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LOUISE on this subject: "In the end, the seekers or knowers entranced by personality will never find - already believing they know the answers already."
F.: Recently Louise shared what needed to be heard by one trapped in that very state, but he "knew" too much already; thus, he ignored the evidence of the enneagram results when his behaviors were shown to be textbook examples of how his personality drivers always result in very specific but limited - and even destructive - thoughts and words and deeds, relatively speaking.
LOUISE: "He called today to say he is going on antidepressants (an attempt to reduce the effects of a personality that keeps him inert, immobilized, and worrying obsessively)."
And why will anti-depressants not address his issues effectively? Because the issues are based in one or more mirages. Go into the desert and try to treat a mirage. What misdirection! Yet all day long persons look at mirages and mistake them for the Real. Recall Maharaj's pointer: "As long as you are enmeshed in the tribulations of a particular personality, you can see nothing beyond it."
Consider how miserable the relative existence is when one is "enmeshed in tribulations," and that happens when persons are identified with "a particular personality," along with many other personalities as well, of course; yet personalities generate the most anxiety and fear and anger and relative damage one at a time, when one particular personality feels threatened and when the entire focus of the corrupted consciousness is directed at preserving that particular persona at all costs.
How many that have not Realized Fully (or at all), if they could look objectively at their relative existence, would have to admit that "enmeshment in tribulations" describes perfectly so much of their past and present experiences?
While persons are driven throughout any given day by the subconscious motivators of personalities and their desires and fears, the source of such "enmeshment in tribulations," according to Maharaj, intensifies when one is focused on "a particular personality." Can any "particular personality" be said to generate more "enmeshment in tribulations" than the persona of "The Lover" or "The Spouse"?
For the sake of discussion, then, let the focus be on those particular personalities for a moment. In the U.S., 41% of all men who are killed are not killed as a result of someone being "enmeshed" in the "particular personality" of "The Driver of the Biggest Car" or "The Owner of the Largest House in the Subdivision" or "The Best Volunteer Among All of the Moms in the Community."
And 59% of all women who are killed are not killed as a result of someone being "enmeshed" in the "particular personality" of "Parent of the Year" or "The Winner of the Local City Election" or "The Head of the Parent Organization in the School."
To the contrary, 50% of the murders annually, on average, come during a "breakup" when "The Lover" personality or "The Spouse" personality feels as if it is being threatened or as if its agenda is being interfered with or if it thinks it is actually dying because the co-dependent counterpart that allowed an ego-state to be played for a period of time decides to play no more.
Such persons become so enmeshed in the tribulations of a particular personality that they can see nothing beyond it. The ego-state will not be able to see "life after the end of that ego-state as an identity," so death becomes the alternative, especially after egotistical upgrading happens.
Consider: whereas "The Spouse" merely needs someone to play the co-dependent, counterpart role of "The Spouse" in order to perpetuate the illusion of that false self, "The Super Spouse" must have a "Super Spouse" to survive.
When it strikes "The Super Husband" that he is not receiving all that "A Super Spouse" deserves, then in 50% of the cases (again in the U.S.) the male will engage in an extramarital affair; similarly, 40% of all women will have such an affair during their marriages for the same reasons. Divorce eventually follows 50-60% of the time.
But note the cyclings of personas and see why Maharaj said that "Self-limitation is the very essence of personality." Some time after "The Spouse" identity ended with a divorce, the "lesser lifestyle" exerts its pressure on the ego and one can hear: "I'm ready to marry again."
No...no you are not. Nothing has changed...there had been no shift to a purer form of consciousness that sees more clearly...more accurately. Nothing more is happening than the manifestation of the distorted memory of a persona which then generates the thought that "I am now ready to cycle into 'existence' again."
What the one making such a statement is actually ready for is not to be married again but to have once more the imagined "perks and benefits" of an arrangement that happened once before and to satisfy "the desire of an ego-state" to "be" once more; however, enmeshed in the tribulations of a particular personality, persons can see nothing beyond it.
Then, all sorts of personality-based fears will be triggered: "I might never have the great lifestyle I once had and that I want and deserve once more"; "I will never be taken care of"; "I will be deprived"; "My image and standing in the community will forever be less than it was before"; "I'll never again be invited to the community's couples-only events."
Understand that it is either (1) a threatened ego-state or the fear that an ego-state is going to end or (2) the desire to generate or regenerate an ego-state that causes distress / tribulations in the relative:
Maharaj: "You cling to personality - but you are conscious of being a person only when you are in trouble - when you are not in trouble you do not think of yourself."
If the marriage seems to be moving along swimmingly and there seems to be no trouble, "The Spouse" seems to be doing quite fine. If trouble appears and seemingly threatens the existence of a false identity, then the personality will trigger all sorts of fear and anxiety and will often also trigger defensive or offensive behaviors - some even lethal - as the false identity tries to defend it"self."
Thus, Maharaj said, "...personality is only an obstacle." To what? To clarity. To peace. To freedom. To sanity. To freedom, really? Yes. Maharaj taught: "The personality gives place to the witness, then the witness goes and pure awareness remains." Note that freedom comes only after the personality gives way.
When personality-assumption happens, even more tribulations come because each assumed personality can nurture a personality disorder, and one of those personality disorders can be "The Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder." When that aberration manifests, then the assumed personality can generate monomania, an obsession-driven form of full-blown insanity:
not unlike that monomaniac Captain Ahab whose entire existence had been reduced to one dimension, "The Super Spiritual Person" can become an all-consuming identity that dominates that person's relative existence. Days and night must involve spiritual exercises, spiritual talks...
...spiritual seeking, spiritual activities, spiritual attire, spiritual food, spiritual thoughts, moments of spiritual escape from thoughts, spiritual sitting, spiritual looks and posturing, and all of the other trappings of what Maharaj called "kindergarten spirituality."
Either "The Hindu" or "The Christian" or "The One Who Knows the Only Right and Proper Version of Advaita Vedanta" or "The Muslim" can become the all-consuming personality, though dozens of others may continue beside the one particular personality that is inspiring the monomania.
And just as with the examples above of "The Spouse" or "The Lover," personas become even more influential over thoughts and words and actions when aggravated by that obsession-driven form of mental illness called monomania. When a seemingly-threatened identity is motivated by monomania, the result of being driven by "a particular personality" can bring about an "enmeshment in tribulations" that can even lead to murder or suicide.
TOMORROW: The True Freedom and Real Love aspects regarding this subject.
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