Wednesday, December 27, 2017

MAHARAJ AND RELIGION'S ANTI-SCIENCE STANCE, Part Forty-One

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Freedom from All Beliefs: Clearing Away the Final Vestiges, Part Two 

The objective witnessing of all of the relative chaos and all of the relative misery which have occurred historically on an international basis would reveal that it has always been the beliefs of the people in one nation that drove them to engage in wars with people in another nation who had different beliefs. 

The objective witnessing of all of the relative chaos and all of the relative misery that have occurred historically on a national basis would reveal that it has always been the beliefs of people in one part of a nation that drove them to engage in wars with people in another part of that nation. 

And the objective witnessing of all of the relative chaos and all of the relative misery that have occurred on what people take to be a "personal basis" would reveal that it has always been their "personal" beliefs that have driven them to argue and fight and separate and even, in many cases, to murder. 

It has been shared before on this site that in the U.S., 59% of all women killed annually, and 41% of all men killed annually, are killed during the act of arguing and / or fighting and / or "breaking up" as their conflicting beliefs drive their words of conflict and their actions of conflict. 

Yet of all of the requirements for full realization and for total freedom and for complete independence to happen, the requirement to abandon beliefs - and one's belief in false identities - is probably the most resisted. 

It might seem that, if one saw the international and national and "personal" consequences of humankind's beliefs as referenced above, that all beliefs would be abandoned not only willingly but also posthaste. 

Yet like the addict that has opportunities on a regular basis to witness the (relatively) detrimental and the (relatively) disadvantageous results of his or her addiction but then ignores the evidence and continues to have all thoughts and words and deeds driven by the addictive personality disorder, so it is with persons and their beliefs. 

Persons have the opportunity on a regular basis to witness the results of their beliefs and the (relatively) detrimental and the (relatively) disadvantageous words and actions that those beliefs inspire; yet they cling to those beliefs the same way that a child clings to its mother when a stranger tries to take the infant into its arms. 

Relatedly, sages have long invited seekers to abandon personality, because each assumed persona or identity brings with it an entire system of beliefs about "needs" and "desires" and "rights" and "expectations" and "demands" and "entitlements" and "dependencies" and "co-dependencies." 

A man in the New South Wales area of Australia admitted that he was "afraid" of giving up all of his beliefs, including his belief in the personas that have supposedly identified him for decades. Another seeker asked recently, "I mean, am I going to fall off the earth or what?" 

The reply: "You should be so fortunate." 

Maharaj said: " . . . All you need is to realize that you are dreaming. Stop imagining, stop believing. See the contradictions, the incongruities, the falsehood and the sorrow of the human state, the need to go beyond. Within the immensity of space floats a tiny atom of consciousness and in it the entire universe is contained." 

Interesting, is it not, that persons can catalogue decades of misery and suffering, see the way that misery and suffering was generated by beliefs and personas that drove thoughts and words and deeds and self-destructive behavior, but then still want to cling to those false identities and their (relatively) destructive beliefs? 

"Believers" are never free but are trapped in their beliefs and imprisoned within their culture which only accepts and affirms those who believe what the culture would have them believe. 

Those labeled as "Non-Believers" will be treated as pariahs and outcasts, either literally or figuratively or both, within their culture which only accepts those who believe what the culture would have them believe. 

The realized, on the other hand, that are not plagued by beliefs at all (and thus might be pointed to with the term "No-Belief-ers") cannot be imprisoned, cannot be affected by those that would cast them out, and cannot be affected by those who consider them to be "pariahs." 

Once the bogus beliefs of one's culture are seen to be of no value at all and are then cast aside, then the belief-based opinions of the members of that culture are also given no value at all. 

Regarding the delusional fear of loss (be it the fear of losing false identities or false beliefs or false acceptance and false love by one's family or friends or culture or nation) Maharaj's advice was to understand that if you will give up all, then you will gain all. If you understand the wisdom beyond the irony of that statement, you might be prepared to abandon all that is false and then see all that is truly real . . . and Real.

The fact: there is nothing standing between you and total freedom, total independence, total awareness, the total understanding of truth and the complete understanding of the functioning of the totality except the beliefs which persons mistakenly think are "their own beliefs" when - in fact - all beliefs are actually just "their beliefs" - just the erroneous beliefs of "others" that have been unquestioningly accepted as one's own. 

To be continued.
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