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Of the non-dual understanding which Maharaj offered, what might explain why he initially estimated that "only 1 out of 100,000 will ever get this" but later said that "only 1 out of 1,000,000 will ever get this" and eventually - after decades of working with seekers - modified that guesstimate to "1 out of 10,000,000"?
Consider the enormity of the obstacles which one who works for 20 or 40 or 80 years with seekers of the non-dual understanding will witness:
Obstacle #13: THE MOST INFLUENTIAL OBSTACLE OF ALL: Myths, Superstitions, Thoughts, Ideas, Concepts, Notions, Views, Theories, Inklings, Perceptions, A.K.A., "Beliefs," Part B
To review from the last post:
No relationships on any levels have ever come to a nasty end, and no marriage has ended in divorce, except where beliefs were the driving force.
Nothing has contributed more to humankind's chaos and arguing and fighting and killing and mass killings than . . . beliefs, and the types of beliefs which are most prevalent and therefore most influential are:
#4: Beliefs about relationships and how those whom one is in relationship with should think and talk and behave.
#3: Beliefs of a xenophobic nature about how fellow citizens should think and talk and behave.
#2: Beliefs about politics, political parties, political leaders, and how "all others should believe what I and my political fellows believe and should accept the agenda of our political party."
#1: Beliefs about "God" or "gods and goddesses" and "what is right and what is wrong" and "what is moral vs. immoral" and "which religion is the single right one and why all of the other religions are wrong." With 97% of all persons on the planet claiming a religious affiliation, of course their beliefs are the most predominant.
Let's look at those in details, starting the countdown / count up with #4:
Beliefs about relationships and how those whom one is in relationship with should think and talk and behave.
Where does each person get her or his beliefs about how a mate should think and talk and behave? First, from the way that each person thinks and talks and behaves.
What non-realized (and therefore self-centered and egotistical) persons want in a relationship with a mate - and in relationships in the workplace and in traffic and when shopping and when worshipping - is actually a mirror image of themselves. Lip service to the contrary, the non-realized want everyone else to think and talk and behave as they do.
As far as mates, most will unconsciously model their parents in the way they behave in a relationship and in the way they expect a mate to behave in a relationship. For example, was one or more parent suffering an attachment disorder? The child will likely develop an attachment disorder.
I recently saw the results of the test of a three-year-old. I have long recognized in her mother a major Attachment Disorder combined with the Schizoid-Avoidant Personality Disorder and the Narcissistic Personality Disorder and the Sociopathic Personality Disorder and the Borderline Personality Disorder along with an enormous entitlement-supported level of laziness and an "I deserve to be waited on hand and foot" mindset.
The test results revealed that the three-year-old daughter was "off the charts" in terms of attachment disorder as well.
Already, in only three years, the mother's tendency to "sub out" her "mothering responsibilities" to doulas, sitters, day care workers, etc. has allowed her attachment disorder to be passed on to her daughter (and to her son as well).
This is a woman who has not worked in the home or outside the home for twenty years; who has not cooked a single meal in twenty years; who has never changed a diaper; and who has done nothing all her life except to find people to enter into a co-dependent relationship with her and manipulate them to pay her bills and provide her with food and clothing and shelter and cars, etc., etc., etc.
Recently, she told her husband that - in addition to all the money he was currently paying to two different Montessori schools for their son and daughter and for sitters who show up each day when the children come home from school - he was also going to have to pay $600 a week to the woman she contracted with to come into their house for a few hours per day to play with her daughter. Why? Because, she said, "Our the daughter constantly nags me to color with her and to play dolls with her and I just can't do it."
Also, note the way that the early beliefs which children are exposed to become the guiding forces throughout the lives of most who are among the non-realized masses:
If one parent was a domineering control freak and the other was a weak "doormat," then that will be the driving force - the subconscious expectation - when entering into a marriage someday.
Additionally, with 97% proclaiming a religious affiliation and millions more claiming to be "spiritual," most every person on the planet also claims to be "in relationship with God." The way that relationship unfolds will also be based in what one or both parents modeled.
Were parents weak and did they offer "suggestions" rather than clear-cut expectations and boundaries and consequences when all that was ignored? Then the god of their conception with be weak and will be the kind of god who offers suggestions rather than rules and commandments.
Was the parent dictatorial and abusive? Then the child as an adult will seek out a place where a mean and vindictive and punishing god is worshipped.
If their parents gave them everything they wanted, then their conceptualized god will be nothing more than one to turn to when something is desired. The adult's view of god will be of a "Celestial Santa / God."
Monkey-see / monkey do is a pattern which begins in childhood but which continues with children throughout their adulthood as well unless a different path is sought and found.
Meanwhile, planet earth will continue for the most part to have an adult-age population which - no matter their current age - have fixated at the age of six. The result is a planet populated by persons who are driven by the hidden agendas of personality types and styles which were often set in place by the age of six; who behave like infants instead of mature people;
who are driven by the same levels of ignorance and self-absorption and fear and anxiety which are present in most typical six-year-olds; and who are driven subconsciously by belief systems which are not actually their own but which are second-hand, hand-me-down beliefs which were passed down from generation and generation by persons trapped in the throes of the Ultimate Sickness.
And it is those beliefs, and the false ego-states they generate and the egotism and other ego-defense mechanisms which they trigger, which will subconsciously determine every thought that is thought and every word that is spoken and every actions which is taken throughout an entire lifetime if realization (a.k.a., "freedom from learned ignorance," per Maharaj) does not happen.
Meanwhile, the masses will go through the entire relative existence believing that they are making conscious choices when they are not really conscious of anything and are not really awake to anything and are not truly aware of anything.
To be continued.
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