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You—as is the case with all persons—were raised to avoid, namely, to avoid displeasing adults; to avoid punishment; and either to avoid doing the things that caused you to be labeled “bad” or to avoid getting caught (even if the things you were doing were natural, like lusting for someone or like “wasting seeds,” as if there aren’t more than enough to “waste”).
You likely had the Addictive Personality Disorder modeled in your home, 99.9% of all persons being addicted to something; however, it might be that the Addictive Personality Disorder is not one of the primary causes of the complications you referenced. You might suffer from its twin, the Avoidant Personality Disorder, which requires a totally different treatment plan.
Addictions complicate the relative existence, but so too does avoidance. As mentioned yesterday, some are addicted to their religious and/or spiritual beliefs and groups and programs. While those addictions are associated with the master and secondary addictions among humans, they are not the same.
The master addiction among humans is the desire to control, and the secondary addiction is the desire for power in order to be able to control. You have been told by your current advisers to give up your desire for power and to develop a desire for…their power. Yet was not your addiction to power/control a part of your problem all along?
Here, you will not be encouraged to seek power, and that has always made nisarga yoga less popular than other approaches that offer seekers so much "more," including power. You will be invited instead to give up all that you have accumulated and to be free of the desire to “get” as well as the fear of “not getting.” You will be invited to a position of neutrality. You will be invited to see that you can control nothing and therefore require no power.
By contrast, how truly simple the relative existence is for the Realized who are merely enjoying the beingness—from one moment to the next—without the burden of hoping and pleading and wishing for more now...and in the future...and forever.
All that said, remember that nothing has complicated the relative existence more than the source of the most convoluted concepts of all, namely, ignorant ideologies, personalizing philosophies, and self-righteous religions. All encourage spiritual workaholism rather than relaxing and taking it easy and enjoying the trip rather than being preoccupied with some imaginary destination.
All encourage the pursuit of a mirage…or various mirages. No wonder persons never feel fulfilled: that which they seek to satisfy themselves does not even exist. People go from one sanctuary to the next but do not find the truth. In fact, the only real sanctuary is in the unmanifested state.
To that end, many persons commit suicide, but that need not be the case. The body need not end for You—the Real You—to be free. In order to begin the shift toward freedom and simplicity, all that needs to end is the pursuit of the unreal and your attachment to the complex.
Possibly your acculturation and your “mind” chatter have left you addicted to chaos, and like so many of your current advisers, you are actually only giving lip service to really seeking the peace and the quiet and the simplicity and total freedom.
Yet the appeal of suggestions offered here is limited in the view of most persons because the invitation is to wake up and to give up rather than to blindly follow the culture’s programming to get.
Substitute dependencies and substitute co-dependencies will likely feel more “familiar” and therefore more “comfortable” if the corrupted “mind” is allowed to continue and to draw such erroneous conclusions that you will take to be truth. And little is more complicated than a relative existence that is dominated by dependencies and co-dependencies.
Maharaj suggested to seekers that they “go back.” The farther back you go, the more the miminalistic simplicity will come. Simplicity is always “before.” Before what? Before your were programmed and conditioned. Before you were influenced to walk in lockstep with your culture. Before the development of a complicating “mind.”
Before your beliefs and concepts led to confusing thoughts and complicating words and difficulty-generating deeds. Before the non-natural things that drive you were present. To understand how your concepts complicate, try this:
Imagine sitting quietly with another person. Simple, yes? Now, imagine trying to make that person accept your beliefs and your ideas. Complicating, yes? Your ideas and concepts and beliefs will always preempt simplicity and generate complications.
To review, whatever you are addicted to will complicate, including addictions to power and control and being right and avoidance and ideologies and religions and spirituality.
Maharaj taught, “Whatever spiritual things you aspire to know are all happening in this objective world, in the illusion. All this is happening in the objective world. All is dishonesty. There is no truth in this fraud.”
The religious or spiritual step is only the third of seven to Full Realization. Your advisers will tell you that if you become spiritual you will be bathed in the light of high noon. In fact, you will only be standing in the muted light of the dawn.
Advaitins will never suggest that you accept more beliefs or learn new concepts. The simplicity comes via de-accumulation, via the un-learning, not through learning more. Go back, prior to learning, if you would know that which is most simple. Please enter the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)
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