This book is the first in a seven-book series of essays. Each book will offer essays that deal with one of the seven steps on the "journey" from identification with false "I's" to abidance as the Absolute (or as that which is even beyond the Absolute).
The seven-set series is based in the fact that the "journey" to Realization must be completed in a step-wise fashion. The exact order in which the steps are to be completed must first be understood by a teacher before they can be shared with seekers in the exact order required.
Maharaj said: "On the road, each step helps you reach your destination, and each is as crucial as the other, for each step must be made. You cannot skip it. If you refuse to make it, you are stuck!"
and
“…You should go back, reverse, to the source.”
and
“Follow the same path by which you came.”
Yet no one before has identified the exact steps on "the path by which you came" and, therefore, the steps by which "you should go back."
What most persons do not understand is that the "path" from
(a) the Absolute to
(b) erroneously believing that the false "I" is one's actual identity
is a seven-step "path." It took seven distinct steps for the manifested consciousness to become estranged from the reality of the Absolute by seven degrees of separation.
Who can possibly "go back," who can possibly "reverse," who can possibly follow that same path out "by which they came" unless they are shown the exact steps by which they came in ... that is, unless they know exactly how they came to be identified with a false "I" (or "I's") rather than with Reality?
There is a "coming in" when the consciousness manifests and is blocked by programming and conditioning and acculturation and domestication that results in persons (the non-Realized masses) being separate from Reality by seven degrees.
For seekers that follow the entire "path" back in reverse order, there is a "going back," leaving behind identification with the false "I" or "I's" and understanding that Absolutely pure field of energy from with the manifestation began.
Look for the other six volumes in this series as they become available in order to find all seven of the steps on "the path."
For those who have studied any of the various types of yoga and who have studied either Traditional Advaita Vedanta, Neo-Advaita, Neo-Vedanta, or Pseudo Advaita: the author of this book is a disciple of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj so he uses the Direct Path Method of teaching along with the Nisarga (Natural) Yoga, all shared in simple, everyday English.
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