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Freedom from All Beliefs: Clearing Away the Final Vestiges
Mention was made of ducks, squirrels, deer, bears, birds, fish, and persons ("persons" being a term that points to all of the "human spaces or forms" with ideas and concepts and beliefs that drive them to accept multiple false identities as being real).
Of the millions and millions in those groups that move about planet earth, and of the trillions and trillions that have ever lived on the planet, only the members of one group have developed (that is, regressed) in ways that drive them to assume that they are "different," that they are "better than all other spaces and forms," and that they have control and "dominion" over all of the other spaces and forms in other groups.
Some members of that group of "persons" or "human spaces or forms" also assume that they should have control and dominion over all of the "other persons" or "other human spaces or forms" in their group.
Of the millions and millions in those groups that move about planet earth, and of the trillions and trillions that have ever lived on the planet, all have an elemental brain but only the members of one group have developed (that is, regressed) in ways that have also resulted in a "mind" filled with ideas and concepts and beliefs.
And of the millions and millions in those groups that move about planet earth, and of the trillions and trillions that have ever lived on the planet, only the members of the group with "minds" have mental problems that drive them to fight others who believe different ideas and concepts and beliefs;
who have mental problems that drive them to inflict pain on themselves or others; who have mental problems that drive them to continue to engage in behaviors that have been proved to be harmful to their elemental bodies; who have mental problems that drive them to cut or shoot themselves or others; and who have mental problems and such arrogance that they feel entitled to engage in controlling and invasion and colonialism and enslavement and genocide.
Only the members of the group with "minds" have mental problems of such severity that they actually believe that they are the roles they play; that they really believe they can be something that they are not; and that they truly believe it when other persons tell them that they are either "good" or "bad" (although the criteria for such labeling varies from culture to culture);
have such mental problems that they really believe that they are "different from" others; that they actually think that they are "better than" or "worse than" others; and that they should abandon the roles that their cultures tell them are "bad roles" and that they should assume and play the roles that their cultures tell them are "good roles" to assume.
Only the members of the group with "minds" have such severe mental and emotional and "personal" (personality) problems that they think they must spend years - or even a lifetime - of searching and seeking and working to "improve" or "enhance" themselves.
As evidence of how many are trying to "improve" or "enhance" themselves, consider some of the titles of the bestseller books that are being marketed by those types whom Maharaj pointed to with the term "big name teachers" when he warned his followers to be wary of the concepts and beliefs that the teachers with mass appeal offer and which are the most popular among the non-Realized masses:
Change Your Thoughts - Change Your Life;
Your Ultimate Calling; Incredible You!;
XX10 Secrets for Success;
Advancing Your Spirit;
Ageless Body, Timeless Mind;
The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire;
The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams;
and
How to Know God.
Maharaj's take on all that? He taught that at the core of all human misery and suffering is personality, ego-state adoption, and egotism. So much for an "Incredible You."
He said, "I have no mind" (so he had no thoughts to change); "success" is a persona-based concept, he taught, as is "power," as is "A Power," and as is "power now." To that end he said:
“The nearer you get to the truth, the more you lose interest in worldly affairs. Such a one will not have any interest in the world, but will act like an ordinary person.”
He made clear that the body is a temporary form and that the "mind" is finite as well, not "ageless."
As for "fulfilling desires," he taught that all misery and suffering are rooted in personal fears or in trying to fulfill personal desires;
Contrary to "fulfilling dreams," he made clear that dreams are something to be rid of after seeing they are not the Real.
As for "spiritual advancement," he said:
"There is no progress"
and
"There is no question of elevating to a higher level. Here it is only a question of understanding."
As for "spiritual laws," he said:
"Whatever spiritual things you aspire to know are all happening in this objective world, in the illusion. All this is happening in the objective world. All is dishonesty. There is no truth in this fraud."
As for being "called" to some "ultimate calling" and as for "knowing the caller" or "knowing God," he said:
"First of all you identify something as being good or bad for yourself. Then, in an effort to acquire good or to get rid of the bad, you have invented a God. Then you worship such a God and . . . you pray to that God for something good to happen to you."
All such concepts and ideas adopted by persons run counter to the no-belief, non-dual, no-identity, no-concept, no-idea, natural abidance and normalcy that mark the relative existence of all forms on the planet except for persons.
One has never seen a deer trying to improve or enhance itself. That which believes it can change or grow or develop into something that is different from what it actually already is is nothing more than a speck of consciousness that has been fooled.
That which believes it can become enhanced or improved or made better or made worse or ungraded or downgraded is a speck of conscious-energy that has been fooled. Maharaj said, "Only that person will visit this place whose virtue and sin have [both] come to an end."
All concepts and beliefs such as those referenced above are rooted in the duality of either (1) an egotism-based notion of being "very good" or even "great" or (in true narcissistic fashion) "incredible"; or (2) a guilt-and-shame-based notion of being "bad" or "unworthy."
Moreover, it is only the members of the group with "minds" that buy into dualistic beliefs, ego-states as identities, egotism, a false sense of greatness, and the arrogance-generating delusion of many members of that group that they are part of "an exclusive and superior group or race or species."
Also, it is only the members of the group with "minds" that buy into "self-destruction" and "destruction of others" as a result of first buying into guilt and the notion of being "bad" or "unworthy" or, conversely, "exceptional."
Is it any wonder that Maharaj invited those trapped in the delusion of body-mind-personality identification (and those being driven by their false ideas and concepts and beliefs) to abandon all of the learned ignorance that is inspiring them to live unnaturally or inspiring them to try to live "supernaturally"?
Is it any wonder that Maharaj spent decades inviting persons to abandon all beliefs and to then abide naturally instead, as do ducks, squirrels, deer, bears, birds, fish, and all other "spaces-or-forms-cum-temporarily-manifested-consciousness" with the lone exception of "persons"?
To be continued.
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