Today's Considerations
One might consider the descriptions of Maharaj which shifted from . . .
“a devotée to his guru” to “an organizer of bhajans and
meditation sessions” to “a Hindu rishi (sage)” to “a great jnana” to “a
ground-breaking teacher” to “a spiritual giant” to “a maverick" who said he was "a
spiritual pygmy when compared to those who show up thinking they are Spiritual Giants” to “a ‘world’-shattering innovator” to “an in-your-face-teller-of-Truth” to “one who became a total nonconformist” to “a revolutionary”
to “a radical mutineer” to “a mutinous Hindu” to “an anarchist attacking spirituality”
and to “a religious and spiritual insurrectionist” and eventually to . . .
“one who is generally acknowledged to rank with the greatest
masters of advaita teachings”
or
“to one who abandoned the faith and the gods and goddesses
and God”
or (as reported in the eBook below on “Maharaj’s Evolution”) the one criticized in the following ways:
"The later books of Maharaj do not enjoy the same
clarity as 'I Am That'. It seems that he himself got complicated or rather
evolved himself or declined maybe as happens to many teachers"
and
"His direct disciples who later on became notable
teachers are of an especially low quality (e.g. Ramesh Balsekar, Wolinsky and
others) which makes one to wonder how come" and "Henderson does not
teach anything close to what Maharaj taught. Maybe he needs to go back and
re-read (or read?) I AM THAT -- many times"
and
"Maharaj taught an extreme form of narcissism in which
'I' am everything"
and
"At first when he was still listening to his guru he
was telling the truth, like he did in 'I AM THAT'. In his other talks, his ego
made him start telling things he dreamed up on his own that were not
true."
and
“He abandoned the proper Advaitin approach of using
Self-Inquiry to “find Truth” and “Self” and started jabbering about “finding
all that is false.”
Some might wonder, “Can those people possibly be speaking about
the same fellow?”
No. They were speaking about their varied (and bogus) perspectives regarding
(1) a “hail fellow well met” when that fellow reinforced whatever personas they
had assumed at the time they were applauding him, or
(2) a
fellow to be criticized when he did not reinforce whatever personas they had assumed when he stopped following explicitly his guru’s directions; when he focused less on
bhajans and meditation and chanting and dancing; when he focused less on Self-Inquiry
and the spirituality which Westerners wanted to hear;
and when he abandoned all things
religious and spiritual and focused on the core issue of the Ultimate Sickness,
namely, the content of the mind and the “ignorance and insanity" which lead to
that Sickness and which prevent most from ever receiving the true Ultimate
Medicine for that Sickness and being healed, once and for all.
Interesting that the same persons who attack Maharaj for shifting
his focus from
(A) a religious-or-spirituality-based-process which dealt with a "Supreme Self” to
(B) a psychologically-based process of “finding all
that you are not” and being freed from the chaos and instability of the fiction-filled mind
are the same ones who have used all of the labels and roles catalogued
above to identify Maharaj . . . even as they proclaim they have
abandoned all self-identification and only speak now of “the Self’ alone.
So it is among persons who practice the duality of “upgrading”
and “downgrading” in order to elevate those who support their concepts or to
denigrate those who challenge their concepts, respectively.
Yet “the road less traveled” – or, actually, the road least traveled - is
the road of pointing boldly and fearlessly and candidly and unabashedly and,
yes, even bluntly at all that is false even if that means talking less about Truth.
In fact, to talk of Truth is to evidence the presence of ego-assumption and egotism
in an epic proportion:
Maharaj: “Whatever I am telling you is not the truth . . .”
and
“The ‘discovery of ‘truth’ is in the discernment of the
false”
and
“What the real is cannot be told”
and
“You cannot say truthfully about yourself anything except 'I
am'”
and
“The desire for truth is the highest of all desires, yet, it
is still a desire”
and
“Once you are convinced that you cannot say truthfully about
yourself anything except ‘I am’ and that nothing can be pointed at - can be
yourself - you are no longer intent on verbalizing ‘What You Are’.”
So in the end, Maharaj advised seekers to stop reading I AM
THAT; to give up all of their spirituality and spiritual doingness and spiritual
workaholism; to stop talking about "Who You Are"; to focus on reaching a state of “zero concepts” and zero identity; and to focus on being totally free
of the mind, and – thereafter – being free, period.
To those seekers that would be truly free, the only think
that has ever been found here which proved effective was a message which –
when compared to all other messages presented by all of the religions and spiritual
movements and philosophies and ideologies and sky cults - is a message which
they consider to be "insurrectionistic" in its content as well as nonconformist
and revolutionary and radical and mutinous.
In fact, it is actually a message which can “un-do” the effects of humanity's practice of filling
minds with “learned ignorance and insanity” by the use of programming and conditioning and domestication and acculturation
and brainwashing and indoctrination.
So consider how the mind came into being during in the
original “coming in” leg. To review:
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Then comes Leg Four:
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
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