Nirvana as Extinction, not as the ultimate heaven; what a proposition!
All spiritual seekers out there, down your tools, abandon your quest to master spirituality!
Why? Because spirituality is merely a concept, a myth that as all concepts has no place in reality and has to be discarded. The spiritual path mapped by your faith, beliefs or gurus that you follow, is leading you nowhere. Any defined path will keep you inside the set body of knowledge and eventually, you’ll be running in circles, not making any progress in your search of truth. J. Krishnamurti said: “Truth is a pathless land.”

The cornerstone of many religions and belief systems – the free will, is also a concept only. According to Advaita there’s only one substance. Consequently, it is impossible to have more than one element, matter, choice, option, etc. Imagine being a droplet in the ocean. Can you choose to go your own way? The illusion is that you choose to go this way, or that your “I” created the movement in a particular direction. In reality, the ocean goes its own way, and you follow. From the neuroscience’s point of view, you never had any choice – your authorship of action arose after the action. When fluids (neurotransmitters) in your brain come together in a chemical reaction, you have an experience called “I”. And the world that we all take so seriously is only there as long as there’s an “I” to perceive it.

But, when you consider that the perceiver and the perceived are both an illusion, then those brain fluids don’t even exist. Remember, all perceivable, all conceivable is an illusion. That’s why in the Diamond Sutra, Buddha said: “There’s no world.” Not surprisingly, people run away from him, when they heard it. The same reaction one would expect today, some 2,500 years later, when peoples’ only reason to live seem to be the betterment of their world… that doesn’t even exist.

As for the truly dedicated spiritual seeker, the work concentrates on finding who you are; the meaning of your “I”. Yet, according to post-deconstruction process, the “I” is symbolic representation of nothing. The nervous system is hardwired to produce an “I”. Physics suggests that the illusion of “I” appears through the process of a nuclear exchange. However, the intrinsic nature of “I” is to experience itself as cause, or a center with a location, or as a point of origination, source or a doer. If that sensation falls away, that is Nirvana as extinction. That’s why Buddha said: “No being has ever entered Nirvana.” Shocking? Turning your world upside down?
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj said: “Spirituality is not a child’s play; my sentences will tear to pieces… anyone who listens to them.” Don’t be afraid. Open yourself to the teachers of Truth, and Realize That what you are!