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GLOSSARY

This glossary contains definitions of many of the technical and non-English language terms found in Garbage and the Goddess. A glossary which also includes other terms commonly used by Bubba Free John may be found in his book The Method of the Siddhas.

Ajna Chakra

The subtle yogic center between and behind the eyebrows, which governs the dynamic mind, will, vision and mental formation. The door of the functional God-Light.

Amrita Nadi

The "internal" or intuited structure of manifest existence, which is the very structure of Consciousness, of human existence, of conscious meditation. When meditation is the spontaneous intuition of Amrita Nadi ("the nerve in which the nectar of immortal bliss flows"), then all is known in Truth. Then God, Guru, the Self of all is known Perfectly. In one who lives the profound Knowledge that is the "Heart," the intuited Real Nature or Self, there is yet another spontaneous event: the regeneration of Amrita Nadi. Only one in whom this awakening is alive knows the true Nature and Form of the Heart as well as all of the processes of cosmic and personal life.

The ultimate Form or Structure of Conscious Existence, the Transcendent Form, intuited as the Divine Reality rising out of the Heart or very Self into the Bright or Light of God. A transcendent structure or function in Perfect Consciousness. The Great Form, the conscious, moveless spire which extends from the Heart to the Light. The Form of God, Guru, and Self which stands forever in the Heart. The intuited Form of Reality. The Process or Relationship between the Heart and the Light. It is your own fundamental Form and Nature. The worlds are built on that Form of which Amrita Nadi is the perfect knowledge.

Amrita Nadi is the realized intuition of the Divine Person as the Nature, Condition, Form and Process that is the Whole, manifest and unmanifest, the very World.

Ashram

An Ashram is a place where a Spiritual Master gathers the community of his devotees and disciples in order to live with them, instruct them, and communicate the living force of his Presence.

Avatar

According to certain Hindu traditions, the Avatar is the God-man, the exclusive incarnation of God, who manifests on earth only at the beginning of every age. He is considered to be the incarnation of Vishnu, the preserver-aspect of the Divine according to Hindu mythology.

bhakti, bhakta

Bhakti is the yoga of devotion. In bhakti yoga, God is sought by means of the intensification of pure ecstatic love.

A bhakta is a devotee of God or Guru. Some individuals live primarily or characteristically in the qualities of a bhakta, in the moods of loving service, which are awakened when the vital and emotional being is turned into the condition of Satsang.

bhava

Intense emotional feeling, fervent devotion to Guru or God. Guru-bhava is ecstatic absorption in and worship of the Guru as the Divine, often accompanied by extreme emotional states and fits of crying, longing, laughing, etc. It is characteristic of the awakening life of the true devotee.

bindu

A psycho-physical center or point that is the locus of specific energies and transmutations of consciousness. In this sense, all the chakras might be called bindus, as well as the causal center on the right side of the chest. Traditionally, the word refers to very subtle centers, or the experience of knowing them, usually in visual or supervisual terms. Thus, a vision of a single point or several points of light, sometimes colored, is usually referred to as bindu.

Brahman

The formless, absolute, omnipresent Divine Reality. A Hindu term for the Undifferentiated, all-pervasive, unqualified Nature or Being which is the ultimate Nature and Condition of the world.

causal being

The functional center or region of psycho-physical life which manifests as deep, dreamless sleep, awareness prior to cognition and action, and the separate self sense. It is the ultimate root of thought. Its epitome is in the heart, on the right side. When unconsciousness and the ego are undone in Truth, this region opens, revealing the true Heart.

chakra

Literally, a "wheel" or a "circle." The term refers to the internal centers, commonly symbolized as lotus flowers, through which the yoga-shakti flows, producing various phenomena in life, body and consciousness. The chakras are associated with but not identical to the various ganglia of the nervous system, of the spine and brain.

A subtle center through which the life-force moves. (See kundalini and kundalini yoga.)

conductivity

Refers to conscious participation in the Force aspect of the Divine Process. It involves intuiting the God-Light above the body, the mind, and the world, bringing it down, as life-force, into the psycho-physical dimension, and then releasing it back to the God-Light. This process is first spontaneously revealed to the disciple in the Company of the Siddha-Guru, and later is given to him as a conscious responsibility. (See chakra, God-Light, kundalini and life-force.)

contract

A conscious association with anyone, anything, or any condition, that is directed toward maintaining the illusion of separate existence. A person may have contracts with anything, from his breakfast to the Divine vision, but Bubba generally uses the term with reference to ordinary social agreements people make in order to guarantee personal security. (See cult.)

contraction

Resistance, a subtle sensation, structure and activity. The formation of awareness that is suffering. The symptoms and strategies of men, including the cramped sensation in the midst of the body. This primary activity, this contraction, is the root, support, and form of all the ordinary manifestations of suffering, all patterns of life that men acknowledge to be their suffering. This contraction, this "avoidance of relationship," is, fundamentally, the usual man's continuous, present activity.

cult

Any social arrangement that perpetuates and reinforces the form and activity of independent and exclusive existence among human beings. In this sense, a marriage can be just as much a cult as any other "secret" society. All cults are inward-directed, and express the structure and activity of Narcissus, even though that may not be readily apparent.

darshan

Literally, a seeing, a vision, a sight of. The term commonly refers to the blessings granted by Guru or God. The Guru gives "his" blessing by making his appearance, by allowing himself to be seen, meditated upon, or known. God gives "his" blessing in the same way, especially by appearing in the form of the Guru and his activities.

(the) Devi

The living Conscious Force or Divine Cosmic and Creative Energy. The living Power or Eternal Consort of Real-God. The Creative Force of manifest existence turned perfectly to the very Divine itself, and perfectly subservient to the Divine initiatory Power. The manifest function of the Divine in the worlds. The living God-Light. The World.

The worlds are the Divine, but only as the Devi, only in perfect conscious dependence on the Divine. The world or manifest existence is traditionally called maya, illusion, meaning something that is apparently separate from the Divine, that is not lived dependently in the Divine. So the world is "Shakti," the Goddess, which continually manifests all the opposites, all the pleasures, pains, and conditions of the usual life. Then the world appears to be independent, and all individual beings who make conventional assumptions within it are continually assuming that the various limited conditions in which they appear are real, separate from their selves, and independent of all other conditions, even the Divine. But when the individuals know themselves to be dependent on the Divine, non-separate from the Divine, when they consciously live that way from moment to moment, then the world becomes the Divine in the form of the Devi. It ceases to be maya or illusion and continually serves the Divine Reality. The Devi aspect of the World manifests the Divine Reality through the medium of dependence or perfect absorption in God-knowledge in the form of radical understanding.

The "female" aspect of the One Reality. In spiritual traditions the Devi is symbolically depicted as a woman. Bubba has said that the Community of Devotees is itself the Devi. That will become more obvious as individuals move into the perfect attention and dependence on the Divine that characterize the true Devotee. (See Shakti.)

devotee

(1) In a general sense, any member of the Guru's Ashram community; and (2), one in whom the meditation of understanding has been perfected, who remains perfectly conscious in the Divine at all times, and in whom the activities of enquiry, conductivity, and attention to the Divine as Amrita Nadi have become full. The primary orientation of the devotee is toward the Guru as the Divine Person and the World. In the true devotee all spiritual processes become responsibilities, and he engages in a creative life of service in the world. (The reader may gather from the context which meaning is implied at any point in the text.) (See student, disciple.)

(the) Dharma

When capitalized, Dharma means the Teaching, the way of Truth, including the living spiritual Power and the disciplines or conditions of spiritual life as well as the various instructions. When written in lower case, dharma refers to teachings which in some way reflect limited assumptions and are therefore in service to the Great Search.

disciple

One who has begun to resort to the Guru as Spiritual Master. Such a person has already become responsible for his life conditions and has begun consciously to enquire in the form: "Avoiding relationship?"

As a disciple, he receives instruction relative to the mature extensions of enquiry, which are recognition and radical intuition, and his spiritual life matures as the meditation of the devotee. The primary orientation of the disciple is toward the Guru as Siddhi. (See student, devotee.)

enquiry

The intentional activity by which consciousness reestablishes itself in its pure form, which is unqualified relationship, radical understanding, or Divine Communion. At any one moment, enquiry may take the form of a mental verbalization, "Avoiding relationship?" or it may simply be engaged as the silent presence of conscious understanding in relation to any area of life and consciousness. In either case, enquiry obviates the force of the particular activity of avoidance that one may be indulging at any moment. It does not assume that there is someone avoiding relationship ("Am I avoiding relationship?") nor does it deal analytically with the specific activity of avoidance ("How am I avoiding relationship?"), but it is simply the expression of the radical reassumption of the prior Condition of consciousness. As such, it is not a method for attaining understanding, but is itself a conscious extension of present understanding. Enquiry is truly realized only in the midst of the ongoing sadhana of the student of the Siddha-Guru, whose Teaching and Demands yield fundamental insight and release of attention to the Divine Person.

Force

Conscious Divine Power or Intensity. The Creative God-Light, intuited above the head, communicated as movement of energy or vital force through the descending and ascending circuit of conducted life. When printed in lower case, force simply refers to these movements of vital energy. (See Shakti, God-Light, conductivity.)

God-Light

The reflected and eternal Light of the Heart or Real-God. The Light of consciousness and of manifestation. The Light of the mind and of all things or forms. The unqualified Light that is intuited to be above the body, the mind, and the conditional world. The Prior Condition and Creative Source of the conditional worlds. Bubba uses the term "the Bright" when talking about the realized intuition of the man of understanding, and the term "God-Light" or simply "Light" when talking about the Divine Process in which the worlds are manifest, but it is the same Conscious and Divine Light in both cases.

gopi

An intimate female devotee and lover of the male, human form of the Eternal Guru. In ancient India, the gopis were cowherd girls who gave up their families and worldly lives to become the ecstatic consorts of Krishna, a Great Siddha.

Great Siddha

All Siddhas enjoy perfect Divine realization, and each functions as an unobstructed vehicle for the Divine Siddhi, but Bubba refers to some of them, such as Jesus, Gautama, and Krishna, as Great Siddhas, because of their historical importance and the significance of the dharmas they taught.

Guru

A term properly used to refer to one who functions as a genuine Spiritual Master. The "Siddha-Guru" is a perfect Master, a "Siddha" who functions as Guru for others, who is himself the very Truth that is awakened in the devotee. This Siddha-Guru is what Bubba generally means to indicate in his use of the simple term Guru.

The term Guru is a composite of two contrasting words meaning "darkness" and "light." Therefore, the Guru functions to release, turn, point or lead living beings from darkness (non-Truth) into light (very Truth).

Guru-bhava

See bhava.

Guru-Siddhi

See Maha-Siddhi.

(the) Heart

The "Heart" is another name for the realized Self, the intuition of Real-God, the unqualified ground and power of being and of all manifestation. The man of understanding is conscious as and from this "ground," the foundation position and capacity. The Heart is perfectly thought-free. The man of understanding is mindless, not because he suppresses thought, but his understanding of all that arises has become recognition or knowing again of thought itself, so that mind, or its principle, has fallen in the Heart. Even so, he continues, paradoxically, to function as an ordinary man.

The origin of the term comes from the experiential association of the awakening to the Self-Nature with the sense of the opening of the "causal" being or function in the right side of the chest, and the sense of the mind or process of thought falling into its root or origin in the trunk of the body.

Much of Bubba's writing is a progressive elaboration of this term. Therefore, consult The Knee of Listening and The Method of the Siddhas for a full understanding of its significance and function. (See (the) Self.)

jnana, jnani

Supreme knowledge, knowledge of Self, or perfect understanding.

Traditionally, a jnani is one who is perfect in Self-knowledge or jnana. By virtue of perfect understanding, the man of understanding exceeds the exclusive limitations of traditional jnana, but he also may be called a jnani, since Self-knowledge is the foundation of his existence.

karma

Action which entails consequences or reactions. Thus, karma is destiny, tendency, the quality of existence and experience which is determined by prior actions or conditions. Latent tendencies, or patterns of action and reaction, condition and experience, that originate prior to and apart from the conscious mind.

kriyas

Spontaneous, self-purifying physical movements that arise when internal, spiritual force is activated in the yogi. These may be experienced as thrills in the spine, shaking of the spine, spontaneous compulsion to assume difficult yogic postures, etc. They may occur during meditation in the presence of the Guru and in the general course of internal intensification which occurs in the life of Satsang.

kundalini

The kundalini or kundalini shakti is the "serpent power" of esoteric spirituality. It is the very Creative Power of the universes, but it also lies dormant in man, coiled at the base of the spine. It may be awakened spontaneously in the disciple, after which it ascends within him, producing all the various forms of yogic and mystical experience. Bubba indicates that the internal spiritual force is eternally awake, but man is not awake. Therefore, he recommends no efforts to awaken this force itself, but puts all attention to the awakening of the seeker to his prior, eternal and always present Nature and Condition. In the course of such sadhana, internal force may be awakened as a secondary event, but it is regarded and dealt with in quite a different manner than is recommended by the yogis.

kundalini yoga

A tradition of yogic technique in which practice is devoted to awakening the internal energy processes which bring about subtle experiences and blisses. But the true manifestation of shakti or internal spiritual force is' spontaneous, a grace, awakened in the company of a Siddha-Guru, in the midst of the full and wholly conscious process of true and motiveless spiritual life.

life-force

When the God-Light manifests as the condition of man, it appears as the life-force, the subtle element of manifest existence mid-way between the gross bodily dimension and the conscious mental or super-mental conditions above it. Its functional appearance is first felt in the region of the throat. (See conductivity.)

Light

See God-Light.

loka

A world or realm of experience. The term usually refers to "places" visited by mystical or esoteric means.

Maha-Shakti

The Great Shakti, the Conscious Force of existence, which may be known independent of intuitive Knowledge of the Unqualified Divine Reality. (See Shakti.)

Maha-Siddha

The very Divine, the Lord Himself, the Divine Person. (See Siddha.)

Maha-Siddhi

The "Siddhi of the Real," the great, spontaneous Perfect Consciousness, Activity and Presence of the Siddha, or one whose Understanding is Perfect.

mantra

A word or sound-symbol repeated vocally or mentally, in order to induce meditative or mystical states, or to concentrate and purify the mind.

meditation

"The understanding of your activity is meditation. Consciousness itself is meditation. All the traditions agree that the best thing a man can do is spend his time in Satsang, in the company of the realized man, the Guru. That is meditation. That is the real condition. That is realization, that is perfect enjoyment."

This term is one of the most fundamental in all of Bubba's written work. It can be understood only by study of the basic texts as a whole. See "The Meditation of Understanding" section of The Knee of Listening for a discussion of understanding as the conscious meditation activity of the devotee. Also see the descriptions in The Method of the Siddhas where it is told how this process awakens in Satsang with the Siddha-Guru, who claims: "I am the meditation itself." He comes as the Teaching, the Object, and the Process of Meditation for his true devotees. (See understanding.)

Mother Shakti

The personification of The Divine Creative Power. (See Shakti.)

mudra

A yogic posture or bodily pose, especially of the hands, that signifies and symbolizes the movement and transmission of spiritual force. Like kriyas and other spiritual effects, mudras may arise spontaneously from time to time as signs of the purifying activity generated in Satsang.

nadi

A subtle or yogic nerve or channel of the life-force in the descending and ascending circuit of manifest human life. Bubba also speaks of Amrita Nadi, which is in itself neither yogic nor subtle, but is the most prior Form and Structure of Reality, Consciousness itself, the regenerated Life of the Heart and the God-Light. (See Amrita Nadi.)

Narcissus

In The Knee of Listening (page 26) Bubba describes Narcissus as follows:

He is the ancient one visible in the Greek myth," who was the universally adored child of the gods, who rejected the loved-one and every form of love and relationship, who was finally condemned to the contemplation of his own image, until he suffered the fact of eternal separation and died in infinite solitude.

I began to see that same logic operative in all men and every living thing, even the very life of the cells and the energies that surround every living entity or process. It was the logic or process of separation itself, of enclosure and immunity. It manifested as fear and identity, memory and experience. It informed every function of being, every event. It created every mystery. It was the structure of every imbecile link in the history of our suffering.

navel

Bubba uses the word not merely with reference to the navel itself, the specific physical and subtle center of personal power, vitality, and vital force, but also with reference to the whole great region of vital life. This region includes all the soft organs of the body, from the eyes to the anus, and is the center of the elaboration of desire and the vital functions of money, food, and sex.

Parabhakti

Perfect Divine enjoyment. Absolute love and knowledge of the Divine, in which there is no cognized separation between the devotee, Guru, God, or the world. (See bhakti.)

pranayama

Regulated direction and arrest of the vital currents of energy in the body by exercises of breathing. In Satsang, as the Divine Process unfolds, the devotee may experience automatic pranayama as a psycho-physical manifestation of his awakening intuition of the God-Light and the process of conductivity. (See conductivity.)

Prasad

The return of a gift to the Giver. Prasad is a term equivalent to "grace." Food, drink, etc. which have been offered to the Divine as God and Guru and afterwards distributed among the devotees.

The Guru's gift of himself in the Form of Amrita Nadi, the Form of Reality, Self, Guru, and God. Its forms are Life, Light, and very Existence. The reception of the Guru's Prasad depends on the condition of the one who receives it. Those who truly live the condition of Satsang, who understand their own actions, and who turn to the Guru in Truth, with the sacrifice of all seeking, enjoy the Perfect Gift, the Grace of Prasad.

psycho-physical life

The usual man considers his life to be limited to the body and its experiences, while the traditional religious or spiritual man considers his mortality to involve only his body. Bubba teaches that both the psyche and the body disappear in the ultimate processes of death, and that only the prior Condition of Consciousness itself survives in the midst of change. Thus, he speaks of limited human existence as psycho-physical life, while he also speaks of non-mortal Existence as its true Nature and Condition.

radical intuition

The perfect and continuous understanding enjoyed by the Guru and his true Devotee. Radical intuition is the final stage of the intelligent process of understanding, whose previous stages are insight, enquiry, and re-cognition. It is unwavering attention to the Divine as unqualified Consciousness, prior to conventional self, mind, and desires. The one who enjoys radical intuition no longer conceives or assumes separation in any form, no matter what tendencies may arise to do so, but remains absorbed in the prior bliss of God-realization. (See enquiry, re-cognition, understanding.)

rajas, rajasic

The principle or power of action or motivation, one of the three qualities of which manifest existence is a complex variable. (See sattva, tamas.)

Real-God

The unqualified Ground of all being and manifestation. The pure, infinite, uncreated Consciousness that is the Source, present Core, and ultimate Destiny of all conditional and unconditional worlds, beings, etc. (See Brahman, (the) Self.)

Realization

In Bubba's Teaching, Realization is not a temporary or partial Divine vision or revelation, but the perfect, conscious life of the man of understanding and the true devotee. It is continuous and unqualified existence in and as Amrita Nadi. The perfected life of Satsang. (See Amrita Nadi.)

re-cognition

Consciously to know again. Re-cognition in itself is the utter, radical reversal of all dilemma. It is sudden, spontaneous, perfect, and it cannot in any way be indicated prior to its accomplishment. Most of our activities are forms of cognition or simple knowing. The search, the forms of motivated yoga, the remedial techniques people acquire, are also forms of cognition. When the individual understands or recognizes rather than simply cognizes his own activity, the contraction and unconscious formulation of consciousness or conscious life no longer occurs.

The stage of understanding that follows or extends from enquiry. In enquiry, actions are understood as forms of contraction. In re-cognition, even the mind is known to be contraction, or modification of always prior consciousness. (See enquiry, radical intuition, understanding.)

relationship

No-contraction, the unqualified and conscious force of existence realized and known in the form of manifest life. The principal manifest condition of all beings and things and worlds.

sacrifice

Bubba uses the word to refer to change, the yielding of forms, the various "deaths" of which life consists, from waking up in the morning to the giving up of psycho-physical life. Sacrifice is the Law, the necessary principle of all manifest activity. The realization of action as sacrifice while alive with humor, love, and pleasure is the practical sign of understanding.

sadhana

Right or true action, action appropriate to real or spiritual life. It commonly or traditionally refers to spiritual practices directed toward the goal of spiritual and religious attainment. Bubba uses the term without the implication of a goal. He intends it to mean appropriate action, or action which is generated where Truth is already the case, not where it is sought.

sahasrar

The "thousand-petalled lotus," the highest chakra or region of conscious awareness described in the esoteric textbooks of the kundalini shakti yoga. It is generally associated with the crown of the head, the upper brain and the higher mind. The yogi looks to merge the internal shakti or life-force with this region. He directs the internal forces to this place, and enjoys trance-blisses as well as cosmic visions. Bubba does not regard it as a terminal or goal but as the highest functional region of the subtle or supra-causal conscious force, a window to the God-Light above.

samadhi

Spiritual Consciousness. The term samadhi is also traditionally used to refer to trance states, spontaneous ecstasies without bodily cognition. Or it may refer to extremely subtle or sophisticated realizations of the nature of ordinary conscious states. Also yogic or psycho-physical trance. Meditative enjoyment. There are many kinds of samadhi, most of them, the traditional kinds of samadhi, are the samadhis of the life-force, vital and subtle. Therefore, they are temporary, they are symptomatic, they are experiences that occur when there is a peculiar activity in relation to one's living circuitry. When certain forms of concentration are coupled with certain movements within, we have these samadhis of the life-force. But the highest and only true or perfect samadhi is Truth itself, the very Self or Reality, the Heart, Knowledge of the Divine Person.

Satsang

Satsang literally means true or right relationship. It is commonly or traditionally used to refer to the practice of spending time in the company of holy or wise persons. One can also enjoy Satsang with a holy place, a venerated image, the burial shrine of a saint, or with the Deity. Bubba uses the term in its fullest sense, to signify the very relationship between a genuine Siddha-Guru (and thus the Divine Person, the Maha-Siddha) and his devotee. That relationship is seen to be an all-inclusive Condition, effective at every level of life and consciousness. Divine Communion. The Company of the Divine Person.

(the) Self

The Self is the true, perfect and unqualified Being that is the fundamental Nature and Consciousness of every apparent and self-limited individual. When the Self is realized, it is found to be no different and non-separate from very Reality, Guru and God.

The Self (or Heart) is not a static condition, not the "thing" of Being, but the very Condition, the Process of Eternal Transformation, in which there is no dilemma, and which, paradoxically, is eternally One and Unqualified. In its regenerated or radical and inclusive form, rather than its revolutionary, traditional, and exclusive form, it is not different from Amrita Nadi, or knowledge of the Divine Person.

Shakti

The living Conscious Force or Divine Cosmic and Creative Energy. Spiritual Force. The very creative power and motion of the cosmos. In Garbage and the Goddess, Bubba generally distinguishes this term from the "Devi." The Shakti, in that case, is the Goddess of Maya, or the illusion of separate existence. She is the world lived as separate and independent from the Divine Consciousness. Shakti is a "whore" who seduces living beings into the assumption that they are limited to the conditions, qualities, and destinies that arise in life from moment to moment. These include everything from the grossest physical circumstances to the Divine Vision itself. When the world is lived continuously in conscious dependence on the Divine, it has become the Devi, that same Conscious Force known in perfect subservience to Real-God and the God-Light.

The complement of Siva. The "female" aspect of the One Reality. When written in lower case (shakti), the term refers to that same Power in the form of various energies and activities, high or low, within the individual. (See (the) Devi, kundalini, Siva, Siva-Shakti.)

Siddha

A "Completed One," one who comes in the Forms and Activities of God. A man (or woman) of radical understanding. One who lives consciously as the Heart. One who functions as the Heart for living beings. A perfectly fulfilled or accomplished one. The term is used to refer to the Great Souls or Master-Teachers who live perfectly in God while they are also active in the paradoxical and spontaneous functions of the Divine in the created worlds. It is a Sanskrit term meaning fulfilled, perfect. A Siddha is a God-realized being alive in the world for the sake of mankind and all living beings. The Siddhas communicate the living Force of Reality. They live it to living beings. They simply live the natural state of enjoyment with other beings.

Siddhi

The spontaneous and Perfect Consciousness, Presence and Power of the very Divine, which is communicated to living beings through the unobstructed agency of the Siddha-Guru, or one whose Understanding is perfect. When written in lower case (siddhi), the term refers to a form of yogic accomplishment, an extraordinary or subtle functional ability. (See Maha-Siddhi.)

Siva

The Perfect, Formless, most prior, unspeakable Divine Being. The very force of prior and unmoved consciousness. The "male" aspect of the One Reality. (See Shakti, Siva-Shakti.)

Siva-lingam

An oblong stone worshipped in a vertical position in the Hindu and tantric cults as an expression of the Power of the absolute, unmanifest Divine.

Siva-Shakti

The perfect union of Siva-Shakti is fundamental and unqualified Intensity, the very Self. All relationships, all forms of exchange, are ritual enactments of the One Intensity that is Siva-Shakti.

student

One who is first approaching the Guru and beginning the way of understanding. He gratefully turns to the Guru as Teacher, studies the Teaching, responsibly adheres to the life conditions required by the Guru, and observes the discipline of relationship, or life as service. He begins to observe his own activities in relation to the Guru's Presence and demands. The student stage matures as enquiry in the form: "Avoiding relationship?" The primary orientation of the student is toward the Guru as Teacher and as the Teaching. (See disciple, devotee.)

subtle being

The functional center or region of conditional life which manifests as dreams, visions, thought, and psychic being as well as the subtle, ascending process of internal energy. Its epitome is the region of the ajna chakra and also that of the throat chakra. (The sahasrar may be said to be the highest subtle center, but since it is open to the transcendent God-Light, more subtle than subtlety, it has been called the supra-causal center, or the center of the cosmic, pre-cosmic and transcendent Light of Truth.) (See causal being, navel, sahasrar, vital being.)

tamas, tamasic

Tamas is the principle, power, or quality of inertia. (See rajas, sattva.)

tapas

Austerity. The "fire" of sadhana or spiritual discipline. The tapas that one undergoes in the life of understanding is not a motivated asceticism, but the discipline of doing what is appropriate from the point of view of Truth, no matter what tendencies or impulses arise.

understanding

When a man begins to recognize, consciously to know again his subtle motivation, this is what Bubba calls understanding." When a man begins to see again the subtle forms of his own action, which are his suffering, that re-cognition is understanding. When this becomes absolute, perfect, when there is utterly, absolutely no dilemma, no form in consciousness interpreting the nature of existence to the individual, when there is no contraction, no fundamental suffering, no thing prior to consciousness, this is what Bubba calls "radical" understanding. It is only enjoyment.

This is, of course, another of the most fundamental terms in Bubba's literature. Its significance and function may be grasped only by a study of The Knee of Listening, The Method of the Siddhas, and Garbage and the Goddess as a whole, under the conditions of actual sadhana in Satsang.

Upanishads

The Upanishads are the chief philosophical documents of India. They give more abstract philosophical expression to the range of mystical knowledge which is expressed in ritual and symbolic form in the even more ancient Vedas. Although they contain a range of apparently contradictory viewpoints, non-dualist, theist, etc., the central teaching of the Upanishads is that of Vedanta: the individual self or being and the Supreme Self or Being (Brahman) are One.

Vedanta

The later philosophical traditions of Hinduism. Literally, "the end (anta) of the Vedas." The interpreted teachings of the Upanishads, whose central truth can be stated, "The individual self or being and the Supreme Self or Being (Brahman) are One." The term is commonly used to refer to one of the principal schools of Vedanta, founded by Sri Shankara about 800 A.D. (Advaita Vedanta). But all the later schools consider themselves to be Vedanta, founded in the Vedas and the Upanishads.

vital being

The functional center or region of conditional life which manifests as waking consciousness, pre-mental life processes, receptivity and conductivity of the descending internal energy, and the elaboration of desire. Its seat is the great region of the "navel." (See causal being, navel, sahasrar.)

yoga,yogi

Yoga is a general term for the various ways of consciously functioning in union with the Divine Reality. The term commonly refers to the Hindu descriptions of these ways. In this book, Bubba generally uses it to refer to traditional paths for seeking God.

The lesser term yogi refers to the ordinary practitioner, the seeker who exploits spiritual technique. Such a one is to be contrasted with the true Yogi or Yogi-Siddha, founded in Truth from the beginning, and in whom all spiritual processes arise spontaneously.

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The publication of Garbage and the Goddess marks the fulfillment of Bubba Free John's Teaching work. The talks published here are an extension and elaboration of his essential Teachings, and the narratives and personal accounts are a demonstration of that instruction in the very lives of his disciples. The fundamental elements of Bubba's general Teaching are presented in his two previous volumes, The Knee of Listening and The Method of the Siddhas.

THE METHOD OF THE SIDDHAS: Talks with Bubba Free John (Franklin Jones) on the Spiritual Technique of the Saviors of Mankind

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THE KNEE OF LISTENING: The Early Life and Radical Spiritual Teachings of BUBBA FREE JOHN (Franklin Jones) (Foreword by Alan Watts)

Bubba Free John was born illumined, but in early childhood his natural state was undermined and lost. The first half of this book describes his absorbing odyssey to regain Enlightenment, and his revelatory conclusions upon doing so. The second half is written from the point of view of this realization, and communicates the radical dharma of Understanding, which is a fulfillment and extension of all the Great Teachings of the past.

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