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2. Here, with those who are still driven to talk about "God," the "Son of God," the "Holy Spirit," "Buddha," "Krishna," etc., etc., etc., the invitation to them is to view those as verbs, not nouns. See the end of the post for the full meaning and implications of that.
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THE SEEDS OF DUALITY WHICH PRODUCE DUALITY'S PROGENY:
Offspring Number Twenty-Three =
The Inability to Understand and Accept The Non-Dual Pointer That "What Is 'Born' Must Die"
A visitor to Maharaj's loft asked:
"Is the witness-consciousness [a.k.a., 'The True Self'] permanent or not?"
Maharaj answered, "It is not permanent. The knower rises and sets with the
known. That in which both the knower and the known arise and set is beyond time. The words 'permanent' or 'eternal' do not apply."
Of course, Maharaj understood that all is energy-matter and that energy-matter is all that has been, is, and shall be eternal and permanent.
Science makes clear that energy-matter can neither be created nor destroyed. It can merely assume various forms. Conscious-energy can and does manifest within a variety of spaces. One such space on planet earth is the space created by a temporarily-manifested grouping of plant food elements which has the ability to circulate air and various forms of energy.
One of those forms is conscious-energy.
Maharaj also understood, therefore, that nothing is "born" and no human has ever been "created." All is merely cycling in and cycling out of temporary existence.
Questioner: "And what is death?"
Maharaj: "It is the change in the living process of a particular body. Integration ends and disintegration sets in."
And therein lies one of the major objections of persons among the masses to the non-dual message:
While humans are addicted to control and therefore addicted to power and a Power which can help them control, they all have an even stronger, overriding desire, namely, the desire for continuity.
That desire for continuity has led trillions to buy into duality-based nonsense about "an afterlife"; about "heaven" or some such other-worldly geographic place; about "hell," or some such other-worldly geographic place; good vs. bad; sinful vs. virtuous;
good karma vs. bad karma along with "The Great Accountant in the Sky" who classifies and tallies in one of two columns in The Great Book of Karmic Records all of the deeds done by all humans of all times; rewards vs. punishment;
religions (and - as a result - thousands of years of religious wars which continue to be fought to this day); spirituality along with the notion that there are special places on the planet which ooze out a special kind of other-worldly energy and / or awarenesses;
a "soul" which resided in a human body and then survives the total collapse of the composite unity / elemental plant food body and abides forever in a capable-of-floating form, in the form of angels and / or guardian angels or in a form recognizable by its former "loved ones" . . .
with whom it will supposedly spend eternity praising a god who is obviously a narcissist since he really likes to be praised, glorified, sung to, extolled, honored, paid tribute to, applauded, acclaimed, worshipped, and thanked.
[For a supposed "God of Peace" / "Prince of Peace," he certainly does not seem to value peace and quiet and the silence at all. What a noisy place his celestial home would be. Surely he would have at least once shouted, "Would you loud-ass people just shut the hell up?!!! after which he immediately reconsidered and said, "Nevermind. Ignore that. Continue singing and shouting my praises."]
With their misplaced, delusional love of continuity, the masses are never likely to accept the non-dual pointer which Maharaj offered when asked about being "reborn":
1. "You were not born even once so you cannot possibly be reborn"
and
2. "What was born must die. Only the unborn is deathless. Find what is it that never sleeps and never wakes" (namely, energy-matter).
To be continued.
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Here, with those who are still driven to talk about "God," the "Son of God," the "Holy Spirit," "Buddha," "Krishna," etc., etc., etc., the invitation to them is to view those as verbs, not nouns.
THE EXPLANATION
If looked at as nouns, they point to illusions and are, therefore, a total waste of time to even discuss; if looked at as verbs which are resulting in certain sane but rare behaviors among humanity, then they are worthy of some attention during the relative existence.
Meaning? There are members of certain groups who say things such as "My concept of God in the past was of a weak God, an absentee God, A Santa Claus-type God, a mean, punishing, vindictive God, etc. Today, I am in close contact with a loving and caring God whom I worship and praise and glorify and give thanks to."
The reply to that usually goes like this: "If you are in contact with a God that wants to be worshipped and praised and glorified, then you're dealing with someone like yourself - a narcissist - and hanging out with narcissists will never bring an end to your narcissism (that narcissism evidenced by the fact that you think you are "godly").
Next, in the phrase 'loving and caring God,' any supposed God that truly had her or his act together would tell you that the totally irrelevant part of that phrase is 'God' and that the only part that is relevant is the "loving and caring" part.
"That is, a non-narcissistic god / goddess would say, "I care not an iota about being worshipped and praised and glorified by you or anyone else. How arrogant and insecure and needy would I have to be to want that? Forget the man-made, dreamed up noun 'God' and focus on the 'God as a verb' understanding and then go forth and let loving and caring be verbs - not adjectives - and let them generate the act of love and the act of caring and let those actions manifest through you."
Yeshu'a (Jesus) and Pope John Paul II and Pope Francis were spot on:
"No one shall ever see 'the kingdom of heaven.' It is within"
--Yeshu'a (Jesus)
and
"Heaven and earth shall fade away."
--Yeshu'a (Jesus)
and
"Heaven and hell are not geographic places
but are states of mind,
nothing more than concepts dreamed up by men."
--Pope John Paul II
"There is no hell."
--Pope Francis, the current pope
in an interview with journalist Eugenio Scalfari,
a writer used by the Pope to issue off the record
teachings
which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.
[That said, would that the popes who have shown the courage to reject a core concept of their dogma - namely, "hell" - would find the additional courage required to question the very existence of their institution in light of the centuries-long cover-up of their history of raping children and in light of the mental and emotional and psychological scarring of billions of their members past and present.
And that need for courage also applies as questions need to be asked about why so many other sky cults are still being supported and allowed to continue to exist as well. When certain types of programming and conditioning have been shown to blind the masses, they should end. Will they? Not likely. Why?
Because what the masses think and say and do is most influenced by the international crime families which hold sway over the masses as criminals conduct their planet-wide operations. What are the major international crime families and which are the most influential and have the largest memberships?
The Mafia / La Cosa Nostra; the Catholic Church (with it 1.2 billion followers); Protestant and Evangelical Churches (with over 1.2 billion followers) like the one I was raised in where the youth director molested and sexually assaulted young girls; big business which has long created environments in which people have been abused; powerful political bodies like the U.S. Congress, etc., etc., etc.)
With all of those crime families, neither the followers nor the leadership ever voluntarily step down or shut down their criminal activities. Be they gangs, organized crime families, religions, big business, politicians, etc., they all want control and they all want power and they all want money, and nothing internal will interfere with the driving forces at play.
The masses must demand that all those in charge must step down and their groups and institutions must shut down, and there's the real problem because the continuation of their crimes are enabled not as much by the people running such crime organizations as they are enabled by the masses of people who - wanting some perceived "payoff" - remain involved with them and give them money and support them and aid and abet the continued existence of those criminal enterprises and thus facilitate the ability of church criminals and political criminals and other types of criminals to continue to commit their crimes.]
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