Real Wholeness! Everything else is a complete and total lie.

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Real Wholeness! Everything else is a complete and total lie.

 

06/03/2002

AEGTC, Switzerland 1976:

 

"Maharishi, these experiences I've had over

the past six months have been glimpses of

enlightenment for me. I had a tremendous

awakening experience before I started TM,

but due to the circumstances, I feel a little

shy about telling it in the group." I then sent

him a thought message that I would relate my

"experience" and not the "circumstances."

 

Maharishi paused for a moment to think

about what I'd just said.

 

"It'll be all right to tell it," he said finally,

in a thoughtful sort of way.

 

"Maharishi, you've said that for every

state of consciousness there is a separate,

corresponding state of reality. Waking

state has its reality, dream state has

its reality, and deep sleep is another reality."

 

"Yes."

 

"You've taught us that transcendental

consciousness is a fourth state of

consciousness?a fourth reality that

is the underlying reality of all life."

 

"Yes."

 

"And you've taught that cosmic

consciousness is a higher state of

reality, because one never loses

consciousness of the transcendent

even during waking, dreaming and sleeping."

 

"Yes."

 

"You've also said that God consciousness

and unity consciousness are even deeper

states of reality; so we have all these

states of consciousness and all these

states of corresponding realities."

 

Maharishi said "yes" this time in a somewhat

impatient way, as if to convey, "Get to the point,

where are you going with this?"

 

I'd been feeling an almighty power rise

up inside of me as I asked Maharishi each

one of these questions, because I was

consciously setting him up?to refute all

that he had just said. I knew he knew the

truth, but I wanted him to come out with

it in a way he had never done before.

It was time for us to stop playing

around like little children at his feet,

and elicit from him the real truth.

A great rage suddenly ripped through my chest,

burning the lie in my heart. I wanted

Maharishi to kill it right then and there,

for all time.

 

"Maharishi, in the experience of wholeness

I had before I started TM, what you've

just said that basically reality is different

in different states of consciousness,

is a total lie! What I experienced one

night five years ago, is that there is

only one reality, has always been one

reality, and will forever be one reality!

EVERYTHING ELSE IS A COMPLETE AND TOTAL LIE!"

 

"YES! YES! YES!" Maharishi loudly proclaimed.

With each "YES," his fist came down on the

table, "Bang, Bang, Bang!" Never had

I seen him respond so powerfully.

It was as if the "Hammer of God"

was slamming that table. He then exclaimed

loudly, "This is real wholeness!

I don't want to hear anything but experiences

of real wholeness! Continue with your experience."

 

"What I discovered in my experience,

Maharishi, was that the personality

I know as Jay Latharn is a complete, fictitious lie.

There is only one Being, God.

Everything else, even the 'reality' of

God consciousness, is an illusion.

It's just like Shankara said."

 

"Now this is the real experience of wholeness!"

Maharishi proclaimed excitedly.

 

"What happened is that I had an experience

in which I went through all of the states

of consciousness. When I hit cosmic

consciousness I closed my eyes to meditate

and witnessed creation in the flow of soma

out of the bindu point between my eyes.

Everything shot out of that point, in stereo?

whatever came out on the left came out on

the right. I saw the mechanics of creation.

It was the most amazing sight I ever saw.

After that I started having celestial

perception with my eyes open."

 

I then briefly explained the major

points of my experiencethe jewels I'd seen

in the ceiling and how things were

constructed of light rays created from God's mind?

how I walked and moved through a cosmic plasma that

erased the force of gravity, etc. Maharishi was

paying close attention to what I was saying, and

having his attention on me like this was like

having God Almighty bum the lie right out of my heart.

The longer I held his attention, the more

enlightened I got. Yes, lie had closely

followed rny progress for the past

six months and given me a lot of attention,

but this moment was the greatest I'd ever had with him.

 

I continued relating to Maharishi the

progressive stages of rny awakening;

how I had felt the presence of God in

everything and how everything I perceived

became the "artwork of the Creator"

(Maharishi's descriptive words for

sensory experiences in the state of God consciousness).

I told him of my insights into God revealing to man

the blueprints for a more comfortable life

on earth throughout the centuries, and

how I went from God consciousness into

Unity Consciousness and perceived God

looking back at me in every object that

came within my primary line of vision.

 

"Everything I looked at seemed to disappear.

It was as if every object I looked at

became a mirror with the Ancient Knower

staring into the depths of my soul.

Objects were transformed into the

Mind of God. It was as if holes of

Reality were being cut into the celestial

heavenly world I had ascended to in God

consciousness. The experience grew until

I woke up. I realized Jay Latham was a

fictitious lie, had never existed, and

that there was only One Being, One Mind.

Time ceased to exist, because it was a lie too.

 

"That is called `the Great Awakening,"'

Maharishi said, excitedly.

"This is the true experience of wholeness."

 

"Maharishi, the experience of nonduality

was so strong that my intellect burned up.

For my whole life I've always seen

everything as distinctly different from

everything else. In this experience,

my intellect reversed its role and

perceived everything to be the same.

I could look at another person and

see only my Self looking back at myself.

I looked at the wall and saw my

Self looking back into my soul.

There was nothing left to learn;

I'd come to the end of knowledge

and learning.

The knowledge of Only One burned

like blue fire in my body. That knowledge

was so final, so obliterating to everything

I'd ever known that I wanted to drop my body.

 

"You'd already dropped the body

at that time," Maharishi interrupted.

"The body is dropped in Brahman Consciousness."

 

"But I couldn't function at all.

The knowledge was so great, so annihilating,

that I was flat on my back."

 

Up to this point Maharishi was visibly

excited about my experience. He knew that

I knew , or had known, the final truth

about reality. And now I knew that he was

the reality because he confirmed my experience

with total conviction. I had never doubted

my experience because Brahman Consciousness

is what Maharishi calls "self-validating knowledge."

 

It can't be taught; it can only be experienced;

I'd read about it in the book, Love and God,

that Maharishi wrote, so I knew of his own

realization. But as a disciple on the path,

verbal confirmation by the true Master is

not only important, it is inherent in the

Vedic Tradition of India that Maharishi

comes from, because it plays such a vital

role in the disciple's life. Since I'd had

only a temporary experience of reality,

it was thrilling for me to speak with

Maharishi like this. Maharishi had

confirmed and verified that I had

had a genuine vision of the goal."

 

Now I saw Maharishi in a whole new light,

beyond the master-disciple roles we

normally took. He usually looked at me,

lovingly, as a grandfather looks at a grandchild.

But now, after I had revealed to him that

I had an experience of seeing through the lie,

he looked at me gratefully. When I said

that I was "flat on my back," he went into a

soft reverie and very tenderly confided to me

something of his own personal awakening,

something nom, of us had ever heard before.

 

"It's only like that for the first couple of days.

One is flat on the back for that time.

But then, after a few days one begins to do

little things, move around some. And then,

as time passes, one does a little bit more

and a little bit more. After some weeks or months,

one can function fully in Brahman Consciousness

and that is the greatest experience of all."

 

He was laughing when he finished saying this.

We were all moved to hear

Maharishi share his personal experience with us;

you could have heard a pin drop in the room.

No one was struggling anymore -

the competition for attention was

momentarily suspended.

Everyone was holding their breath to

see what would happen next."

 

Source:

"Galaxy of Fire" By Jay Latham, Sunstar, 2000, p. 258-263.

Available at 21st Century Books, Fairfield, IA; http://www.21stbooks.com