This is the line that did it for me!! I was sitting and listening to Astavakra with my eyes closed as usual and I heard Sri Sri voice in tape say, ” When Will You Get it?” and a Big NOW flashed in my head and the concepts started to unravel…everything, and I mean everything was a concept. Nothing had any substance to it. It all vanished into thin air every time I perceived any long held ideas, spiritual principles, family, any ideas of attachment of thought or form…Everything and IMEAN EVERYTHING comes and goes. The only thing that doesn’t come and go is YOUR NATURE.
Now that doesn’t mean it’s not “real or unreal”…it just means it has no substance, it COMES & then it GOES. So that every moment of your life, thoughts, ideas, images, actions EVERYTHING that defines this life is a HAPPENING, thrown on the screen of SELF. It’s so seamless as to appear as if it were a continuous life of movement and importance, when in essence these images are just like a flip-book of images….each individual image appearing to move continuously in motion as your life’s happening. Very Unimaginably Crazy Cooool!
That’s why my Darlings, it’s time to have fun, relax with all this nonsense in your head and just flow with your life AS IS without all this guilt and remorse over your thoughts and actions…live your life FLIPPING THROUGH THE PAGES: Laughing, crying, screaming, loving, praying, yogaing, meditating, depressing, saddening, yagyaing, complaining, talking and generally causing trouble and fun all over the world and beyond!!
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(A CONVERSATION BETWEEN DVORAHJI & FRIENDS:)
DVORAHJI:
Darling ISHA, You have no idea what a silly word “enlightened” is ESPECIALLY when it’s referring to me…The word itself is so crazy, because it means that something happens to “someone” and then they are “really different” and can do different things and that its SO RIDICULOUS.
I feel like a fake when someone calls me enlightened, because it has nothing to do with me. Enlightenment is my NATURE, as it is YOURS. However my perceptions on how things work in the world and how I perceive the comings and goings of life, may be different. I May be more relaxed about my life and it’s outcome…but I am exactly like you…
This whole enlightened, guru thing and veda thing and mantra thing and spiritual thing, is another HAPPENING, another STORY in consciousness. It’s all a Happening/Story and YET – here we are…all doing the best we can to make our life the best that it can be and living the story….BUT there is ONLY THIS.”
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IVETTE:
Funny how many people wonder at some point “Am I enlightened?” “Did I make it?” Still… the enlightened just don’t bother with being there, they just enjoy being there, at that moment. And then, they continue to do everything just the same, every day…
DVORAHJI:
Those questions are just the mind talking trying to get a little respect, trying to reach some kind of goal, trying to make itself important, just doing what the mind does, which is thinking. A Happening of thoughts.
I used to think I was enlightened, and sometimes I still think I’m enlightened but SO WHAT? it changes nothing. It doesn’t make me enlightened and it doesn’t NOT make me enlightened…they are only THOUGHTS about my NATURE (that come and go). THEY ARE NOT MY NATURE. Enlightenment is my Nature (permanent) Peace is my Nature (permanent) Love is my Nature (Permanent), they don’t come & go. But thoughts ABOUT IT come & go.
My Nature, THIS- is all that’s ever happening. As a matter of fact – nothing is happening at all. THERE IS ONLY THIS. BUT it sure looks like everything’s happening doesn’t it???? and that’s the awesome mystery of it all…just astounding….now relax about your life cause everything’s Just perfect, unfortunately!!!!
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Marilyn Moyer:
that was your ah ha moment, no music or bands , etc. you just got it.
Dvorahji:
I can only speak for myself but “you get it, and then you get it again and again again until you get it’s a BIG I DONT KNOW!
It’s not like you “get anything! Because a golden carrot thought/feeling will crop up and off you go looking again, thinking you missed something, or need to know something or learn something or discover something in order to be free. People “get it” all the time, have experiences of “BEING, THEIR NATURE” all the time — and still they’re hopping from guru to guru, from satsang to satsang, course to course, wanting answers to their Nature. Hoping there will be an ending, an answer.
The hardest “concept” to get, is that everything is BEING moving and grooving and doing it’s thing all the time. Ongoing LIVENESS GOING ON AND AND ON and you are part of that ongoing LIVENESS.
All the Vedic & religious answers explanations, all the God stuff & Jesus stuff and Krishna stuff is very cool and all in this dream of LIVENESS and it’s all as real as your nose. Is your nose real? And there is no answer to that is there? It looks real doesn’t it? You breath with it don’t you? and YETTTTTTTTTTTTT it’s made of atoms and isn’t really solid at all is it? Just a bunch of ALIVENESS that has come together to make a nose, to make a head to make a Dvorah.
This life is made of WONDER, UNIMAGINABLE WONDER, and “getting it” is only the beginning of ONGOING WONDER!….doyougetit?
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Eduardo Torres
You know I don’t think I’ll ever get “it”. So I’ve stopped be preoccupied with “it” and I really don’t care anymore. Makes things much lighter don’t you know.
Dvorahji:
Well Eduardo, that means you “GOT IT”!….Now you can live you’re life and do what you do and know that you’re loved and completely taken care of…and that makes it really easy, donchathink?
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Vibha:
I wish I could get it!
Dvorahji:
@vibha…what you wish for is to be at peace with your life exactly as it shows up without always wondering if you said or did the right or wrong thing. Always wondering if you’ve made the right decision. OR what did you do to get yourself in a particular situation.
That’s really what keeps people in misery. So now I have a new mantra for you whenever you doubt your decisions or your life: Say it whenever you need it, ok?
“If my life could be different, It would be different! and since it’s not…I accept my life exactly as it is at this moment!”. OK, you got it now?…This is your new mantra. If you use it, then You’ll GET IT!…OK?
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B V Narasimha Rao
Thank you Dvorahji ,I wish to call you Mata Ananda, why because your way of explaining the spriritual concepts ,give us Bliss,only Bliss I am recieving (it is not the I usualLy thought of)
Dvorahji:
Dear BV…I think calling me Dvorah is good enough…I want my understanding to be experienced in a very “ordinary way”…very UN-special, free from extraordinary labels…I’m just a Dvorah and I’m as crazy as the next person, probably even rude-er. And if someone like me, with my eccentric personality could be at peace…SO CAN EVERYONE. But thank you, that’s sweet.
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Jerry Harvey
were you to be a sweetheart all the time there wouldn’t be any time left to be rude, bitchy ect! ❤❤
Dvorahji:
You’re right! and What fun would that be???? People don’t realize how much energy and movement there is in angry…It’s like eveyrthing else, it can be a good thing, e
specially if you’re lethargic or depressed, – a little anger & rudeness can get your blood moving again and off you go excersing and getting all worked up and happy again!………..Everythin
specially if you’re lethargic or depressed, – a little anger & rudeness can get your blood moving again and off you go excersing and getting all worked up and happy again!………..Everythin
g, AND I MEAN EVERTHING HAS GOT IT’S UP & DOWN SIDES…
If you’ve ever had a lot of bliss happening to you….it’s a relief to just feel very very very ordinary and BLAH!
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B V Narasimha Rao
Devorahji:-Your simplicity and honesty is aasking us to call as devorah is great.God has blessed you with his grace and made you as his instrument to spread spritualisam to us.It is my desire only that i called you as “Anand Maa” nothing more than that and we will call you devorahji.Namasthe.
If you fall into despair go see your Guru and have some fun OR chocolate & a funny movie are always my second answer!
Jeff Gregory
God, I love you, Dvorahji. This quote shifted my thinking. Thank you.
Yesterday at 12:33pm ·
Linda Sue Afflick
Smiles at the wisdom!
Yesterday at 2:34pm ·
Christian Zirnig
probably maybe the ulitmate truth: everything is a concept. what’s the truth behind the concept?
Yesterday at 5:41pm ·
Jeff Gregory
The pure light of bliss.
Yesterday at 6:26pm ·
Dvorahji Dvorah Adler
I think the ultimate truth is: I DON’T KNOW ANYTHING! Things appear to come & go and I know NOTHING. and you know, I really don’t know anything. I use a lot of words, I teach and describe ideas and concepts and repeat what most masters have said from my own experience or thoughts – and it certainly sounds like TRUTH…but if you ask me point blank: “What’s going On?” Let me tell you, I don’t have a clue!! All I know is everything is HAPPENING!.
I was thinking about death today, and all the BS that’s been written about it and all the answers I have from all the Gurus/teachers/psudo gurus/whoever- and all their so-called students plus all their experiences and again, if you ask me point blank, all I can say is: I DON’T KNOW, I HAVEN’T DIED. Yes I’ve had out of body experiences, (whatever that means) and yes I’m not the body (whatever that means) and so F-ing what???) I have not been completely parted from the body, I have not died and STAYED DEAD.
SO FRANkly, I’m sick of ultimate truths. Your best bet from my perspective is to live your life knowing fully that”:
1. LIFE IS A HAPPENING
2. THERE IS ONLY THIS
3. IF IT COULD BE DIFFERENT, IT WOULD BE DIFFERENT
4. LOVE IS YOUR NATURE AND IT DOESN’T COME OR GO…it “seem”s to just BE.
My game is JUST LIVE UNTIL YOU DON’T! Most of what teachers teach is just their BRAIN WORKING doing it’s thing. Some people teach math, others teach “yoga” or “advaita” and there is no F-ing difference.
Somebody learns something or other, they feel better for awhile until they don’t and then they take another class and then they feel better again until they don’t and on and on. There are so many GURUS? OR people who’ve “gotten it” and they’re still miserable waiting for their life to get enlightened OR NOT…either way they KNOW NOTHING.
One teacher on facebook, told me he’s the ONE IN A MILLION WHO GOT IT (according to Ramana) and insulted me to boot!! Good for you, now SHUT UP and sit in your enlightened loin cloth! How does that help seekers? How will that help anyone feel better about their life and live without all these regrets and unhappiness?
NO ONE KNOWS THE ULTIMATE TRUTH, AT LEAST I DON’T….there is NO indication anywhere THAT THERE IS AN ULTIMATE TRUTH…NONE.
Live your life until you don’t, meanwhile SHUT UP (fall silent naturally) AND BE AS HAPPY AS YOU CAN!
Yesterday at 8:59pm ·
Lorie Milich
Right on Dvorahji!
Yesterday at 10:18pm ·
Linda Sue Afflick
Exactly!
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Mikey Roland
thats kinda what happened to me too..
2 hours ago ·
Tanbir Kabarwal
I so loved this and especially reading this one…
” want my understanding to be experienced in a very “ordinary way”…very UN-special, free from extraordinary labels…I’m just a Dvorah and I’m as crazy as the next person” – Dvorahji
no wonder you work so well for me !! just …natural
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