Jiva, Brahma, Absolute -NM

Nisargadatta Maharaj

N.MAHARAJ: Visitor: What is the exact difference between the Jiva, Brahma, and the Absolute?
Maharaj:” You remove all the names and understand. These are all concepts, a chaotic confusion of words, nothing else. Whatever I tell you, this knowledge is never-ending, it has no beginning and no end. All this is the product of the five elements, and the elements, including space, are substances. Space is like darkness, nothingness, like night. Out of it, vital breath arose as a vibration.
This body has appeared on me automatically, without my willing it, and therefore I became puzzled. What I have experienced is- I am not the matter. That quality of Beingness, knowingness, which is a product of matter, gets extinguished and again goes into the atmosphere with increasing progression and the cycle continues. That Beingness has gone into that state of matter, but it will not stay in that matter, it will take care that it goes back to its state of Absolute subtlety.”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

We’re all walking each other home – Ram Dass

Don’t APPLY Truth -JSG

Joel Solomon Goldsmith

Stop trying to apply Truth: Attempting to apply Truth is the action of the human thought. Truth is infinite; therefore, there is nothing to which you can apply Truth. It is the reality of being, and there is nothing inside or outside for Truth to act upon: Truth is self-acting and self-operative.
Joel S. Goldsmith
The Infinite Way

Let go of this world to make spiritual progress -RAdams

Adams, Robert

“Remember you do not know how much time you have left in this world. … You never know when you’re going to give up your body. What are you doing with your time? Do you waste it by worrying over nonsense or trying to change person, place or thing, or trying to get your own way, manipulation? You’re only fooling yourself.

You must try your best to let go of this world, if you want to make spiritual progress. By letting go of this world I don’t mean you have to go live in a cave and ignore everybody, I mean mentally. This all begins mentally. You have to mentally make the correction within yourself.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

If something makes you happy, watch out! -RAdams

Adams, Robert

“This world can never make you happy, it’s impossible. It may appear to make you happy for a while because you’re gaining something that you want. But it will only last a short time. True happy…true happiness comes from nothing. When your happiness arises from nothingness then you’re really happy, because nothing made you happy and nothing can take it away.

If something makes you happy then if something take it away you will be miserable. But if you learn to achieve happiness from nothing this is everlasting. It will never leave you because there is nothing to change.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

Acclimitising To our new understanding -RSpira

Rupert Spira
WE MUST BE RELENTLESS ABOUT ERODING ALL THE THOUGHTS AND DEMANDS INTENDED FOR THE SEPARATE SELF.
The tiger wasn’t really running after the villagers – it was on the screen. The screen represents consciousness and experience is the activity of consciousness – all thinking, feeling, sensing and perceiving. The tiger veiled the screen in the 1st instance but after the manager ran out and told the villagers about it not being a real tiger coming after them they came back in and enjoyed the movie so the tiger had lost its power to veil reality. Consciousness itself conceals itself with its own activity. That’s Maya. All there is to experiencing is the knowing of it. At that stage experience loses its capacity to veil itself but instead shines with it. Experience becomes a revealing power instead of a concealing power. The only SUBSTANCE to experience is the presence of it and that is knowing. To investigate your true nature you go directly to your true nature and you’ll find it to be pure eternal whole perfect. That’s the culmination of the self inquiry process. And then you begin to allow that knowledge of yourself to permeate all realms. That’s Transfiguration. It’s the allowing this true self to permeate al your experience and then your experience becomes outshined by the light of your self. This is very very difficult and requires effort and maintenance. The separate self is the unnatural condition. It’s an acquired state and not your natural state. Being acquired requires constant effort and maintenance because we are so accustomed to making this effort that we no longer realized that we’re doing so because we think that it’s our default state but it isn’t. Therefore from the perspective of our separate self returning to our self requires effort. We’re not talking about going to some lofty place and then having to come back to reality we’re talking about a better way of dealing with the demands of everyday life. You should visit that lofty place seemingly that we went to more and more and more until you can acclimatize to it and it will become your new norm. All there is is infinite individual whole made out of pure consciousness. We need not only to understand this but to feel it and not only to feel it but to act in the world and relate with others in a way that is consistent with this infinite understanding. Now what we need to do is after meditation or an infilling like this we just had is to spend 5 minutes in silence to solidify everything and to start to prepare to go out into our everyday life and then the preparation gets us ready to for example go to the kitchen and take the inspiration with you and prepare what you need and keep that inspiration going and bring it into the living room and keep the inspiration going and going and going. RJS There is a TRANSITION period where our old way of thinking, acting, perceiving, etc, is infused with our new understanding. It takes a few years for this new understanding to release and percolate through all of our experience. Your experience is entirely intimate with the screen and yet it has no effect on it. (15+ min) You’ll have total intimacy and total freedom. BE RELENTLESS ABOUT ERODING ALL THE THOUGHTS AND DEMANDS INTENDED FOR THE SEPARATE SELF. Your thoughts will become an expression of who you really are and they will be liberated and wonderful.
RUPERT SPIRA

Be in consciousness, not in mind- body -NM

Nisargadatta Maharaj

If you abide in consciousness,
everything will be happening
spontaneously. If you are
still at body-mind level, you
will think that you are doing
something. Consciousness
can never remain inactive,
it will always be busy –
that is its nature.

My Guru told me that
consciousness alone
is the Guru, all other
developments sprouted
within me. The fruit should
grow on your own plant.

Nisargadatta Maharaj