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Formless presence (God) is also omniscient, so how can it be so easily fooled into thinking it is this body? Why is it made so difficult to realize one is not the body or mind forms?

The primal illusion, ‘I exist’ or ‘I am’. Prior to every experience there must be a recipient of that experience. Without you there is no experience. Prior to the experience ‘I exist’ or ‘I am’ you did not know yourself as their was no faculty of knowing, nor was there anything other that could be known. The knowing ‘omniscient’ essence was there, however there was nothing other to know, not even yourself.

Once the primary experience ‘I exist’ or ‘I am’ was known then you began to know so many things through this faculty of knowing. However, having not known anything not even yourself the knowing faculty or essence began perceiving through this consciousness. This consciousness spontaneously projected a world with a you in it.

The knowing formless essence began perceiving the world within consciousness from the perspective of being a form body. This existence with form was then impressed through experiences that the body labeled ‘Name given to the body you are using to read this’ began to go through. ‘Name given to the body you are using to read this’ was told that they were doing good things, and wrong things, and a system of punishment and reward began to develop the egoistic sense of doership.

Actions that occurred spontaneously were then attributed or placed in the egoistic basket that ‘I am doing this and that.’ This body you were holding labeled ‘Name given to the body you are using to read this’ became the primary source of information from the wrong perspective of being a body in a world. All subsequent experiences and acquired knowledge were based on the foundation of this wrong assumption. You wrongly perceived the world through the lens of individuality, a body, a person, a form. You are not body. You are formless.

All body based experience, all body knowledge, all body relations occur within the consciousness. This is the same as in a dream. In a dream everything will appear very real. All of the experiences in a dream, are of course within that dream, including the object you take yourself to be. You realize this once you wake up.

In a similar way, through meditation and concentration you will use this body form within the consciousness to know yourself as the formless holder of the body. This has been termed consciousness worshiping consciousness, or Presence remaining with Presence. Through the body form and with the aid of consciousness you are able to sense this Presence.

Once this sense of Presence is felt, you will begin to desire That more than any of the things in consciousness which by nature pass and fade. Remain with this ‘I am’ ‘I exist’ or Presence feeling while holding the body. This will reintroduce you to your formlessness or remove the false layers of illusion which appear to be covering.

You discover or remove this false body mind clothing and disrobe your formless nature, which you always are and can never not be.

Eventually the correct position will impress in your beingness, that even this beingness is not permanent. This will solve the mystery of the illusory entity, the concept of birth, and the concept of death. You are not body. You were not body. You are not going to remain body. Body is not your identity.

You were formless prior to the concept of body. After discarding the body you will be formless. And you are formless in this moment. The formless essence You Are is perceiving through the consciousness using the body form to read the words that have appeared and recognizes it spoke those words using the vehicle of consciousness and the instrument of body.

Now you have heard the great news within the consciousness that you are not body, and the seed of body based concept labeled enlightenment has been planted.

Of course, as in dream, when you wake up, or are no longer creating the illusion of experience through the concept of separation brought about by the ‘I am a body’ notion, none of this will matter.

Jai Sadguru!

Why does everyone want enlightenment yet it’s not even clear what life is like after enlightened beings die and go to Vaikuntha or wherever? What is the advantage of life there vs earth?

Enlightenment is the total dissolution of the wrong belief ‘I am a body’ which caused this skewed perception from which the illusion of experience was born.

Direct experience of removing the body pressure, body knowledge, body relations through true understanding in the same way that you would discard a shirt.

Through meditation the realization that this body from is indeed a tight shirt, which on investigation is seen to grow tighter through wrong concepts and identification. ‘I am a body’.

When this knowledge dawns directly through itself and releases the tension of body pressure through identification with thoughts your formless nature will reflect in being.

You are not body. You are formless. The body and all of the accompanying concepts and experiences are untrue.

Including this ridiculous idea of birth and death.

There is no advantage as this entire experience is completely proved false. Yet while holding the body you are able to be rid of all the concepts which cause fear, distress, worry etc.

You are not body. You are formless. There is nothing except formless You. Be Happy, Happy, Happy. You were not born, you cannot die, you cannot be cut, you cannot be burned, you cannot be destroyed. You are formless.

The body you are using to read these words is your instrument, and the thoughts that are flowing through mind at this moment, when identified with is the only bondage. Even that bondage is illusory.

Jai Sadguru!

How did you become spiritually enlightened? Can everyone do this?

You are formless Presence with belief in being a body form that creates the illusion of experience. You are not body. You are formless. Through identification with the body, which you are not, a world appears with a you in it. The world is in you, you are not in it.

As long as there is identification with being a body with a name and form, their will be confusion. This confusion creates the concept of a spiritual awakening or spiritual journey towards enlightenment.

Enlightenment is the dissolution of this false identification with a body form which has caused the illusion of separation and someone having experiences.

You are not body. You are the formless holder of the body. You are not just holding the body with the name and form which you believe to be you, you are indeed the background supporting or holding the entire manifestation.

You are formless Presence with belief in being a body, creating the illusion of experience, through the concept of duality. The instrument with name and form you are using to read these words is not you.

What is the spiritual idea that the world is one and there is one life?

This is exactly the point at which one must discover for oneself. There are still a great many assumptions in the question that was posed. You are assuming that consciousness is an individual, and although it may appear that way, investigation will reveal that this is not the case.

Again without applying logic the example of dream can be used. Your ‘body’ is laying down, unmoving, the dream is projected when the consciousness touches the sense of existence. A dream world is projected, with many objects and everything within that dream appears to be solid and real whilst you are dreaming. Who is watching this entire dream? When waking up you say I had a good dream or bad dream. Was the body dreaming? It was consciousness, without form. There is only consciousness which projects both the dream and waking world with the perspective of a you in it. Consciousness is formless.

Consciousness has appeared to you. That is why it is rightly said that the concept of birth is the feeling of existence or ‘I am’, and the concept of death is the disappearance of the sense of existence or ‘I am’. The one to whom both of these appear and disappear is prior to the sense of existence as they both have appeared to you.

Nothing you have ever known, seen or done is true as it has appeared within consciousness, which has appeared to you.

You are not body. You are formless. There is nothing except formless you. All body based experiences are illusion, all body based relations are illusion, all body based knowledge and concepts are illusion. You are not body. You are formless.

You must sit quietly and discover this truth for yourself, using the instrument of body and the concept of duality, to discover your non-dual reality.

How did you know when you met your guru, he was the one for you?

I met my Guru first as a sense of Presence, which guided me to itself in the form of Sri Ramakant Maharaj, whose Guru was Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj. This Presence in the from of Sri Ramakant Maharaj stated clearly, ‘You are not body, you are formless Presence. The Presence which is speaking in this body, and the Presence which is listening in that body, are one and the same. “ Presence removed both bodies and remained.

If a person touches the state of enlightenment, how will he lead the rest of his life?

Once you realize that you are formless, body-less, birth-less, deathless, eternal outside of the concept of time. Live fearlessly in this form based illusion with the knowledge that you are not body, you were not body and you are not going to remain the body. There is nothing except formless you.

Enjoy, relax, no struggle, no worry, no strife, being fully alive in each moment, then letting that moment go without regret until the body you are using to enter into the form illusion is no longer capable of sustaining your formless Presence.

Some spiritual traditions say that everyone is already enlightened and nothing needs to be done. If this is true, then why are the behaviors of ordinary people or society so vastly different and inconsistent with the qualities of a realized sage?

Formless Presence That you are discards the false belief of being a body and realizes the unreality of the concept of separation. Formless Presence That You Are is always, was always and will always be, formless. The concept of being a form in a world is just an illusion due to the formless Presence identifying with being a body, which you are not, were not, and never could be.

It is due to this belief in being a body in a world that the concepts of enlightenment, birth, death, life appear to you. Once true understanding is directly experienced these false beliefs will be discarded.

According to Advaita Vedanta, is there a real and everlasting you?

You are not body. You are formless. Formless you does not have a beginning or an end, as there is no concept of time. Time came along with the body which you are not. You are prior to every experience, even the experience of existence or ‘I am’. This feeling of ‘I am’ or ‘I exist’ has appeared to That which was there prior to knowing this feeling of existence or ‘I am’. This ‘I am’ has appeared to you. This is called the birth of time. Within this span of time their is the appearance of things, you are not a thing. Things appear due to this knowledge of ‘I exist’ or “I am’, which has appeared to you.

You are not body. You are formless. As this appearance of ‘I am’ or ‘I exist’ is fleeting, everything that is known that has come along with it is illusory in nature. Every thing that is known, everything that is seen, every experience that has ever been registered is absolutely illusion.

When your Presence attached with a body form the consciousness took a snapshot from the perspective of being an object in time and space and from this wrong perspective began interpreting the ‘world’. You are not in the world, the world is within you.

A similar experience occurs within the dream state, a dream world is projected with a you in it. In reality the dream is within you, not you in it. Due to the false impression of being a body form the consciousness which creates the dream world, creates the so-called waking world. Their is only one consciousness which appeared spontaneously with the feeling ‘I exist’ or ‘I am’. As this feeling ‘I am’ is illusory, everything that appeared along with it is illusory.

The one to whom the feeling ‘I exist’ and the spontaneous projections of consciousnesses appeared is the Reality, That You Are.

Where can a person get a meditation mantra for free?

Soham. Breathe in So. Exhale Ham. This is a powerful Mantra. This Mantra is now given to you by Your most Supreme highest Self in one form, to your most Supreme Highest Self in another form, to remind you of your true formless nature. Take this as Absolute Truth. Do not allow the mind to come in and distract you with thoughts of who is this? Is this real? This Mantra is not working. Etc. I the Supreme Self am conveying this Mantra to you the Supreme Self. Know yourself in a real sense. You are not body. You are formless. This Soham Mantra will remind you of your true formless nature, then there can be no separation.

Lately, I’ve been feeling like I’m not the mind or the body. I know this is spiritual development, but I’m 20 years old and no one around me feels like their body is a vessel. Is this normal and where do I go next spiritually?

This ‘I’ which knows it is not the body or the mind, with what does it identify? To whom does the label ‘I’ belong? Who knows this feeling of the body being a vessel? You are the formless holder of the body, from what position is this known?

When this formless holder of the body is identified perfectly there will be no place from which to form questions, as there will be nothing to be known. The formless knowledge which knows the appearance of the seeming form based ‘reality’ spontaneous understanding That You Are.

There is no next, there is no time. Time, next, others, body, world, experience came along with the body, which are not, were not and never could be.

How do I kill my ego for once and for all?

You are not body. You are formless. Ego came along with the body, which you are not. The belief in being a body created the false appearance of separation which allowed the impression that there was an ego. You are not body. You are formless. There is nothing except formless you.

Does one find the truth, or does the truth find the one?

You are the Truth. You need only remove the false. Their are many different paths to this same end, and in the end there is no path as there was only the illusion of the false appearing true.

I am that which watches this, yet I am interested and attached to this. Why is that?

Because the concept of separation has not yet been proved in your own experience as illusion. You are not body. You are formless. There is no experience. The illusion of experience is impressed through the belief in being a body form. This one that watches with interest is watching from the wrong perspective of being a body form in a world. All of the thoughts that are based on body experience and body knowledge are believed to be ‘my thoughts’.

You are not body you are formless. Thoughts dance across the screen of mind and with your wrong identification of being a body form you buy those thoughts. Then the concept of how to get rid of all these thoughts becomes a source of struggle and distraction. Because you believe you are a body form, you desire other forms for the form you take yourself to be. This is attachment.

Attachment will dissolve the moment you realize your true formless nature. You will no longer be carried away, distracted or interested in any thing particular, as you will firmly know you are not a thing.

Even the concept of the observer will dissolve as their will be nothing ‘other’ that requires active observing. The entire form based illusory appearances are completely false and based solely on ignorance of oneself.

Identify yourself perfectly, using body while it is available. You are the formless holder of the body. All body based experience and knowledge is illusion as it appears and disappears within That You Are.

Do “you” lose all fears once you get enlightened?

You are not body. You are formless. Dissolution of the concept of separation due to belief in being a body is labeled ‘enlightenment’. As you have realized your true formless nature, their is no place for fear to rest. Their is no mind created projections that draw attention unnecessarily from passing phenomena. The objects that appear and disappear no longer seem disturbing, as it is fully realized that you are formless. Their is nothing except formless you. With the belief in separation dissolved and proved untrue, there is nothing except You. Who is to fear? What is there to fear? What can possibly effect the formlessness That You Are. Of course if you are not living the ‘enlightenment’ and it is still just an intellectual understanding than fear is certain, and will be justified by all sorts of conceptual nonsense that will need defending.

How did you find your spiritual teacher?

A sense of Presence came through the concept of seeking. A desire to surrender arose from the sense of Presence. The sense of Presence seemed to grow as more attention was paid to That than to anything else. This sense of Presence led this body to another body in which it said “You are not body.” Presence recognizing Presence using objects appearing within Presence.

Why do we say, “I have a body” and not, “I am a body”?

For the same reason you say ‘I have a car’ and not ‘I am my car’. The body is an instrument available for your use, for a limited time, it is not you. You are their prior to taking this body form, and you will be there after the body form can no longer sustain your sense of existence. You are prior to every experience, even the experience ‘I exist’.

What is a spiritual ego? Is it a by-product of more spiritual knowledge?

Ego is ‘I’ as something, rather than everything is ‘I’. The belief in being a body creates the concept of separation. The concept of separation creates the illusion of experiencing. The illusion of experiencing creates the concept of experiences. The concepts of both being a body and I am having experiences creates what we could label as ‘body knowledge’.

This ‘body knowledge’ which appeared to be gathered by the experiencer or ‘I am getting knowledge from this experience’ creates the concept of a ‘spiritual ego’.

No worries, you are not, were not and never could be a body. You are not body. You are formless. Everything that came along with the body which you are not is illusion, as you are not a body. Formless you in which forms appear and disappear has no experience as their is nothing other.

How do I control my wandering mind during meditation? I either fall asleep or my mind deviates to other unnecessary things during meditation.

It is a common misconception that a ‘wandering mind’ somehow disturbs meditation. On the contrary a wandering mind makes meditation that much easier, as you are able to discover your true position effortlessly. You are the witness to whom the wandering mind appears. You are the observer of thoughts across the screen of mind. Therefore it is known that you are outside the process of thinking.