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Qu: I find it hard to stay the path. I see and feel resistance what can I do to remain strong

Answer:  this is not what i the teaching is. You must not be involved or attached but you are

You are involved and care what they think. You must be compassionate so long as you are in mind- this is the way to kill the ego, the people around you must /might test your ego and it is up to you to be mindful and watchful, if you don’t react but rather be humble yourself and bow to their will- which is the will knowledge / Brahman you will soon transcend it. This is important, this is the same thing Realized persons of old have done. When stoned they accept it and have compassion for the ones stoning them

Now realized people are not conscious of this compassion as they have no ego, but as an aspirant you must will this compassion. The highest compassion is knowing that nothing is true

But knowing nothing is true does not mean telling others this- they would not understand. If it is only you who does, so you must apply it to yourself “if I am being insulted by your parents, it matters not as it is all illusion, this is the mental attitude you must have.” This weakens mind and the ego , getting you close to the Self. You should not use the teaching as an excuse to be uncompassionate or to expect things be this way or that way

Simply understand what I have taught you and apply to yourself only. Yes you will get some resistance but trust me it will stop sooner or later and you will transcend it

Don’t expect the outside world to change- expecting this will strengthen the ego not weaken it. You stand still and allow the world to be as it is – good or bad

Leave the world alone.  If you think you are a body and mind and you are so long as you think so. Then you must be compassionate and stay by the Master and seek his guidance. The Master is the Self and is always beside you. You have only to look for him

Qu: People who do certain conscious things to kill for example someone killing someone or even committing suicide. Is that actually karma too? Someone actually committing suicide is destined and then to go back more and more lifetimes? Why? There’s no choice in that matter for someone to stop it if it’s destined in their lifetime? Or at the other end, someone getting realized… it’s destined no matter what for a particular lifetime. Because sometimes I hear you say “don’t go off course” etc. “don’t get taken off track by desire” but if it’s destined for me to be realized or not this life time then why to worry? If one is destined to be realized this lifetime then one shouldn’t worry about doing worldly things correct because it will work out to him getting realized anyways?

Answer: As “everyone” is He or the Self . No one is doing anything. It is a picture, death, birth and suicide is all under knowledge and the same picture knowledge. Yes it is destined. The thing is if you think you are of mind then you can control, but this control comes with karmic consequences and the cycle is repeated. You should not commit suicide doing so simply makes things repeat. It is what humans like to call purgatory. Purgatory is simply rebirth where you end up doing the same thing over and over until you step out of it and realize “I am not the body and mind doing this”. The key is to step aside and see that you are not the body and mind who is doing it. You simply be mindful and watch who is acting and who is thinking. If you are thinking you can’t be the mind who thinks, for the mind to function there has to be screen on which it can operate. So you can’t be the mind. And the mind is full of thoughts that are random and that you have no control over. So you can’t say you are the mind- it is just madness to do so.

Humans are so egotistical to think that they have control over things. The simple act of drinking a glass of requires billions of interaction on the body level. It also requires that acts take place so that the water is delivered to your glass. So many things such as environment and circumstances  are out of your control have to come together to allow you to drink this glass of water. So you can see why you are really not in control of anything as a body and mind

So if you know who you are chances you won’t be committing suicide but if you did you would know who is doing it. So long as you think you are mind you must do good. After a while you realize that both good and bad are the same thing. Knowledge and not true!

Self-realization is also destined. If you have the thought of being realized it is destined and you must use this “apparent free”  will to pursue it although the one who is pursuing it is an illusion. So long as you think` you do have “illusionary free will” and good acts should be done

Free will in the true sense is only there when you Realize the Self  –otherwise it is an illusory free will. So when I say don’t go of course I am saying this because you are of mind and it appears you have free will, so I ask the mind to use this free will. When you attain the Self you see the body and mind that had free will was really “destined free will”

Worry is there so long as mind is there and so long you can think you must use this free will to pursue Self-Realization. It is a paradox really. You will also see that all effort will never get you there but without effort you will never get there. And you son find there is no there to get to either-you are the Self all along.

You will also find that there is no one going anywhere and there is no such thing as Self-realisation that can be felt or quantified. Buddha spend years following the Self , he only attained under the tree when he gave up all effort and realized the person practicing was the obstacle, let go of that and you are free as you always were

Bad is Good and Good is bad?-Don’t let the mind touch it—that is the solution

As you are not the body or mind , leave the good and bad, good and bad are both knowledge and untrue. I say this not to encourage bad but as a thought to ponder on your journey to Self-Realization!  To see yourself you need to transcend both.  And the way to transcend is to understand it is not true. Good and bad are words- only man made concepts

In this blog post I will discuss the “The lion and the Gazelle paradox” let’s find who is bad and who is good

However before we go on let me say something

One takes the human definition of good and bad as gold but it is simply not true. Words make rules and define what is good or bad, but words are man-made and the basis has no truth. What is good is bad for one person and what is bad is good for another. The key to understand all this is to see good and bad for what nit is- a thought and a word.  Word and thought is knowledge and knowledge itself is not true. There is no reality to it.

What is called a rose can be smelled by any other name Ranjit Maharaj would say –by that line of thought what is good or bad is also nothing but a thought.

Take a lioness she has cubs and she needs to feed them so she goes out hunting and sees a gazelle who by the way also has young with her, the lioness kills the gazelle and feeds her young. The gazelles young are left hungry and without their mother. So who is bad and who is good her?

Neither is bad or good, in all cases circumstances and environments arise to make this happen. It is not the lionesses fault (fort being at the right place at the right time) or the gazelles fault (for being at the wrong place at the wrong time)

So what is wrong and what is right?  You need to step out of human hood and look at things for what they are –WHAT IS! God is defined as what is! Where there is no will and will at the same time. Looking at this makes the mind quiet as it begins to see things ever more clearly

So long as you think you are the mind and body, always do good. However take the time to reflect on what I have said

Sometimes we get angry at people and the world and we want to voice our open and defend our rights as humans. For self realization this approach is not good, simply reverse it and be nothing! When you are nothing you become something extraordinary

Winning is losing with Self Realization, remember who is talking—the ego (your name) is nothing. It does not exist and so are you. If you feel or experience take it for granted it is the ego that feels and experiences, The Self Cant experience. Now as a mind and body until you become humble and see that being right is more ego than being wrong you cant be free…you are “no thing”, act that way, if you are something- an “ego” you can speak and have your way.  Ever seen a dead leaf. it falls with the wind, the dead leaf has no ego., be dead like the ego, accept what comes and let go of what goes, be nothing, be empty. If you are a nobody you will never care of right and wrong. Funny everything will come your way when you expect nothing

Expectation is ego; take this opportunity when such problems arise to be nothing and egoless. It is a good path to choose to know yourself

Question: What’s your thoughts on drugs and Self realization

These are not questions for me. By that i mean  the Self does not see wrong or right as humans do. Everything is god/ knowledge/ mind. When an aspirant asks questions like this you must simply take note of “who is asking this question?” If you notice you will see that all questions are the same be it on sex, drug or money. In all cases the mind is looking to grow, to be active , to seek a reason why something is good or bad. It is the minds nature to active. It simply cant stay still. For most people if they were to confront the mind they would go insane. So the mind wants to know right from wrong, there is no such thing, the wrong is the mind itself or the Ego. The “I” That wants to know is the problem. Understand you are not the body and mind so why this question? See my point? it is pointless and moot

Sex, money and drugs are all the same, it is what it is! Knowledge or your thought. if you are looking at the Self these things wont matter. You can have sex or not it does not matter.  However if you are focused on seeing who you are , these questions would not be a reoccurring topic. In human terms drugs will hamper the mind because you need intellect to focus, so you need mind to be alert to weaken the mind ..a paradox itself – again this is why Faith in the Master is needed. You need mind to understand but mind is the obstacle itself to Self Realization

Self Realization – Do you want it bad enough?

Question: I read this yesterday. Wow what a reply. Thank you. I’ve been very free lately almost like floating. That last week was a tough week for me. I’M feeling great now.

But the point I wasn’t sure was a mistake in the book misspelled or not was “you can’t have things and not be attached to them”

How is that true. You have a car, yet your not attached therefore you have it without being attached. Maybe it was meant in a different way?

Answer: the freedom of floating will continue a little you must say it’s not true and do not stay in it, understand that this state is not true. You must forget it- which  means understand it is not true. Many saints get stuck here. So to get past this blissful state you will want to continue understanding that all states are not true, they are temporary and will go away. What is Real (The Self) is always there and it is not an experience. Read the first half of Master Of  Self Realization Where the Master explains the states

It is true that you can’t have things and not be attracted to them. This is said for the point of view of one with mind or an ego. the master says this to a Jiva – The one who thinks he is a body or mind- will always be attached to things. The desire fort money and women is strong, if you do not renounce it in the beginning it is hard to break free from it. The mind will fool you and say “I don’t want it but it is good to have it”

“Why can’t I have both?” “Let me get rich then awaken” etc. This is so tricky again this boils down to what I once said to you “ how bad do you want to awaken?

There can be no but or condition to awaken. If there is a BUT take it or granted you do not want Freedom as much as you think. If all you want is freedom, poverty and richness mean nothing, either one is fine. So look within yourself and choose. You are not the body or mind why should care what it does or its state?

You Remember Yourself By Forgetting Everything You Can See, Feel, Touch, Taste Or Experience

Question: Things have been better with me since practicing.  Not much opposition comes after the anger feelings get wiped away by the simple understanding that “I don’t exist and nothing is true all is zero” it actually works deeper than releasing without me doing much. So are there any other things to learn?

Answer: Yes this is it, the Self is all, there are no words to describe it, but everything becomes effortless. Just like the leaves fall effortlessly through the wind without effort. When there is no effort to release, no effort to exist, no feeling “I exist” you are getting close. Your natural way is to release without a releaser, or forgetting is the better word, you forget by knowing you are “no -thing” and you do not exist

You are doing well. Expect nothing. expect no results. Do not look for something to happen as that itself will impede Self Realization, there is nothing to learn because you are the Self….keep it up. Remember understand “I do not exist”, eventually that will stop as well. Since you do not exist there is no need to say it….then the ego is absent  to say it and only the Self remains, but remember Self has no existence… it is just there and you are not aware of it , because there is no you to remember it

Question:  I used to do affirmation and basically anything I really believed which I wrote down I created in the world. I stopped doing that and been focusing on saying “everything is untrue and this is just a dream” but I wanted to ask you about affirmations for creating. It works so well when used long enough and properly.  I know there are faster ways. But why does it work so well. and there’s something in the world I want to change and I know my mind can obviously change out there because that’s all there is  or should I not bother with that yet? Or could I do it in a way where I still know it’s not true and that it’s “Anthony” doing the affirmations but it’s not me it’s not true?

Amswer: Yes stop being the creator, because he is not true, like a lucid dream you can create anything in the dream but the dream is false and the character in the dream is also not true. You are doing well but you must forget Anthony. Do not refer to Anthony in the third person for you are creating three additional entities, you have Anthony (character in the dream of life), you (ego also creator) and the dreamer. All are not true. Forget it all, forgetting means negating everything, what remains is bliss and peace , but you are not that also Pay no attention to it . You are the screen which holds all this together. Your ability to so call change things is illusion and a trap. It is like the demon that came to a village and promised that anything you gave to him, he would give you two and so he did, but when he left everything he gave vanished. So do not change anything, everything comes your way due to karma, you must watch, never react to things bad or good. Watch and let go, eventually you will see that only good comes your way but you will not even notice because you are apart from that all. So long as you are of mind it is wise to treat everything that comes your way as God- god is what is, the good and the bad is all god! When you get opposition from parents and people alike treat it as way to dissolve the ego. “I don’t exist”. If you do not exist who is angry at people or circumstances? Seek Thyself And Heaven Will Be Added Onto You…That Is Heaven,

Qu: I think sex is real it is not an illusion

Ranjit Maharaj: …how it is real, it can’t be real, you feel it because you are chasing mirage, you are just chasing a mirage…Deer chases mirage. Why he is chasing? Because he thinks water is there, one who understands water is not there will he chase?

The question of desire is probably the most important part of finding the self, desires have to be understood because suppressing or expressing a desire is not the answer. Many renunciates have spent their whole lives suppressing desires to no avail, and many have expressed their desires but with no hope of ever extinguishing them. The desires of the body and mind are more poisonous than real poison, Siddharameshwar Maharaj in the book Master Of Self-Realization has said desires poison for lifetimes but a regular poison kills only now. Having said that what is the solution?

The answer is that to overcome desire one has to understand it. If understood the desire loses its attachment and it may be expressed or extinguished without any real attachment to you. The real way to defeat desire is to find the Self (Self Realization)and the best way of finding the Self is to be desire less. It is a vicious cycle or paradox. The ego is the hindrance here. One needs to find the one who desires. Who is this “I” that desires. The problem with the ego is it never goes unquestioned. Simply questioning it makes it lose its power.

However how can one tell if the desire they have is a real desire? If the desire lingers in mind it is a desire. If the desire is a mere thought and comes and goes in the moment it is not a desire. The act of eating for instance is not a desire, once you have eaten you do not hold the thought of the food and no one can remember what they eat a week ago. However a sexual desire or a desire for wealth for the most part stays on the mind and it never leaves. This is a real desire.

Knowing this most renunciates will try to fight desires but the act of fighting a desire makes it larger and stronger. The mind can’t think of a negatitive if you say “do not think of the beauty of a woman” the mind projects a woman.

So the solution is to understand that what mind desires is “Not true” and that it is a mere appearance that will pass.  The most beautiful woman if you had her will soon age and become unattractive and you could have all the money in the world but you will soon leave it. You can’t take any material procession with you with death of the body. So it processes no real value.  Also what you are desiring is nothing but a thought or knowledge; it does not exist in reality. It is a mere shadow of Reality. So when the master says “you feel it because you are chasing a mirage” he means that you are chasing an unreal entity, a material object that has no reality and processing it will not give you everlasting happiness. It is an illusion or mirage so to speak. It looks real because the ego wants it and it therefore occupies the mind

Think about it for a moment because if you knew it was not real you would not desire it. Think of monopoly money versus real money. It is only a concept that makes one more valuable than the other. Both are paper. Value is giving by mind. If you understand that “Nothing is true” or nothing has real existence but is only part of the sub strum of the Self you will not desire it. The desire loses value and power and floats right by. Whether the desire is expressed or suppressed will not affect the mind and it becomes a mere thought

The other way to understand desire is to seek who is asking or desiring, an internal search for the one who is asking or desiring will return the thought to its source and it can be understood that way. Repeated practice will weaken the mind and ego

“So one who understands water is not there he will he chase”

Likewise if you knew that everything the mind seeks is noting but an illusion or mirage you will not chase it. The mind will not want it and not having anything to hold to, the mind may sink to its source and to the place of no mind or no thoughts.