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THE SEEDS OF DUALITY WHICH PRODUCE DUALITY'S PROGENY:
Offspring Number Thirty-Seven =
An Inability to Differentiate Between "self" and "Self" and to understand what "the Self" Is and What "the Self" is not and to understand both the not-Self and the not-self.
THERE IS NO REALITY TO EITHER selfness OR SELFNESS
The takeaway from yesterday's post? Whether following Maharaj's original seven-step "path" or his later four-step "path," a number of false self identities will be assumed along the way.
Maharaj first played the role of "The Super Religious Hindu" (though it was played with an ulterior motive of attracting locals to the loft); then he played the role of "The Spiritual Giant" (as revealed in the I AM THAT talks which were inspired by an influx of Western seekers who were not as interested in Hinduism as they were in non-duality and "spirituality");
but eventually he began sharing only non-dual, psychology-based pointers with the intent of freeing people of their nonsense-filled minds. And before he ever began offering satsang in the loft, he had played the role of The Successful Businessman" and "The Knowledge Accumulator and "The Super Seeker" and "The Forest Dweller."
His path was, therefore, a long and arduous one.
The same was the case here as I shifted from "The Bad Reprobate" role to "The Good Religious Man" and "the Super Seeker and "The Spiritual Giant."
And the same was the case with "Yeshu'a (a.k.a., "Jesus" nowadays) who was reportedly sharing the Jewish teachings in the temple by the age of twelve but who would eventually leave organized religion and begin wandering and seeking during what has been called "His Lost Years" when those who knew him lost track of him and his whereabouts.
He was likely on the long and arduous phase of the route he was following during those years, likely living at first among the Essenes who had separated themselves from the Jewish community in Jerusalem and moved into the wilderness to await some "new" something that was coming at some point.
Later, he likely joined his uncle who ran a caravan which traded goods between the Middle East and the Far East.
There are records of a Yeshu'a having visited India while traveling with such a caravan, and it may have been there where he was exposed to the non-dual teachings. All of the recorded non-dual pointers he offered were shared during the last three years or so of his manifestation when he returned to the Jerusalem.
While some persons nowadays are extremely proud of their seeking, it too is - as shown by the examples above - just another phase which is to be transitioned. Once what was sought has been found, seeking ends, but pride in "The Seeker" role and the kudos which it brings prevent persons from realizing and moving on along the "path." Why?
For "The Seeker" to exist in one's mind, seeking must continue. To "find" would be to annihilate "The Seeker," so - subconsciously - the complete and total "finding" is never really being sought (all lip service to the contrary notwithstanding).
The third step on the path is as far as most will travel. There, they assume "good" roles to replace their previously "bad" roles and then they cling to those false identities for the remainder of the manifestation.
In order to move to the fourth step after where all selves have been rejected and to then return to, and abide in, the Child No-Knowing State where adults can enjoy the unconditional happiness which can happen, all beliefs must be abandoned (including the belief in a self or selves or a Self).
Again, as Maharaj said of the loft and its guests, "Only that person will visit this place whose virtue and sin have [both] come to an end."
It is at the fourth step where all identities - whether supposedly "good" or "supposedly "bad" - come to an end. And that understanding marks the end of the belief in all false self identifications and in all SELF identifications which are equally false.
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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