From a site visitor: I’ve been reading your blog for some time now and agree with it all. My parents did not raise us to believe in a god, and I’ve often wondered why so many billions have failed to see a point you’ve made about how the god or gods that they worship just evolved from all of the old pagans gods that Abraham rolled into one. So my question is, how can so many people who are supposedly so educated still believe these myths you talk about?
[Continued from yesterday when this consideration was offered: Realize that for 5000 years, persons have been taught the same concept over and over: the concept that “there is a superpower in another world that is available for you to use to your advantage in this world.”]
F.: See why that concept of the existence of a magical power that can intervene in their behalf would appeal to people who struggle with the problems of meeting their basic survival needs, with the problems in their societies, with the problems in personal relationships, with problems evolving from imagined but seemingly real fears, with problems evolving from desires, ad infinitum. To wish for, hope for, dream about, and/or desire such power, and to be programmed to believe that access to such a care-taking power is available, results in billions of persons who are childishly dependent. It also results in billions of arrogant persons, assuming “good” ego-states as identities and playing their “good” roles in order to assure direct and continuing access to a superpower. They actually come to believe that they can control that superpower with their prayers and petitions and therefore imagine that they, too, are superpowerful when in "spiritual contact" with that other-world entity.
When you look at that multi-millenia scenario, is it any wonder that six billion people claim to be the “good and obedient children” of a protective, superpowerful “Father”? Is it any wonder that, fixated in their childish ways as they are, that they are willing to die for their cause…for their superpower? Is it any wonder that they are like adolescents, feeling completely invincible and perfectly willing to die at any second as a result of their illusory belief that eternal continuity of body-mind-personality awaits in another world?
Is it any wonder that they worship their superpower, sacrifice for their superpower, kill for their superpower, pray to their superpower, and beg their superpower for things they want? Is it any wonder that persons, living in their ego-states, dream up all kinds of fears and desires and then dream up a conceptualized superpower that will protect them from what they fear and that will give them what they desire? Is it any wonder that they become egomaniacs as a result of believing that they are "better" than "others" because they’re in relationship with the "correct" superpower? Is it any wonder that—in a fight to prove their version of the superpower is right and that others’ versions of the superpower are wrong—that they’ve been killing each other for thousands of years as a result of their debate? Is it any wonder—since persons operate from such a childish mindset—that they can’t get along and that fighting and war dominate the planet? Should it be any surprise that at no time--since the dreaming up of those concepts that persons fight about--has there ever been a moment when peace prevailed planetwide?
Is it any wonder that programmed persons think magically and supernaturally, as children always do? Is it any wonder that 99% of the earth’s population has abandoned a natural style of living and are trying to live within the unnatural constraints of their supernatural religious or spiritual programming? Is it any wonder that the most ignorant of tales that were dreamed up thousand of years ago by controlling men (and bought into by the most ignorant masses) is still being bought into by the ignorant masses today? Is it any wonder that male persons who identify with their bodies will kill others and themselves in order to gain an eternity in an imaginary place where their body desires, so they believe, will be fulfilled? Is it any wonder that two billion people believe that when they die they will sprout wings and become half-bird and half-human and will float about in some geographic place in the sky and spend eternity in the presence of their male god/superpower? Is it any wonder that 86% of the population of the U.S. believe that invisible, half-bird/half-human beings are floating about and watching over them?
You should see by now that “being educated” has nothing to do with the question you posed. When it comes to dogma and spiritual beliefs, only learned ignorance exists, so millions of highly educated persons continue to accept unquestioningly the magical beliefs that were programmed into them as children; therefore, they will automatically think and behave in a childish fashion.
You should also see why Maharaj estimated that only one in a million will ever break free of the bondage of the “mind” and complete the “journey” to total liberation from the insanity of programming and conditioning and enculturation and from the insanity of believing that the body-mind-personality triad can exist forever in some other “good” place if only they are “good” in this place (or if they confess and ask for forgiveness when they are “bad” in this place). Once all of the dualistic concepts of the planet are programmed into children, most of them will think and behave as children, no matter their age, for the remainder of the manifestation. So it is. To understand that 99% of the earth's population is fixated at the child stage might afford you an opportunity to be more understanding when you witness all of their childish behavior, or it might lead the re-purified consciousness to offer each--one at a time--an invitation to awaken from the dream and Realize. Please enter the silence of contemplation.
F.: See why that concept of the existence of a magical power that can intervene in their behalf would appeal to people who struggle with the problems of meeting their basic survival needs, with the problems in their societies, with the problems in personal relationships, with problems evolving from imagined but seemingly real fears, with problems evolving from desires, ad infinitum. To wish for, hope for, dream about, and/or desire such power, and to be programmed to believe that access to such a care-taking power is available, results in billions of persons who are childishly dependent. It also results in billions of arrogant persons, assuming “good” ego-states as identities and playing their “good” roles in order to assure direct and continuing access to a superpower. They actually come to believe that they can control that superpower with their prayers and petitions and therefore imagine that they, too, are superpowerful when in "spiritual contact" with that other-world entity.
When you look at that multi-millenia scenario, is it any wonder that six billion people claim to be the “good and obedient children” of a protective, superpowerful “Father”? Is it any wonder that, fixated in their childish ways as they are, that they are willing to die for their cause…for their superpower? Is it any wonder that they are like adolescents, feeling completely invincible and perfectly willing to die at any second as a result of their illusory belief that eternal continuity of body-mind-personality awaits in another world?
Is it any wonder that they worship their superpower, sacrifice for their superpower, kill for their superpower, pray to their superpower, and beg their superpower for things they want? Is it any wonder that persons, living in their ego-states, dream up all kinds of fears and desires and then dream up a conceptualized superpower that will protect them from what they fear and that will give them what they desire? Is it any wonder that they become egomaniacs as a result of believing that they are "better" than "others" because they’re in relationship with the "correct" superpower? Is it any wonder that—in a fight to prove their version of the superpower is right and that others’ versions of the superpower are wrong—that they’ve been killing each other for thousands of years as a result of their debate? Is it any wonder—since persons operate from such a childish mindset—that they can’t get along and that fighting and war dominate the planet? Should it be any surprise that at no time--since the dreaming up of those concepts that persons fight about--has there ever been a moment when peace prevailed planetwide?
Is it any wonder that programmed persons think magically and supernaturally, as children always do? Is it any wonder that 99% of the earth’s population has abandoned a natural style of living and are trying to live within the unnatural constraints of their supernatural religious or spiritual programming? Is it any wonder that the most ignorant of tales that were dreamed up thousand of years ago by controlling men (and bought into by the most ignorant masses) is still being bought into by the ignorant masses today? Is it any wonder that male persons who identify with their bodies will kill others and themselves in order to gain an eternity in an imaginary place where their body desires, so they believe, will be fulfilled? Is it any wonder that two billion people believe that when they die they will sprout wings and become half-bird and half-human and will float about in some geographic place in the sky and spend eternity in the presence of their male god/superpower? Is it any wonder that 86% of the population of the U.S. believe that invisible, half-bird/half-human beings are floating about and watching over them?
You should see by now that “being educated” has nothing to do with the question you posed. When it comes to dogma and spiritual beliefs, only learned ignorance exists, so millions of highly educated persons continue to accept unquestioningly the magical beliefs that were programmed into them as children; therefore, they will automatically think and behave in a childish fashion.
You should also see why Maharaj estimated that only one in a million will ever break free of the bondage of the “mind” and complete the “journey” to total liberation from the insanity of programming and conditioning and enculturation and from the insanity of believing that the body-mind-personality triad can exist forever in some other “good” place if only they are “good” in this place (or if they confess and ask for forgiveness when they are “bad” in this place). Once all of the dualistic concepts of the planet are programmed into children, most of them will think and behave as children, no matter their age, for the remainder of the manifestation. So it is. To understand that 99% of the earth's population is fixated at the child stage might afford you an opportunity to be more understanding when you witness all of their childish behavior, or it might lead the re-purified consciousness to offer each--one at a time--an invitation to awaken from the dream and Realize. Please enter the silence of contemplation.
