Today's Considerations
[In the previous post, this was shared:]
Maharaj said, “I talk to you from the perspective of the
universal consciousness.” So the question now is, “From what perspective do you
talk?” Maharaj said that no one meeting him outside the loft would ever assume that
he is different or that he is aware of something that most are not. If not with
a seeker, he spoke in a not-uncommon manner and conducted himself in a totally
not-uncommon manner fashion. He abided naturally, in an all-normal manner.
What about you? Are you talking in a way that sets you apart
from others? Are you wearing garb and accouterments that are intended to
distinguish you from the masses? Are you praying in public to show what a
highly religious or ultra-spiritual being you are?
In such cases, it was pointed out, a new and different perspective
is being called for.
There are, in fact, many signs and a variety of indicators when a new and different perspective
is being called for in order to replace a warped perspective, yet that fact will
not likely ever register with either seekers or non-seekers:
AMONG NON–SEEKERS
Among those who are presently non–seekers, most will never seek
a different perspective from the one handed down to them by their parents and culture, and
the most influential of all of the influences on their perspective will be the dogma
introduced to them by their parents. Ninety-seven percent of all persons on the
planet claim an affiliation with one organized religion or another. Many among
the remaining 3% claim proudly, “I am not religious. I am spiritual!”
So who among those will not seek a different perspective
from the one they are attached to? Consider:
Those who believe that they have reached their destination will
not plan a “journey.”
Those with a perspective which is firmly rooted in and inflexibly
set in the belief that they have either
(a) found all of the answers or have (b) found
a religious leader who can give them all of the answers or who believe that
they have (c) been given a holy text which has all the answers
will never seek a
different perspective.
Those who have been programmed, conditioned, etc. to never
question what they have been told by authority figures will never seek a
different perspective.
Yet the fact that most all of those persons who claim to have found peace when peace is obviously
not the least bit present, and who claim to have found humility when humility is not the least bit present, indicates a need for a different perspective.
Those who feel that they are better than "others" not involved
in religious activities or spiritual exercises will not seek a different perspective. (Of course. Who would
want to change one’s views if one believes that he or she is being made better
than others by virtue of their current beliefs and perspective?)
And those who are called out on their belief that they are better
than others - while claiming that their dogma teaches that they should be humble - will sometimes
modify their stated perspective and explain, “What I mean by that statement is that I am a better
person than I would be otherwise with my religion / spirituality.”
Per their warped perspective, that seems to make sense to
them, rather than answering this: “What is it within you that is so vile that the
very worst would soon show up were you to stop your religious activities or
spiritual exercises?” or "How could insanely-destructive thinking and the resultant behaviors of that type of thinking - which you claim has been removed - suddenly manifest again if your sickness has been properly treated?" (Often, the most insane statement of all is offered in answer to that: "I have been restored to sanity, but the restoration only lasts for twenty-four hours; then, I need more treatment or my restored sanity will be lost and I will return to my insanely-destructive way of behaving.")
AMONG SEEKERS / SPIRITUAL JNANIS / KNOWERS
Among those who are presently seekers or who believe that
they have found what they were seeking, most will never seek a different perspective
from the one that is currently driving them.
Those who have been convinced that they are now something special
or holy or blessed or righteous or saintly or godly or sanctified or divine or
pure or virtuous or sublime or "Real" will all (contrary to their claims) believe that they
are different from and better than, so they will not be interested in seeking a
different perspective from their present one which says that "they are now standing in the full light of the noonday sun, being bathed in a state of Full Enlightenment." To the contrary,
Maharaj said that those types are actually still standing in the dull light of
dawn, totally fooled by what he called the nonsense that comes with “kindergarten-level
spirituality” and with a "kindergarten-level understanding."
Who among those will not seek a different perspective from
the one which they are currently attached to, even though their thoughts and words and actions
show clearly that a new and different perspective is being called for?
Consider:
Those who, ironically, do all that they can to show that they are
different from most (even as they talk about non-duality and the unicity and
the Oneness and the unity beyond the multiplicity), are screaming for a new and different
perspective. Will it be sought in such cases? Hardly ever.
Those who wear special accouterments to distinguish them from “others” or who wear supposedly sacred clothing / religious apparel
/ spiritual costumes which supposedly sets them off from others because of their attire’s significance . . . those too are screaming for a new and different perspective. Will it be sought in such
cases? Hardly ever.
Additionally, those whose false modesty drives them to wear lowly rags as outward proof of the “truly humble state” of their inner condition are screaming for a new and different perspective. Will it be sought in such cases? Hardly ever.
Additionally, those whose false modesty drives them to wear lowly rags as outward proof of the “truly humble state” of their inner condition are screaming for a new and different perspective. Will it be sought in such cases? Hardly ever.
Those who expose all whom they come into contact with to their supposedly profound and unique take of such topics as “life” and “meaning”
and “the afterlife” are screaming for a new and different
perspective. Will it be sought in such cases? Hardly ever.
Those with beliefs regarding such concepts as different-from-ment
and better-than-ment and apart-from-ment are persons with beliefs that are
screaming for a new and different perspective. Will it be sought in such cases?
Hardly ever.
All which generates a false sense of being apart from, different
from, better than, divided, split, fragmented, disconnected, torn, unique,
special, singular, exceptional, distinctive, matchless, rare, individualized,
extraordinary, exclusive, elite, uncommon, or incomparable are exhibiting
beliefs which are rooted in the deceit and deception and distortion of duality,
and those trapped in deceit and deception and distortion are screaming for a new
and different perspective. Will it be sought in such cases? Hardly ever.
Yet the only one whom any of that should matter to is to the one
who is being invited to focus on her or his own deceit and deception and distortion (which was
originally their programmers’ hand-me-down deceit and deception and distortion
but which was accepted unquestioningly and which has, therefore, become his or her own self-deceit and self-deception
and self -distortion).
The rub? The Ultimate Sickness is like every other sickness
to the degree that neither can be properly treated unless the Sickness or the sickness is first properly
diagnosed and unless the diagnosis is accepted.
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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