Imagine not having to participate in the crazy story the world is living, and live the inner truth, living how it feels correct and true. That is peace and maturity.
People don’t realize that your not going to lose your personality. It’s more like your super ego ends. Which allows your mind to quiet and not be judgmental. I am all for sharing old texts but sometimes these should be shared with modern psychology. Love listening to your channel!
The deeper down the rabbit hole one goes the less they remain what they were before the journey started thus the old personality begins to disappear. It was the old personality that kept them from journeying in the first place but a new light shines before them thus that first step into the void was the life changing principle and the previous system of beliefs and models are cast aside and a new set of concepts and theories are adopted suffusing a personality change ~ Grandfather John
@Kal That sounds like a word for word description of 'one' of Freud's ideas, this idea in particular Freud describing the human pysche also known as The Personality Theory from a psychoanalysis point of view.
I am reminded of something I realized and wrote down after a meditation this week; Depression is a Doorway to Divine Discovery. Some of you can relate and understand. Jim Carey interpreted "depressed" as "deep rest" from the character/story of yourself you have bought into & attached to.
Oh how true. A deep rest from the character/story of ourselves. Nice! Most of us look to take a holiday from our external lives but what we need is a holiday from our own constructed stories of ourselves. 🙂
@@carolt8073 One of my affirmations is "You have everything you need, and you don't need everything you have." It rings true in all of our lives in different ways at different times & really helped to ground and guide me through the turbulent times.
As a depressive most of my life but just carrying on with it I agree with your "Doorway to Divine Discovery" statement. It will not leave you alone like having to hold onto a large rock while going through life...and so you don't get any attachments to anything and eventually there is a whole new chapter that opens up in your life that introduces you to a wonderful meadow.
@@Veej77 yes! i love that wonderful meadow metaphor. Behind that depression doorway is a long dark corridor, but if you simply accept not being ok and not knowing when you will be, surrender to the process, and trust that you will eventually See the Light, once I emerged from that corridor i felt like i had won the lottery, bliss, peace, serenity like I never tasted before
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Where the verb "embodied" is a metaphor for an experience that cannot be expressed in words. The words, letters, alphabets, numbers and symbols of human languages are not reality; rather, they are man-made illusions and thus are magic and fantasy. All explanations of "enlightenment" in the spirit sense are meaningless. The ultimate answer to the Zen koan, "Who am I?" is stillness and silence.
I've seen the whirlpool in meditation. I hadn't meditated for about 15 years after attaining no-mind, It calmed and in I went back to peace. Peace is compassion, our natural state. Thank you for this information ;)
Excellent as usual my friend. I remember the first time I swerved into the ancient teachings of the mystics. The learning curve was exponential, and it was somewhat startling that I could comprehend it. Such brilliance in teaching was an experience in humility. I remember thinking to myself, I will always be a student. Namaste🕉💜
It is ironic how easy it is to understand and comprehend what you're explaining once we simply relax and open our minds, but at the same time extremely difficult to reach that level of comprehension.
I appreciate this video. It seems to me that the more vrittis in someone's mind, the more they are proud to have 'personality', whereas when treading the spiritual path, one aims to calm these knots of energy in order to see clearly. But in this Western world at least, the one with obvious personality is valued more than the genuine sage. People compete to be the biggest and the best even in the most minor things of life and conversation. Those such as Jason, who understand clearly, are rare, and many thanks for these helpful videos.
I recall the outstanding depressive periods. Pulling at my hair. Having moments where I felt like there's no way love would still be available with no sense of self. And then throwing on top of it a confirmed diagnosis for mental disorder (slowly becoming Moon Knight)..what keeps me going along this inner journey is knowing these symptoms are something like outrageous stage fright. And that's the honesty. Isolation from others, if not outright rejection..lack of trusting oneself can claim so much passion. But, I do know that is my true nature because we I confirm that clear headed vantage point is in effect, I feel whole. It is a gift that can be muted if I allow but never destroyed because I Am
I found my awakening very difficult. I went into this state of recognising that nothing really mattered and everything I had done before was about soothing my ego self. To comfort it because it felt so afraid in the world and it was always reaching outward. When I went into my true awakened state I floated around for a few weeks seeing that nothing had any purpose. Then I soon realised that I couldn’t live in this state of nothingness and bliss as my time here was to learn the human lessons. I really didn’t want to go back into the school of life but I did and it hit hard. I now live between t he two states of enlightenment and awareness of the ego self. I’m still finding balance because I’m aware that to live in this planet I need the ego state to function.
@@JohnCampbellmarleybikes I had a lot of laughter too. I found the pointlessness of everything I previously deemed important just funny. But then watching others going through the rigmarole of it all made me laugh too.
@@JohnCampbellmarleybikes it is no laughter people fall into no mind state can b really bad for many as it depletes them of thr memories Nd thr attachments towards life.... In a way it is death, or ur born anew, like a baby, nothing to B really very happy abt... Ur perception can raise but thr is a fall off that can b really worry some or many can get disillusioned too.... Enlightenment is not always a one way street
Agreed Excellent as usual! Back just before the craziness became obvious (to some) a voice loud & clear said "Prepare to lose your identity." I didn't know what that truly meant but with watching your videos, reading your books & the path I have been guided on I am beginning to have a better understanding & the amazing wonders of losing Karen's identity. This video was a BIG help! Thank you so much!!!🙏🕉☯
Excellent my dear Jason! You know , when my kundalini wake in March 18/2012 I was already meditating for many many years. Although after “she” woke up, from that day , I was shocked by this experience…I was not able to meditate anymore , and 10 years pass Jason and I couldn’t meditate anymore. I did try many many times, but my mind became like a hurricane. Very Scary to a point indeed. Finally this year & to be precise a week a go, I was finally able to return to meditations. My mind now is very strong, steady. I have the lucky to received help from Tibetan lamas and this make all The difference. Wake of kundalini is very serious and should be done with responsibility. The process is different for each one , but there is a tremendous difference to go through to this process in retreats or monasteries or caves, & other thing completely different is go through this process in a world where we call outside (when u have family, daughter/sons and a life to take care of). And yes, your personality indeed dissolve (in a caos way I would say) until you find yourself again, and when this moment happen you will Never be the same again. The compassion for all living things on this universe became so Cristal Clear and part of you, solid, beautiful, meaningful. I would call the real gift 🧡❤️ on this paradox. Thank you Jason ! So much gratitude for sharing such important knowledge. ❤️🧡🙏🏻
Hi Graca. Your comments were so relevant for my own experience. When kundalini awakening happened to me (after a sudden shock) I don't know how I managed to get through it all. I had no idea what had happened to me and I had to hold down a demanding job in a corporate environment. It was a wild ride and took a long while to settle down. My perception of the world changed overnight and there was no one to talk to about it, all while I was processing grief. But the "boons" of coming through this trial were many. I lost my fear of life and death, gave up day-dreaming, and found joy in just about everything, and I could see life so clearly. I experienced divine love and saw God manifest in this world. I am not the same person now either and I feel I have in fact constructed another kind of personality, but without the limitations I had before. We still have to operate in the world amongst other people, meet our obligations to others and fit into society. Thank you for sharing your experience, Graca. ❤
@@carolt8073 Is such a good feeling to know that we are not alone , that in one place someone understand us regarding this process ❤️ Thank you Carol for let me know 🧡❤️ Wish u that love always be your guide, today & all Days of our life 🙏🏻 Love Light & Sound Graça Pimentel
This energy can be released in more ways than just meditating. Realization is the quickest path in which you go past the ego to a higher state. The problem, as you have seen, is that the human body is not able to handle these outputs of overwhelming joy-energy. You literally cannot experience any negative emotions in that state when sustained. It is energy that goes beyond mere emotion. In my case I always end up laughing which I call the "cosmic joke". It rapidly disappates and closes off from there.
Great video. You are right. The paradox is that when you lose your identity, you actually gain your true identity. Only it's only perceivable by others, not yourself.
None of this is necessary for Enlightenment to become you. Aspects of what you say may or may not be true but it doesn’t matter. It’s just silly. Come. Come over here on the other side of the veil first, then say what you want, do or do not do whatever you’d like. There is an existence, it’s just different. This existence never changes. But even that is a stupid statement that tells you, the one who sees enlightenment in the future, nothing. Be quiet. Do it first.
I think so too. People who live a relaxed life: tend sheep, have routine, boring, repetitive jobs can afford such a state of mind. I cannot imagine, for example, a busy mother or the head of a company being able to live this way. These are people who create and act. I was in this strange state. And what? And nothing. chitta vritti and the bills won't pay themselves 😜 But I've learned one thing: when I look at a sheep staring at me mindlessly: do the same. I won't be ashamed of being alive.
A simple way to describe that state is total control. Now what do you mean by that? It means having the ability to flip any of your switches as and when you like. For example time to go to sleep and want to feel extremely tired? well no need to take a run outside. Just start feeling extremely tired straightway 😂. Want to go for a jog and then have some important stuff to do. Just stop feeling tired😂🤷♂️. Because at the end of the day everything is just a mind state.
None can talk, explain, convince to one what the truth is... The truth is silent, wordless, shapeless, unexplainable, it is timeless, and again those are just words which again try to give the nameless a name... The "truth" is like the loving heart it can never find words to explain and say to the beloved how much he/she loves her/him. It stays better in silence in the eternal present moment as if the loving one tells any word to his/her beloved of the amount he/she loves it shall loose all the " TRUTH" and become conditioned, it would become a matter, it would take a form, but the truth is Formless, wordless it can only exist in the Eternal Silence....
Living life with an open mind to enjoy experiences as they are, then learn from those experiences. Free will to live life, but not take life from others.
Melting of the mind means you are able to let go with no attachment of any thoughts!! Therefore no creation of any image and follow no desire!! Thus the self is revealed and remain the observer!! The problem is that the observer become one with the observed!! The whole universe seems to come out of the self!! Reality and dream become one!! The self remain only the permanent and therefore the true reality!! Then knowing this ultimate truth you are free from delusion!!!!!
These enlightenment teachings come to some people naturally. The natural way of things is so beautiful and is perfect! A quote from some past human that I like to say.
Enlightenment is also not getting rid of yourself but learning to live more fully and abundantly. You are an individual point in the whole. You don’t rid yourself of your point of perception at enlightenment. Merging with the one is misunderstood. Reality is nondual. We must view things correctly so we do not create unintentionally imperfect ideals like death and suffering.
I have wondered what it's like to be in a state where human capacity reaches its limit. I can see how the few that can do this must seem like crack-pots. While they look at us and laugh. I'm guessing the enlighten one does not check a twitter feed or tictok.
This power of mind release feels to be ever present awaiting its chance to come through but our resistance interferes with the experience. It’s a pull away from ordinary thought but an embrace of love and the living as all that is. This is what I feel we will all get to do eventually.
Ram Dass said his Guru "Maharajji was one of the most foul mouthed people in existence". Joseph Goldsteins teacher haggled over the cost of a loaf of bread and when asked why he said "enlightenment is about being simple, not being a simpleton". The mind of an enlightened being is not dull, blank or boring. It is free of all the egoic thoughts and mind states that hold us back. it is wise as it watches all and succumbs to nothing, yet it is open to and welcomes everything.
Thank you, so so so much for this video post/message! Exactly as and when I needed to hear it too 😊. (Payday on Friday, setting alarm note for Friday to donate ❤- thank you for all you do and the energy you put out there- most of all thank you for taking your time/thoughts/efforts to such a height and the bravery/courage to speak your peace, ambition and faith- a friend at my table always). In a time of such chaos it’s easy to get distracted from our divine connection to the universe, a wake up call is a godsend in disguise to me- I’m ready to get going though 💪🏼
Good News! i discovered that the brain/body is capable of setting itself Totally Free of fear, anxiety, sorrow, despair, loneliness, shame, guilt, confusion, addictions, and all other mental/emotional afflictions, once and for all, now and forever.
This gave birth to True Love, Peace, Joy, Goodness, Kindness, Creativity, & Clarity, for the very first time, in each & every moment of daily life, 24/7, once and for all, now and forever. Not the love, peace, joy, that the I, the me, the self, the thinker, the mind, the psyche, the consciousness, imagines it to be, which is a limitation, imitation, and distortion. It didn't take time. It had nothing whatsoever to do with time, effort, or choice. It occurred faster than the speed of light. The children are ready to be set Totally Free at the earliest age so they don't waste their entire lives with any mental disturbances.
Once one understands ashtavakrageeta, nothing lasts, not even the one who understands it. It's all the brahman or ultimate reality there it is. There is no self to realise but one needs the self to acknowledge it. It's a paradox. Just do your work, enjoy life and acknowledge every thing happening and witness all. It also talks about getting beyond that witness too. It's simple yet complex and complex yet simple. Funny and insane to even acknowledge. But it's just there. Just live on till the end or till one seeks the ultimate reality.
Ultimate reality is that life isn't so serious. It's about unity, bonding, laughter, and dreams. We live in a world of neurotic slavery where fear has taken over love. Do what you're told, not what you love. Pffft. Idiocracy.
@@TheDarkness1 love and fear or on the same boat, either doing what we love and told are the same, we are all idiots talking about the ultimate intelligence.
Body is merely a pattern in matter and in turn matter is mass-energy. Spirit is pure energy and so that are not disimilar. By that standard spirit should be able to affect body too.
to describe the enlightened one as a crazy fool is very apt as it is a journey of going out of one's mind and to be enlightened happens by becoming lightened
22 now, never thought my mind would be as calm as it is now until i was at least a few more years down the line, but this is only after years of constant attempts, it wont be instant, its a lot of work, but definitely worth it. People seem to gravitate towards me, hear my unbiased opinions, any issues that come with life im able to deal with smoothly because of my clear view, i can be my true self unapologetically. Keep at it, check your ego, leave no side of your mind unexplored.
Have to add, be grateful for everything. Everything. & Do not let social pressures guide your decisions, they're rooted in you deeper than one would originally observe, what we think is important is really not, but thats just part of life
Awesome bro. I’m 20. My mom passed at 17. Got dumped at 18. Struggled with accepting my sexuality until today. Have hypothyroidism. I have so many things I want to get done on earth. I hope one day I’ll love myself if that’s possible or get through the mental barrier.🤞🏽
Me and my wife went to a waterfall in a jungle supposedly holy site. I kept hearing and seeing glances of a being , day after I started to lose wrinkles, my hair started growing thicker(I'm forty) I grew blacker hair . My body started to regain even more muscles than I used to have , my bones started seem sturdier. My skin younger even my wife's started asking if I was taking anything. I don't seem to get sick anymore. I sparred with some kids and I wiped the floor with the slightest effort. I can again lift my wife with just one hand. What is happening to me? It's beginning to scare me. I'm getting stronger I feel and younger. Can anyone help? Tell me what's going on?
@@C1...3 it's in mount mariveles Philippines, Mariveles means lady with a veil. And it was her I seemed to glimpse.a woman in white with a veiled face. I'm sorta happy with whatever beens happening but I'm also scared as legends say she takes people and never gives them back. And honestly some part of me is scared as I feel like I want to go back and never leave. Also you might be right it's dormant volcano that's forever spewing a mist and people have been known to disappear. Also I've been eating some particular fruit there as I'm studying it.
You actually do lose personality traits, or at least I did. Typically they are negative traits, but big personality changes did happen to me. The still pond becomes a perfect mirror and shows us ALL the things we are. I was not prepared for the difficulty that arises in finding balance. I have come to realize that our reality is made of things that are themselves and opposites simultaneously and that is a tricky landscape to navigate.
From an Osho talk. What did you do in those years immediately after your enlightenment? It is a difficult question. The first thing was that a great silence, almost unbreakable, followed the experience, as if the mind had stopped functioning. There was nothing to do about it - except to watch. It was difficult for my family, my friends. Obviously, they thought I had gone mad. My family has always been worried about me, concerned that I’m not following the well-trodden path and I am moving into dangerous experiments; the danger of going mad was easily conceivable. And when I stopped speaking - it would be better to say that the speaking stopped itself, I was not a partner to it - people would ask questions and I would not even be able to give answers to simple things. For almost two years, inside it was a tremendous rejoicing. Outside, it became a trouble. The people who thought they were trying to help me were really a nuisance. I should have been left alone to myself. But they were worried that I may go deeper into this madness. They could also feel that I am not miserable, that I am immensely happy. But mad people ordinarily are happy, are rarely miserable. So that was not against their idea of madness; on the contrary, it was supportive of the idea that something should be done to me. They were bringing people thought to be wise, and I was really amazed that these people were not even in the category of the commonsense people. They were full of the garbage of the scriptures. Just one man, a man who was not known to be a wise man, met me in those days - and he was the only sane man in those two years of my silence. He was a strange beggar - strange because he was respected by many people, but he was a beggar. His only possession was simply a small mug. Because of that mug, he was called Magga Baba. People would drop money or food or anything into his mug. And he would not prevent others who wanted to take money from his mug or things that others had dropped into it. He would be as willing to those who wanted to take money out of it… One of my uncles thought that perhaps this man could be of some help. He was silent, or sometimes he would speak gibberish. You could not understand what he was saying. Nobody could even figure out what language it was; it was no language. He was just like small children when they start speaking for the first time - they go on saying anything, repeating anything. But the man had some magnetic quality. During the rains he used to lie down at night under the awning just in front of his shop. I had seen him a few times and he had smiled whenever I had seen him - he was not far away from my place. His smile was of great understanding. And when my uncle thought that it would be good to bring Magga Baba and “see what he does to him,” Magga Baba was brought. His bringing was also a special kind; you could not invite him because he was not on talking terms with anybody. He would not say “yes” or “no.” You simply had to bring a rickshaw and catch hold of him. He would not refuse. At least three times he was stolen, because his followers in other villages simply took him away. They would sit him in a rickshaw - and he was willing, he was not resistant or anything. He enjoyed the ride and he went there. But then hundreds of his followers here missed him. So my uncle went with a few of his friends and put Magga Baba in a rickshaw and brought him home. He came close to me and whispered in my ear, “This is it. And don’t be worried about these people; they are all mad.” Perhaps this was the first time he had spoken to anybody without any gibberish. Everybody gathered around. It was a trouble for them to figure it out because Magga Baba would not say what he had whispered, and I was not going to say what he had whispered. But one thing they felt, that Magga Baba was very happy with me. He hugged me and left. That helped my family and friends: “There may be something we are not understanding” - but others thought that both are mad. “He is an old madman, famous; now he has got another one also.” But still it was a great solace that there was one man who was able to understand me. And because of his understanding me, I started slowly to speak - because perhaps there may be a few more people who can be helped. Maybe they are just on the verge. But as I began speaking… It came in the same way as silence had come, just as if the whole ocean of silence… and when I started speaking the same was the case with speaking. Suddenly the mind started functioning and I was speaking continuously. People started coming to me, asking my advice. People started coming to me to lecture in their congregation, in some conference, in some other city. I was discoursing sometimes five times a day, almost the whole day, in different conferences and different meetings, colleges, universities. And my silence was untouched. "
Yes it is simply experienced you no longer have thoughts and questions coming from you when empty of all mental constructed instead you now have answers coming to you. Directly from the spirit. It is a sacrifice of your mentally constructed self. All the energy it takes to think and have a mental identity falls down into the heart center and instead just being is experienced
It never occurred to me that an enlightened state of being would be anything like being a mindless automaton. Very much the opposite, actually. Perhaps the term "dissolving the mind" is misunderstood, as it is simply realizing the difference between self and mind. Once the fleeting and separate nature of thought is realized, the light clear nature of self becomes obvious. It doesn't mean our capacity to think dissolves, it's just we see how our thoughts are a tool of our brain and not actually us, since we are the consciousness observing those thoughts. Usually, we get lost in the vortex of thought. We see a thought and we focus our attention on it, we hold onto it, we get sucked in. If we don't hold onto it (pay attention to it) it will simply dissolve. Not all thoughts, just that one. Until we decide to not hold onto the next one, and the next. What takes up the space between thoughts? Light, clear pure consciousness/awareness. Breath awareness helps to quiet our thoughts and train our mind, and observing our thoughts and not allowing ourselves to get involved in them is the trick to greater self-realization. This is my understanding at this time.
In 1947, a couple of aliens flew to Earth in a silver saucer-shaped craft. After closely observing mankind, they shit themselves laughing and crashed into the desert in Roswell, New Mexico. The US Army found the shit covered craft, conducted an investigation, deduced what happened and out of embarressment told the public it was a weather balloon.
We have a higher self that is our baseline. It is that mental part of us that can look at our life, detached from it. It can be hard for some to relocate it within their hurt. But it is there. We emerge not knowing that and we experience life and we judge it as we go along. This fills us with experiences, and we live from those experiences. But they are not who we are. We must find ways to let go of the things we carry, the emotional hurt, as that is the very thing that ruins our lives unless we wake up and figure that out. We have to seek emptiness. Poor in spirit. Clear the mote from our eye. All analogous terms to let this go, because it hurts us. Then we re-emerge into our higher self, enjoying life, not being taken on an out of control ride on the emotional roller coaster. We live feeling free, not obligated.
Tapping into that energy source is overwhelming joy. Our physical bodies cannot handle that and usually it ends up with laughter which disappates the energy.
I have created a universe of my own in a universe of your own universe inside of everyone else's universe which could explain many universes and a multiverse with a universe. Or this could just be a basic shitty reality. One or the other I guess.
3d - ego + body (outer man/woman) 4d - soul + spirit + inner being (causal/akasha/tripartite) - justification 5d - holy ghost/sacred/divine (sanctification) 6d - Christ/Logos/TAO/WORD (redemption) 7d - monad/source (atonement) Each stage of Ascension/salvation/awakening/liberation/quickening/glorification/enlightenment requires Ego death/rebirth, initiation, baptism & circumcision. "Can't pour new wine into old wineskin" "Die to self daily" "Work out our salvation" "Quicken according to judgment"
There's no such thing as Enlightenment until you turn into light, you can become more light but you can also become more dark after you become light you don't become enlightened until you disappear into another frequency
Vrittis isn't "mind" really...it's more like the "chatter". You're not dissolving mind...you're allowing the dissolution of the chatter that endlessly echoes and manifests persona.
Well perspectives differ and every DNA is distinctive... we live in a sinful world... so sin easily enters without acts ... Redemption is a must towards 'Salvation'' every creature is born with a purpose and so the eco-system rolls ... all dependent... as for good & evil we stand between .. there isn't enlightenment... it's for fools ... without God .. or fools under many Gods.. the God and temple we create .. with seven demonic spirits that hoovers in every space ... God isn't here but you as his spirit... !! GypsyTrail 😜✌️👍
I'd say nowadays not having an ego you would be considered crazy but what's bad about crazy though why care! what people think and why get into the gossip! why care!!!. (MOST NOT ALL) people put themselves in situations they want to be in good or bad. you live it how you want it no one else controls that;)
Throw away your scriptures. You won't find God there. End your seeking. Stop finding who you are. Stop seeking Liberation. There's nothing outside of you to find. There was only you. End the dream of finding yourself, someone greater than yourself is dreaming you. And that is the real you. -- wise one
Pursuing enlightenment seems like the last thing you would want to do to reach enlightenment. Like Jack Kerouac said, "Finding Nirvana is like locating silence." You can't locate silence by searching for silence. You have to BE silent and get away from everything that isn't silent. You can't reach enlightenment, you have to BE enlightened and get away from everything that isn't enlightened. Enlightenment is simply the absence of "noise" in the soul, or the heart, or the mind... whatever you want to call your "driver," or "pilot" or "player character." Just keep in mind though, a nice silent place is great and all but beaches, concerts, a laughing group, a sweet conversation with a loved one are all pretty great too.
When the East ie India mostly because Xhina and Japan and mostly Asia is a spread of Sanatam Dharma, is blindly aping the West. The West is more focusing on grounding with our texts and culture
Liberation itself is the liberation from identity.. The identity don’t exist in the first place..In deep sleep, you are identity less therefore in deep peace and bliss.. With waking up in world, “I” arises with all false narratives.. Liberation is from the mind.. Liberation is not of the person but from the person!
Jason, clear content, but man, enjoy your work more. The spiritual path is play, not hard work. Hard work gets you into hammering out truths like a construction worker. Play gets things done with little effort. Was there any place to go anyway?
externally, some of the understanding we have toward reality is good, but internally no. We aren't supposed to live in the future but in the present. There's already a past, and a future, that present is us. But some of us tend to use knowledge, but not for the benefit of their mental health, but to escape it. There is no denial really, you are just bad at using your own faculties. Self-awareness doesn't need denial. The motivation for denial is fear. People find it odd, why I didn't fall in solipsism. No, I'm just really emotionally healthy and normal.
Also, "reaching enlightenment" has to be, ironically, the most egotistical thing I can think of... the goal is to reach a point where you realize something no one else has or at least few others have yet we need a TH-cam video to make vague descriptions on what that thing is to help us figure it out. This guy says identity (ego) dissolution, but how do you keep the ego from being proud it's reached such an advanced sense of understanding that few others have? There's your dumb paradox.
We'll I feel and many vedic texts affirms that "it" Whatever you, call is non dualistic and hence above paradoxes. It is our intelligence or psychy that moves in two fold paths or opposite and hence "it" Is conveyed out to commoners in paradoxes.
I had a paradigm shift. Its like an old game show. May the real you please step forward? No hard work just me as I am. I don't like or dislike it, it just is. Others my like or dislike it and I don't care about that either. Shalom.
The human body is similar to a battery for conscious projection. It feeds consciousness with experience in order to maintain balance within the cosmos. Every next thought takes power and energy to produce. Though the time seems instantaneous, the process exists eternally external within all that can be known and seen. Information is all there is. We are free to manipulate it all however we wish. The wish of eternal capture is the one that displays an infinitely expansive and indefinite pursuit. Unfulfilled are then the dreams, the scraps of mind forming conclusion to end the pursuit when energy levels are low. Once charged, the search for balance continues. Rising and falling, like waves. The ripples of being reverberate within the walls of universal life, birthing out of it another place and time where that in which had been can again be with us until we've chosen to let go..
If everyone rejected their natural programming, the society and govt would collapse. The scripts basically say that you are living in someones aquarium for the owners amusement. The other side says that if you stop amusing the owner, then he will replace you with someone else.
Sense of personhood is an illusion, but it still there even if you're capable of truely understanding that. I only know this intellectually, but spend my life in this illusion. I had an experience where I saw into the nature of my mind for a mere moment, daydreaming about something goofy about a person I read about named Phineas Gauge. He had a terrible accident where his brain had been horribly injured, but he did not die or fall into a coma... Made me think what it would be like to not have a brain... And for a moment I think my brain let go of itself, but that's not quite right, it's like you are your brain, but not your brain at the same time. I wanted to laugh and cry at the same time, it was profound.. But as soon as I tried to articulate the idea in words to share this idea... I lost the insight ... Like have you ever said I am mad at myself? Who is the you that is mad? Who is the you that is the target of the anger?
Its time the whole world comes back to the truth(sanatan dharma) again Because every religion born in kaliyug will die at end of kaliyug(which is near) but sanatan dharma was never born and so it will never die I hope world finds truth
I have been able to quiet my mind so easily. I could do it for an hour but any longer I find myself in a prophecy state, but have the doubt that comes with such an idea. Until it comes to fruition or comes to light that it was not a dream. I truly try to learn what this planet in the moment has to offer.. and it teaches me, what I thought I knew, I don't really know and the opposite happens to what is for certain. It plays tricks and lies. It's a visual illusion, yet in trying to convince it uses pain or what seems to be pain to back the illusion. May it be physically or mentally.
Spirituality is only one aspect of a complete human archetype. A true balanced archetype holds the ability to be material, and order the world. Not to live in endless boundless space, regardless of how many universal truths you may visit in your mind, it does not impact the world the way it is required to shape it for human success.
I know this from experience.. i became a borderline asshole.. because even death made me laugh.. then i started to act normal..like i had to literally act..
I listened for about a minute before stopping, why would anyone serious about seeking enlightenment or higher power of reasoning or consciousness be afraid of them changing? The whole part of starting this journey was to seek the change that comes with the paths to a higher self, it should go without saying to anyone on these paths or seeking these paths the fundamental reasoning is to be changed into something. The difference is that we don't have to die because of metamorphosis, just as we are wise in our years as we are beautiful in our young, we don't die we change, just like a caterpillar to a butterfly.
Imagine not having to participate in the crazy story the world is living, and live the inner truth, living how it feels correct and true. That is peace and maturity.
Upside down world teaches lessons. Letting go is no longer having fear of the system. Their rules do not apply.
Isnt that just pure cubed stagnation???? sounds like hell!!! we need purpose!!!
@@avavavavaz But there is another story, the real story, not based on what was told us by our ancestors, but on what we actually feel that is true.
@@davidd7140 yeah i figured it out thru hours and hours of studying the esoteric sciences.
But can one really do that ?
To put it simply... Life starts to matter again, but for the right reasons. Gratitude takes over and everything gets better.
It’s INFINITLY reflective
"The Attitude of Gratitude" has saved me on countless occasions.
People don’t realize that your not going to lose your personality. It’s more like your super ego ends. Which allows your mind to quiet and not be judgmental. I am all for sharing old texts but sometimes these should be shared with modern psychology. Love listening to your channel!
One finds out they're full of shit and so is everyone else, and everything. Especially when I'm being ultra spiritual.
No, that's not it
Yes our combination of memories is still a huge part of who we are in the physical reality, even if we egodeath we still have our memories.
The deeper down the rabbit hole one goes the less they remain what they were before the journey started thus the old personality begins to disappear.
It was the old personality that kept them from journeying in the first place but a new light shines before them thus that first step into the void was the life changing principle and the previous system of beliefs and models are cast aside and a new set of concepts and theories are adopted suffusing a personality change ~
Grandfather John
@Kal That sounds like a word for word description of 'one' of Freud's ideas, this idea in particular Freud describing the human pysche also known as The Personality Theory from a psychoanalysis point of view.
I am reminded of something I realized and wrote down after a meditation this week; Depression is a Doorway to Divine Discovery. Some of you can relate and understand. Jim Carey interpreted "depressed" as "deep rest" from the character/story of yourself you have bought into & attached to.
Oh how true. A deep rest from the character/story of ourselves. Nice! Most of us look to take a holiday from our external lives but what we need is a holiday from our own constructed stories of ourselves. 🙂
@@carolt8073 One of my affirmations is "You have everything you need, and you don't need everything you have." It rings true in all of our lives in different ways at different times & really helped to ground and guide me through the turbulent times.
As a depressive most of my life but just carrying on with it I agree with your "Doorway to Divine Discovery" statement. It will not leave you alone like having to hold onto a large rock while going through life...and so you don't get any attachments to anything and eventually there is a whole new chapter that opens up in your life that introduces you to a wonderful meadow.
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@@Veej77 yes! i love that wonderful meadow metaphor. Behind that depression doorway is a long dark corridor, but if you simply accept not being ok and not knowing when you will be, surrender to the process, and trust that you will eventually See the Light, once I emerged from that corridor i felt like i had won the lottery, bliss, peace, serenity like I never tasted before
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I think it's a daoist quote, it speaks of water only being able to reflect the surrounding environment with clarity when still. Beautiful
"...A liberation that is embodied when the identity itself has disappeared." Such an eloquent distinction on the experience of awakening ✨
Where the verb "embodied" is a metaphor for an experience that cannot be expressed in words. The words, letters, alphabets, numbers and symbols of human languages are not reality; rather, they are man-made illusions and thus are magic and fantasy. All explanations of "enlightenment" in the spirit sense are meaningless. The ultimate answer to the Zen koan, "Who am I?" is stillness and silence.
@@jivanvasant well said
@@jivanvasantnamaste; OM
Thank you, Jason. We all benefit from these lessons; a quiet mind is so needed in these unsettled days.
LOVE & HUGS
I've seen the whirlpool in meditation. I hadn't meditated for about 15 years after attaining no-mind, It calmed and in I went back to peace. Peace is compassion, our natural state. Thank you for this information ;)
Excellent as usual my friend. I remember the first time I swerved into the ancient teachings of the mystics. The learning curve was exponential, and it was somewhat startling that I could comprehend it. Such brilliance in teaching was an experience in humility. I remember thinking to myself, I will always be a student. Namaste🕉💜
Thank you for putting me on to the Astavakra Samhita . I'm reading it now and it's got me open!
It is simply magnificent.
It is ironic how easy it is to understand and comprehend what you're explaining once we simply relax and open our minds, but at the same time extremely difficult to reach that level of comprehension.
Ong you can try but if you just sit with god you realize it’s all already there lol
I appreciate this video. It seems to me that the more vrittis in someone's mind, the more they are proud to have 'personality', whereas when treading the spiritual path, one aims to calm these knots of energy in order to see clearly. But in this Western world at least, the one with obvious personality is valued more than the genuine sage. People compete to be the biggest and the best even in the most minor things of life and conversation. Those such as Jason, who understand clearly, are rare, and many thanks for these helpful videos.
How we use ego, to bring peace or knots. Lol yeah.
This is so true
WE ARE STUCK IN REALM OF DESIRE... narrow path through eye of needle where your heart is weighed against a feather...
I recall the outstanding depressive periods. Pulling at my hair. Having moments where I felt like there's no way love would still be available with no sense of self. And then throwing on top of it a confirmed diagnosis for mental disorder (slowly becoming Moon Knight)..what keeps me going along this inner journey is knowing these symptoms are something like outrageous stage fright. And that's the honesty. Isolation from others, if not outright rejection..lack of trusting oneself can claim so much passion. But, I do know that is my true nature because we I confirm that clear headed vantage point is in effect, I feel whole. It is a gift that can be muted if I allow but never destroyed because I Am
I found my awakening very difficult. I went into this state of recognising that nothing really mattered and everything I had done before was about soothing my ego self. To comfort it because it felt so afraid in the world and it was always reaching outward. When I went into my true awakened state I floated around for a few weeks seeing that nothing had any purpose. Then I soon realised that I couldn’t live in this state of nothingness and bliss as my time here was to learn the human lessons. I really didn’t want to go back into the school of life but I did and it hit hard. I now live between t he two states of enlightenment and awareness of the ego self. I’m still finding balance because I’m aware that to live in this planet I need the ego state to function.
This is what started my laughter
@@JohnCampbellmarleybikes from what I've heard called, the cosmic joke?
@@JohnCampbellmarleybikes I had a lot of laughter too. I found the pointlessness of everything I previously deemed important just funny. But then watching others going through the rigmarole of it all made me laugh too.
@@JohnCampbellmarleybikes it is no laughter people fall into no mind state can b really bad for many as it depletes them of thr memories Nd thr attachments towards life.... In a way it is death, or ur born anew, like a baby, nothing to B really very happy abt... Ur perception can raise but thr is a fall off that can b really worry some or many can get disillusioned too.... Enlightenment is not always a one way street
Yes! I know exactly what you mean! I laughed maniacally for days! Hahahaha 😆 now the world is your playground, sister! Create and laugh and love it!
Perfect... The Sacred Word is Me! Mass and energy... This is the Ultimate Reality... All is One.
He who sits in the dark, is the bringer of light
Shutting off the internal dialogue can be practiced any time you have a free moment.
Agreed Excellent as usual! Back just before the craziness became obvious (to some) a voice loud & clear said "Prepare to lose your identity." I didn't know what that truly meant but with watching your videos, reading your books & the path I have been guided on I am beginning to have a better understanding & the amazing wonders of losing Karen's identity. This video was a BIG help! Thank you so much!!!🙏🕉☯
Prepare to lose.....or ready to b infinite
I have loved this text, The Ashtavakra Gita, for many years. Thanks.
Another favorite is the Ahadhut Gita. Right now we read a few verses from Song of Ribhu each evening before meditation.
You are more Hindu than most of the Hindus today.
@@RichardClarkeAdvaita - Avadhuta Gita - Yes ! I agree with you !
@@haripadmanabhan1095 Here is a link to my series on the Ashtavakra Gita.
th-cam.com/video/HIvJC0sUchc/w-d-xo.html
Excellent my dear Jason!
You know , when my kundalini wake in March 18/2012 I was already meditating for many many years.
Although after “she” woke up, from that day , I was shocked by this experience…I was not able to meditate anymore , and 10 years pass Jason and I couldn’t meditate anymore.
I did try many many times, but my mind became like a hurricane.
Very Scary to a point indeed.
Finally this year & to be precise a week a go, I was finally able to return to meditations.
My mind now is very strong, steady.
I have the lucky to received help from Tibetan lamas and this make all
The difference.
Wake of kundalini is very serious and should be done with responsibility.
The process is different for each one , but there is a tremendous difference to go through to this process in retreats or monasteries or caves, & other thing completely different is go through this process in a world where we call outside (when u have family, daughter/sons and a life to take care of).
And yes, your personality indeed dissolve (in a caos way I would say) until you find yourself again, and when this moment happen you will
Never be the same again.
The compassion for all living things on this universe became so Cristal
Clear and part of you, solid, beautiful, meaningful.
I would call the real gift 🧡❤️ on this paradox.
Thank you Jason !
So much gratitude for sharing such important knowledge.
❤️🧡🙏🏻
Hi Graca. Your comments were so relevant for my own experience. When kundalini awakening happened to me (after a sudden shock) I don't know how I managed to get through it all. I had no idea what had happened to me and I had to hold down a demanding job in a corporate environment. It was a wild ride and took a long while to settle down. My perception of the world changed overnight and there was no one to talk to about it, all while I was processing grief. But the "boons" of coming through this trial were many. I lost my fear of life and death, gave up day-dreaming, and found joy in just about everything, and I could see life so clearly. I experienced divine love and saw God manifest in this world. I am not the same person now either and I feel I have in fact constructed another kind of personality, but without the limitations I had before. We still have to operate in the world amongst other people, meet our obligations to others and fit into society. Thank you for sharing your experience, Graca. ❤
@@carolt8073
Is such a good feeling to know that we are not alone , that in one place someone understand us regarding this process ❤️
Thank you Carol for let me know 🧡❤️
Wish u that love always be your guide, today & all Days of our life 🙏🏻
Love Light & Sound
Graça Pimentel
This energy can be released in more ways than just meditating. Realization is the quickest path in which you go past the ego to a higher state. The problem, as you have seen,
is that the human body is not able to handle these outputs of overwhelming joy-energy. You literally cannot experience any negative emotions in that state when
sustained. It is energy that goes beyond mere emotion. In my case I always end up laughing which I call the "cosmic joke". It rapidly disappates and closes off from there.
Great video. You are right. The paradox is that when you lose your identity, you actually gain your true identity. Only it's only perceivable by others, not yourself.
OM NAMAH SHIVAYA HAR HAR MAHADEV SHOMEBYU 🙏🏿🕉️
None of this is necessary for Enlightenment to become you. Aspects of what you say may or may not be true but it doesn’t matter. It’s just silly. Come. Come over here on the other side of the veil first, then say what you want, do or do not do whatever you’d like. There is an existence, it’s just different. This existence never changes. But even that is a stupid statement that tells you, the one who sees enlightenment in the future, nothing. Be quiet. Do it first.
And what would the sages, from the past, do in the modern world? They would watch the youtube content from Jason Gregory. Thanks for it.
They would gives us content through TH-cam
Enlightenment is an experience, you don't stay there. Suchness is beyond concept.
I think so too. People who live a relaxed life: tend sheep, have routine, boring, repetitive jobs can afford such a state of mind. I cannot imagine, for example, a busy mother or the head of a company being able to live this way. These are people who create and act. I was in this strange state. And what? And nothing. chitta vritti and the bills won't pay themselves 😜 But I've learned one thing: when I look at a sheep staring at me mindlessly: do the same. I won't be ashamed of being alive.
A simple way to describe that state is total control. Now what do you mean by that? It means having the ability to flip any of your switches as and when you like. For example time to go to sleep and want to feel extremely tired? well no need to take a run outside. Just start feeling extremely tired straightway 😂. Want to go for a jog and then have some important stuff to do. Just stop feeling tired😂🤷♂️. Because at the end of the day everything is just a mind state.
None can talk, explain, convince to one what the truth is... The truth is silent, wordless, shapeless, unexplainable, it is timeless, and again those are just words which again try to give the nameless a name...
The "truth" is like the loving heart it can never find words to explain and say to the beloved how much he/she loves her/him. It stays better in silence in the eternal present moment as if the loving one tells any word to his/her beloved of the amount he/she loves it shall loose all the " TRUTH" and become conditioned, it would become a matter, it would take a form, but the truth is Formless, wordless it can only exist in the Eternal Silence....
Prior to the body ... That you are ... No body, no mind, no vrittis ...
You are not what you are aware of ...
More first class content. Keep the good stuff coming Jason 🙏🕉
Living life with an open mind to enjoy experiences as they are, then learn from those experiences. Free will to live life, but not take life from others.
Melting of the mind means you are able to let go with no attachment of any thoughts!! Therefore no creation of any image and follow no desire!! Thus the self is revealed and remain the observer!! The problem is that the observer become one with the observed!! The whole universe seems to come out of the self!! Reality and dream become one!! The self remain only the permanent and therefore the true reality!! Then knowing this ultimate truth you are free from delusion!!!!!
These enlightenment teachings come to some people naturally.
The natural way of things is so beautiful and is perfect! A quote from some past human that I like to say.
Enlightenment is also not getting rid of yourself but learning to live more fully and abundantly. You are an individual point in the whole. You don’t rid yourself of your point of perception at enlightenment. Merging with the one is misunderstood. Reality is nondual. We must view things correctly so we do not create unintentionally imperfect ideals like death and suffering.
If you want to clarify the mind, get rid of all the crap .
Incredible! Joy joy joy!!! Thank you and bless you beloved. 😍🤩😍🙏🙏🙏💐💐💐
I have wondered what it's like to be in a state where human capacity reaches its limit. I can see how the few that can do this must seem like crack-pots. While they look at us and laugh. I'm guessing the enlighten one does not check a twitter feed or tictok.
There is no such thing as enlightenment. But you already knew that.
This power of mind release feels to be ever present awaiting its chance to come through but our resistance interferes with the experience. It’s a pull away from ordinary thought but an embrace of love and the living as all that is. This is what I feel we will all get to do eventually.
thank you for your time, energies and research...
Ram Dass said his Guru "Maharajji was one of the most foul mouthed people in existence".
Joseph Goldsteins teacher haggled over the cost of a loaf of bread and when asked why he said "enlightenment is about being simple, not being a simpleton".
The mind of an enlightened being is not dull, blank or boring. It is free of all the egoic thoughts and mind states that hold us back. it is wise as it watches all and succumbs to nothing, yet it is open to and welcomes everything.
Thank you, so so so much for this video post/message! Exactly as and when I needed to hear it too 😊. (Payday on Friday, setting alarm note for Friday to donate ❤- thank you for all you do and the energy you put out there- most of all thank you for taking your time/thoughts/efforts to such a height and the bravery/courage to speak your peace, ambition and faith- a friend at my table always). In a time of such chaos it’s easy to get distracted from our divine connection to the universe, a wake up call is a godsend in disguise to me- I’m ready to get going though 💪🏼
✅ alright alarm set 🧘🏻♀️🙂☺️
Good News! i discovered that the brain/body is capable of setting itself Totally Free of fear, anxiety, sorrow, despair, loneliness, shame, guilt, confusion, addictions, and all other mental/emotional afflictions, once and for all, now and forever.
This gave birth to True Love, Peace, Joy, Goodness, Kindness, Creativity, & Clarity, for the very first time, in each & every moment of daily life, 24/7, once and for all, now and forever.
Not the love, peace, joy, that the I, the me, the self, the thinker, the mind, the psyche, the consciousness, imagines it to be, which is a limitation, imitation, and distortion.
It didn't take time. It had nothing whatsoever to do with time, effort, or choice. It occurred faster than the speed of light.
The children are ready to be set Totally Free at the earliest age so they don't waste their entire lives with any mental disturbances.
Once one understands ashtavakrageeta, nothing lasts, not even the one who understands it. It's all the brahman or ultimate reality there it is. There is no self to realise but one needs the self to acknowledge it. It's a paradox. Just do your work, enjoy life and acknowledge every thing happening and witness all. It also talks about getting beyond that witness too. It's simple yet complex and complex yet simple. Funny and insane to even acknowledge. But it's just there. Just live on till the end or till one seeks the ultimate reality.
Ultimate reality is that life isn't so serious. It's about unity, bonding, laughter, and dreams. We live in a world of neurotic slavery where fear has taken over love. Do what you're told, not what you love. Pffft. Idiocracy.
@@TheDarkness1 love and fear or on the same boat, either doing what we love and told are the same, we are all idiots talking about the ultimate intelligence.
Proud of my hindu 🕉️ heritage
Beautifully explained. Thank you.
May all beings be shanti as fuck! 🙏🕉
The mind and body is connected, if the body is at ease the mind follows
Body is merely a pattern in matter and in turn matter is mass-energy. Spirit is pure energy and so that are not disimilar. By that
standard spirit should be able to affect body too.
Thanks for making content easy to grasp. 🙏🏻
to describe the enlightened one as a crazy fool is very apt as it is a journey of going out of one's mind and to be enlightened happens by becoming lightened
22 now, never thought my mind would be as calm as it is now until i was at least a few more years down the line, but this is only after years of constant attempts, it wont be instant, its a lot of work, but definitely worth it. People seem to gravitate towards me, hear my unbiased opinions, any issues that come with life im able to deal with smoothly because of my clear view, i can be my true self unapologetically. Keep at it, check your ego, leave no side of your mind unexplored.
Have to add, be grateful for everything. Everything. & Do not let social pressures guide your decisions, they're rooted in you deeper than one would originally observe, what we think is important is really not, but thats just part of life
Awesome bro.
I’m 20. My mom passed at 17. Got dumped at 18. Struggled with accepting my sexuality until today. Have hypothyroidism. I have so many things I want to get done on earth. I hope one day I’ll love myself if that’s possible or get through the mental barrier.🤞🏽
Loved this. Thank you!
Me and my wife went to a waterfall in a jungle supposedly holy site. I kept hearing and seeing glances of a being , day after I started to lose wrinkles, my hair started growing thicker(I'm forty) I grew blacker hair . My body started to regain even more muscles than I used to have , my bones started seem sturdier. My skin younger even my wife's started asking if I was taking anything. I don't seem to get sick anymore. I sparred with some kids and I wiped the floor with the slightest effort. I can again lift my wife with just one hand. What is happening to me? It's beginning to scare me. I'm getting stronger I feel and younger. Can anyone help? Tell me what's going on?
just be grateful mate......
@@C1...3 it's in mount mariveles Philippines, Mariveles means lady with a veil. And it was her I seemed to glimpse.a woman in white with a veiled face. I'm sorta happy with whatever beens happening but I'm also scared as legends say she takes people and never gives them back. And honestly some part of me is scared as I feel like I want to go back and never leave. Also you might be right it's dormant volcano that's forever spewing a mist and people have been known to disappear. Also I've been eating some particular fruit there as I'm studying it.
You actually do lose personality traits, or at least I did. Typically they are negative traits, but big personality changes did happen to me. The still pond becomes a perfect mirror and shows us ALL the things we are. I was not prepared for the difficulty that arises in finding balance. I have come to realize that our reality is made of things that are themselves and opposites simultaneously and that is a tricky landscape to navigate.
From an Osho talk.
What did you do in those years immediately after your enlightenment?
It is a difficult question. The first thing was that a great silence, almost unbreakable, followed the experience, as if the mind had stopped functioning. There was nothing to do about it - except to watch. It was difficult for my family, my friends. Obviously, they thought I had gone mad.
My family has always been worried about me, concerned that I’m not following the well-trodden path and I am moving into dangerous experiments; the danger of going mad was easily conceivable.
And when I stopped speaking - it would be better to say that the speaking stopped itself, I was not a partner to it - people would ask questions and I would not even be able to give answers to simple things.
For almost two years, inside it was a tremendous rejoicing. Outside, it became a trouble. The people who thought they were trying to help me were really a nuisance. I should have been left alone to myself. But they were worried that I may go deeper into this madness.
They could also feel that I am not miserable, that I am immensely happy. But mad people ordinarily are happy, are rarely miserable. So that was not against their idea of madness; on the contrary, it was supportive of the idea that something should be done to me.
They were bringing people thought to be wise, and I was really amazed that these people were not even in the category of the commonsense people. They were full of the garbage of the scriptures.
Just one man, a man who was not known to be a wise man, met me in those days - and he was the only sane man in those two years of my silence. He was a strange beggar - strange because he was respected by many people, but he was a beggar. His only possession was simply a small mug. Because of that mug, he was called Magga Baba. People would drop money or food or anything into his mug. And he would not prevent others who wanted to take money from his mug or things that others had dropped into it. He would be as willing to those who wanted to take money out of it…
One of my uncles thought that perhaps this man could be of some help. He was silent, or sometimes he would speak gibberish. You could not understand what he was saying. Nobody could even figure out what language it was; it was no language. He was just like small children when they start speaking for the first time - they go on saying anything, repeating anything.
But the man had some magnetic quality. During the rains he used to lie down at night under the awning just in front of his shop. I had seen him a few times and he had smiled whenever I had seen him - he was not far away from my place. His smile was of great understanding.
And when my uncle thought that it would be good to bring Magga Baba and “see what he does to him,” Magga Baba was brought. His bringing was also a special kind; you could not invite him because he was not on talking terms with anybody. He would not say “yes” or “no.” You simply had to bring a rickshaw and catch hold of him. He would not refuse. At least three times he was stolen, because his followers in other villages simply took him away. They would sit him in a rickshaw - and he was willing, he was not resistant or anything. He enjoyed the ride and he went there. But then hundreds of his followers here missed him.
So my uncle went with a few of his friends and put Magga Baba in a rickshaw and brought him home. He came close to me and whispered in my ear, “This is it. And don’t be worried about these people; they are all mad.” Perhaps this was the first time he had spoken to anybody without any gibberish.
Everybody gathered around. It was a trouble for them to figure it out because Magga Baba would not say what he had whispered, and I was not going to say what he had whispered. But one thing they felt, that Magga Baba was very happy with me. He hugged me and left.
That helped my family and friends: “There may be something we are not understanding” - but others thought that both are mad. “He is an old madman, famous; now he has got another one also.”
But still it was a great solace that there was one man who was able to understand me. And because of his understanding me, I started slowly to speak - because perhaps there may be a few more people who can be helped. Maybe they are just on the verge. But as I began speaking… It came in the same way as silence had come, just as if the whole ocean of silence… and when I started speaking the same was the case with speaking. Suddenly the mind started functioning and I was speaking continuously.
People started coming to me, asking my advice. People started coming to me to lecture in their congregation, in some conference, in some other city. I was discoursing sometimes five times a day, almost the whole day, in different conferences and different meetings, colleges, universities. And my silence was untouched. "
Those darn vrittis!! Oh to be free of them...or better yet: Oh to befriend them rather than see them as foes. Thank you Jason.
Wow, Amazing 🇰🇪
Blessed by what We Are. 🔥💖🌸♾🌸💖🔥
Yes it is simply experienced you no longer have thoughts and questions coming from you when empty of all mental constructed instead you now have answers coming to you. Directly from the spirit. It is a sacrifice of your mentally constructed self. All the energy it takes to think and have a mental identity falls down into the heart center and instead just being is experienced
It never occurred to me that an enlightened state of being would be anything like being a mindless automaton. Very much the opposite, actually.
Perhaps the term "dissolving the mind" is misunderstood, as it is simply realizing the difference between self and mind. Once the fleeting and separate nature of thought is realized, the light clear nature of self becomes obvious. It doesn't mean our capacity to think dissolves, it's just we see how our thoughts are a tool of our brain and not actually us, since we are the consciousness observing those thoughts. Usually, we get lost in the vortex of thought. We see a thought and we focus our attention on it, we hold onto it, we get sucked in. If we don't hold onto it (pay attention to it) it will simply dissolve. Not all thoughts, just that one. Until we decide to not hold onto the next one, and the next. What takes up the space between thoughts? Light, clear pure consciousness/awareness. Breath awareness helps to quiet our thoughts and train our mind, and observing our thoughts and not allowing ourselves to get involved in them is the trick to greater self-realization. This is my understanding at this time.
In 1947, a couple of aliens flew to Earth in a silver saucer-shaped craft. After closely observing mankind, they shit themselves laughing and crashed into the desert in Roswell, New Mexico. The US Army found the shit covered craft, conducted an investigation, deduced what happened and out of embarressment told the public it was a weather balloon.
My journey of reaching the God within me has shaken off all or most of the stubborn conditioning, I'm glad I'm US now
We have a higher self that is our baseline. It is that mental part of us that can look at our life, detached from it. It can be hard for some to relocate it within their hurt. But it is there. We emerge not knowing that and we experience life and we judge it as we go along. This fills us with experiences, and we live from those experiences. But they are not who we are. We must find ways to let go of the things we carry, the emotional hurt, as that is the very thing that ruins our lives unless we wake up and figure that out. We have to seek emptiness. Poor in spirit. Clear the mote from our eye. All analogous terms to let this go, because it hurts us. Then we re-emerge into our higher self, enjoying life, not being taken on an out of control ride on the emotional roller coaster. We live feeling free, not obligated.
Tapping into that energy source is overwhelming joy. Our physical bodies cannot handle that and usually it ends up with laughter which disappates the energy.
I have created a universe of my own in a universe of your own universe inside of everyone else's universe which could explain many universes and a multiverse with a universe. Or this could just be a basic shitty reality. One or the other I guess.
I didn't know that anyone thought they would become robot like for pursuing a spiritual path. Why would that be a thing?
First there was ONE, then there was ONE not wanting to know it was ONE so not to be ALONE.
Wonderful insights
3d - ego + body (outer man/woman)
4d - soul + spirit + inner being (causal/akasha/tripartite) - justification
5d - holy ghost/sacred/divine (sanctification)
6d - Christ/Logos/TAO/WORD (redemption)
7d - monad/source (atonement)
Each stage of Ascension/salvation/awakening/liberation/quickening/glorification/enlightenment requires Ego death/rebirth, initiation, baptism & circumcision. "Can't pour new wine into old wineskin" "Die to self daily" "Work out our salvation" "Quicken according to judgment"
There's no such thing as Enlightenment until you turn into light, you can become more light but you can also become more dark after you become light you don't become enlightened until you disappear into another frequency
Vrittis isn't "mind" really...it's more like the "chatter". You're not dissolving mind...you're allowing the dissolution of the chatter that endlessly echoes and manifests persona.
Nice
Excellent 😊.
I'm not crazy,
my reality is
just different
than yours ~
Cheshire Cat
You don't really have to worry, once you realise - "Everything is me."
Well perspectives differ and every DNA is distinctive... we live in a sinful world... so sin easily enters without acts ... Redemption is a must towards 'Salvation'' every creature is born with a purpose and so the eco-system rolls ... all dependent... as for good & evil we stand between .. there isn't enlightenment... it's for fools ... without God .. or fools under many Gods.. the God and temple we create .. with seven demonic spirits that hoovers in every space ... God isn't here but you as his spirit... !! GypsyTrail 😜✌️👍
I'd say nowadays not having an ego you would be considered crazy but what's bad about crazy though why care! what people think and why get into the gossip! why care!!!. (MOST NOT ALL) people put themselves in situations they want to be in good or bad. you live it how you want it no one else controls that;)
Interesting and informative. Thank you Jason
Throw away your scriptures. You won't find God there. End your seeking. Stop finding who you are. Stop seeking Liberation. There's nothing outside of you to find. There was only you. End the dream of finding yourself, someone greater than yourself is dreaming you. And that is the real you. -- wise one
Pursuing enlightenment seems like the last thing you would want to do to reach enlightenment. Like Jack Kerouac said, "Finding Nirvana is like locating silence." You can't locate silence by searching for silence. You have to BE silent and get away from everything that isn't silent. You can't reach enlightenment, you have to BE enlightened and get away from everything that isn't enlightened. Enlightenment is simply the absence of "noise" in the soul, or the heart, or the mind... whatever you want to call your "driver," or "pilot" or "player character." Just keep in mind though, a nice silent place is great and all but beaches, concerts, a laughing group, a sweet conversation with a loved one are all pretty great too.
All mind can do is give SCENARIOS drawn from old knowlege on the history in mind.. you are not the mind not the emosion but the will and the observer
Before enlightenment, cut wood and till fields. After enlightenment, cut wood and till fields.
When the East ie India mostly because Xhina and Japan and mostly Asia is a spread of Sanatam Dharma, is blindly aping the West. The West is more focusing on grounding with our texts and culture
Liberation itself is the liberation from identity.. The identity don’t exist in the first place..In deep sleep, you are identity less therefore in deep peace and bliss.. With waking up in world, “I” arises with all false narratives.. Liberation is from the mind.. Liberation is not of the person but from the person!
Jason, clear content, but man, enjoy your work more. The spiritual path is play, not hard work. Hard work gets you into hammering out truths like a construction worker. Play gets things done with little effort. Was there any place to go anyway?
externally, some of the understanding we have toward reality is good, but internally no. We aren't supposed to live in the future but in the present. There's already a past, and a future, that present is us. But some of us tend to use knowledge, but not for the benefit of their mental health, but to escape it. There is no denial really, you are just bad at using your own faculties. Self-awareness doesn't need denial. The motivation for denial is fear. People find it odd, why I didn't fall in solipsism. No, I'm just really emotionally healthy and normal.
Also, "reaching enlightenment" has to be, ironically, the most egotistical thing I can think of... the goal is to reach a point where you realize something no one else has or at least few others have yet we need a TH-cam video to make vague descriptions on what that thing is to help us figure it out. This guy says identity (ego) dissolution, but how do you keep the ego from being proud it's reached such an advanced sense of understanding that few others have? There's your dumb paradox.
We'll I feel and many vedic texts affirms that "it" Whatever you, call is non dualistic and hence above paradoxes. It is our intelligence or psychy that moves in two fold paths or opposite and hence "it" Is conveyed out to commoners in paradoxes.
I had a paradigm shift. Its like an old game show. May the real you please step forward? No hard work just me as I am. I don't like or dislike it, it just is. Others my like or dislike it and I don't care about that either. Shalom.
The human body is similar to a battery for conscious projection. It feeds consciousness with experience in order to maintain balance within the cosmos. Every next thought takes power and energy to produce. Though the time seems instantaneous, the process exists eternally external within all that can be known and seen. Information is all there is. We are free to manipulate it all however we wish. The wish of eternal capture is the one that displays an infinitely expansive and indefinite pursuit. Unfulfilled are then the dreams, the scraps of mind forming conclusion to end the pursuit when energy levels are low. Once charged, the search for balance continues. Rising and falling, like waves. The ripples of being reverberate within the walls of universal life, birthing out of it another place and time where that in which had been can again be with us until we've chosen to let go..
If everyone rejected their natural programming, the society and govt would collapse. The scripts basically say that you are living in someones aquarium for the owners amusement. The other side says that if you stop amusing the owner, then he will replace you with someone else.
Sense of personhood is an illusion, but it still there even if you're capable of truely understanding that. I only know this intellectually, but spend my life in this illusion. I had an experience where I saw into the nature of my mind for a mere moment, daydreaming about something goofy about a person I read about named Phineas Gauge. He had a terrible accident where his brain had been horribly injured, but he did not die or fall into a coma... Made me think what it would be like to not have a brain... And for a moment I think my brain let go of itself, but that's not quite right, it's like you are your brain, but not your brain at the same time. I wanted to laugh and cry at the same time, it was profound.. But as soon as I tried to articulate the idea in words to share this idea... I lost the insight ... Like have you ever said I am mad at myself? Who is the you that is mad? Who is the you that is the target of the anger?
Its time the whole world comes back to the truth(sanatan dharma) again
Because every religion born in kaliyug will die at end of kaliyug(which is near) but sanatan dharma was never born and so it will never die
I hope world finds truth
I have been able to quiet my mind so easily. I could do it for an hour but any longer I find myself in a prophecy state, but have the doubt that comes with such an idea. Until it comes to fruition or comes to light that it was not a dream.
I truly try to learn what this planet in the moment has to offer.. and it teaches me, what I thought I knew, I don't really know and the opposite happens to what is for certain.
It plays tricks and lies. It's a visual illusion, yet in trying to convince it uses pain or what seems to be pain to back the illusion. May it be physically or mentally.
Spirituality is only one aspect of a complete human archetype. A true balanced archetype holds the ability to be material, and order the world. Not to live in endless boundless space, regardless of how many universal truths you may visit in your mind, it does not impact the world the way it is required to shape it for human success.
Jason, listening to you has made me well up with tears. Infinite gratitude to you for the wisdom you are propagating.
I know this from experience.. i became a borderline asshole.. because even death made me laugh.. then i started to act normal..like i had to literally act..
Who cares about the Gita or the Buddha. You must find out for yourself. Leave everything behind and find your own mind, depending on no thing.
I listened for about a minute before stopping, why would anyone serious about seeking enlightenment or higher power of reasoning or consciousness be afraid of them changing? The whole part of starting this journey was to seek the change that comes with the paths to a higher self, it should go without saying to anyone on these paths or seeking these paths the fundamental reasoning is to be changed into something. The difference is that we don't have to die because of metamorphosis, just as we are wise in our years as we are beautiful in our young, we don't die we change, just like a caterpillar to a butterfly.