F.: In the book There's No Such Thing As "Peace of Mind" (There Is Only Peace If You're Out of Your Mind), there is a detailed explanation of the millions of years of human or human-like existence that happened without even a single human having "a mind."
In addition to a discussion of the millions of years of human or human-like existence with no "mind," the evolutionary process by which the "mind" eventually formed is explained; it is shown how the human brain expanded only recently - in evolutionary terms - from its original one-cup size to its present 3-1/2-cup size;
it is shown how the brain and the mind worked together to perpetuate the manifestation of consciousness and the survival of the species; it is then shown how the mind became altered and how it eventually degenerated from being a constructive tool - relatively-speaking - to being a destructive tool.
Now, the "mind" is not meeting the intent of its original natural function to assist in the perpetuation of the species but is doing all it can to bring about fear and desire; anxiety; anger; discontentment; dis-ease; a false sense of separation;
a sense of not feeling fulfilled but feeling empty and unfulfilled instead; a sense of feeling "better than" and "different from"; a sense of feeling "holy" (because that word literally means, "different from"); a host of personality disorders that plague humanity's relative existence;
clinically-diagnosable insanity; and a never-ending stream of broken "relationships" - relatively speaking - on every level from what is taken to be "personal" relationships to local and national and international "relationships." Yet in spite of all of that, there is little that humans value more than the content of the "mind," namely, their ideas and beliefs and attitudes and knowledge (a.k.a., "learned ignorance").
What Maharaj called "the stupidity" and "the insanity" of the masses is all rooted in "the mind," and his claim is verified when
(a) all of the instances of disharmony catalogued above are rooted in the accumulations of "the mind"
but
(b) the "mind" is, nevertheless, arrogantly prized above all else.
"Stupid" and / or "insane" persons care not a whit about the brain, destroying it by use of all sorts of substances that wipe out millions of brain cells at a time and by caring not a whit about the natural instinct to perpetuate the consciousness but taking risks constantly that could end the manifestation instantly.
Yet challenge their beliefs or their ideas or their attitudes or their false identities that actually make the modern "mind" what it is and you'll have a war on your hands. The general attitude among the non-Realized masses is:
"Protect the brain? Never really give that much concern."
"To preserve the continuation of the manifestation of the consciousness, stop driving like a madman? Stop using substances that destroy the lungs and the brain and the heart? Stop all of my insane behaviors that generate relative harm for myself and those around me? Uhhh ... doesn't really come into consciousness when I'm doing what I do."
Yet ...
"You dare to attack my 'mind-warehoused' beliefs that are rooted in myth and superstition and ignorance? Die, infidel! Die, non-Christian! You claim the pope and the dalai lama and my preacher or priest or ayatollah or imam or rabbi are not holy? Die!"
"Brain things? No problem? Sane things that continue the manifestation? No concern. But question my sacred and holy and hallowed beliefs and my revered personas? I will kill you, or I will pray for you to die, or - at the very least - I will leave you and never speak to you again."
When the pain-and-misery-causing effects of cancerous polyps were experienced, there was never any question at all that the internal source of the pain and misery should be removed and tossed immediately.
Yet when one ...
(A) considers the brain and the consciousness and the "mind" but
(B) demonstrates little concern about the brain or consciousness and
(C) ignores all of the misery and suffering and chaos and instability generated by the content of the "mind" that makes the relative existence one disharmonious mess yet
(D) still wants to cling to the "mind" (that is, to the belief in all that is stored therein)
then what else - other than "stupidity" and "insanity" - could Maharaj have called that?
Please enter the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)
