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2. Here, with those who are still driven to talk about "God," the "Son of God," the "Holy Spirit," "Buddha," "Krishna," etc., etc., etc., the invitation to them is to view those as verbs, not nouns. See the end of the post for the full meaning and implications of that.
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THE SEEDS OF DUALITY WHICH PRODUCE DUALITY'S PROGENY:
Offspring Number Forty-eight =
No Interest in Being Truly Free and Independent
THE MASSES PREFER DEPENDENCY AND CODEPENDENCY AND ATTACHMENT TO THINGS WHICH ROB PERSONS OF THEIR FREEDOM
Today the discussion will return to a sharing of pointers from the book entitled Overcoming the Fear of Being Totally Independent:
To review: Most will never seek, 99% believing that they have already found (via their organized religion or spiritual program) either
[a] the answers to all questions that need to be found or
[b] a way to explain away their religion's inability to provide all of the answers (viz., "He works in mysterious ways").
Claiming that they have "been made whole and free," they are actually slaves to the (often contradictory) content of their supposedly holy texts and to those persons who claim that they have been "chosen" to teach the lessons of the holy texts and to tell all persons how they should think and talk and behave and live and, yes, die.
Of the few who do claim that they are seeking freedom, most of them will never find that because - as with pregnancies - there are no degrees of pregnancy and no degrees of freedom and because most are afraid of total freedom.
First, most will not seek total freedom because they are in denial about the fact that they are imprisoned: "I have a great life"; "I have been blessed by God - I have a truly blessed life"; or, "Hey, that's just the way the world is: sometimes there's peace and sometimes there's war . . . sometimes it's good and sometimes it's bad."
Secondly, as Maharaj noted, persons do not want to let go of everything, of every attachment. Specifically, they do not want to let go of their false identities and the stroking of their egos; they do not want to let go of their egotism-based hierarchies on which they have assumed a top spot;
they do not want to let go of the learned ignorance which they were taught first by parents and then by relatives and friends and schools and by their cultures in general; they do not want to let go of the notion that they have all of the answers or let go of the admiration they gain by sharing their knowledge (a.k.a., learned ignorance).
Third, persons do not want to give up their quest for love, though the only version of love they understand is the type that forms dependencies and co-dependencies and though they are seeking love mainly from those who are incapable of loving, incapable of understanding the Oneness, and therefore, incapable of knowing the difference in Real Love and the versions of (false) "love" that the masses speak of. Too, the dependency and co-dependency that results from that quest further blocks any aspiration for total freedom.
Fourth, most persons do not want total freedom because they would have to be free of their desire for power, both "Unseen" and "seen" (the latter including money; possessions; men of god who persons think can help them both now and later; and, witnessed recently, the doctors they worship, imploring and employing those persons in the hope that they can prolong the body's existence, even if that reaches such insane lengths that the adult-aged body once again operates like that of a child who cannot control even its most basic bodily functions while others stand by watching that travesty and talking in their sleep, saying, "Life is precious").
Fifth, most will never seek total freedom because they prefer their attachment to the conceptualized consciousness rather than abiding as the transcendent consciousness that
(1) allows the Absolute to be overlaid on the relative and that
(2) allows the somethingness to be abandoned totally and
(3) allows the total freedom of the nothingness to manifest.
Last, most will never seek total freedom because they are attached to their false identities associated with the body or the "mind" or the personality / personalities.
Attached to the false as they are and attached as they are to the illusory concepts of "longevity" and "continuity," they will desire to have - and will fear not having - just one more year of manifestation, or at least one more month, or even one more week, or even one more day, or even ten more seconds:
"Just keep everything hooked up, Doc, so you can give me ten more seconds. Don't anyone pull the plug."And when the plug is pulled or when the consciousness unmanifests naturally or by accident, one will likely hear such platitudes as: "He truly loved life" or "She died doing what she loved" or "He lived a good, full life" or "She died before her time."
Last, most will never seek total freedom because they are attached to their false identities associated with the body or the "mind" or the personality / personalities.
Attached to the false as they are and attached as they are to the illusory concepts of "longevity" and "continuity," they will desire to have - and will fear not having - just one more year of manifestation, or at least one more month, or even one more week, or even one more day, or even ten more seconds:
"Just keep everything hooked up, Doc, so you can give me ten more seconds. Don't anyone pull the plug."And when the plug is pulled or when the consciousness unmanifests naturally or by accident, one will likely hear such platitudes as: "He truly loved life" or "She died doing what she loved" or "He lived a good, full life" or "She died before her time."
But what will not be said is: "She / He reached a state of total freedom and, post-realization, did abide to the end of the manifestation without attachment or desire or fear or delusion or belief in false ideas and concepts or ignorance or insanity or any of the host of personality disorders that drive the masses."
Maharaj would ask now: "What are you not willing to let go of?"
Here, you are asked, "How free do you want to be, especially knowing that freedom comes in only one type or form or variety, namely, the total variety?"
To be continued.
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Here, with those who are still driven to talk about "God," the "Son of God," the "Holy Spirit," "Buddha," "Krishna," etc., etc., etc., the invitation to them is to view those as verbs, not nouns.
THE EXPLANATION
If looked at as nouns, they point to illusions and are, therefore, a total waste of time to even discuss; if looked at as verbs which are resulting in certain sane but rare behaviors among humanity, then they are worthy of some attention during the relative existence.
Meaning? There are members of certain groups who say things such as "My concept of God in the past was of a weak God, an absentee God, A Santa Claus-type God, a mean, punishing, vindictive God, etc. Today, I am in close contact with a loving and caring God whom I worship and praise and glorify and give thanks to."
The reply to that usually goes like this: "If you are in contact with a God that wants to be worshipped and praised and glorified, then you're dealing with someone like yourself - a narcissist - and hanging out with narcissists will never bring an end to your narcissism (that narcissism evidenced by the fact that you think you are "godly").
Next, in the phrase 'loving and caring God,' any supposed God that truly had her or his act together would tell you that the totally irrelevant part of that phrase is 'God' and that the only part that is relevant is the "loving and caring" part.
"That is, a non-narcissistic god / goddess would say, "I care not an iota about being worshipped and praised and glorified by you or anyone else. How arrogant and insecure and needy would I have to be to want that? Forget the man-made, dreamed up noun 'God' and focus on the 'God as a verb' understanding and then go forth and let loving and caring be verbs - not adjectives - and let them generate the act of love and the act of caring and let those actions manifest through you."
Yeshu'a (Jesus) and Pope John Paul II and Pope Francis were spot on:
"No one shall ever see 'the kingdom of heaven.' It is within"
--Yeshu'a (Jesus)
and
"Heaven and earth shall fade away."
--Yeshu'a (Jesus)
and
"Heaven and hell are not geographic places
but are states of mind, nothing more than
concepts dreamed up by men."
--Pope John Paul II
"There is no hell."
--Pope Francis, the current pope
in an interview with journalist Eugenio Scalfari,
a writer used by the Pope to issue off the record
teachings which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.
[That said, would that the popes who have shown the courage to reject a core concept of their dogma - namely, "hell" - would find the additional courage required to question the very existence of their institution in light of the centuries-long cover-up of their history of raping children and in light of the mental and emotional and psychological scarring of billions of their members past and present.
And that need for courage also applies as questions need to be asked about why so many other sky cults are still being supported and allowed to continue to exist as well. When certain types of programming and conditioning have been shown to blind the masses, they should end. Will they? Not likely. Why?
Because what the masses think and say and do is most influenced by the international crime families which hold sway over the masses as criminals conduct their planet-wide operations. What are the major international crime families and which are the most influential and have the largest memberships?
The Mafia / La Cosa Nostra; the Catholic Church (with it 1.2 billion followers); Protestant and Evangelical Churches (with over 1.2 billion followers) like the one I was raised in where the youth director molested and sexually assaulted young girls; big business which has long created environments in which people have been abused; powerful political bodies like the U.S. Congress, etc., etc., etc.)
With all of those crime families, neither the followers nor the leadership ever voluntarily step down or shut down their criminal activities. Be they gangs, organized crime families, religions, big business, politicians, etc., they all want control and they all want power and they all want money, and nothing internal will interfere with the driving forces at play.
The masses must demand that all those in charge must step down and their groups and institutions must shut down, and there's the real problem because the continuation of their crimes are enabled not as much by the people running such crime organizations as they are enabled by the masses of people who - wanting some perceived "payoff" - remain involved with them and give them money and support them and aid and abet the continued existence of those criminal enterprises and thus facilitate the ability of church criminals and political criminals and other types of criminals to continue to commit their crimes.]
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