Today's Considerations
Is it any wonder that Maharaj stopped endorsing SELF-Inquiry
and began endorsing “lightment” over “Enlightenment” by suggested that
self-inquiry “is enough”? Is it any wonder that his advice changed after he saw
the actual results of advising seekers to engage in SELF-Inquiry for as long as
it takes to find the REAL SELF?
Those results included:
“dropping out” and ignoring the relative existence
and
ignoring their normal inclinations (as he did during his “Forest
Dweller Stage”)
and
supposedly being in
touch with Reality but being totally out of touch with reality.
It should be no wonder, then, that he changed his advice and
said,
“You do not have to find ‘Who You Are’; it is enough to know who you are not”’
“You do not have to find ‘Who You Are’; it is enough to know who you are not”’
and said
“Give up spirituality”
and said
“Follow your normal inclinations"
and said
“Forget spirituality”
and said
“Realization is about nothing more than being free of ignorance.”
Here, this coming summer will mark the 27th year that the
non-dual teachings / unteachings have been offered. What Maharaj saw during his
years of offering non-dual pointers regarding the SELF-Inquiry vs. self-inquiry
debate was seen as well. And that is?
It was seen here that when the SELF-Inquiry approach was being
used and led many to claim that they had reached a state of “Enlightenment,”
they had not reached a state of “lightment,” that is, of being light and of having their load
lightened by abandoning all identifications (which only drive more going and
doing and zooming in order to satisfy the agendas of each personality assumed
and in order to maintain the personas and the images that come with them).
It was seen that many who claimed to be “Enlightened” were
moving mentally into Foo Foo Land or were building castles in the air and then
moving into them rather than being firmly grounded in the here and the now. It
was also seen that they had not been “lightened” of the burden of their obsessive
levels of religious doingness; of engaging endlessly in their “spiritual exercises”;
of burning huge quantities of energy by making a public show of their “spiritual
fitness”; of ignoring their “normal inclinations” and not abiding naturally but
– instead - becoming attached to the abnormal and the unnatural and the supposedly
supernatural.
There was none of the simplification which comes with mere
beingness but there was, to the contrary, much energy being expended by making much
ado about nothing; there was no dancing lightly throughout the remainder of the
manifestation but there was much seriousness and heaviness in all aspects of their existence.
There was witnessed among those who valued “Enlightenment”
above “lightment” (that is, above just lightening up for a change) a sense of
being different from and better than (including “better than they were before”
and “better than those who haven’t realized all that 'The Enlightened One' has supposedly
realized”).
It’s one thing to believe that one is “A Spouse” or “A Super
Spouse.” Difficult enough to deal with those types. But to deal with those who
claim that they are “An Infinite Self,”
“A Supreme Self,” “The Godhead” or “The Divine Nature” or “A God” or “God” or godly
or “That Which Is Most Divine” or “The One On A Higher Plane”? Whew. Good luck!
Talk about concepts which can generate the Narcissistic
Personality Disorder / The God Complex Personality Disorder” even as the one trapped
in such egotism and arrogance is claiming humility.
One’s relative load is lightened when all of the work
required to try to maintain false identities and the images that go with them
comes to an end.
One’s relative load is lightened when one completes the work
required to meet the basic human requirements of food and clothing and shelter without
making a second job out of trying to gain heavenly rewards both now and
forevermore.
One’s relative load is lightened with the coming of the
ability to simply be and with the end of being driven to go and do and zoom.
One’s relative load is lightened when an ability to sit
still in the quiet comes and when the need for loud noises – used to try to drown out
the chatter of a thousand monkeys in one’s head – comes to an end.
One’s relative load is lightened when searching for “better”
and “higher” and “lofty” and Noumenal” identities ends and one can relax in the
non-dual, no-identity, zero concepts peace and silence.
“Enlightenment”? Or “lightment”? Maharaj said that one of
those “is enough.” Have you come to understand which one? The seeing of that
truth and the altering of his message required a huge change on his part. To
see the truth of his altered message might require a huge change on your part,
too.
So, a huge change in perspective was required of Maharaj. Same
here. And that may be the same case “there,” wherever you are. Best regards if
you seek that freedom-and-peace-generating change.
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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