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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 green text after today's post for the full meaning and implications of that.
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The point in this series is that the non-dual message has long been widespread but has seldom been understood either then or now.
At the request of some visitors, further discussion or explanation of some of the Maharaj pointers shared recently is being provided.
A DEEPER LOOK AT SOME OF THE POINTERS OFFERED BY SRI NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ
(Manipulating and Using God, continued)
From yesterday:
21. "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."
22. Maharaj: “You have some experiences and you try to benefit from them, but remember that whatever is going to be of use to you ultimately is going to harm you. Wherever there is use, there is also dis-use in this world of duality. Whatever you like is going to create harm for you. Whatever you like most is, in the end, going to be most harmful for you.”
Humans’ primary addiction is to a desire to control.
Humans’ secondary addiction is to power (or “a Power”) which will allow them to control.
The Difference in “Desires” and “Needs”
According to the instinct theory of motivation, all organisms are born with innate biological tendencies which help them survive. Initially, instincts drive all behaviors. A traditional list of immediate "basic, instinctual needs" includes food and water, shelter and clothing. Later, an instinctive sex drive can develop as well.
All instinct-driven behaviors occur naturally and spontaneously and automatically. They do not need to be learned in order to manifest.
A child will spontaneously cry if hungry or thirsty. A child might cry if its shelter and / or clothing are making it feel too hot or too cold.
Those need-based discomforts are all rooted in non-taught, non-learned natural “needs” which originate from a physical, elemental, plant food body.
During the AM-ness, the word “you” can only be somewhat accurately used if it refers to a “three-part composite unity” which is temporary and ever-changing, circulating cluster of elements which form a space through which air circulates and through which conscious-energy circulates.
All instinctively-perceived needs are generated naturally and spontaneously and automatically by the normal functioning of a plant food body.
In order for the conscious-energy to remain manifested - and even that will only happen temporarily - the body will instinctively be conscious of a need for food and water.
Beyond the basic needs rooted in their thirst drive, the food drive, and the sex drive, humans do not naturally or spontaneously or automatically want anything, so “desires” and “needs” are quite different.
“Desires” only happen after various parts of the brain develop which allow for the storage of information and the retrieval of information, including the information stored therein via the processes of nonsensical programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, brainwashing and indoctrination.
While “instinctual, basic needs” are natural and based in “relative existence realities,” “desires” are never instinctual and often deal with "relative existence delusions or distortions" which are rooted – along with fears – in a variety of false personality identifications that are stored in the mind and erroneously believed by humans to be true and real.
Every false identity, false self, ego-state, assumed role, etc. has a basic desire and a basic fear.
Consider a few of the nine basic personality types or personality styles which all children develop and which they will usually cling to throughout an entire relative existence:
The Perfectionist has a desire to “be right” and to be seen as flawless; the fear is that they will make mistakes or “be wrong” and then be criticized.
The Rescuer has a desire to be loved by all (in an effort to compensate for a lack of love received during childhood, often as a result of an absentee father - absent by virtue of a divorce, a death, or by being physically present but not “emotionally available”). The basic fear is of not being loved by all.
The Performer does not care about love but does desire attention, admiration, applause, respect, fame, approval and "success"; the fear is the fear of failure . . . of not being a success or not receiving attention, admiration, applause, respect, fame, and approval in limitless quantities.
Understand the effects of assuming false personality identifications and you will understand the root of persons’ fears and the difference in needs and desires:
Needs are natural and of the elemental body; desires are unnatural and of the mind.
And why are mind-based desires unnatural? Because they are generated by a false image, by a false identity.
Moreover, one would be more sane to allow a mirage in a desert to control one’s thoughts and words and actions and determine what is desired than by a false image - by a false identity - because mirages in the desires have not been exposed to ignorant and insane programming, conditioning, etc.
And being driven by the warped-minded desires of the always-perverted mind will activate the humans’ primary and secondary addictions and they will believe it when they have been told that there is a Power or Powers in “another world” or in “other worlds” which can intervene in what is happening in “this world” and grant one’s desires if asked for faithfully from a god that one has been working to please.
So every prayer originates from the desires and fears of false personality identifications which are imaginary and bogus and controlled by the ignorance and insanity stored in human minds.
Therefore, every prayer amounts to this:
“Dear Conceptualized God,
There are some events that I want to be able to control, so I want to tap into your power in order to bring about the outcomes which are desired by the false, imaginary selves which are gathered together inside my mind.
Those selves are totally pretend, totally made up, total fantasies, and completely unreal, but I am convinced that they define who I am and I am convinced that whatever they desire, they should get (from you and from all other people).
Today, I am contacting you because I have a false identity that is being driven by imaginary fears and (false-) self-centered desires and that false identity really wants you to intervene and change the natural course of events (be it an approaching hurricane, a terminal illness, a failing relationship, whatever) and make the event come out the way that one particular ego-state of mine desires.
So, the bottom line is this:
A. God, I have identified something as being good (desired) or bad (feared) for me. Now, in humans' efforts to acquire good or to get rid of the bad, we have invented You; nevertheless, I worship You to make you happy so I can now pray to You for something good to happen to me.
And the bottom line is also this:
B. I am praying to an imaginary Super Person to give my imaginary selves what they desire and to help them avoid what they fear, even though they are totally imaginary.
In Christ’s name / Moses’ name / Mohamed's name (or Whoever’s name might sway you) I pray, Amen (meaning “let it be!”)
Before man landed on the moon, George Bernard Shaw was once asked if he thought there was life and humans on the moon. His answer was: “I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum.”
Spot on.
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) whose Vatican Bank worked for decades with the Mafia while laundering mob earnings (for a 15% all-profit charge by the Bank); 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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