but it can be classified as ‘Nothingness’ as he calls it.

From Nothingness this physical sense of being arose as I-am-ness and from that knowingness appears on it. Now thinking separately as I am this and this is mine creates false reasoning from false attachments. Now seemingly locked into this constant state of change even the present moment is evolving, and because everything changes means it was not real to begin with.

Real Truth doesn’t evolve only false truths do.

“How? Prior to your birth, did you ever experience I-am-ness?”

Prior to birth there was no experiencing in general and life is the only way to get that, so birth into I-am-ness comes first and experiences happen to that. Then knowingness of life’s experiences creates the attachment to time. This new I-am-ness is the Souls connection to the physical world and the root to all of spirituality, for it is the key ingredient to deep meditation. Observing this moving and sense-able state of I-am-ness despite the mind and world sends you into the deep meditative state called, ‘The Samadhi state.’ This is last door step before the door opens to Self-realization. In a descending meditative order: The world, the mind, the body energy (I-am-ness or consciousness) and an Awareness of being nothing in particular (or the Samadhi State), is the spiritual cookie crumb trail that leads you back to Eternity.

By remaining free from the gains of manifestation regains access to the unmanifested.

Since you will die and loose this I-am-ness anyways why would you want to keep clinging to the knowingness of all these concepts? Prior to birth this physical sense of existence was nonexistent and the knowingness of concepts like sin and virtue absent, however for a very short time you’re deeply embroiled in them. Unfortunately, life and the identity connected to time has a limited shelf life with tons of conceptual baggage tagging along, but we still cling to it like it’s all there is. Do you really think this is good enough to cling too for an eternity? Do you think Eternity wants this baggage or has the capacity for this continual disharmony arriving per person?

The Soul is complete, eternal and pure as it is and well beyond all discord of any kind, however the mind latching on to interim labels and concepts keeps this discord alive and well as the new you.

Your mind clinging to concepts diverts your attention away from the underlying facts. You are mentally anchoring your Soul down to knowingness and time when time related concepts and products don’t have the power to continue or liberate, but instead they have the power to bind you to time. Yet you still cling to them and guard them when you must surrender them. Why would hang onto these perishable goods and concepts anyways? Can that be good and harmonious for the timeless Eternal Soul? I mean, isn’t time full of harmonious contradiction and strife? Do we really want that to continue?

Now that you have heard the truth and know the problem that is preventing you from liberation, which is due to a misunderstanding of the facts, will you now act on the information by turning your attention inward toward the observer and meditate?

What’s holding you back?

Concepts?

Laziness or a lack of trust?

It’s all right here within you. It doesn’t cost you anything (or is that another concept that’s holding you back?) and the rewards are substantial, it can also take place during your daily activities disrupting nothing, so why the hesitation? I’m giving you all the information you need which is all the information I needed in order to find the truth and liberate my Soul from the knowingness of something different. And the only difference between you and me is that I acted on the information.

Will you care to turn yourself around and act on the information?

Gospel of Thomas

2010-12-12T17:42:00Z

A woman in the crowd said to him, "Lucky are the womb that bore you and the breasts that fed you."

He said to [her], "Lucky are those who have heard the word of the Father and have truly kept it. For there will be days when you will say, 'Lucky are the womb that has not conceived and the breasts that have not given milk.'"

I like the way he tells it, spontaneous, to the point and interwoven with the moment he is indirectly, but directly very deep and determined to get his message across.

"Lucky are those who have heard the word of the Father and have truly kept it. For there will be days when you will say,”

“Lucky are the womb that has not conceived and the breasts that have not given milk.'"

This line is bold, brave and so deep it wowed me, and it must be awfully hard for anyone to understand this that isn’t seriously on the path. Because this line can play itself out in the world, the Afterlife and in the Kingdom of Heaven. This line is really spiritually sound and a direct hit to the mind.

When you find Eternal Life you will understand its deeper meaning, and although not a word will be uttered it will be understood by all.

If this line was about a dramatic time in life then it doesn’t apply to everyone nor is it a lasting event or spiritual. The same holds true for the Afterlife it simply doesn’t apply to all and it really should because this is a spiritual leader contemplating deep spiritual stuff. In the Kingdom of Heaven it does apply to all, and once you see that sacred place you’ll understand and see life as a short and rough transition that was necessary, but not anymore. You find your Eternal Home and see your Self as complete and pure, without compromise and your whole eternal Self wants nothing more, for anything else would be a downgrade and compromising. Why would you want that pain and suffering again?

If you found the Eternal Heaven while living “Lucky are the womb that has not conceived and the breasts that have not given milk,'" because in the ultimate unity of Heaven we are perfect and free from the toils of life.

Lucky is that Soul that doesn’t have to give birth, doesn’t have to enter another womb, for they heard the word of the Father and kept it.

Lucky are those who are Self-realized or enlightened for they heard the word of the Father and kept it, and now they understand what true purity is and where it resides.

The word is heard and understood by the lucky ones who find Eternal life while living via enlightenment, and they will have days where they will actually deny life and treat it like “the child of a barren woman (Nisargadatta).” Another saying that metaphorically describes the universe and our life as a product of the barren woman for God didn’t need a counterpart, a body or sex, and it all developed naturally out of the Eternal One.

We are not from the womb of another.

We are the child of God and although seemingly birthed by humans we are not human at all and our real parent is none other than the Almighty God, and it’s up to each Soul to rediscover this ancient bond.

Seemingly lost in the world once the deeply spiritual person bestows the divine grace of enlightenment it places them beyond the worldly chains, and in hindsight they see them as a temporary aberration and no one was ever lost.

Still and silently secure in your crib you never left the manger or the Father’s embrace, it just seemed like you did.

Your real home is in a place of everlasting tranquility, a place where no birth is given and no birth is necessary, lucky are you who reside there permanently and don’t have to enter the womb because you kept the word of the Father.

Detachment is the underling doctrine of this statement and although the teacher may treat life casually or as a hindrance they will also treat the living with great respect and compassion. But, they also see life as a dream from which they have woken, and their sobriety sees these temporary characteristics as addictive in nature and something that needs to be abandoned. The teacher has detached and gone through the ordeal already, they abandoned their physical and mental characteristics in order to receive the Fathers pure vision.

Despite all of this negativity life is nonetheless is a very important stepping stone for the cultivating of Souls.

It’s just your personal world that is strictly yours to behold and no one else’s that is on the line, and only you can dismantle it, because holding on to time related ideas and trying to gain entrance to a place where time is nonexistent is the dilemma that all must face.

You have to want nothing else but God and Eternity for all else is time based and nontransferable.

Jesus said, "Damn the flesh that depends on the soul. Damn the soul that depends on the flesh."

The flesh takes over thereby sentencing the Soul to limitations of the flesh and now the Soul depending on the flesh is damned by the mental and physical characteristics, which are all extras and binding to the Soul.

Jesus said, "How miserable is the body that depends on a body, and how miserable is the soul that depends on these two."

A body that depends on the body doesn’t recognize anything else in that equation, and since the Soul and God is unperceivable they are believed to be a figment of the imagination. And how miserable is the Soul that gets squandered under these conditions.

This connection between the Soul and the body sentences the Soul to mental torment where none really exists because you are complete and lacking nothing, but your Soul now perceives issues and limits that now define you. "Damn the flesh that depends on the soul. Damn the soul that depends on the flesh."

These are big lines that again teach us detachment and teach us to be “passerby’s” in the journey of life. The Soul mistakenly identifies with the flesh, damning it to the limitations of the flesh. Your Eternal Soul has been trumped by life and discontentment, but don’t let that reign supreme.

Damned by the body and mind in conjunction with the world the Soul must detach from this disorder in order to find its unity in the Kingdom of Heaven.

The mind depends on the body and the body depends on the mind, the Soul needs neither to survive but now connected it identifies with what it perceives and takes a back seat.

The Soul sitting silent and stationary in the energyless background realm of Eternity with no thoughts of its own becomes a distant victim to the unfolding scene.

Jesus said, "When you see your likeness, you are happy. But when you see your images that came into being before you and that neither die nor become visible, how much you will have to bear!"

The ‘s’ in the word “images” is a little disconcerting in this statement. There is nothing plural about the Kingdom and no image is different from the next, however he could be thinking about all the Souls that are in the Kingdom during this statement.

“When you see your image (the Soul, God and The Kingdom of Heaven) that came into being before you (before you and the universe) that nether dies nor becomes visible (for it’s Eternal and invisible to all except that which is Eternal, like the Soul), how much will you have to bear!” If you are in love with your human image and find out that it was false to begin with, not real and not your image at all, will you be able to bear that lost forever?

Will you be happy to know you are nothing but Pure Aware Space without form, without mind and without energy? No more feelings, emotions, thoughts, color, or movement and is this good enough for you? If it isn’t then you are denying the Father and the Kingdom of Heaven because as simple and negative as it may sound it is the underlining fact that awaits everyone and everything! How much will you have to bear in order to let go of the past because you invested heavily in what transpired and you like it, but now its become an attached burden. Can you handle that? You better for your Eternal life completely depends on that sacrifice, and in hindsight you will see it as just a flash, here today gone tomorrow and no one really got hurt.

Once you let go and see your image in the Kingdom of Heaven will you be able to bear that invisibility (no forms) to all and stay there, for any doubt, hesitation or look away lands you back to vulnerability in manifestation. Another life at the expense of your old life and the process starts all over again from scratch, because you couldn’t bear it.

The image you have now is not the reality of the situation and if you are ready to surrender everything that transpired for the one true image that lasts, then you are ripe for the Kingdom of Heaven.

Gospel of Thomas

2010-11-17T14:39:00Z

Jesus said, "Look to the living one as long as you live, otherwise you might die and then try to see the living one, and you will be unable to see."

"Look to the living one as long as you live,”

“Look to the living one” is looking to God and Eternal life. He is telling you to be always on the search for Eternal life, the Kingdom of Heaven and God. Be attentive in the world, but always be on the search for God within you. Look for God with all your mind and heart and you will find the Kingdom. This is not an external search, because you won’t find ‘It’ out there, but if you’re sincere and determined enough, look as long as you live and you will find the Living One within you. This type of attitude that looks all the time will find the right literature and teacher that will help lead them to the truth within them. This is the type of determination it takes, and if you can find that searching norm in your daily life then it won’t be long before you find the Living One, and Eternal life within your Soul.

‘The Living One,’ I like this name for the Almighty Father and the Kingdom of Heaven. It never dies, and within this Kingdom we are all One as the Almighty. There, we’re all the same with no divisions of any kind, no forms, no sexes, no minds, no bodies, no universe, no worlds, no energy, just Eternal Awareness (life) in Eternal Pure Space or as; “The Living One.”

My second impression of this phrase is the link between the disciple and the teacher. Look for the Self-realized or enlightened teacher while living and seek their advice, otherwise when you die it’ll be too late, for you’ll have no one to help you then. Even if this is what he intended, which I don’t think so, he still tells us that you have to do the work while living otherwise it’ll be too late.

“otherwise you might die and then try to see the living one, and you will be unable to see."

I believe it’s a lot easier to find enlightenment while living then it is after you die, and here he thinks it’s impossible to see God after you die. In enlightenment you actually see God and the Kingdom of Heaven through the Soul, thus finding ‘The Living One’ while alive. He wants you to keep on looking until you see, otherwise it’s too late when you die, and he could be right about that.

You enter the Afterlife and loose a lot of your freedom there, however I think it can be done during the Afterlife or when it’s all over, and Jesus thinks not at all. He seems to think you’ll have no control over the process, and if you are not spiritually seeking or looking then your vulnerable to the Afterlife and it’ll take control over you. If you’re not spiritually active and meditate (this includes prayer) and contemplate on the Almighty spirit then you’re not trying to see the Living One, and it makes moving on impossible.

I believe at the end of your long and fruitless journey when the Afterlife fades slowly into nothing you’ll have no choice but to abandon your position and find the Kingdom of Heaven.

As a realized teacher we may have different thoughts and theories on the Afterlife; however they will fall in direct line with the characteristics of Eternity and life. And, when speaking about the characteristics of the Kingdom of Heaven, God or the Father there will be only the facts and no theories. If the information your reading about doesn’t revolve around these basic facts on Eternity, then you’re reading about someone who hasn’t seen the Living One.

He saw a Samaritan carrying a lamb and going to Judea. He said to his disciples, "that person ... around the lamb." They said to him, "So that he may kill it and eat it." He said to them, "He will not eat it while it is alive, but only after he has killed it and it has become a carcass."

They said, "Otherwise he can't do it."

He said to them, "So also with you, seek for yourselves a place for rest, or you might become a carcass and be eaten."

When you identify with the body and mind your identity will be violated by the aggressor and wrapped up in the eaten process, intrinsically linked to the killer. Your identity to the carcass and now the killer causes the suffering to continue well into the Afterlife with no hope of moving on. If you did your spiritual duty you wouldn’t be identifying with the carcass at all, and not looking for a reason or antidote about life you would stick tirelessly to the Spirit of the Father. Then the perpetrator can’t eat you at all, for he can’t eat the Living One, just the empty casing that was temporarily connected to the Soul. You were never in the body just connected to it and you don’t need that link anymore, and now you are free to move on. You’re connected to time related products that hinder any progress and you need to move onto a greater way of Being, in the unity of the Fathers embrace.

Death will not kill you nor will the Afterlife harm you, but if you’re afraid to let go of this life then you must suffer the ill effects.

“So also with you, seek for yourselves a place for rest,”

So also with you, seek for yourself a place at rest within you.

Find a quite and restful place to meditate and find the ‘Rest’, or the Kingdom of Heaven within you. On my previous blog I explained Jesus statement on motion and Rest.

Jesus said, "Those who know all, but are lacking in themselves, are utterly lacking."

Good line. You maybe the smartest person with all the money and fame in the world, yet if you don’t know yourself as you really are, then you have nothing at all. Those lofty attributes will perish with time and mean nothing to you, but Eternal Life does not and it means everything. Life is just a blink of the eye, so search and find your Self or Soul and you will have the Kingdom of Heaven forever, there is nothing greater than that.

Jesus said, "There are many standing at the door, but those who are alone will enter the bridal suite."

The ‘bridal suite’ is the Kingdom of Heaven, and here again he talks about the act of Self-realization, which opens the door to the Suite. The door is available to all yet few will enter, because so few know how and few will let go of the past in order to do so. In the same manner you entered you must leave, empty handed ‘Those alone’ means you have to do it alone without carrying any attributes with you except that which you came in with. It’s up to each individual to surrender their individual and worldly characteristics and find their unity at Home in the Kingdom. Let it all go and you will be rewarded with the ultimate gift of Eternal Life, and although you gave up that human individuality during the process, some of it will return to you, because the Self-governing Pure Soul is the result of this action, when you take your spot in the Almighty Father.

Jesus said, The Father's kingdom is like a merchant who had a supply of merchandise and found a peal. That merchant was prudent; he sold the merchandise and bought the single pearl for himself.

So also with you, seek his treasure that is unfailing, that is enduring, where no moth comes to eat and no worm destroys."

The peal, pearl or any priceless gem will do for this metaphor on the Almighty Spirit. A treasure that is unfailing and enduring is the Soul within all of us. Seek and find that, and you’ll need nothing else to comfort you, because nothing else can give you that divine contentment, which only comes from that gem within you. No one can take that from you and its indestructible and everlasting, so be willing to give up everything for the cause and you will find the gem.

Jesus said, "I am the light that is over all things. I am all: from me all came forth, and to me all attained.

Split a piece of wood; I am there.

Lift up the stone, and you will find me there."

Here he takes the next step in identifying with the Source. A big step, which is usually reserved for only the close disciples, and any true teacher can speak from the Source for the Source as the One. No longer speaking as a human, Jesus speaks directly from the Almighty Father from within the Kingdom of Heaven. Each enlightened teacher has this ability, but chooses not to for it could alienate people when they perceive an elevation in stature equal to God. People have a hard time understanding this, and it takes the perfect moment for a teacher to talk this way. The right to talk this way is given to them by the Father, and since the human psyche is programmed so limited the majorities can’t phantom this talk and walk away.

The Almighty Father is speaking here and He is the source of all things and everywhere is He.