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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.