Avataric Revelation Discourse of
January 6, 2006
The main text of this talk was
published in Reality Is All The God There Is –
Reality is all the God there Is, The Single
Transcendental Truth Taught by the Great Sages
and the Revelation of Reality Itself, as
Chapter VII.
AVATAR ADI DA SAMRAJ: Recently I
presented to you all the text of the Ribhu Gita that I
prepared, and that was the first of the traditional texts
that I’m preparing for a book which I spoke of at the time.
And a principal aspect of this book will be a number of
translations from the sixth stage tradition, the tradition
of the sages, or the Advaitic tradition, the non-dualist
tradition. But also there will be texts from the Buddhist
tradition, also in this sixth stage mode.
So tonight I will present to you
three texts that I’ve prepared. These texts that I will
speak could be called translations. But they are not
translations in the conventional sense, of a scholar’s
effort to make a word-by-word rendering of some pre-existing
text. A word-by-word rendering of these texts would-well,
first of all, there is no such thing, because the texts
aren’t merely written in plain, conventional speech and they
were written a very long time ago. How long ago cannot
exactly be determined, different in each case, but something
like a thousand years ago, let us say.
And there are some existing
translations of these texts, translations in English and
those translations represent a kind of conventional effort
in which they made some kind of a literal presentation, but
since the texts themselves weren’t constructed on the basis
of English grammar and so on, they can’t merely be spoken in
a word-for-word manner. The translation must be an
interpretation.
Therefore what is the point of a
rendering of a text if the rendering is made by someone who
hasn’t realized the truth of the text? The interpretation
will not have realization as the basis. The translation
won’t have realization as its basis. The presentation of a
text, then, is a teaching matter. It must be done on the
basis of realization.
The conventions of making
translations are such that typically, well, first of all the
translations are not done by realizers typically. They are
done by scholars or people simply interested in the material
for one reason or another. The typical approach is to make
something relatively literalistic, but also to supply the
reader with vast amounts of footnotes and commentary many
many times longer than the original text.
If realization is the case, then
these texts can be re-spoken or spoken now, the truth of it
spoken. Texts must be made to speak the truth and the
meanings in them must be found, located, and rendered in a
speech that is comprehensible. Fully rightly done, then, the
rendering of the text should not require any further
commentary.
The text should be plainspoken
just as it is. Footnotes shouldn’t be required and so on. So
these renderings I have made are plainspoken, speaking the
truth of these texts. There are many obscure references or
local provincial references, cultural references, belonging
to the time and the culture in which the text was made and
so forth, many kinds of elements that have virtually no use
in terms of simply transmitting the truth of the text, the
meanings of the text.
It’s necessary, then, for the
text to be spoken effectively for the first time, to simply
be uttered. So I have made translations. I have simply
spoken these texts myself.
The name of this book, if I
haven’t mentioned it before, the title of this book is “Is”-
with an underlining. There is a subtitle also-How Human
Beings Can Outgrow the Childish Religious Myths of God and
the Adolescent Scientific Myths of Reality By Directly
Realizing the Spiritual, Transcendental, and Divine Nature
of Reality Itself.
The first of the texts I’ll
present to you this evening is originally called Maneesha
Panchakam. There is a tradition that says this text was
written by Sankara, but this is not taken seriously,
generally speaking, by scholars in the present day, so it
need not be presumed this text is by Sankara, but is after
Sankara, post-Sankara, from the tradition associated with
Sankara and Advaitism.
The title of the text as I will
speak it to you is The Five Declarations of Ultimate
Knowledge, subtitled On the Necessary Characteristics of An
Inherently Perfect Guru or True Master Sage.
The first declaration of ultimate
knowledge: Consciousness Itself is the one reality and
truth, the first elaboration of the necessary
characteristics of an inherently perfect guru or true master
sage.
You will observe that each of
these declarations or each part of this text is being
presented by Me in the form of first a declaration numbered
one through five-there are five such declarations-and there
is a last part, a kind of epilogue. And after presenting the
declaration, there is an elaboration that
follows.
So in this case, you see, the
First Declaration of Ultimate Knowledge. Now the first
elaboration that follows it.
The First Declaration of
Ultimate Knowledge – I’ll repeat it – is Consciousness
Itself is the one reality and truth.
The First Declaration of
Ultimate Knowledge:
Consciousness (itself) is the
one Reality and Truth.
The First Elaboration of the
Necessary Characteristics of an Inherently Perfect Guru, or
True Master-Sage:
“Reality is Consciousness
itself–not any apparent object of Consciousness itself. The
Truth of Consciousness (itself) is that it is one,
indivisible, not caused, unchanging, eternal, and
all-pervading–whereas objects are many, countless,
conditionally caused, mutually opposed, always changing, and
temporary. The intrinsic Self-Condition of Consciousness is
that it is the mere (or inherently actionless) witness of
the entire cosmic universe (of causes, effects, and objects)
and of all conditionally arising states (of waking,
dreaming, and deep sleep).” Only one who is a Realizer of
this Self-Confession of the Reality, the Truth, and the
intrinsic Self-Condition of Consciousness itself is an
inherently perfect Guru, or true Master-Sage.
The Second Declaration of
Ultimate Knowledge:
I am Consciousness itself, the
one Reality and Truth.
The Second Elaboration of the
Necessary Characteristics of an Inherently Perfect Guru, or
True Master-Sage:
“I am only Consciousness
itself–one, indivisible, Self-existing prior to the cosmic
universe and all conditional states, and Self-radiant as
all-pervading Bliss. The entire cosmic universe arises as a
seeming appearance (of conditional causes, effects, and
objects)–made apparent by an unnecessary (and merely
apparent, or illusory) torsion of centrifugal, centripetal,
and neutral tendencies of motion within the matrix of Bliss,
or Self-Light, that is the Self-radiance of Self-existing
Consciousness itself. No matter what seems to arise thus (as
an apparent objective superimposition on Consciousness
itself), I am only Consciousness itself–Self-radiant as
non-conditional Bliss itself.” Only one who is a Realizer of
this Self-Confession of the Identity and State of
Consciousness itself is an inherently perfect Guru, or true
Master-Sage.
The Third Declaration of
Ultimate Knowledge:
Every conditionally apparent
being, and even the entire conditionally apparent cosmic
universe, is only Consciousness itself, the one Reality and
Truth.
The Third Elaboration of the
Necessary Characteristics of an Inherently Perfect Guru, or
True Master-Sage:
“Every conditionally apparent
being, and even the entire conditionally apparent cosmic
universe, merely apparently (and without ultimate necessity)
arises, changes, and disappears in conditionally apparent
space and time. Consciousness itself is the Self-existing
and Self-radiant matrix of this conditional apparition of
beings, things, and events. If mere Self-Abiding as
Consciousness itself is established, the mind is dissolved
in its Source-Condition, the body is rested (thereby) in the
Self-radiant Bliss of Consciousness itself, and the
exercises of desire and seeking that have caused the present
embodiment are inherently and perfectly transcended.” Only
one who is a Realizer of this Self-Confession of ultimate
knowledge–based upon the contemplation of That which,
alone, is ultimate knowledge–is an inherently perfect Guru,
or true Master-Sage.
The Fourth Declaration of
Ultimate Knowledge:
Consciousness
itself–intrinsically Self-existing prior to all mental and
sensory objects, and inherently Self-radiant as Bliss
itself–is Self-Evident as the true and very Self-Condition
of all beings.
The Fourth Elaboration of the
Necessary Characteristics of an Inherently Perfect Guru, or
True Master-Sage:
“All beings are always already
Self-Awake and Self-Illumined by Consciousness itself, even
though Consciousness (itself) may yet be apparently obscured
by the objects and tendencies of body and mind–much as the
sun may be temporarily obscured from view by a visible
thickness of clouds.” Only one who “Locates” the
Self-Evident State of Self-Illumination that is
Consciousness itself–and who, by Self-Abiding as That,
Realizes and Self-Confesses this ultimate knowledge of the
Self-existing and Self-radiant Self-Condition of
Consciousness itself–is an inherently perfect Guru, or true
Master-Sage.
The Fifth Declaration of
Ultimate Knowledge:
Consciousness itself is the
infinite and inexhaustible ocean of Bliss, in which all
beings may Realize perfect Happiness.
The Fifth Elaboration of the
Necessary Characteristics of an Inherently Perfect Guru, or
True Master-Sage:
“The mind is perfectly
dissolved–or Realized to be inherently non-existent–if the
Self-radiant Bliss of Self-existing Consciousness itself is
known. That ocean of Bliss is (itself) the one and only
ultimate knowledge. Therefore, one who Realizes ultimate
knowledge does not merely ‘know’ the one Reality and Truth.
Rather, one who Realizes ultimate knowledge is (thus and
thereby) the one Reality and Truth.” Only one who thus
Realizes and Self-Confesses ultimate knowledge is an
inherently perfect Guru, or true Master-Sage. An inherently
perfect Guru, or true Master-Sage, should be worshipped with
true devotion by one and all–for ultimate knowledge is a
Way and a Realization Given (and made possible for all) only
by means of the Blessing-Grace of an inherently perfect
Guru, or true Master-Sage.
Epilogue:
The Three “Points of View” of the
Progressive Practice That Becomes the Perfect Realization of
Ultimate Knowledge
I. The Orientation of Practice
Based Upon the “Point of View” of the Body:
“Based upon the ‘point of view’
of the body, I am the devotee-servant of the bodily apparent
Person of my inherently perfect Guru–the true Master-Sage
to whom my body and mind are constantly
surrendered.”
II. The Orientation of Practice
Based Upon the “Point of View” of the Mind:
“Based upon the ‘point of view’
of the mind, I am like an idea, yielding toward devotional
unity (or re-union) with the infinite Spiritual matrix (or
ascended Bliss-Mind) of my inherently perfect Guru–the true
Master-Sage to whom my body and mind are constantly
surrendered.”
III. The Orientation of Practice
Based Upon the “Point of View” of the Intrinsically
Self-Evident Self-Condition That Is Consciousness
Itself:
“Based upon the ‘point of view’
of Consciousness itself, I am not separated from the
Self-existing and Self-radiant State of my perfectly
Self-Realized Guru. Therefore, by means of the
ego-surrendering exercise of non-difference, my devotion is
perfectly maintained, and I need only Self-Abide in the
ultimate knowledge of the Heart-Current of Bliss, in which I
am constantly Blessed to be Awake by the Compassionate
Regard of my inherently perfect Guru–the true Master-Sage
to whom my body and mind are constantly
surrendered.”
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Every “known God” or
“known Reality”
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ALL IMPERFECT KNOWLEDGE IS
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Humankind has always sought to
control “what” otherwise appears (or is presumed) to control
“it”.
Thus, to achieve control of the
apparent (or presumed) “controller”, an effort is always
made to capture “it”.
The “method” of capture (or
control of the “controller”) is an activity in either
exoteric (or “exterior”) or esoteric (or “interior”)
space.
The achievement of capture (or
control of the “controller”) is to centrally “locate” (or
surround and contain) “what” (otherwise) surrounds (or
contains, and, thus, controls) either the collective or the
individual ego-“self” (or the operative perceptual and
conceptual “point of view”).
“What” is apparently (or presumed
to be) controlling the ego-“self” (or the “point of view”)
is able to thus control the ego-“self” (or the “point of
view”)
because “it” is apparently (or
presumed to be) either perceptually or conceptually
“outside” (and, thus, surrounding and containing) the
ego-“self” (or the “point of view”).
Therefore, in order to control
the apparent (or presumed) “controller”, an effort is made
to place the apparent (or presumed) “controller” at the
“center” (or with, or even within, the ego-“self”, or
immediately at the “point of view”)- and, thus and thereby,
to surround and contain the “controller” with the ego” self”
(or the “point of view”).
The “method” applied in order to
surround and contain (or to center, and, thereby, control)
the “controller” is either of an “outer” (and, thus,
exoteric) perceptual and conceptual nature or of an “inner”
(and, thus, esoteric) perceptual and conceptual
nature.
The “outer” (or exoteric)
“method” of controlling the “controller” is,
characteristically, performed in the physical space
associated with the bodily (or body based) “point of
view”.
The “inner” (or esoteric)
“method” of controlling the “controller” is,
characteristically, performed in the mental space associated
with the “interior” of the otherwise bodily (or body-based)
“point of view”.
In the conventions of all the
traditions of human “method” (whether exoteric or esoteric),
control of the apparent (or, otherwise, presumed)
“controller” is always a mode of “knowledge” (either
perceptual or conceptual in “its” nature).
Exoteric “knowledge” is always a
mode of physically effective control over a “controller”
that is apparently (or presumed to be) of a physical nature
or kind.
Esoteric “knowledge” is always a
mode of mentally effective control over a “controller” that
is apparently (or presumed to be) of a mental nature or
kind.
All conditional (or
psycho-physical) “knowledge”-whether exoteric or esoteric-
is a “method” (or, otherwise, a presumed state) of control
over “what” otherwise appears (or is presumed) to control
the body and/or the mind of the collective and/or the
individual ego-“self” (or operative “point of
view”).
“What” is (or would be)
controlled by either exoteric or esoteric “knowledge” is
always (as the first and most basic procedure)
“objectified”-and, thus and thereby, dissociated from the
“self” (or the “point of view”) by the exercise of the
presumption that the “controller” is
“not-self”.
Every “object” of “knowledge” (or
every mode or form of presumed “notself”) is either an
apparent (or, otherwise, presumed) “object” (or mode of
process) within the conditionally arising apparent “world”
and “universe” or, otherwise, the totality of conditionally
arising apparent “universe” (or “world”) “itself” (or as an
“objectified” whole).
The exoteric “knowledge” of any
conditionally arising apparent (or presumed) “object” (or,
otherwise, the exoteric “knowledge” of the “objectified”
totality of “world” and “universe”) is, necessarily, a mode
or kind of physically-based “knowing” (and, thus and
thereby, controlling) “it”.
The esoteric “knowledge” of any
conditionally arising apparent (or presumed) “object” (or,
otherwise, the esoteric “knowledge” of the “objectified”
totality of “world” and “universe”) is, necessarily, a mode
or kind of metaphysically-based “knowing” (and, thus and
thereby, controlling) “it”.
All physically-based “knowledge”
is either commonplace (and, thus, a matter of ordinary
social convention) or (otherwise) “scientific” (and, thus,
the result of the rigorous application of a discrete and
discursive “method” of physical “knowing” of
presumed-to-be-physical “objects”).
All metaphysically-based
“knowledge” is either (as a matter of ordinary social
convention) commonplace “religious” or (otherwise) either
“mystical” or “magical” or in the mode of “metaphysical
philosophy” (and, thus, in either case, the result of the
rigorous application of a discrete and discursive “method”
of metaphysical “knowing” of presumed-to-be-metaphysical
“objects”).
Exoteric “science” is the
application of physically-based ideas (or body-based
presumptions) to apparent (or presumed-to-be) physical
“objects”.
Exoteric “science” achieves
physically effective control over phys-ical “objects”- and
human populations-by means of physically-based
technologies.
Exoteric “science” achieves
physically effective mind-control over human individuals and
collectives by means of physically effective technologies,
practical and consumer-oriented inventions, power-alliances
with social and political institutions, the broad-scale
ritual propagandizing of “scientific” myths, and the
broad-scale persistent propagandizing of irreducibly
“objectified” beliefs in such ideas as “rationality”,
“materiality”, “objective certainty”, “progress”,
“analytical reason” as an exercise superior to all other
human efforts, the “necessary mortality” of nature, mind,
and being, and both the “authority” and the “ultimate
sufficiency” of “science” (“itself”).
Exoteric “religion” is the
application of metaphysically-based ideas (or mind-based
presumptions) to apparent (or presumed-to-be) physical
“objects”.
Exoteric “religion” achieves
physically effective control over physical “objects”- and
human populations-by means of (usually, conspicuous)
exercises of prescriptive “social activism” and prescriptive
“social morality”.
Exoteric “religion” achieves
physically effective mind-control over human individuals and
collectives by means of (invariably, conspicuous) social and
political “moral performances”, power-alliances with social
and political institutions, the public proliferation of
“sacred enclosures” (such as temple architecture), and the
broad-scale persistent propagandizing of “sacred artifices”,
such as “religious” myths, irreducibly “objectified”
beliefs, symbolic ceremonials, ritual re-enactments,
“religious” art, and the authoritarian assertion of such
ideas as “objective certainty”, “moral absolutes”, the
“inherent integrity and
reliability of tradition”,
“happiness by means of institutions”, “blessedness” by means
of “sacramentally authorized” hierarchies of “religious
officials”, “faith” as an exercise superior to all other
human efforts, the “necessary immortality” of the “ego”, and
both the “authority” and the “ultimate sufficiency” of
“religion” (“itself”).
The always first and most basic
effort of exoteric “science” is to “objectify” (and, thus
and thereby, to surround and contain) the “controller” by
defining “it” reductively (or, in the conventional sense,
“realistically”)-and, thus, as physical phenomenon only (or
of the nature of “physical reality” only).
The always first and most basic
effort of exoteric “religion”, and of esoteric “mysticism”,
“magic”, and “metaphysical philosophy”, is to “objectify”
(and, thus and thereby, to surround and contain) the
“controller” by defining “it” idealistically- and, thus, as
being (presently or, at least, ultimately) a mental
phenomenon only (or of the nature of “mind”
only).
All exoteric (or
physically-based) “knowing” first “objectifies” the
“controller” as “not-self”, by defining “it” as physical
phenomenon only, and, then, defines “it” further (and
reductively) as physically “external” to “self” (or to the
exercised “point of view”).
All exoteric “religion”-and all
esoteric metaphysical “knowing”, whether of a “mystical” or
“magical” or “philosophical” or even, somehow, “scientific”
nature- first “objectifies” the “controller” as “not-self”,
by defining “it” as a mental phenomenon (or idea)
“different” from “self”, and, then, surrounds and contains
“it” by “internalizing” the “controller” as an idea within
the “self-mind”.
All “knowledge” exercised or
presumed by a “point of view” within a totality is bound and
limited by and to “point of view” (“itself”).
In every context wherein
“different” modes of “point of view” (and, thus, of presumed
“knowledge”) are separately but coincidently exercised or
presumed- such as “scientific” versus “religious”, or
exoteric versus esoteric, or physical versus mental-the thus
“different” (or mutually differentiated) traditions (and
“methods”) of “knowledge” always oppose one another, and
always compete with one another, and always (and
ceaselessly) stage de-bunking rituals, in order to “cause”
doubt relative to the authenticity, honesty, integrity,
verifiability, rationality, supportability, and ultimate
verity of the “opponent’s” claims.
In Reality Itself (Which Is Truth
Itself), all modes and states of conditionally arising
apparent “knowledge” (or of ego-based, or
“point-of-view”-based, “knowing”) are merely imperfect
“knowledge”-and, as such, they are not Truth, and they are
not true to Reality Itself, and they are (thus and
therefore) limited, insufficient, “point-of-view”-bound,
merely ego-made and ego-binding, and (relative to Reality
Itself, and, thus, to Truth Itself) they are intrinsically
false, they are heart-lies that delude and defeat the heart
itself, they are mere and all un-Truth (not relevant to
Reality-Realization), and (altogether) they are (each and
altogether) the “root”-context of obstruction to The
“Perfect Knowledge” That Is The One Necessity for The
“Perfect Freedom” and “Perfect Happiness” of
beings.
Only “Perfect Knowledge”-or
Intrinsic Self-Apprehension of The Self-Nature,
Self-Condition, and Self-State of Reality Itself-Is Truth
Itself.
“Perfect (and, Thus,
Intrinsically egoless, or ‘point-of-view-less’, or
centerless) Knowledge” is neither controlled nor controlling
nor seeking to control nor (in any sense) either related to
or subordinate to a “controller”.
“Perfect Knowledge” neither
“knows” nor “solves” nor seeks to “solve” a
“problem”.
“Perfect Knowledge” does not
surround or contain-and neither is “It” surrounded or
contained.
“Perfect Knowledge” is neither of
a physical nor of a metaphysical nature.
“Perfect Knowledge” is neither
exoteric nor esoteric, neither commonplace nor conventional
nor “scientific” nor “religious”, neither “external” nor
“internal”, and neither conditionally “knowing” nor
conditionally “not-knowing”.
“Perfect Knowledge” Self-Abides
As Is-Always Already Prior to “point of view”, Utterly
Beyond the context of control, and Intrinsically Free of all
physical and/or mental (or perceptual and conceptual)
presumptions.
Every “theory”, every “temple”,
every body, every “object”, and every mere idea is a
centralizing enclosure (either at “outside” or in
“inside”).
Every “within”, every
presumption, every “point of view”, every “location”, every
definition, and every “difference” is an enclosure, a
center, a hitching post, and an altar of “sacrifice”-wherein
and whereupon the declared “not-self” becomes “scapegoat”
upon a “middle”-plane.
Every “object” is a
“scapegoat-sacrifice”-both inherently and in “its”
exercise.
The “controller” is, at last, The
Totality of all-and-All Un-“knowns”.
The Un-“known” Totality is, first
and always (whether by “science” or by “religion” or by the
conventions of commonplace), made (as if) into a “God” by
ego’s “I”, and (thereafter) “It” is confined to the
“middle”, and (in due course) “It” is brought low and made
small, and (at last) “It” is utterly destroyed – or, as it
is, by euphemism’s substitute, said in retrospect, “‘It’
were ‘sacrificed'”.
Every “sacrificed object” is a
“known God”.
Every “known God” is no longer
Divine and Real.
The culture of “sacrifice” –
whether by “religious” ritual or “moral
imperative”
or social and political “decree”
or by force of ego’s illusory archetypes in brain-mind or
commonplace expectation-is no longer relevant, right, true,
necessary, or sane.
“Perfect Freedom”, “Perfect
Happiness”, and (Therefore) “Perfect Knowledge” Is
Required-by all-and-All.
Only “Perfect Knowledge” Is (In
“Perfect Freedom”) Self-Allowed-and Self-Allowing
all-and-All To Self-Abide As Is.
Only “Perfect Knowledge” Is
Truth.
Only “Perfect Knowledge” Is
Divine.
Only “Perfect Knowledge” Is
Reality Itself.
Only “Perfect Knowledge” Is
“Perfect Freedom”.
Only “Perfect Knowledge” Is
“Perfect Happiness” (or Intrinsic Love-BlissBeing)
Itself.
Only Happiness Itself (Thus) Is
egoless, Non-mortal, Eternal, Perfect, and
Divine.
Except for “Perfect Knowledge”,
all “knowledge” is mere ideas, the fantasies
of “point of view”, entirely
imperfect, intrinsically limited, partial, and insufficient,
altogether not-Truth, not-Divine, not-Reality, not-Freedom,
not-Happiness,
and a merely mortal, unnecessary,
and egoically “self”-deluded occupation of human
mummery.
All imperfect “knowledge” is
bunk.
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