Part Fourteen: WHY THE NON-REALIZED CANNOT SLOW DOWN

Today's Considerations

Yesterday, this was offered for consideration:

The debate about what the proper treatment is for what ails humanity continues. The majority of persons around the globe claim that only their particular holy text and only the words of their particular prophet can address humanity's problems (problems which are actually what Maharaj identified as the symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness).

Millions more are members of groups which make the claim that only their special, spiritual book and the special, spiritual message shared by their founder / leader can address their membership's problems and suffering, problems which they claim can only be solved one way - their way - and that is by "being spiritual."

Then these two questions were asked:

Which of those two plans provide a proper, effective treatment for the Ultimate Sickness? Or might Maharaj's understanding about the actual roots of the Ultimate Sickness - and his realization that there is a third (and far more effective) treatment option - actually offer a more viable alternative to the other two plans (which have failed miserably, a fact which any objective witness can admit, just as Maharaj finally admitted)?

That is for the visitors to this site to determine. The invitation is (1) to become willing to question everything that has ever been told by the people who suggest that only a special book and the special words of their special leader can solve the problems being faced by humanity; (2) to then enter into an impartial and objective consideration of the words of Maharaj which he offered after he had tried to use the methods set forth by the leaders of both of the above groups and found that their methods have never worked long-term; and 

(3) to then sit in the silence and see if the truth which you have always known - but which has been blocked from consciousness - might be tapped into and thereby allow you to determine if the third method offered by Maharaj for treating the Ultimate Sickness might make more sense, might seem more logical, might seem to be the wisest option.

Having tried the religious approach with the addition of non-dual pointers, and having tried the spiritual approach with the addition of non-dual pointers, he came to realize the following:

"Whatever spiritual things you aspire to know are all happening in this objective 'world', in the illusion. All is dishonesty. There is no truth in this fraud."

There is no question of elevating to a higher level. Here is it only a question of understanding" (and "understanding" is a mental process . . . not a religious or spiritual process).

"There is no progress."

"First of all, you identify something as being good or bad for yourself. Then, in an effort to acquire good or to get rid of bad, you have invented a God. Then you worship such a God and . . . you pray to that God for something good to happen to you."

"Whatever you have tried to understand during your spiritual search will prove false."

"When the birth is disproved, the great noble meaning of spirituality and the meaning of this world - everything - is disproved."

"I have no faith in anything which has ever been told, not even what has been told by the Vedas. Only my own experience."

So?

So "forget spirituality," he said.

Follow your "normal inclinations."

"Do your normal duties."

"Just give up spirituality."

[But what about finding "the True Self" and "The Supreme Self"?]

He said that "it is enough to know what you are not"

and

"I got involved in spirituality, in the business of spirituality, [but] finally I lost that love of Self also. I have no more love for the Self."

[So after giving up the love of the false selves which have been assigned or which we have assumed, we can also give up the love of the Self as well? Hummm.]

When a visitor to the loft said, "The scriptures say that we have our karma and our sins and that is why we are here," Maharaj answered:

"That is for the ignorant masses. One who has realized . . . , for him these stories are of no use."

[So all of the so-called special words in so-called special books which contribute to the planet's overload of ignorance can be of "no use" to those who are suffering from ignorance and need to be purged of ignorance? Hummm.]

So if not the holy and spiritual plans which are being set forth by the persons who are leading the masses, then what should be focused upon, according to what Maharaj eventually came to understand as a more appropriate treatment plan? According to Maharaj, the mind. The Ultimate Sickness is a mental sickness, so only by addressing the mental issues can healing come. Thus, he said:

"All illness begins in the mind."

"Your confusion is . . . in your mind."

"Whatever is conceived by the mind must be false, for it is bound to be relative and limited."

"Distrust your mind, and go beyond."

"There is no chaos in the world except the chaos which your mind creates."

" . . . The mind obscures and distorts."

"It is the mind that creates illusion."

"There is no such thing as peace of mind. Mind means disturbance; restlessness itself is mind."

"Don't rely on your mind for liberation. It is the mind that brought you into bondage. Go beyond it altogether."

"Beyond the mind there is no suffering."

So if the problem centers in the mind, and since a sick mind - obviously - cannot heal a sick mind, then what is the solution, per Maharaj?

"Stop making use of your mind and see what happens."

"Learn to separate yourself from the image and the mirror. Keep on remembering: I am neither the mind nor its ideas."

"There is no such thing as mind. There are ideas . . . ."

"Abandon the wrong ideas, for they are false and obstruct your vision . . . ."

"The death of the mind is the birth of wisdom."

"To know that you are a prisoner of your mind, that you live in an imaginary world of your own creation, is the dawn of wisdom."

So what was his state in the end, the state which ultimately freed him and led to the birth of his wisdom? It was a no-mind state:

"There is no such thing as a mind."

"I have no mind . . . ."

Want to be free of the mind? Maharaj advised:

"Reach a state of zero-concepts."

"As to my mind, I have no such thing. There is consciousness in which everything happens."

"I am double dead: not only am I dead to my body, but to my mind, too."

"I find I have lost the mind irretrievably."

If the mind goes, then peace comes, and if peace comes, then going and doing and zooming and racing about also go.

Please enter the silence of contemplation.

COMING SOON after returning from playing the role of "The Father of the Bride":

(1) A site visitor describes what happened the first time he walked up a narrow set of steps in a flat on Ketwadi Street in Bombay and how what Maharaj shared that day might assist others who are still involved with seeking;

and

(2) The Historical Connection between Duality and Bloodletting