Today's Considerations
To review:
Maharaj: "There is no question of elevating to a higher level. Here it is only a question of understanding."
The understanding requires no additional teaching and no additional
learning. It requires questioning it all and it requires being led through an un-teaching process and it requires discarding all that has been learned and eventually un-learning it all. It requires rejection, not more accumulation.
Maharaj on rejecting external sources of “knowledge and beliefs”
vs. tapping into the inner resource:
“I do not care what
others claimed to know. What do you know?”
Maharaj on rejecting blind faith and the content of
so-called “holy books”:
“I have no faith in anything which has ever been told, not
even what has been told by the Vedas. Only my own experience”
and
Maharaj on rejecting spiritual searching:
“Whatever you have tried to understand during your spiritual
search will prove false” and "Just give up spirituality" and "Abide naturally" (meaning, not "supernaturally" and not "unnaturally")
and
Maharaj on rejecting the intellect / the mind because it
will guarantee instability:
“People who depend on the intellect only always will be
swinging like a pendulum”
and
Maharaj on rejecting all you have been told by parents and
all you have been told that is based not in fact but in hearsay:
"After the information given to you by the mother, that
you are a boy or girl, all your further acquisitions are by hearsay"
and
Maharaj on rejecting all that has been used along “the path”
or on “the journey”:
"Both the mantra and the faith in the mantra will get
dissolved"
and
Maharaj on rejecting the notion that there is something to
gain now and something to gain later:
"There is no progress"
so
Maharaj on rejecting any and all credibility formerly given
to concepts, ideas, notions, perceptions, taught knowledge (a.k.a., “learned ignorance”),
thoughts, impressions, memories, theories, and views (all of which, when combined,
form “your belief system” – which are not "your beliefs" at all but are merely “their beliefs” which have been accepted without question).
Maharaj on rejecting all of the above:
"Go to zero concepts."
Maharaj on rejecting any notion that you can finally attain “peace
of mind” . . .
. . . if you just work hard enough and long enough or
worship enough or study enough holy scriptures or Big Books or go to a church / temple /
mosque / synagogue regularly or visit enough holy sites or go to enough retreats or
listen to enough talks or visit enough holy men or read and accumulate enough
books by “Big Name Teachers” or refuse to eat certain foods or wear special
clothes or wear a special hairdo or have no hair at all or attend enough
meetings or listen to enough speakers at speaker meetings or hang out with
enough religious people or hang out with enough spiritual people or go into
complete isolation and drop out and mentally dissociate. All nonsense.
Peace begins when mental imprisonment ends. Freedom precedes peace. It does not follow peace.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
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