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Reading original Paramhansa Yogananda's chapter about Sri Anandamayi Ma.

@Inliytened1 You are imagining that everything is imaginary

@vibv How well said. It does make a difference indeed. You don't want some permutations of reality, but it's the same thing that would render all of it. At least from the permutation I find myself in, this is the case. However, serial killers have another configuration of the same isness, to put a simplistic example. Some permutations Leo has accesed must be insane, yet it's always This. Now from this place is when I feel everything truly begins, now I feel at home within myself.

I don't care whether I create meaning or not, it's a meta-understanding of the whole mechanism of sense making. You asume that a true place of no meaning cannot care about creating meaning, but I don't care about that either, you haven't gone full circle about what I'm saying. You still are hitting with some solidities that don't allow you to see the fluidity and aliveness of what I'm saying. Reality, this what isness, morphing into whatever it wants in each breath. Meaning creating is not the point. Neither are all awakenings and states of consciousness or modes of being. However, a profound living experience of what is doing ALL of this and how it is all HAPPENING. It's all within the same context, this what isness and is inseparable from what is being expressed, codependent. I'm not saying nothing is happening, unless truly nothing is happening. If something is happening then that is happening, if everything is happening then everything is happening. It's just synching in with the what-isness that is going on. It's obvious when you get out of the race rat of configuration seeking as ultimate truth. Realize this and then play with the configurations but don't fall in the same trap as me, that's all I'm saying. It's not in the permutation, it is in that which is the permutation, as the permutation, in all permutations and is now in this unique permutation also. Living this, it can only be lived because it is life itself, Reality itself doing it's own thing, being itself, vibing with itself.

Honestly just wanted to share my last awakening and your post triggered that. Read again what I said: Choosing to live now vs living in the middle ages seems a much better configuration of reality. Yet it is the same one reality that appears as both. I would also choose now but I would not mistake that for final awakening. This is the trap I fell into and see many people in here also falling into the same delusion. To achieve the best configuration of reality and think that is the ultimate, no... Some configurations are more conscious other are unconcious, some are more beautiful and loving, others are hellish, some are Awake, others not... so what? it's the same one no thing that is appearing as that and is identical to that when it is, then it's another thing and that's what it is, it becomes it's own explanation then. Whether you resist or you open to it, you accelerate or go backwards, it's all within the same context and the context is identical to the content and both need each other, even consciousness needs something to be conscious of, even being conscious of consciousness. Obviously I'm gonna choose the ones that align better with my biases of truth, consciousness and love but I'm not gonna be in the delusion that there is some configuration that is Final but rather appreciate more the breathtaking mystery of the presently available experience that can and does all this things. All states, modes of being and configurations are contained and born out of this as this. Also who am I in this game? whatever is the game at play, not any particular configuration! whatever is, that am I. If it's a human in earth then that's it, If i'm dreaming then what ever, If I wake up to God then that's that, if then I'm tripping then that configuration, if I'm meditating then... you see? All grounds and lenses removed, all limits taken out of your mind, breaks disappear, all is lost and what is, stands out revealed as nothing more or nothing less than it has always been, whether with ground, lenses or limits, the same always already what isness. It's happening right now, no need to wake up to it, you can do it, but that won't make it more it. This is all there is. I'm really saying it. It's not the configuration, take out that rubbish out of your mind. You can get there (and please do it) but it will still be this. As This is all there is.

Why is there always a need to put some ground/meaning onto what is going on? This misterious experience can morph into whatever it wants. The point in the end is not in any particular configuration of reality but the sheer magic of reality itself moment to moment. From infinity to nothingness and all the spectrums, it's all being done by the same misterious but obvious reality-beingness. I've come to the crude recognition of this seeking of reality to be awake, godly, or human or loving or whatever it is. I've been losing the point. The nature of experience, which is constant with infinite potentiality and no restrictions. Not in the sense of wanting to explore it and be in one mode vs the other but just basking in it's glory and magnificience that it allows all of this play to go on. Also there is no ground to reality or to experience, not even groundlessness, not even consciousness or God. It all kills itself when you are so it there is no more it, because you are it, no-distance. All is a dream even the awakening of dream is also another dream, even imagination is imaginary. The mistery is always on, this experience (to give it a name) both ungraspable and obvious, both grounded and ungrounded where everything is, and being itself in the beggining, the middle and the end, of this tremendous tail chasing. Awakening is not a high, reality is all there is, whether high or low, it is always already the case. Hope you can see that, but you still have to go through all of it to the other side, to realize you are always in the only side. It all depends on what you want but I'm telling you, the nature of experience itself is constantly the case and even loses itself to itself, we are not making it into a new ground, being free once and for all. When you explain it you lose it even though explanations are also it. The paradox is intense but it's also simple This goes on and on...

Lol, my respects So that explains your profile picture. This was an absurd but interesting insight ahhahaha

I could tell you different narratives but it all boils down to just a strong intuition that Tiruvannamalai is an extremely spiritually charged city.

Nope but I've been investigating it for a long time. It's interesting to study real case scenarios of how real conscious societies would look like. I mean most of the spiritual communities are just bs. The only more less functional experiment is Auroville and it has been working for a long time so it's worth it to at least go and see. Here is some extra information about a citizen who lived for 6 years:

Be aware that India is in heart breaking poverty. Just go with a strong stomach about that. This video is great also:

I would really recommend: Varanasi Rishikesh Tiruvannamalai Vrindavan Auroville I would really recommend Auroville. It's the city with higher Spiral Dynamics average of the world (late yellow and mostly turquoise). It's just a very different place. It was envisioned by Sri Aurobindo as a conscious centric society. It was presented to the ONU and assisted by Unesco since 1966 for the sake of social experimentation and alternative lifestyle. So if you have the chance I wouldn't miss this oportunity, maybe you decide to live there even.

“Everyone should advance along one particular line. He who takes the path trodden by the lover of God, will release Him as the blissful embodiment of Supreme Love. He who takes the path of Knowledge, will release Him as Knowledge Itself as the formless Brahman. Just as one and the same individual is son, husband and father, so the One Brahman is Being, Consciousness, Bliss. From whichever angle a person approaches God, he will assuredly find Him, the One. If he progresses by yoga, he will realise eternal Union. He will have to go beyond the polarity of union and separation. And in the final attainment, the question of eternal and non-eternal, of beyond and not beyond, does not exist.” ~ Anandamayi Ma

This book wil help you: The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level You are actually hitting the crystal cealing or self limitation of how good you think your life can be and therefore trying to sabotage it. Although what is remarkable in your case is that the sabotage is trying to be done consciously which is bizarre. In any case, that book will give you insights on why you think your life is too good.

Paramhansa Yogananda wrote about her in his book Autobiography of a Yogi. His meeting with her is recounted in the chapter titled "The Bengali 'Joy-Permeated Mother'", where she explains her background: "Father, there is little to tell." She spread her graceful hands in a deprecatory gesture. "My consciousness has never associated itself with this temporary body. Before I came on this earth, Father, I was the same. As a little girl, I was the same. I grew into womanhood, but still I was the same. When the family in which I had been born made arrangements to have this body married, I was the same... And, Father, in front of you now, I am the same. Ever afterward, though the dance of creation change around me in the hall of eternity, I shall be the same.

My only solid critique of Leo is his little care about raising his base line consciousness. Frank Yang and Peter Ralston might have not reached as high as Leo, not even close. However, Leo's baseline consciousness is a bit embarassing in comparison with other masters. Time is limited and one could understand different investments but a few have attained it all, both baseline and peaks, like Sri Anandamayi Ma. So it can be done.

Oh you are making me wet now

Exactly. Some people here treat the absolute like something dead lol. Stop trying to trancend the absolute and nonsense like that. The absolute is more alive than you! It's ever fresh, ever new. In one way it has an end and that's it, beingness oneness consciousness the absolute, in the other way it's always refreshingly alive and self-transcendent. You need to get both, otherwise you could be more conscious.

You are not understanding how the part and the whole work. All parts are a whole in itself and the whole itself is a part. Your body is a whole but then is a part of earth. The earth is a whole but then is a part of the solar system. Your body is a whole but has parts like orgars. Organs are a whole but have parts, cells. And so on in all directions. This is holistic thinking. I see a hole in your reasoning here that you will recognize when you are grounded in turquoise. What you think is the whole it's just unreachable, it goes on forever in this way. The same is happening with understanding. The same oneness in higher and higher orders of complexity. It's a property of holons called self-trascendence that makes them more than the sum of it's parts. Your body-mind is not just a collections of atoms, in the same way, reality and awakening follows this structure of ever greater self organization, understanding and awakening.

If your infinity doesn't include the finite then you don't have Infinity my friend. If your limitless doesn't include limits then you don't have something truly limitless. ------------- About your question. There are others but others are God. It is a very subtle truth. Others exist but are also you. God exists and also not God but both are GOD, so on for infinity. God being alone vs God being with others, both are God. In the end, if the other is also God it's much easier to say that God alone is. Rather than saying God alone is and God is with others but those others are still God and therefore God alone is. I mean you have to awaken to this, I went through a hell of solipsism to reach this awakening that I'm telling you. Others EXIST but they are still you. Your mind includes all other minds but those other minds are still your mind but they still exist, we don't negate them. Your consciousnes includes all others but all others are just your consciousness, they exist within it, as it, they exist but are your consciousness. So it's not that they don't exist but that they are also God. The alone and the other are both God and when both are God is just more logical to say God alone is. It's not alone in the sense that there are no others, it's alone in the sense that even if there are others, it's still always alone because the other is itself. So it's not like when you awaken to solipsism you were not alone before you awoken to it, you were always alone it's just that now you recognize yourself and the other for what they are, consciousness, yourself.

True the first time I dreamt after quitting cannabis was like damn, dreams are so radical. How could I be dreaming so casually? This is much more insane than a trip. A whole reality is spawned out of myself every night, a new universe with it's own rules. Why isn't everybody talking about this??

Yeah the application of that simple understanding is quite hard xddd I would say surviving plays a huge role and how we are wired in the end. Love will save you, to love and surrender to what is. Very femenine indeed because femenine is about peace & love. The masculine is about consciousness & breakthroughs. Another perspective you could take is a deep and exhaustive analysis on the nature of desire. Heaven=Desirelessness. The most heavenly like and nirvanic states I have experienced were profoundly permeated by desirelessness. You don't desire anything at all, not even not to desire, you are utterly desireless. Desire to live, to be happy, to awaken... are blocking the way to heaven. Although not all desires are of the same quality, some desires lead to desirelessness, others to awakening, while most of them just to more desire. And all desire in the end is for desirelessness which is complete satisfaction. Well not gonna do your job, contemplate on the nature of desire and it's mechanisms!