TODAY'S CONSIDERATIONS
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Were I to speak to any member of the non-realized masses - which per Maharaj's method of calculation would include all but a few thousand of the 7.6 billion people currently abiding on planet earth - and say to that listener, "There is no 'you'," or "There is no 'one'," or "There is nothing that is 'personal'," it is possible that every one of the 7.6 billion persons (less the few thousand that are realized) would be certain that I was totally insane.
Politics and religion and spirituality and money and possessions and family aside - truth be known - there is nothing that the non-realized likely value more than self (or the false selves they use as personal identities).
What is actually insane is the fact that if I were to ask rhetorically, "Where were you prior to conception?" while not expecting any answer at all, I might well receive over seven billion answers, so prevalent are the beliefs and concepts about a "pre-life" and / or an "afterlife."
For example, millions of persons have bought and read a book entitled Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential. The author and self-described "Medical Intuitive" Caroline Myss claims to have found that "when people don’t understand their purpose in life, the result can be depression, anxiety, fatigue, and eventually physical illness—in short, a spiritual malaise of epidemic proportions."
Maharaj's take: "There is no sense of purpose in my doing anything. Things
happens as they happen — not because I make them happen but it is because I am that they happen'
and
"Living is life’s only purpose."
He explained that this way: "The [real] does not identify itself with success or failure — the very idea of becoming this or that is unthinkable. The [realized] understand that success and failure are relative and related . . . that they are the very warp and weft of life. Learn from both and go beyond. If you have not learnt, repeat."
But the "Medical Intuitive" set forth this premise:
Have you ever wondered what your mission in life is supposed to be?
You probably know people who seem to have had their entire life mapped out from the day they were born. You may have envied their sure sense of what they were born to do — their work, career, marriage, and personal goals.
And yet you have probably also wondered whether that was really all there was to it. So have I. The answer I found is that there’s much more involved. I believe that each of us is guided by a Sacred Contract that our soul made before we were born. That Contract contains a wide range of agreements regarding all that we are intended to learn in this life.
It comprises not merely what kind of work we do but also our key relationships with the people who are to help us learn the lessons we have agreed to work on. Each of those relationships represents an individual Contract that is part of your overall Sacred Contract, and may require you to be in a certain place at a certain time to be with that person.
So in each case, a "you," - existing prior to conception and "birth" in some kind of "soul form" - made a contract with other people.
Now why, after reading the five paragraphs above, would anyone buy and read a book with those premises and then believe the concepts behind those premises? Only the realized can answer that accurately.
Moreover, only the realized will see what Maharaj referred to as humankind's "ignorance, stupidity, and insanity" in the comments readers / reviewers offered about the content in the book, including such comments as . . .
"Carolyn Myss explores the daunting questions of why we are here and why do certain issues occur in our lives."
"A great read. If you are a believer in 'everything happens for a reason,' you'll enjoy this."
Maharaj: "The cause of all is all."
"The ideas presented in the book is [sic] unique but make a lot of sense."
"The concept of having a sacred contract makes so much sense. Definitely worth it if you are wondering why you are here on earth."
[If a person is "wondering" why she or he is here on earth, that person needs to retake 4th grade biology.]
"This has been helping me learn about myself."
[Finally, an accurate statement, except the reviewer does not know that it all about her false self / selves.]
"I loved this book when I rented it from the Library [sic]. It opens the idea [sic] that our personal relationships become contracts that we live out in real time with real consequences. I love the book because it gives real life examples for easy comprehension of a new way of thinking. The book was in good condition, and shippped [sic] on time. I am happy to own this book!"
[The library wants back the book they loaned / rented, but . . . oh well.]
"So much to learn!"
[So much to un-learn.]
And finally . . .
"To understand oneself in the days we live in has become a higher priority than ever before and teachers / guides such as Caroline Myss have offered us the opportunity to do so with amazing tools such as Sacred Contracts. It is an excellent read and very interactive to take Sacred Contracts onto the platform of our life which is our every day practice firstly by understanding ourselves and why we do the things we do followed by understanding of others and the roles we play in each others [sic] life and life with understanding is viewing all from a higher floor or maybe even the penthouse if we are diligent enough."
[No comment can be offered after reading something so senseless it generates speechlessness.]
Next, billions have believed that they did not have a single prior life to the present one but have had many prior lives. Maharaj asked how one could be born again if one was never born even once in the first place. He said:
Reincarnation implies a reincarnating self. There is no such thing. The bundle of memories and hopes, called the 'I', imagines itself existing everlastingly and creates time to accommodate its false eternity: To be, I need no past or future. All experience is born of imagination; I do not imagine, so no birth or death happens to me. Only those who think themselves born can think themselves re-born. You are accusing me of having been born - I plead not guilty!"
"Prior lives" and "post lives" and "multiple lives" and "multiple deaths" and "multiple rebirths" followed by "even more lives" or "an eternal life": all of those are dreamed up concepts / beliefs without a shred of evidence to support them.
To the contrary, the most basic scientific facts debunk all of those concepts and all of the beliefs which have grown out of them.
To be continued.
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