Today's Considerations
20. To model or internalize or enmesh with or identify with grandparents, parents, politicians, popes, the police, preachers, priests, teachers, military heroes and snipers, gurus, ayatollahs, rabbis, a Dalai Lama, cult leaders, or any of the Big Names Teachers (the group Maharaj warned "michael" and other seekers to stay the heck away from) is to be trapped in the Ultimate Sickness and to be assured that the key symptoms of that illness (which Maharaj identified as "ignorance" and "insanity," among others). That will also assure that one will experience not only insanity and personality disorders throughout the manifestation but will also experience instability, chaos, pain, misery and suffering.
Maharaj therefore offered an alternative by explaining that the only thing that anyone should model is "Your Original Nature." The full understanding of that / That comes after all seven of the steps on the seven-step "path" are completed, but Maharaj said that it is enough to reach the fourth of those seven steps. Why?
If one transitions beyond all false identifications except the three which are taken to be "The Really Good Ones" and reaches the third step where those three roles of "The Super Religious One" and "The Spiritual Giant" and "The Super Seeker" are played, and if one then transitions beyond those false roles and reaches a no-identity, zero concepts / no-concept, no-beliefs, non-dual state of merely being, then "that can be enough," he said. That fourth step is often pointed to with the terms "The Child Ignorance Stage" or "The Child No-Knowing State." In many ways, that state is a "relative version" of "Your Original Nature" condition.
Maharaj therefore offered an alternative by explaining that the only thing that anyone should model is "Your Original Nature." The full understanding of that / That comes after all seven of the steps on the seven-step "path" are completed, but Maharaj said that it is enough to reach the fourth of those seven steps. Why?
If one transitions beyond all false identifications except the three which are taken to be "The Really Good Ones" and reaches the third step where those three roles of "The Super Religious One" and "The Spiritual Giant" and "The Super Seeker" are played, and if one then transitions beyond those false roles and reaches a no-identity, zero concepts / no-concept, no-beliefs, non-dual state of merely being, then "that can be enough," he said. That fourth step is often pointed to with the terms "The Child Ignorance Stage" or "The Child No-Knowing State." In many ways, that state is a "relative version" of "Your Original Nature" condition.
From the eBook below entitled, "The Relative Results of Returning to 'The Child Ignorance Stage' or 'The Child No-Knowing State'":
"After having seen the results of the personality disorders which follow the development of personality, and after having seen the relative effects of the assignment or assumption of personalities / personas as identities, is it not clear why the invitation has long been to at least 'go back' (Maharaj) as far as 'The Child Ignorance Stage' or 'The Child No-Knowing State'?
"If a seeker were to complete only that much of 'the Journey,' and then abide in the resulting manner which is free of concepts and beliefs, free of a fiction-filled mind, and free of the personality-identifications which are at the root of all of the ignorance and chaos and mental disorders and insanity that plague the relative existence of the masses all around this planet, then would it not make sense to 'go back' at least that far?
"So many say, 'I just want to be happy.' If they are honest, they will admit that the last time they were UNCONDITIONALLY happy was during that 'Child No-Knowing State.' For those willing to return to that earlier condition which allowed for the enjoyment of unconditional happiness as long as the basic needs of food and clothing and shelter are met, then the happiness which they seek can be found."
Why is reaching that state required? Because after the "Child No-Knowing State" comes the "Child Knowing ('Learned Ignorance') State," so everything from that point forward in the child's life - and in that child's later adult life - is screwed. How can "unconditional happiness" possibly manifest after "conditioning" (and after "programming," "acculturation," etc.)? It cannot.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
