NMT (No-Me Teaching) new series 18:

Prior to excerpting the other Ramana Maharshi disciple in the text below we continue the series: Fine-Tuned Universe 11, the premise that a small change in several of the dimensionless fundamental physical constants would make the Universe incapable of Life.

Fine-Tuned Universe 11:

[In the unreal reflection called the "Universe", a product of an unreal Mind, even there, Infinite Intelligence is evident and inspiring.]

"It may be necessary for the Universe to have the enormous size and complexity which modern Astronomy has revealed, in order for the Earth to be possible habitation for living beings."                             Eric Mascall

Large Numbers:

Eminent Physicists such as Paul Dirac  & Arthur Eddington essentially embarrassed themselves in the eyes of their peers when they dabbled in a virtual numerological fascination with coincidental relationships that could be drawn between fundamental constants in Physics. A more contemporary set of insights began with Robert Dicke’s early 1960’s studies of Einstein’s Gravity and the constant G.  His early deduction was that the Dirac–Eddington large numbers: 10⁴⁰, 10⁸⁰,  & 10¹²⁰ related to the number of particles in the Universe (Eddington claimed the number of Protons was 10⁸⁰). Indeed and there was a WAP Weak Anthropic Principle (as it was later termed by Brandon Carter) “backwards” dependence on the existence of Intelligent Life. The numbers of particles and related size of the Universe would over the course of Time range from far less to far more than we see today. And yet the large number coincidences include Time  & Size:

present Universe temperature in terms of Planck Temperature           –          10^–30

present Universe age in Planck Time-units                                         –          10⁶⁰

present Universe size in Planck Length-units                                      –          10⁶⁰

present Universe mass in Planck Mass-units                                       –          10⁶⁰

present Universe density in terms of Planck Density                           –          10^–120

Needless to say, however valid the striking “round-number” quality of the numbers, this must rely on our arbitrary decimal 10-base system for values and ratios of this sort. Unless we want to include 10-digit anatomy into the Anthropic Principle basket, not much can be made of this. The narrow-range coincidences that followed these early speculations have more potential significance. Then again the run of 10⁶⁰’s in 3 of the Planck units have some relative impact, as well as the fact that square root of (1/10⁶⁰) yields the Temperature term, while the square yields the Density term.

An earlier Universe could not have supported Life, nor could a much older Universe. For the former scenario, Billions of years of Main Star sequence are required by Stellar nucleo-synthesis for heavier (than Helium) life-critical elements C, N, O, and P. Numerous more complex, anthropic, narrow-range, coincidental requirements further append, such as Neutrino characteristics and availability as just one aspect of super-nova dispersion of those heavier elements. For the latter issue, our Sun for instance will “soon” (in cosmic Time) grow too cold for Life on Earth even as a Red Giant our Sun expands to engulf the Earth.

So the fact that we are here today to discuss the matter “necessitates” that the numbers we see today are as they are. This Goldilocks fit between ourselves and our “nest” could alternatively be described in terms of the age of the Universe, the value of fundamental force parameters, the nature of the Big Bang, and so on. Thus the incredible coincidences we see in Physics do “depend” on us because unless they happen to be what they are, we wouldn’t be here to discuss it all. As to how such “coincidences” (including many more amazing ones to be soon mentioned) can be understood in Probability, 3 options remain:

            1) sheer freak – Chance

            2) kazillions of other universes exhibit all possible combinations, and we simple are in the one, or one of those that permit Intelligent Life a – Multi–Verse ensemble

            3) the game is fixed –  Intelligent Design by a deity or cosmic intelligence, advanced alien fabricating physically or virtually in a computer simulation, those later  aliens possibly some Future physical beings (other than our virtual descendents).

            Naturally, from these 3 alternatives we find 3 camps: the apathetic skeptic who accepts the long odds without further curiosity; the spatial or serially temporal Multi-Verse & Many Worlds speculators (isn’t that asking a lot, a kazillion unprovable universes?); those who insist Design must remain on the table and cannot be rejected, out of hand, due to personal bias.

            Similar as it is to previous speculations by Dirac, Eddington, and others, Dicke’s calculated prime-time star-life, supporting Life and supporting more of a rationale, proceeded as:

            t^*   @    (h c/G M_p²) (h/ M_p c² )   @   10⁴⁰  x  10^–23  sec   @  10 Billion yrs

Dicke’s insight totally turned around the many critics of Dirac  &  Eddington linking of the “large numbers” with current age of the Universe. This seemed so arbitrary to Physicists like Edward Milne who saw no special uniqueness in our own Time. Nor did Dicke validate the Dirac –Eddington misapplication of the Universe’s current age, but instead put the Anthropic coincidence on a solid basis, while at the same time setting the stage for others to carefully scrutinize nucleo-synthesis in super-novae  &  earlier all the way back to the Big Bang. From investigations of this sort many truly narrow-range coincidences did come to light.

So we are throw back to the hypothesis that 10⁴⁰ is simply the largest number the almighty God could write during the 1^st Day of Creation. an atheist satire from jokester George Gamow,

Some more selected verses from the other Maharshi disciple:

The Self is Peace and Happiness. Realizing Peace and Happiness within you is the true realization of the Self. You cannot distinguish between Peace. Happiness, and the Self. They are not separate aspects. You have this idea that Peace and Happiness is within you, so you make some effort to find it there, but at the moment it is still only an idea for you. So, ask yourself, "To whom does this idea come ?  Who has this idea ?"  You must pursue this line if you want to have the idea replaced by the experience. Peace is not an idea, nor is it something that comes and goes. We are always That. So, remain as That. You have no Birth and no Death, no bondage and no freedom. It is perpetual Peace, and it is free from all ideas. The "I am the Body" idea is what is concealing it. This is what has to go.

The idea "I am the Body" is not there during sleep. Everyone enjoys sleeping, and the reason we enjoy it is because there are no thoughts there. It is the

there during sleep. Everyone enjoys sleeping, and the reason we enjoy it is because there are no thoughts there. It is the thoughts that arise subsequently that cause us all our trouble. There is no separate entity during sleep because no thought has arisen to create the image of one. When waking comes, this first rising thought, ‘I am the body’, brings separation, doubts 72 and confusion. If you can be without it in the waking state there will be_ the knowledge, ‘I am Ramana, I am Arunachala. Everything is myself.‘ Ram, Krishna, etc., are all you. It isjust this limiting ‘I am the body’ thought that keeps this knowledge, this awareness from you. In the waking state, the jnani has no limiting thoughts, no ego that identifies with a name and a fonn. His state is crystal clear. Ramana Bhagavan had no ego, no limiting thoughts, which is why he knew himself to be this peace, this happiness.

Grace is always present, always available, but for it to be effective, one must be in a state to receive it and make full use of it. If you want to take a full cup of water from

a lake, you have fully to immerse the cup first. If you want to fill your mind with grace, submerge it fully in the Self. In that place the Grace will manifest in you as Peace and Happiness.

"When the sun comes up, does darkness disappear suddenly or gradually ?" Bhagavan, speaking on this topic, once remarked: "Someone mistakes a rope hanging in the darkness for a snake. He then asks how many years it will take for the snake to die."  If the Mind does not exist, it cannot die either quickly or slowly.

All the information the Mind accumulates & all the experiences it collects are ignorance, false knowledge.  Real knowledge cannot be found in the Mind or in any external location.  Don't be interested in the words that the Mind is serving up for you.  It is putting them there to tempt you into a stream of thoughts that will take you away from the Self.  You have to ignore them all & focus on the light that is shining within you.

The substratum upon which the false idea of the Mind has been superimposed is the Self.  When you see the Mind, the Self, the underlying substratum, is not seen. It is hidden by a false but persistent idea.  And conversely, when the Self is seen there is no Mind.

This habit of believing the 'I am the body' idea has become very strong because you have reinforced & strengthened it over many lifetimes.  This will go if you meditate on your real Self.  The habit will melt away, like ice becoming water.

The Mind only gets dissolved in the Self by constant practice.  At the moment the, 'I am the body' idea disappears, just as darkness disappears when the Sun rises.

The body is not the Self; the Mind is not the Self. The real 'I' is the Self, & nothing ever happens to or affects the Self.

The above themes & 1600 pages more are freely available as perused or downloaded PDF’s, the sole occupants of a Public Microsoft Skydrive “Public Folder” accessible through:  

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NMT (No-Me Teaching) new series 16:

Prior to excerpting the other Ramana Maharshi disciple in the text below we continue the series: Fine-Tuned Universe 9, the premise that a small change in several of the dimensionless fundamental physical constants would make the Universe incapable of Life.

Fine-Tuned Universe 9:

[In the unreal reflection called the "Universe", a product of an unreal Mind, even there, Infinite Intelligence is evident and inspiring.]

Most scientists (as Atheists) favor Multi-Verses. They only ask: "What sorts could there be ? And how might their existence help us to understand those Life-supporting features of our own Universe, that would otherwise appear to be just very fortuitous coincidences ?"  These questions are not ultimately matters of opinion or idle speculation. Multi-Verses are thought to be necessary for an underlying "Theory of Everything" TOE that would join Gravity to the GUT Grand Unified Theory of the other 3 Forces: Strong & Weak Nuclear & Electro-Magnetic.

A TOE may require many properties of the Universe to have been selected at random, by Symmetry Breaking, from a large collection of possibilities [Multi-Verse, dubiously supported by "iffy" observations of the COBE and WMAP satellites]. The Universe’s Vacuum State may be far from unique.

Inflationary Cosmological models contains many apparent "coincidences" that may allow the Universe to support complexity & Life. If we were to consider a Multi-Verse of all possible Universes, then our observed Universe appears special in many ways. Modern Quantum Mechanics provides ways in which these possible Universes that make up the Multi-Verse of all possibilities can actually exist.

Once you take seriously that all possible Universes can or do exist, then a slippery slope opens up before you. It has long been recognized that technical civilizations, only a little more advanced than ourselves, will have the capability to simulate [VR] Universes in which self-conscious entities can emerge & communicate with one another. They would have computer power that differed from ours by a vast factor [as in interactive VR simulations like The Matrix movie]. Instead of merely simulating their weather or the formation of Galaxies, like we do, they would be able to go further and watch the appearance of Stars and Planetary systems. Then, having coupled the rules of Biochemistry into their Astronomical simulations they would be able to watch the evolution of Life & Consciousness – ???? I doubt that), all speeded up to occur on whatever timescale was convenient for them [like micro-seconds ].

Just as we watch the Life cycles of fruit flies they would be able to follow the Evolution of Life, watch Civilizations grow and communicate with each other, argue about whether there existed a Great Programmer in the Sky who created their Universe and who could intervene at will in defiance of the laws of Nature they habitually observed.

Once this capability to fully simulate a Universe is achieved, fake Universes [including "nostalgia" Universes set in our own time] will proliferate and will soon greatly outnumber the real ones. Thus, Nick Böstrom has argued that a thinking being, here and now, is more likely to be in a simulated "nostalgia" Universe reality than in a real Universe. Motivated by this alarming conclusion, here have even been suggestions as how best to conduct ourselves if we have a high probability of being simulated beings in a simulated reality. [Qualified Non-Duality says much the same.]

Some suggest that you should act so as to increase the chances of continuing to exist in the simulation or of being "re-simulated" [dreaded Re-incarnation ???] in the Future.

"If you might be living in a simulation then all else equal you should care less about others, live more for today, make your World look more likely to become rich, expect to & try more to participate in pivotal events, be more entertaining & praiseworthy, & keep the famous people around you happier & more interested in you." [Sounds like a fair description of an inflated Ego – the opposite to the goal of Non-Duality & Liberation from the false notion of any Ego.]

In response, Paul Davies has argued that this high probability of living in a simulated reality is a reductio ad absurdum for the whole idea that Multi-Verses of all possibilities exist. It would undermine our hopes of acquiring any sure knowledge about the Universe.

[Actually, Nick Böstrom's thesis does not require a Multi-Verse at all.  Rather it suggests a different kind of "Multi-Verse" within our own one singular Universe, our own World, planet Earth. All that is required is going past Ray Kurzweil's so-called Singularity where Technology & augmented IQ of the Elite has advanced to allow simulations like & beyond "The Matrix" movie. Simulated Multi-Verses can be created but no physical Multi-Verse is required for a Bayesian-like Probability to make our existence as Simulations the most probable.] Next time: more on the Davies abjection & Simulated Universes.

Some more selected verses from the other Maharshi disciple:

You stumble around in the darkness of your Mind, not knowing that you have a torch in your hand. That light is the Light of the Self. Switch it on and leave it on and you will never stumble again. You are all here because there is a desire in you to realize the Self. This desire does not arise randomly or accidentally in some people and not in others. It is there because of the punyas you have accumulated from previous births, punyas that may have come from meditation, charitable works, and so on. These punyas will manifest as a desire for freedom, a desire to do earnest sadhana, a. desire to find a good teacher in whose presence the Truth will be taught and revealed. If someone is destined to be a jnani in this life, it means that he has come to this final birth with a mountain of punyas to his credit. These punyas will take him to a real Guru, to a real Satsang, and in this environment he will do sadhana and achieve the goal. If one does not have this mountain of punyas from the Past, there will be no desire for Freedom, no desire to look for a Guru who can deliver it. Such a person may meet a Guru and that Guru may even give him good advice, but the determined resolve to put that advice into effect will not be there.

The fierce determination to succeed and the Discrimination that allows one to ignore Worldly entanglements only arise in those who have accumulated these punyas. Other people may hear the words of truth, but although they accept that they are true, the inclination to act on them will not be there.

Wet wood does not catch fire easily, but if you dry it for a long time in the Sun it will be much more combustible. Other materials such as camphor, gasoline, kerosene and gunpowder will ignite as soon as they are touched by a flame. Devotees can be classified in the same way: some ignite as soon as they meet a Guru or hear the truth for the first time; others need a period of drying out before they are ready to catch fire. Those who are damp or wet can dry themselves out by sadhana, by having a strong determination to be aware of the Self at all times. Self is readily available all the time but we cannot be aware of it or even put our attention on the thought of it because our vasanas are continuously leading our interest and attention in other directions. That is why it is so important to have the awareness, "I am not the Mind. I am the Self." You have forcibly to drag your wandering attention back to the Self each time it shows an interest in going anywhere else. Don’t be interested in the words that the Mind is serving up for you. It is putting them there to tempt you into a stream of thoughts that will take you away from the Self. You have to ignore them all and focus on the Light that is shining within you. When I was serving Bhagavan in the 1930's and 40's, I obeyed only him. For me, he was the Light, and everything else was the chattering Mind trying to lead me astray. I ignored the words and advice of everyone else in the Ashram and kept all my attention on Bhagavan and his instructions to me.

If there is no external Light such as Bhagavan to guide you, you have to look within to find the Self. You will not benefit from looking anywhere else, from doing anything else, or from listening to any other voice. Walking round and round a temple, doing rituals to a deity — activities like these will not bring you any nearer to the Self. The pujas, the japas, the rituals - these are just for beginners. Meditation is the syllabus in a higher class. We need not waste our time by indulging in the activities of the infant class again and again. Here, in this class, l ask you to put all your attention, all your interest on realising the final teaching: "I am not the Body or the Mind. I am the Self. All is the Self." This is Bhagavan’s Final teaching. Nothing more needs to be added to it. Keep good company while you pursue this Knowledge and all will be well.

You must believe the Guru and you must also believe your own experience because the Gum is not telling you to add another belief to your Mind. He is instead telling you to look at your own experience of yourself, and in doing so, disregard everything else.

Ram Tirtha used to tell of a man who was a little mad lived in a small village with his wife. His friends liked to tease him and make fun of him because they all thought he was stupid. One day, one of them said, "We have some bad news for you. Your wife has become a widow." He believed them and started crying out in grief, "My wife has become a widow! My wife has become a widow!" Some of the people he passed on the street laughed at him and said, "Why are you mourning ? You are very much alive. How can your wife be a widow if you yourself are alive to complain about it ?" "My closest friends have told me this," he replied, "and I trust them. They are very reliable people. If they are saying that my wife has become a widow, it must be true." We would think that a man who behaved like this was utterly stupid because he chose to believe the words of others instead of his own experience.

But are we any better ? We believe, on the basis of indirect information provided by the Senses, that we are the Body. The experience of "I am", of the Self, is present in all of us, but when the mischievous Senses gang up on us and try to make us believe something that is patently untrue, we believe them and ignore our direct experience. Then we grieve about our State, lamenting, "I am bound; I am unenlightened; I am not free." And even when the Guru comes along and says, "You are the Self. You are free. Why do you insist on believing this misinformation that the mischievous senses are giving you ?", still you do not believe the truth. You tell him, "The Senses have always given me reliable information in the past. I have learned to trust them. What they |tell me must be true."

And so you go on grieving and complaining, even when your direct experience and the words of the Guru agree with each other and reveal the truth.

The above themes & 1600 pages more are freely available as perused or downloaded PDF’s, the sole occupants of a Public Microsoft Skydrive “Public Folder” accessible through:  

www.jpstiga.com/

http://jstiga.wixsite.com/nonduality/

or with Caps-sensitive:

http://sdrv.ms.YPOgkX/

Duplicates (but with graphics) have been available on:

jstiga.wordpress.com/

[But from now on, they will be different & still usually daily.]

NMT (No-Me Teaching) new series 14:

                                                                                       Annamalai Swami 

You have to make an enormous effort to realize the self.  It is very easy on the way to stop and fall back into ignorance.  At any moment you can fall back you have to make a strong determined ever to remain on the peak when you 1st reach it, but eventually a time will come when you are fully est. in the self.  When that happens, you cannot fall.                     Annamalai Swami

100 Billion
[for a while, the following will preface all these blogs – so please skip over if seen before]
In order to hint at how serious this Blog is, let the author unequivocally state that the Knowledge here imparted, none of it original, none to be credited to the author, that Knowledge is THE MOST VALUABLE treasure that exists. If hypothetically offered 100 Billion dollars to forgo this Knowledge, that offer or any other would be disregarded in the blink of an eye.  Even with all the good that might be accomplished with $100B, this Knowledge is beyond the World & comes from beyond the Mind. This is no hyperbole.

Prior to excerpting the other Ramana Maharshi disciple in the text below we continue the series: Fine-Tuned Universe 7, the premise that a small change in several of the dimensionless fundamental physical constants would make the Universe incapable of Life.

Fine-Tuned Universe 7:

[In the unreal reflection called the "Universe", a product of an unreal Mind, even there, Infinite Intelligence is evident and inspiring.]

Barrow & Tipler stated that the Anthropic Principle seemingly "imposes" a "selection effect" on the Universe.  The ancient Greek Sage, the yearly Eleatic philosopher Parmenides suggested a Multi-Verse to interpret the subjective element of Sense Perception. Like many Eleatic ideas, the Multi-Verse speculation found its way into later Philosophy schools, most famously the Eleatic-Zeno Dialectic "elenchus" method, the Platonic Academy & Aristotle's Peripatetic Lyceum.

Barrow& Tipler referred to a number of groups of anthropic principles including the Weak Anthropic Principles (WAP) & the Strong Anthropic Principle (SAP).  That Strong Anthropic Principle (SAP).in turn, had at least 3 different interpretations. Common to these principles and their interpretations is the idea that human beings must be "constituents" in any Cosmology that human beings might theorize.  Of the 3 SAP interpretations, Barrow and Tipler divide "Purposive" arguments into 2 types, called

Teleological arguments and Eutaxio-Logical arguments. Neither is given much credence outside religious circles, and certainly not in mainstream Science. The one Teleological argument was further divided into 2 kinds: those of Anthropocentrism & Finalism.

The Anthropocentric assumption held that each thing has our benefit as its purpose.  Contrariwise, Teleological & Finalistic arguments saw  all entities (including human beings) as having some Ultimate Purpose,

Eutaxio-logical arguments are the standard Intelligent Design arguments, such as "Paley's Watch" whereby such a fantastically Fine-Tuned Universe had ti be made by Somebody.  Such weighed heavily, Cause & Effect. Causality claimed that order has to have some resulting Purpose.

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Of the other Anthropic Principles, the "weak" WAP's hold that values of all physical and cosmological quantities take on values restricted by the requirement that there exist sites where Carbon-based Life can evolve and by the requirement that the Universe

be old enough for it to have already done so. Those necessary conditions, if occurring, accommodate those conditions that will account naturally for our being here.

Such  WAP's have the same sort of self-evidence that "I exist" & have been mistaken for Tautologies, that is, redundantly obvopius "equations" like "X  =  X". What we must discover about Stars & Galaxies, the development of the heavier elements from Hydrogen & Helium, Stellar life-times, the Age & Size of the Universe, etc. are all "conditioned" by the fact of our being here.

The stellar production of Beryllium from Helium, & of Carbon from Helium & Beryllium caused Fred Hoyle to predict lize that unless Carbon resonated extremely close to about 7.7 MeV, [as mentioned in an earlier Blog]. Much less Carbon would have been produced  observed to exist & Carbon-based Life could not have evolved). Hoyle and others then proved the predicted resonance. proof, prediction itself holds some weight on Science.  But Barrow & Tipler claimed that the extremely close fit "confirmed a WAP, Weak Anthropic Principle."

Some more selected verses from the other Maharshi disciple:

Constant meditation is the only way. If you bring the light into your room, the darkness immediately goes away. You have to see that the light is not put out. It has to be continuously burning so that there is no darkness. Until you get firmly established in the Self, you have to continue with your meditation. Doubts take possession of you only if you forget yourself.

When you forget the state of being yourself, then is the time to Inquire, "Who forgets the Self‘ ?"  "Who is in doubt ?"  "Who is having the confusion ?"  Inquire in this way. Discard all that is not you and come back to yourself.

Give up all your desires, your likes, dislikes and preferences. If you are truly the whole, which part of yourself will you like or dislike ?

If a disciple serves a Guru, the Guru does not gain anything from it, but the disciple, by his service, becomes purified and fit to receive the Truth. A ship may be taking you to the other shore of the ocean, but the ship itself is not gaining anything from you.

At the same time the Guru resides within us as the Unmanifest Self. From the inside, he is pulling us towards him. This pushing and pulling is the Guru’s Grace. For the Guru’s Grace to work on us, we have to Surrender. We have to give up all the things of this World, and all other Worlds, and direct all our attention towards the Self.  If we want anything in this World or the next, our energy will be dispersed in these desires, and to fulfill these desires we shall have to reborn again and again.

Don’t forget your Self wherever you go. If you can manage this, you will not need anything else.

"What you are really looking for is you yourself. You cannot achieve success in this by going on external searches because you yourself are the one that is being looked for. Your Real Nature is Peace. Forgetting this, you have lost your Peace and you are searching in the outside World where there is no Peace to be found."  This is the teaching of Bhagavan, my Guru. I am passing it on to you.

You must understand who you are and what you are, and then you must remain as that. If you can manage this, this itself will suffice. Right now you are under the impression that you are your Body and your Mind, but the truth is, you are the Self. Let go of the "I" that you imagine yourself to be and catch hold of the real "I", the Self.  You are holding onto the idea that you are your Body and your Mind. Having assumed this, you are now looking for an external God so that you can worship him. Though such worship may be beneficial, it will not take you beyond the realm of the Mind. While you hold onto the idea that you are a person inside a Body, whatever you see will be a manifestation of your own Mind. You cannot transcend the Mind by worshipping your own external projections.

The above themes & 1600 pages more are freely available as perused or downloaded PDF’s, the sole occupants of a Public Microsoft Skydrive “Public Folder” accessible through:  

www.jpstiga.com/

http://jstiga.wixsite.com/nonduality/

or withs Caps-sensitive:

http://sdrv.ms.YPOgkX/ 

Duplicates have been available on:

jstiga.wordpress.com/

[But from now on, they will be different & still usually daily.]

NMT (No-Me Teaching) new series 12:

"In saying "I had a Dream; I was in Deep Dreamless Sleep; I am Awake," you admit you were there all the time.  It is like a Cinema.  The Screen is always there but various pictures appear on the Screen and then vanish. Nothing affects the screen, since you remain ever your own Self in all 3 States.  If you know that the 3 States will not trouble you. Just as nothing affected the Screen, things that happened during the Waking, Dream, & Deep Dreamless Sleep States do not affect you and you remain your own Self."                                                                                                            Ramana Maharshi
100 Billion
[for a while, the following will preface all these blogs – so please skip over if seen before]
In order to hint at how serious this Blog is, let the author unequivocally state that the Knowledge here imparted, none of it original, none to be credited to the author, that Knowledge is THE MOST VALUABLE treasure that exists. If hypothetically offered 100 Billion dollars to forgo this Knowledge, that offer or any other would be disregarded in the blink of an eye.  Even with all the good that might be accomplished with $100B, this Knowledge is beyond the World & comes from beyond the Mind. This is no hyperbole.
Prior to excerpting the other Ramana Maharshi disciple in the text below we continue the series: Fine-Tuned Universe 5, the premise that a small change in several of the dimensionless fundamental physical constants would make the Universe incapable of Life.
Fine-Tuned Universe 5:
[In the unreal reflection called the "Universe", a product of an unreal Mind, even there, Infinite Intelligence is evident and inspiring.]
The Anthropic Principle says that the Universe appears "designed" for the sake of human Life. The emergence of humans requires physical constants, laws, and properties that fall within certain narrow ranges, Fine-Tuning.
One factor is the ratio of the Gravitational force constant to the Electro-Magnetic force constant. The ratio must hold to one part in 10⁴⁰ (one part in ten thousand trillion trillion trillion) without eliminating the possibility for Life – this ratio being one of some 38 such Anthropic Fine-Tuned Parameters. Of these, the most sensitive is the Space Energy Density (the self-stretching property of the Universe). Its value cannot vary by more than one part in 10¹²⁰ and still allow for the stars and planets that Life requires.
Evidence of specific "preparation" for human existence shows up in the characteristics of the Solar System, as well, some 150 Fine-Tuned characteristics. The odds that any given planet in the Universe [given that planets became possible] would possess the necessary conditions to support Intelligent Life are now estimated as one in 10¹⁷³ .
Roughly 15 Billion years represents a minimum preparation time for advanced life. But in just 10 Million years or less, Earth will lose its ability to sustain human Life. In fact, this estimate of the human habitability time window may be grossly optimistic. In all likelihood, a nearby supernova eruption, a climatic perturbation, a social or environmental upheaval, or the genetic accumulation of negative mutations will doom the species to extinction sometime sooner than twenty thousand years from now. Some take a mere 100 years to be generous, at least for civilized human Life after Environment decay, poverty, war & disease.
Some more selected verses from the other Maharshi disciple:
If the meditation is not continuous enough, the other part of the Mind becomes predominant. You have to overpower this Mind that is taking you away from yourself.
We can all be like this if circumstances demand it. There are occasions when a show of anger is needed. We can play the role of being angry, but at the same time we can know that we are just acting out a role that is needed at a particular moment.
Jnani's usually come to their last births with a mountain of punyas [merits] on account of what they have done in their previous lives. The Jnani cannot experience all these punyas himself, but those who come into contact with him can receive them as blessings. The same thing can be said for all the papams [de-merits] that the Jnani brings to his final life. A poor man can suddenly become rich if a millionaire takes a liking to him and gives him a lot of money. Those who come to a Jnani and do selfless service to him find themselves becoming spiritual millionaires when they receive the Jnani's unused punyas. And those who come to abuse and insult the Jnani end up receiving all his unused papams. This is an automatic process. The Jnani does not pick and choose the people who are going to be the recipients of these punyas. This transfer happens automatically. Devotees grow spiritually by receiving all these blessings. They reach heights that would be difficult or impossible to reach through their own efforts. My own life illustrates this. When I was very young I stayed alone, doing all kinds of spiritual practice by myself. I doubt that I could have experienced the truth of the Self through my own efforts. Fortunately, grace brought me to Bhagavan, and through Bhagavan’s Grace I had the opportunity to serve him. My proximity to Bhagavan and the work I did for him made me ready for the Truth.
I learned this lesson about the necessity of being in the Jnani's Presence early on. After a few weeks there I found myself disappointed by the attitude of many of the people I found around Bhagavan. They seemed to be more interested in gossiping than in doing meditation. I knew that Bhagavan was a great man, but I didn't feel comfortable living with people whom I thought were not taking the spiritual life very seriously. I decided to leave the Ashram and meditate by myself. My attempt to run away was not successful. Bhagavan’s grace and power brought me back from Polur, the place I had run away to. As I sat in front of Bhagavan on my first day back, Bhagavan looked at me, and while he was looking I began to hear the words of one of the verses from Ulladu Narpadu Anubandham resonating in my Heart: I "The Supreme State which is praised and which is attained here in this life by clear Inquiry, which rises in the Heart when association with a sadhu is gained, is impossible to attain by listening to teachers, by studying and learning the meaning of the scriptures, by virtuous deeds, or by any other means."
I had never read this work before, so I don’t know how these words managed to repeat themselves inside me. No one else heard them except me. The verse praises association with a Jnani, saying that association with such a being is far more productive for sadhaks than doing spiritual practice by oneself. After hearing these words I got the courage to stay and serve Bhagavan.
I just listened to what my Guru told me, and I carried out his instructions to the best of my ability. Then, one day in the hall, Bhagavan turned to me and said, "Your karmas are over."  I had this great opportunity to surrender to a Guru like Bhagavan, to trust him and to serve him. It didn’t happen through my own efforts. This kind of thing happens very rarely, for beings such as Bhagavan don’t appear very often. If you want to learn, you have to go to school. If you want Jnana, you have to go to a Jnani I want to speak some more about the Grace of the Guru. Bhagavan told me that the Guru is the Self who is within. The Self manifests in a form and pushes the Minds of devotees towards the Self.

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NMT (No-Me Teaching) new series 11:

Prior to excerpting the other Ramana Maharshi disciple in the text below we continue the series: Fine-Tuned Universe 4, the premise that a small change in several of the dimensionless fundamental physical constants would make the Universe incapable of Life.
[In the unreal reflection called the "Universe", a product of an unreal Mind, even there, Infinite Intelligence is evident and inspiring.]
Fine-Tuned Universe 4:
We previously noted that formation of Hydrogen nuclei during the Big Bang, along with the Carbon and Oxygen atoms initially fused at the center of stars that exploded as supernovae; these Fine-Tuned "coincidences" allowed for solar systems and planets capable of supporting Carbon-based Life dependent on Water and Oxygen.
There has to be a critical rate of expansion if our Universe , avoiding all manner of "recollapse" so that even now, ten Billion years later, it is still expanding at nearly the critical rate.  If the rate of expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred Quadrillion, the Universe would have recollapsed before it ever reached its present size.
The current age of the Universe must be old enough to allow for the formation of galaxies, stars and planets, and stars that fused Carbon and Oxygen. Quark masses were similarly Fine-Tuned as was the Electromagnetic Fine Structure Constant to allow for the formation of Neutrons, Protons and larger atomic nuclei. Variations in the Light Quark masses of more that 2-3 % would not support The formation of life-essential Carbon and Oxygen,  Big Bang Nucleosynthesis sets tight limits on the variations of the Light Quark mass.
Some more selected verses from the other Maharshi disciple:
Tayumanuvar, Tamil saint:
"My Guru merely told me that I am Consciousness. Having heard this, I held onto Consciousness. What he told me was just 1 sentence, but I cannot describe the Bliss that I attained from holding onto that 1 simple sentence. Through that 1 sentence I attained a Peace and a Happiness that can never be explained in words."
It doesn't happen by itself you have to go on making an effort until the point where you become totally effortless. Up till that moment your effort is needed. The Mind only gets dissolved in the Self by constant practice. At that moment the "I am the Body" idea disappears, just as darkness disappears when the Sun rises.
We have to walk on the Path ourselves to realize the Truth. If you want to go to somewhere, having someone tell you where it is and how to get there will not magically transport you to that place. You have to go to the airport and get on the plane yourself. You have to carry out the instructions the Guru has given you.
Grace shows us the way home by guiding us in the right direction, but we still have to do the work ourselves.
This "I am" Consciousness, is present within all of us. It is not something special that devotees of one particular Guru have. It is our nature, and as such it is common to all. But only a few souls are mature enough or ripe enough to be aware of it. Though it is present within all of us, Grace puts us in touch with it and gives us a taste of what it is like. And once that taste is there, the thirst to realize the Self follows.
If Inquiry into the Self is not taking place, thoughts will be on the Body and the Mind. And while those thoughts are habitually there, there will be an underlying identification: "I am the Body. I am the Mind."  This identification is something that happened at a particular point in time. It is not something that has always been there. And what comes in time also goes eventually, for nothing that exists in time is permanent. The Self, on the other hand, has always been there. It existed before the ideas about the Body and the
Mind arose, and it will be there when they finally vanish.
The Self always remains as it is: as Peace, without Birth, without Death. Through the intensity of your Inquiry you can claim that state as your own. Inquire into the nature of the Mind by asking, with 1-pointed determination, "Who am I ?"  Mind is illusory and non-existent, just as the snake that appears on the rope is illusory and non-existent. Dispel the Illusion of the Mind by intense Inquiry and merge in the Peace of the Self. That is what you are, always.
"Have you realized the Self ?" is sometimes a strange question to answer. It is like having somebody ask you if you have become a human being. You are always a human being. You didn’t have to do anything to accomplish it. You are self-evidently a human being, so much so, it is strange to field questions about it. If it is not self-evident then find out who you are. How does one find out who one is ? You will find out by constantly doing Self-Inquiry. Ask yourself, "Am I the Body ?  Am I the Mind ?"  When Self-Inquiry is deepened, you understand who you are.
If one is mature, one can realize the Self in this moment. If one is not mature one has to take up sadhana to make oneself receptive to the Truth.

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NMT (No-Me Teaching) new series 10 b:

Appearing in the Waking State (other than the various dream-worlds) seems to recur over a short life-time of a century, or less, the outer RWOT seems to hold out hope of avoiding pain & promise of enjoyment – sensual, emotional, & mental. For fleeting moments, that World seems to deliver, but then it all slips away, just like youth & ultimately good health & life itself.
Relationships solidify life’s stability in family, friendship, & greater society. But one eventually takes wrong turns & misfortune ever threatens while “all good things must pass.”
Why ? Well of course “all things must pass,” good or bad, just like in nightly Dreams with similar trajectories. Those dramas may turn over rapidly until morning when they all vanish. Deep Dreamless Sleep is, however, uniformly filled with Peace (without details to remember). For that same Peace in the Waking State, we seek steady livelihood, steady relationships, & various acquisitions.
The Waking State body dies soon enough, even if there are fortunate outer circumstances, for a time, or perhaps even throughout most of that lifetime. But for most of humanity, even that is not the case & for many – far worse – dramatically so, or like those proverbial men who “lead lives of quiet desperation.”
Regardless, Love & Happiness, Peace & Freedom are only ever experienced “within”, in faint glimmers, short-lived flashes, or as God, Guru, one’s true Self, as Reality.
Consciousness-Meditation
"Shut your eyes. Let go of the idea of your own or control Consciousness. Let the infinite Consciousness be what it is without your trying to control it.  Relax & observe Consciousness. Let go of everything & observe Consciousness. Relax completely & observe Consciousness. With as little effort as possible & with a gentle, kind, easy, relaxed approach, observe Consciousness. You just continue with Consciousness watching Consciousness. There are objects to see Consciousness is empty. There is no thing to observe in Consciousness.  Just continue for the entire practice session watching your Consciousness. Only Consciousness watching Consciousness & nothing else.

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NMT (No-Me Teaching) new series 10 a:

Prior to presenting a Consciousness-Meditation offered by some Ramana Maharshi disciples, we share some thoughts.
Notes from a (contemporary) Spiritual Diary
How can I be certain that my inner true self is spiritual, perfectly happy, complete, & even divine? For one assurance, there is the consistent, unchanging testimony of the Wise throughout all the millennia, in disparate cultures & nations.
Closer to home, for just one more of many examples or instances of assurance, there is my own growing interest in deeper Reality, & my own expanding ability to see & comprehend the subtle inner Truth.
Only the Real in me is attracted to the Real. Only the Real in me intuits & catches a glimmer of profundity.  Only the Real is capable of understanding Non-Dual Teaching in the many “secret” places in which it can readily be found.
Seek sincerely, reject ego-massaging half-truth, & be amazed at how fast & how deeply one can comprehend, can attain certainty. One can know with certainty, the inner, wordless answer to “Who am I ?”
How could it be otherwise ? Self-deception may have continued for eons & could continue for eons more. But the façade of Illusion, Maya, can crumble in the snap of a finger. Let the sleeper awaken! Be at Peace in Joy, Freedom, & Happiness.
Our inner core, our Being, is actually the unflinching, steady, Knowledge that “I exist.” That Knowledge shines, not within some individual “consciousness”, in & as non-multiple, universal, Non-Dual Consciousness.
Illusory self-focusing down as if an “island” of personal ego-self-consciousness in some oceanic Universe, a RWOT real-world-out-there ­– that Dream seems to crumple my innate Vastness into a tiny bubble of personal identity.

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