43. Purity is immortal. Impurity is temporary.

The Ultimate: Enlightenment with Atma Bodha

Many find it hard to believe that a pure motive exists or that it is possible to achieve such a thing. "What is this strange concept of a 'pure motive'?" they might ask.

Many people are unable to comprehend that there can be a motive that is not self-serving. The fact is, that most people's motives are based on their own personal desires and what they want to accomplish in their lives. However, to have a pure motive means that you want to accomplish something based upon love or higher inspiration or realization. When you regard that the best in you is also in everyone else, you naturally want others to experience the best in them so that they too can see the best in everyone else. You can't see the best in everyone if you can't first see the best in you.

Enlightenment is not about observing. That is just called being conscious. Most people are really confused about what Enlightenment even means. When you have reached such a state that you are shining or radiating Love and Truth all the time, then this is Enlightenment. The fact is that many people don't even know what is love, and of those that do know love, hardly any can differentiate the experience of love from Truth or be able to recognize Truth when they see it. Thus, very few people are actually Enlightened, most of those who claim to be such, are not. It is not a heart state but when your mind is liberated by being immersed in the Absolute Truth.

"Love under will" is inferior to "Love under Truth"

Through philosophy we can conceptualize the unfathomable and create a framework of perspective that can help things make more sense and become conducive to your illumination.

There is no thought that you can think that is beyond the pool of available thoughts that is intended for you.

Free will exists.

If you were to tell an artist or a writer or a musician that free will doesn't exist, they would laugh in your face.

Their entire livelihood is based upon the concept of Free Will and having original ideas. Because unoriginal ideas and unoriginal music are not marketable and cannot be successful.

To claim that the creative expression is not "free", is the claim that creative people are just some kind of advanced robots.

There is that which makes us an individual. As an individual, we can choose to conform to something external, or we can apply additional effort and be stubbornly independent and refuse to be affected or influenced by anything external. To do this is not by being passive but by being assertive, not giving in. If free will doesn't exist, then we wouldn't have the choice to be independent. Perhaps Sam Harris would think it would be impossible to be independent and have an impenetrable mind unaffected by the ups and downs of life but instead being a perpetual state of bliss and love.

People don't really have free will until they obtain an impenetrable mind. Having an impenetrable mind is not possible without immersing your mind with the absolute Truth. Artists, musicians and writers can have bursts of this inspiration. Those who are permanently enlightened have the same kind of inspiration, but instead of it being a burst, it is like a raging luminous waterfall that doesn't end.

If you could be high all the time and have improved cognitive faculty, wouldn't you want that? Especially if there are no side effects and the effect is purely healthy and beneficial, you would want that, yes?

Instead of by manufacturing a drug, we can illuminate a philosophy whereby when people understand it, it's like having an infinite supply of this wondrous experience.

The preparation to receive this involves removing self-limiting beliefs. This is why this philosophy is written and why these podcasts exist. It is to correct wrong assumptions about the nature of Ultimate Reality.

What people refer to as the ego, always wants to be right. It clings to the attachment of who you think you are. It can resist change, even if it is an empowering and expansive change.

This is why many Masters refuse students. It requires a very deep and earnest motivation in the aspirant. It is a lifestyle choice. It becomes the entire focus of your life.

Being the Best in everything is better than being everything.

This is a core concept that should be engrained in everyone, if they want to be next level human.

This is the Crux.

Balance is not what the Sun does. As for me, I'd rather be like the Sun. The Sun shines. It doesn't try to balance itself with its environment. It is an assertive force not a passive one.

The Sun is the closest thing to Enlightenment that we can see in Nature, as far as biological phenomena.

Aspire to have an adaptive impenetrable mind of equanimity. Will alone is weak. If your will does not have full force of Truth behind it, it is inferior. Be more.