Today's Considerations
Maharaj shifted away from (A) encouraging every seeker to enter
into the “SELF-Inquiry” process to (B) explaining instead that “it is enough to know who
you are not” (so enter into "self"-inquiry). If you read the visitors’ statements and questions which preceded
his offering them that pointer, what their words had in common was this:
they were not in touch with either reality (the AM-ness) or Reality (the THAT-ness)
and were instead escaping and dissociating and avoiding reality in their effort
to "move" to what they had been told Reality is like. That distortion results in
their trying to move into Foo Foo Land in order to escape the slings and arrows of the relative existence; however, if one is dying in a desert, that
relative problem cannot be solved by trying to step into the spot where a
mirage was last seen or by knelling down in the location where an oasis was supposedly
seen.
Though Maharaj did not enumerate them, his teachings offered
seven steps which – if taken in sequence – can move persons from identification
with the body to the third step eventually where religious and / or spiritual
roles are assumed for a time until completion of the final steps and understanding one’s Original
Nature and abiding as that and overlaying that on the remainder of
the relative existence.
Yet, Maharaj said, if seekers are able to transition that third
step where their “good” or “great” or “supreme” roles are being played - and then also abandon
all other roles as a result of understanding that those roles are not what they are - then it would be possible to abide sanely and soundly for the remainder of
the manifestation even without understanding any of the additional steps which lie farther along
“the path.” If a seeker then choses to complete the remaining steps, Maharaj
offered his services as a guide. Same here.
Meanwhile, the relevant non-dual pointer is this: “A
dual-minded person is unstable in all ways.”
Moreover, the primary “instability” which humanity must
address - if freedom and peace are to come - is rooted in the mind, that storage
area inside the brain where false identities are housed and from which they
control persons’ thoughts and words and actions in a most unstable and chaotic
and destructive and counterproductive and self-defeating way.
As for THAT, THAT will take care of itself. All which
happens "there" happens spontaneously, without any guidance or a controller or a Guide
or a Controller. No human or imaginary Power guides or controls anything which involves
the Absolute (which is nothing more than a field of one type of energy among
the many types of energy which exist).
All is energy-matter. Energy is energy, and there is no type
of energy that is better than any other type of energy, so there is no type of
energy which one can assume as a Special or Supreme Identity. Because THAT will
take care of itself, then might human energy be more wisely spent by addressing
the problematic issues which arise NOW, during the relative existence?
If so, those can be addressed if one understands that
those problems – all symptomatic of the Ultimate Sickness – are rooted in the
minds which were formed as a result of ignorant and insane programming,
conditioning, domestication, acculturation, brainwashing and indoctrination.
What did Maharaj come to understand can actually address
those mind issues? Psychological tools. Not religious tools? Obviously not. Not
spiritual tools? Obviously not. A key consideration is this:
Who would keep trying to use the same old
plans
a. which have never brought about the changes which persons have sought
b. even
though the advocates of those plans continue to claim that their plans
can bring about the changes being sought by humans and
c. even though those plans have failed to do so after being available for 5000 years?
Would the wise keep giving those failed plans a try? Would the sane keep giving those failed plans a try, even in spite of their 5000-year history of failure? Would anyone that is truly awake, aware, and conscious keep giving those failed plans a try? Surely not.
Other options are available to the truly willing and the
truly ready if they are inclined to question and to seek judiciously and earnestly and
wisely.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
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