Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Part "DD": ADDITIONAL UNDERSTANDINGS VIA THE FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT

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29. During both of "richard's" visits to the loft, Maharaj "pegged him" instantly. Maharaj saw that a person had entered his loft who had "intentions" about receiving "benefits" as a result of Enlightenment and Realization and spiritual exercises and meditation practices. During both visits, Maharaj encouraged him to avoid Big Name Teachers, to abandon his practices, to abandon the belief that benefits were available via his doingness, to understand the beingness instead, and - most of all - to understand the non-beingness and to understand that which is even beyond beingness and non-beingness.

Eventually, Richard would become one of the few that would "get it." When that "richard" climbed the stairs and sat down on the floor of the loft, Maharaj obviously "saw" something in the person sitting before him which led Maharaj to suspect that that speck of blocked consciousness before him might just "beat the odds," might actually allow the pointers to steep for a while as happens with a fine brew of tea, might then reach the point where he would finally "get it," might then move beyond the quagmire in which richard had become stuck, and might thereafter become free.

Yet all the while that Maharaj was sharing level-appropriate pointers to visitors, he understood full well that the results of his talks were, for the most part, going to be nil. He originally predicted that only one out of 100,000 would "get it"; later, he amended his guesstimate to "one out of 1,000,000"; later, he revised that to "one out of 10,000,000."

Nowadays, there is a popular "school of thought" (meaning there can be no truth associated with that school for three reasons: one, it involves a belief; two, it involves a popular belief; three, it is rooted in human thinking which involves nothing but dualistic falsehoods). The school of thought suggests that a "New Age of Enlightenment" is sweeping the globe. One advaitin on another continent observed recently that she is surrounded by persons "who are convinced that 'consciousness' is evolving and we are heading towards a global awakening." That is a thought which is becoming more and more widespread, in many cases traceable to the publication of one book in particular by a Big Name Teacher.

Talk of "consciousness evolving" and of "a global awakening" has been increasing for some seven years or more since that book's publication. Yet conscious-energy is conscious-energy. It cannot "evolve." Once manifested, it will be blocked. In a few cases, via the non-dual "path," (or via some effective professional counseling in other cases) the consciousness can be unblocked; again, though, Maharaj would note that such "unblocking" is only going to happen in a few cases, never on "a global basis." Global "warming"? Definitely. Global "awakening"? Never. The key point: consciousness can be blocked or unblocked, but the unblocking of consciousness does not make the consciousness "evolve." It simply allows it to see clearly.

[Last week, an opthamologist provided a prescription for a new pair of glasses. What is being viewed now is being seen far more clearly than before. But does that means my eyes "evolved" or that my "eyesight" evolved? Of course not. Something came along that allowed clearer seeing to happen. Nothing more was involved. The same can happen with the blocked consciousness which can, by no means, "evolve."]

Yet that belief in evolving consciousness and in a global awakening that is happening right now has spread since that book was published, in spite of the lack of an iota of evidence to support the claim.

While there is . . .

no empirical evidence that fewer persons are asleep while thinking they are awake;

no empirical evidence that fewer persons are trapped in personality identification; and

no empirical evidence that that fewer people are suffering from the Ultimate Sickness and its symptoms of ignorance and insanity,

there is . . .

considerable empirical evidence that more persons than ever are walking in their sleep, are talking in their sleep, are being driven by the subconscious agendas of assigned or assumed multiple personalities, and are suffering from personality disorders which are disintegrating into serious neuroses and psychoses.

Yet more and more supposedly spiritual persons are buying into the assertions in that book which touts the advantages of a new form of religion and a new form of spirituality and a new type of consciousness which has now evolved and which had never been available before and which allows for a new kind of salvation; which touts the advantages of having a new concept of God (though non-duality encourages freedom from belief in all concepts);

which touts the advantages of a new understanding of what sinners are (those "lost in unconsciousness"); which touts the advantages of a new heaven and new earth; which touts the ability of those who now possess that new type of consciousness to aid in their "real purpose" (supposedly - and egotistically - to "aid with the progress of humanity"); and which touts the advantages of awakening to one's own consciousness (though Maharaj made clear that consciousness is the root of, and support for, all duality).

Contrary to some of the extremely-high estimates being tossed about nowadays regarding how many have recently become "awakened," were Maharaj here, he would stand firm with his predictions that few will ever awaken; he would stand firm with his point that awareness - not consciousness - leads to an awakening and to being restored to sanity; he would stand firm with his point that their is no God and that it is humans who have "invented God"; that there are neither sinners nor virtuous persons; that there is no "one" to receive any belief or advantage; that there is no "one" to be saved; that there is nothing to be "saved" from; and that there is no "progress" or "purpose."

That said, yes, there are those with some level of understanding who are functioning in certain public venues and who are presently sharing the non-dual message (either consciously or intuitively). The eBook below with non-dual quotations also offers evidence of such cases, providing empirical evidence that some playwrights and screenwriters and producers and musicians are producing movies and shows and songs which - intuitively or otherwise - tap into the inner guru and trigger in audience members an internal resonance which allows some to tap into - for a few moments at least - that which they know but that which they have no awareness of knowing.

Can those cases lead to a full-blown, global awakening? Hardly. Can anyone or anything produce a new type of consciousness? Absurd. Yet there are such cases happening nowadays where persons are being exposed to some version of non-dual pointers (as evidenced in some of the lyrics in such well-received songs as "I Don't Want to Be Anything Other Than Me" and "I Just Want You to Know Who I Am.") More on that tomorrow.

To be continued.

Please enter the silence of contemplation.

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