TODAY'S CONSIDERATIONS
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THE CONCLUSION
SO WHY REACH A "NO-BELIEF," "ZERO CONCEPTS," "NO MIND" STATE AS RECOMMENDED BY MAHARAJ AND THEREAFTER ABIDE UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE ELEMENTAL BRAIN RATHER THAN THE DISTORTED, FICTION-FILLED MIND?
To be sick - and to love what is making one sick - is insane.
The Catch-22 with those who are suffering three of the key symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness - identified by Maharaj as "ignorance, stupidity, and insanity" - is that many of them love their symptoms. Others among those persons deny their Sickness; and many are proud of their Sickness, displaying it as if it were a badge of honor.
Many think that the Ultimate Medicine used to treat the Sickness - namely, the removal of all of the false beliefs stored in the mind - is an ungodly, Satanic treatment which, if used, will cast their eternal souls into one version or another of hell (as if they actually have "eternal souls" and as if there are various versions of "hell").
After Maharaj abandoned the use of religion and spirituality as parts of the Ultimate Medicine treatment plan and focused on the mind alone as the root of the problem, he began advising seekers to “Give up spirituality” and to “Follow your normal (rather than supernatural) inclinations" and to "forget spirituality."
He did not offer that advice became he began to resent religion and resent spirituality. He did it because he came to understand that those are the greatest sources ever of distortion and delusions and lies and fairy tales. If cowboys had spread as many ignorant beliefs as religion and spirituality, he would have advised seekers to “Give up listening to cowboys” and to "Forget everything that cowboys have ever told you."
In fact, Maharaj not only advised seekers to give up religious beliefs and spiritual beliefs but also warned them to stay away from those he called "The Big Name Teachers," making clear those who are popular among the masses are popular because they are reinforcing the wrong thinking and ignorance which is commonplace among the masses. The message, therefore, was not just about avoiding religion and spirituality but about avoiding any and every source of distortions and falsehoods.
Big businesses which inundate the airways with false advertising? Avoid the belief in their message. Politicians who inundate the airways with one lie after another? Avoid the belief in their message. Big Name Teachers who inundate the airways and the bookstores with nonsense erroneously labeled as "non-duality"? Avoid the belief in their message.
And the same applies to religious and spiritual leaders who attack the sources of truth and facts and recommend accepting their beliefs unquestioningly and on blind faith alone.
Yet the advantage in the age-old "Liars vs. Truth Tellers Standoffs" has long rested with "The Distorters"; the snake oil salesmen; the politicians on the national or international stage; the religious leaders who have mega churches and mega television audiences; those whom Maharaj warned seekers to avoid, namely, the ones he pointed to with the term "The Big Name Teachers." Why?
Because they distort the non-dual message for the financial gain which comes with offering a "popular message" rather than the unvarnished truth. Then there are the advertisers of the biggest businesses whose ads are total distortions, exaggerations, misrepresentations, or outright lies and the famous who are interviewed regularly by mass media outlets and whose overexposure allows them to reach an audience in the millions - or even larger - each day.
In other words, as a tennis announcer might say (were she or he describing the actions taken in the "Liars vs. Truth Tellers Faceoff") . . . "Advantage Liars!"
The loudest, who also have had the largest audiences, are not the truth tellers. As Grandmother's Cherokee kin and fellow indigenous peoples say, "Truth is nothing more than the space between exhalation and inhalation."
While those trapped in the Ultimate Sickness espouse "freedom of speech," the wisest sages have long extolled the virtue of "freedom from speech."
Who have been the quietest with the smallest audiences? And who have been some of the loudest with the largest audiences over the ages and who nowadays are the loudest with the largest audiences?
During the last 2000 years
Of course for thousands of years, the earliest religions and later the Catholic Church and the Protestant Church were, and continue to be, a global force in the shaping of beliefs which control thoughts and words and actions. Both of the latter built huge armies for conquest and control.
They aligned with political leaders - kings and queens initially - and the two (religions and politicians) formed what remains one of the most powerful and influential forces ever. They remain to this day among the loudest with the largest audiences.
Move forward to the 1930's
Adolf Hitler spoke to small crowds when he first moved from Austria to Germany, but as his talks reflected more and more the popular Aryan / Germanic beliefs about "racial superiority" and "superior genes" and the theory of "eugenics," more and more Germans began showing up at his rallies.
Eventually, 20,000 and sometimes even 30,000 would often attend each of his rallies, and the national broadcasts of his speeches - which often reached sixty million+ Germans - would eventually reach a regular global audience numbering in the multi-millions.
The same was happening with Benito Mussolini in Italy as he - as was the case with Hitler - began by forging a paramilitary Fascist movement; promised the German people more money and housing and more space / land; seized dictatorial powers by taking control of the press and disempowering the judiciary; built a huge military presence; and then began invading and conquering neighboring countries.
Move to the present
One person who is the loudest and is reaching the largest audience right now is the President of the U.S. He has long bragged about his "good genes" and in interviews over the years has credited his genes for everything from "his health to his success." While endorsing the theory of eugenics, he has also claimed that his children and grandchildren will benefit from his family's superior genes which can be traced back to his Germanic origins when his original family name was "Drumpf".
Indeed, his children have got the message, so his daughter Ivanka said that the women who get the most catcalls - the most attention from males - are the women who are "chromosomally correct."
The large audience for the last 85 years or more has become the abnormal norm.
Maharaj made clear that the genuine non-dual message is not offered to large audiences and was never intended to be presented to the masses as such; nor is it offered, he said, in large ashrams where teachers have become millionaires; nor is it presented in large lecture halls or theaters or arenas or in the books written by the millionaire and billionaire "Big Name Teachers"; nor will it be found in the books or interviews or speeches offered by Big Name Politicians / Big Name Religious Leaders / Big Name Spiritual Giants / Big Name Billionaire Business People, etc.;
instead, he noted that the genuine non-dual message is offered in the living room of a small house; in the loft about a flat in Bombay; or in small gatherings in borrowed facilities.
By contrast, millions if not billions have heard or read the president's daughter offer up the pro-duality message which she and her family has long espoused. She wrote the following pro-duality view in one of her books and has repeated it in many interviews and all across the social media spectrum:
“Perception is more important than reality. If someone perceives something to be true, it is more important than if it is in fact true. This doesn't mean you should be duplicitous or deceitful, but don't go out of your way to correct a false assumption if it plays to your advantage.”
Were someone given the assignment to . . .
"write in three sentences the most dualistic bunch of nonsense that you can come up with by talking in your sleep as a result of having been programmed and conditioned and indoctrinated by the persons who passed down to you their BS beliefs"
no one could have packed more duality-based distortion and ignorance into so short a passage.
Maharaj eventually estimated that only a few thousand on the planet will - at any given moment - be realized ("realized" meaning, as he said, "freed from the belief in any and all learned ignorance").
Indeed, what chance do those abiding in wisdom have when they are offering non-dual pointers to truth to only a few at a time each day when the loudest dualists reach the biggest audience, an audience in the millions and sometimes in the billions, on a daily basis?
It is, by comparison, like dripping one drop of truth into an ocean of ignorance, an ocean of dogma, an ocean of politically-inspired hatred, an ocean of falsehoods and dishonesty, deceit, fabrications, deceptions and foolishness (or, to use Maharaj's words, into an ocean of "ignorance, stupidity, and insanity).
Yet for a few, the increasingly-popular attacks on science and on facts will not be ignored by the those few that speak from the standpoint of the universal consciousness and that share the age-old wisdom and truth which they now understand.
Whenever lies are being told, the wise will challenge the telling of untruths, knowing full well that only a few - or none at all - will come across their pointers and grasp them completely.
Peace, Unity, Love and Light.
Peace, Unity, Love and Light.
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