Today's Considerations
Maharaj pointed out that at the roots of the Ultimate Sickness and at the root of all of humankind's most trying problems are "ignorance, stupidity, and insanity." Those symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness produce a false sense of "different-from-ment" and "better-than-ment" which generate, in turn, extreme arrogance;
an assumed right to control; a dualistic belief that “the world is just one constant and on-going war between ‘us, the good guys’ and ‘them, the bad guys’”; an assumed right to judge and convict and sentence and punish or kill or destroy any deemed to be among “the bad guys”;
and an assumed right to be entitled to control all others and to abuse authority in order to maintain control or to punish those who do not think and talk and behave exactly as those who have a rigid, dualistic sense of right and wrong and who think they are entitled to control all people and places and things by virtue of their being the ones who are always right while believing that all others who are unlike them are wrong.
One need but review local or national or international headlines to find examples of how widespread the connection is between dualistic thinking and talking and behaving on one hand and the generating of bloodshed on the other:
ARROGANCE AND IGNORANCE AND INSANITY
LOCAL HEADLINES
To abide under the influence of arrogance and ignorance and insanity and any of the other key symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness is to assume the right to shed the blood of “others” indiscriminately. Consider these recent headlines in Houston, TX., U.S.A.:
One killed in drive-by shooting in NW Houston
Deputies investigating shooting death in northern part of county
Man shot during home invasion in SE Houston
Man beaten to death with tire iron in Splendora
And when the dualistic roles of “The Super Lover,” “The Super Partner,” “The Super Spouse” and “The Super Parent” rear their ugly heads, the results are predictable:
Brick-wielding ex-boyfriend shot, killed by woman’s new beau
Equusearch employees looking for missing mother in Magnolia
Father of boy who was allegedly stabbed by mother speaks out
Man holds ex-wife and daughters hostage – kills wife by shooting her in the back as she tries to run away from him
Woman joins daughter in fight against classmate on school grounds
Man shoots ex-girlfriend, new lover after dispute in SW Houston
REGARDING AUTHORITY AND THE ABUSE THEREOF
NATIONAL HEADLINES
As a Personality Type Four, Maharaj held no authority in respect, much less in esteem.
[Contrast that with Personality Type Sixes who make up 50% of all persons - that is, over 3.5 billion humans - who are going to be blindly devoted to all persons in positions of authority, including government, the military, the police, religion, God, big businesses, societal institutions, etc.]
In the following examples pulled from national headlines in the U.S., what would Maharaj likely offer to the authorities for consideration?
Governor of Indiana signs anti-gay law supported by religious leaders
Municipalities in St. Louis County, Mo., profit from poverty and discrimination against blacks
Black Americans killed by police in 2014 outnumbered those who died during the attacks of 9/11
Might Maharaj have shared with them these pointers which he shared with others?
"You are the maker of the world in which you live. You alone can change it or unmake it”
and
"You see yourself in the world, while I see the world in myself. To you, you get born and die, while to me the world appears and disappears. Our world is real, but your view of it is not. There is no wall between us, except the one built by you. There is nothing wrong with the senses; it is your imagination that misleads you. It covers up the world as it is with what you imagine it to be - something existing independently of you and yet closely following your inherited or acquired patterns.”
REGARDING DUALITY-BASED "CONTROL" AND "ARROGANCE" AND TREATING PERSONS AS IF THEY WERE PROPERTY
OTHER HEADLINES
Alabama player charged with domestic violence
Huge increase in number of cases involving National Football League players abusing their partners / wives
Two more women claim they were drugged and sexually assaulted by Bill Cosby - over 40 women have now come forward
In the Cherokee language spoken by Grandmother, there were no words for “possession” or “ownership” or “my” or “mine” or “different from” or “better than” or “control.”
Consider:
Maharaj: "Ultimately, nothing is mine or yours. Everything is ours. Just be one with yourself and you will be one with all, at home in the entire universe.”
By contrast, control freaks and the arrogant are the epitome of dualistic thinking.
THE "BETTER-THAN-MENT," "DIFFERENT-FROM-MENT," AND JUSTIFYING ABUSE CONNECTION WITH BLOODLETTING AND BLOODSHED
INTERNATIONAL HEADLINES
Twenty-two killed in attack in National Bardo Museum in Tunis
Bombing of Yemen escalates - threat of ground war
Effects of Netanyahu's opposition to a Palestinian homeland and his accelerated persecution of Palestinians
Chinese military buildup increases in disputed territorial waters they are laying claim to
Somalia ends Al Shabab siege of Mogadishu Hotel, 24 dead
ISIS takes control of more areas in Syria and Iraq - Iraqi Sunnis Are Stuck between ISIS and Shiite Militias
Russia threatens to aim nuclear missles at Denmark, continues its war efforts in Chechnya
What does the Ultimate Medicine for all that planet-wide illness consist of, along with its treatment for the global preponderance of “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity”?
A NON-DUAL SENSE OF THE UNICITY:
Maharaj: "See things as they are - bubbles in consciousness. These bubbles are appearing, disappearing and reappearing - without having real being. Each bubble is a body and all these bodies are mine”
and
"My self and your self are one. I know it, but you don't. That is all the difference - and it cannot last”
an assumed right to control; a dualistic belief that “the world is just one constant and on-going war between ‘us, the good guys’ and ‘them, the bad guys’”; an assumed right to judge and convict and sentence and punish or kill or destroy any deemed to be among “the bad guys”;
and an assumed right to be entitled to control all others and to abuse authority in order to maintain control or to punish those who do not think and talk and behave exactly as those who have a rigid, dualistic sense of right and wrong and who think they are entitled to control all people and places and things by virtue of their being the ones who are always right while believing that all others who are unlike them are wrong.
One need but review local or national or international headlines to find examples of how widespread the connection is between dualistic thinking and talking and behaving on one hand and the generating of bloodshed on the other:
ARROGANCE AND IGNORANCE AND INSANITY
LOCAL HEADLINES
To abide under the influence of arrogance and ignorance and insanity and any of the other key symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness is to assume the right to shed the blood of “others” indiscriminately. Consider these recent headlines in Houston, TX., U.S.A.:
One killed in drive-by shooting in NW Houston
Deputies investigating shooting death in northern part of county
Man shot during home invasion in SE Houston
Man beaten to death with tire iron in Splendora
And when the dualistic roles of “The Super Lover,” “The Super Partner,” “The Super Spouse” and “The Super Parent” rear their ugly heads, the results are predictable:
Brick-wielding ex-boyfriend shot, killed by woman’s new beau
Equusearch employees looking for missing mother in Magnolia
Father of boy who was allegedly stabbed by mother speaks out
Man holds ex-wife and daughters hostage – kills wife by shooting her in the back as she tries to run away from him
Woman joins daughter in fight against classmate on school grounds
Man shoots ex-girlfriend, new lover after dispute in SW Houston
REGARDING AUTHORITY AND THE ABUSE THEREOF
NATIONAL HEADLINES
As a Personality Type Four, Maharaj held no authority in respect, much less in esteem.
[Contrast that with Personality Type Sixes who make up 50% of all persons - that is, over 3.5 billion humans - who are going to be blindly devoted to all persons in positions of authority, including government, the military, the police, religion, God, big businesses, societal institutions, etc.]
In the following examples pulled from national headlines in the U.S., what would Maharaj likely offer to the authorities for consideration?
Governor of Indiana signs anti-gay law supported by religious leaders
Municipalities in St. Louis County, Mo., profit from poverty and discrimination against blacks
Black Americans killed by police in 2014 outnumbered those who died during the attacks of 9/11
Might Maharaj have shared with them these pointers which he shared with others?
"You are the maker of the world in which you live. You alone can change it or unmake it”
and
"You see yourself in the world, while I see the world in myself. To you, you get born and die, while to me the world appears and disappears. Our world is real, but your view of it is not. There is no wall between us, except the one built by you. There is nothing wrong with the senses; it is your imagination that misleads you. It covers up the world as it is with what you imagine it to be - something existing independently of you and yet closely following your inherited or acquired patterns.”
REGARDING DUALITY-BASED "CONTROL" AND "ARROGANCE" AND TREATING PERSONS AS IF THEY WERE PROPERTY
OTHER HEADLINES
Alabama player charged with domestic violence
Huge increase in number of cases involving National Football League players abusing their partners / wives
Two more women claim they were drugged and sexually assaulted by Bill Cosby - over 40 women have now come forward
In the Cherokee language spoken by Grandmother, there were no words for “possession” or “ownership” or “my” or “mine” or “different from” or “better than” or “control.”
Consider:
Maharaj: "Ultimately, nothing is mine or yours. Everything is ours. Just be one with yourself and you will be one with all, at home in the entire universe.”
By contrast, control freaks and the arrogant are the epitome of dualistic thinking.
THE "BETTER-THAN-MENT," "DIFFERENT-FROM-MENT," AND JUSTIFYING ABUSE CONNECTION WITH BLOODLETTING AND BLOODSHED
INTERNATIONAL HEADLINES
Twenty-two killed in attack in National Bardo Museum in Tunis
Bombing of Yemen escalates - threat of ground war
Effects of Netanyahu's opposition to a Palestinian homeland and his accelerated persecution of Palestinians
Chinese military buildup increases in disputed territorial waters they are laying claim to
Somalia ends Al Shabab siege of Mogadishu Hotel, 24 dead
ISIS takes control of more areas in Syria and Iraq - Iraqi Sunnis Are Stuck between ISIS and Shiite Militias
Russia threatens to aim nuclear missles at Denmark, continues its war efforts in Chechnya
What does the Ultimate Medicine for all that planet-wide illness consist of, along with its treatment for the global preponderance of “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity”?
A NON-DUAL SENSE OF THE UNICITY:
Maharaj: "See things as they are - bubbles in consciousness. These bubbles are appearing, disappearing and reappearing - without having real being. Each bubble is a body and all these bodies are mine”
and
"My self and your self are one. I know it, but you don't. That is all the difference - and it cannot last”
and
All is "your universal body. You are so blinded by what is personal, that you do not see the universal. This blindness will not end by itself - it must be undone skillfully and deliberately. When all illusions are understood and abandoned, you reach the error-free and perfect state in which all distinctions between the personal and the universal are no more"
and
"Truly, all is in me and by me. There is nothing else. The very
idea of “else” is a disaster and a calamity”
and
"There is absolutely no difference between me and others, except in my knowing myself as I am. I know it for certain and you do not. The difference is only in the mind and temporary.”
To conclude, these questions remain:
What is the likelihood of the masses Realizing and then abandoning their religious attachment to bloodletting and bloodshed? Practically nil.
What is the likelihood of the masses Realizing and then abandoning their religious attachment to re-enacting human sacrifice and cannibalism and vampirism by eating and drinking supposedly real (or supposedly just symbolic) body and blood? Practically nil.
Among those in jobs such as hit men, gangsters, police, guards, members of the armed forces / military, etc., jobs which allow them to bear arms and shoot others, what is the likelihood of their Realizing, becoming free of their massive levels of fear and anxiety and xenophobia and desire for control - all of which attract them to gun-bearing jobs - and then abandoning their willingness to shed blood? Practically nil.
What is the likelihood of the masses Realizing and then abandoning their beliefs that they own their partners and have the right to demand that their partners become mirror images of them or suffer the consequences? Practically nil.
For the few who see the ignorance and insanity and chaos associated with dualistic thinking and talking and behaving and have truly become tired of it all, an option is available. May you find it if you seek it.
Peace, Unity, Light, and Love
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
TOMORROW: The reply to this query: "What can be offered to someone like my son who is interested in being free of the pull of personality but is not really interested in the ‘mystical’ route?"
TOMORROW: The reply to this query: "What can be offered to someone like my son who is interested in being free of the pull of personality but is not really interested in the ‘mystical’ route?"
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