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THE SEEDS OF DUALITY WHICH PRODUCE DUALITY'S PROGENY:
Offspring Number Forty-eight =
No Interest in Being Truly Free and Independent
THE MASSES PREFER DEPENDENCY AND CODEPENDENCY AND ATTACHMENT TO THINGS WHICH ROB PERSONS OF THEIR FREEDOM
[The masses do not understand WHY, continued]
Jnana yoga was one of the yogas which Maharaj used early on during his search for an effective form of the Ultimate Medicine which would address and cure the Ultimate Sickness.
He tried dozen of combinations, trying to form various “compounds” which he could use. They included over the years many different combinations of yoga with teaching methods which included teachings from Eastern dogma. Later, the focus would shift to using “spirituality” as an ingredient of the Medicine.
Yet time and again, Maharaj watched all of those concocted versions of the Ultimate Medicine fail. Then, he would try another version of Medicine until he finally realized that the Sickness is a mental problem, not a too-little-dogma problem and not a spiritual-malady problem.
The name “jnana” comes from the Sanskrit term meaning “knowledge.”
Eventually, seeing it was not an effective treatment for the Sickness, he transitioned beyond that after realizing that knowledge is nothing more than “learned ignorance.”
Rather than knowledge, he would eventually endorse - above all else - wisdom. Endorsing wisdom and discounting the mind (which is the storehouse of “knowledge” / “learned ignorance”) Maharaj said: “The death of the mind is the birth of wisdom.”
Here, prior to the death of the mind, I was one of the typical sleepwalkers and sleeptalkers who make up the clueless masses. Maharaj was the same.
The proof? Had he known why people think the way they think, talk the way they talk, and do what they do, then he would have never tried for decades to use ineffective versions of the Ultimate Medicine – involving dogma and spirituality – which all failed.
Once he came to realize that the Sickness is rooted in the mind and thus calls for a psychologically-based treatment plan, he focused on no other methods for the remainder of the manifestation.
Once he was freed of the mind, wisdom manifested. When earlier he did not understand totally why people think the way they think, talk the way they talk, and do what they do, once wisdom manifested he totally understood WHY . . . WHY people think the way they think, WHY persons talk the way they talk, and WHY the masses behave as they behave.
The same is true for all that realize, that realize that all learned ignorance must be discarded in order to pave the way for the arrival of wisdom.
The realized are not to be assumed to be “smart,” “intelligent,” or “all-knowing.” They are merely wise, wise enough to listen to someone speak for a few moments and then wise enough to understand all of the subconscious, motivating factors which are at play with any given talker.
The wise can listen to a political candidate and hear the words used during the announcement of his candidacy and by the time the newly-declared candidate stops talking, the wise can say, “Ah. I see. I see a racist. A white supremacist. A narcissist. Arrogance and judgmental personified. A sociopath with malignant narcissism. A psychopath. A brat. A con.”
The ignorant and insane, on the other hand, look at that same con and believe they see a hero, someone who says in public the hateful, divisive, duality-based thoughts and words which his listeners had been saying mainly in private.
The wise understand all of the WHY’s at play among the mind-driven masses even as the masses do not (and likely never will).
When a leader in the 1930’s talked hate, a large segment of the population began openly expressing their hatred. When a modern leader talks ignorance, stupidity, and insanity, a large segment of the population begins openly expressing their ignorance, stupidity, and insanity.
The result in both cases is that the Ultimate Sickness - with its Maharaj-identified symptoms of "ignorance," "stupidity" and "insanity" - spread at rates not seen before in modern history.
Most looked back at the events in Germany in the 1930's and early 1940's and later and frequently asked two questions, namely, “WHY?” and “HOW?”
Those questions may be raised in the West someday as well.
Meanwhile, those same questions are being asked by individuals who are presently miserable or suffering:
“HOW” did I get into that mess / marriage / business deal?”
“WHY” did I not see all of the red flags that were being presented which would have warned off anyone who is awake enough to see them?”
And there’s a clue: “Awake enough to see all of the warnings” and “Aware enough not to deny their existence because some persona of mine has an agenda and believes that my needs will be met by a person I should be running away from with the greatest possible haste.”
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.
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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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