Action and Choicelessness.

Action and Choiceless Awareness.

परोक्ष अनुभूति और अपरोक्ष अनुभूति

The Perception of Reality :

The Direct / the Indirect Perception. 

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Action is activity that is the World.

World is the consciousness of activity.

Everything happens because of itself or is done because one is prompted doing the same. The causes known to us, or we think or have to think of something that attracts our attention and accordingly, we try to do it. The actions or the deeds "done" by the body too could take place only because of the conditions favorable to the Happeing of the activity, though the common Idea behind it is like :

"I do, I will do or will don't do, I can or can't, I should or shouldn't, should have done or shouldn't, I'm going to do or I'm not going to do, I want or I don't want to do and so many other, different forms of this very idea",

Where "I" refers to itself, though it can't clearly, conveniently, properly point out What or Who it is itself indeed.

(An interception : Could we perhaps say The famous Mathematician Kurt Godel might have taken a hint from this?)

"What" implies something; an "object",

"Who" implies the "consciousness" or the "subject" where-in the object is known.

The "consciousness" is therefore the one "Who" knows or is "the knower", while the object is " the known".

Maybe, we could say "consciousness" is the interface.

The individual with reference to oneself on one hand is the "knower", but on the other is also "the known".

And there-from arises the conflict which causes the common Idea that I'm on one hand the "known", I'm at the same time the "knower" also.

This division between "the knower" and "the known" that applies to all and every individual causes the secondary Idea  that there is again there a "World" - the objective totality of the insentient objects and the "subjective consciousness" or the "individual consciousness" - Who is ever so the Sentient Reality, the only support the underlying principle and evidence of itself and the World.

In between the sentience - the subjective, and the insentient - the objective, arises and appears something though dubious, fictitious, superfluous, a pseudo-entity, a shadow existence only which is neither world, nor the subjective consciousness.

It's this Idea, the fundamental illusion of and about the Reality of Oneself and the objective world -the conflict between "the knower", and "the known".

With reference to this very fundamental notion, one tends and tries to point out, define and accept oneself -

In terms of "the knower" on the one hand and "the known" on the other.

 One in this way, inadvertently begins to believe, -though mistakenly - "I think, I do, or can do, experience, feel, know or I don't know." 

Still there is hope when One says and declares : 

"I can't understand, I'm confused or I'm not sure of etc." 

Throughout this whole happening, one is inevitably, certainly also sure of what I'm.

I'm the pure consciousness, - the sentience, and I can't never become nor be the experience, experiencing or the activity that one goes through and mistakenly accepts as oneself.

The idea of the Freedom of Choice is the ignorance that one gets involved into at once, is overwhelmed by this idea that takes one to believing in "I do, I can or can't, will or will not, have to do or not, should or shouldn't try to do"

"Awareness, understanding of this truth frees the consciousness from the idea of "The Freedom of Choice" and one for the first and the last time as well comes across the Realization that all Choice is ignorance and is therefore bondage only. Understanding in this way the world and all and the every activity in this perceived outer world or in the inner individual mental world is seen as a happening only and the idea of oneself as an independent one Who can initiate any activity is simply lost.

One can't even claim to be a witness, for this implies "I'm the witness" - and in this way again the idea or the ignorance survives and keeps on growing, always  prospering without end.

Without arriving at this "Awareness" / "Understanding", ignorance persists on and therefore one can never become really Free the idea of an assumed world outside "there", and one inside oneself.

In a situation like this, one has willingly or unwillingly, deliberately or out of choice, cling to the idea of compulsion and to make effort of some kind or the other on one's own accepted approach, and that is really never the Freedom.

The first approach is the Essence of the sAmkhya, the Choiceless Awareness or the Choiceless-ness, while the next is of the Yoga / karma / activity.

These two are the only meaningful ways  an earnest serious seeker has to opt to.

The two are though mutually exclusive in practice, in the effect do help, result in discovering the same Ultimate Truth.

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How Does This Work?!

Neville Goddard 

May lead you into believing that by repeated imaginations and assertions of anything, say acquiring an object of desire or coming true of an event, may take place.

It's really, the other way around.

I can't say this is true and even if it's true this doesn't prove that the wish was fulfilled or the object of desire was acquired by your practice of this kind. 

However I am very sure if there is strong will, it can sure become successfull by thinking of constantly about an object of desire or wish.

This is how the will affects your subconscious and as the Whole Consciousness is but a single phenomenon, the will that took place in you was basically a reflection of the will of the Whole consciousness itself in the first place. So everything good or bad desire / wish is already latent though un-manifest there in our Collective Consciousness / Whole Consciousness that manifests / comes true at its right time.

In Principle; 

The same could be further explained with the help of how a yogi can "materialize" anything like a gem, a gold ring, or a flower, or even a coin from no-where. 

We all know whatever we wish or think of is in terms of "thought" that is dependent upon and an expression of "memory" only. Memory on the other hand is associated with "smell". One can see for oneself that how any certain smell, touch, color / form, taste and sound evokes a certain response in us. The 5 senses (तन्मात्रा) are basically the subtle aspects of the 5 gross experiences of the kind such as smell, touch, color/ form / texture, taste and sound respectively. The Manifest world is but the expression of the infinity of possibilities that are already there always un-manifest. When one deliberately and voluntarily brings in the attention onto this key-fact / key-factor, can have so-called spiritual / occult / mysterious powers of the kind that look like a miracle.

This all is realized and attained through yogic practice but the way of Intelligence is a quite different approach where one enquires into, and tries to understand the very nature and the character of Consciousness itself.  This is the way of sAmkhya .

One should never forget that The miraculous powers too are transitory, impermanent and like a dream they too vanish, they don't last for ever.

Just to point out, I felt like writing this post.

No matter whatever worldly wealth, success or enjoyment you gain in time is going away sooner or later in time. But even if once you have somehow known the very source from where Consciousness appears and where to disappears, you come across the underlying principle that never comes from anywhere, nor goes away to anywhere.

That is verily :

The Brahman, Truth or The Self .

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The "CPTSD"

Complex Post Trauma Stress Disorder

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A month or two ago came across this word. Since then, it has been as is if etched upon the mind. Prior to birth as a tree, a seed lies in the fruit. The unripe fruit has a dual life. The seed is alive, the fruit is alive and the tree itself is alive as a whole, yet the lives of the seed, the fruit too have a movement of their own.

The fruit may grow, ripen, fall down upon the ground and the seed may sprout to be born in the form of altogether a new life of itself.

The 3 major characteristics of "Life" as such are - Birth Growth and Death. Together they are called  जन्म, आयु, मृत्यु  in the Sanskrit.

Another way of naming them is जाति, आयु / भोग, मृत्यु .

In between enters the decay and degeneration that is called

The decay / degeneration /  deterioration  जरा. 

What is born is going to die; that is the way of the nature / the Whole Life in Totality.

But there is also a counterpart to Life.

This is called  व्याधि - the disease - anamolous turn, the way the life takes unexpectedlly. 

This is the very thing CPTSD.

Identifying this whole phenomenon could be a way of understanding it.

At the individual level, it is essentially made of the two elements  : one is knowledge another is ignorance.

Looks contradictory! 

Life as such is always consciousness. This fact is rational in the sense that it could never be denied, refuted nor be proved false or wrong through and in or by means of experience.

Being Conscious inevitably implies - knowing / "intelligence" - where the knowing itself is the knower and the known too.

Soon as and when it manifests in and as part of the Whole, like the seed in the fruit, or like another different tree, it appears to assume a "life" independent of it's own. Life as such is actually but pure knowing without the kind of this division as the self and something other than the self. Still the sense of knowing that is essentially the sense of existing only and not "being", gets split into two, just because there is this apparent division.

Once this identification of oneself settles in the "knowing" it at once assumes the sense of "I" and the other - "Not I".

So knowing "I'm"  is the pure foundation upon which is eracted a building of oneself as being this or that - or not being this or that. In this way overwhelmed by knowing, everyone is though aware of one's existence but there is the ignorance of what is meant by "I'm".

Thus a false identity comes into being that is really the culprit - व्याधि / CPTSD.

Self-Realization therefore consists in the removal of ignorance.

There is no "Enlightenment" - a new and another development of any kind in the movement of "Life" as such.

Again, this could be further asserted that "Who exactly is there having removed the ignorance could be said to have "become" Enlightened?

Psychological CPTSD -

Complex Post Trauma Stress Disorder 

Is indicative of the root-cause that is the existential external manifestation, one asserting itself repeatedly.

It's but an existential joke only indeed.

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