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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
(“Stupid is as stupid does”)
Maharaj, from yesterday:
27. “The way to truth lies through the destruction of the false. To destroy the false, you must question your most inveterate [ingrained, entrenched] beliefs.”
He identified three key symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness as being “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity.”
BRAIN DAMAGE vs. MIND-GENERATED DAMAGE
In the U.S., there is an overall brain damage incidence rate of approximately 5.14 per 1,000 "live births."
That rate means that of the 3.27 million persons in the U.S., the number of humans with brain damage increases by about 19,000 per year. For the families directly affected, that must surely seem to be an overwhelming rate of incidence, but comparatively, it is a rather slight number overall.
The overwhelming number, and the number of significance to "non-dualists," is not the number of persons with brain damage but the number of persons with “mind damage” because the Ultimate Sickness symptoms of “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity” are not brain issues but are mind issues.
The majority of the ignorance which persons believe in was not acquired “at birth” but was instead taught and learned.
[Maharaj referred to such ignorance specifically as “learned ignorance” and said that the job of the teacher is to free persons of their “learned ignorance.”
Maharaj said "knowledge" comes to each child after its arrival, not before, and that the knowledge which is passed down to a child after its arrival amounts to “learned ignorance.”
He said that "realization is simply the condition of being free from functioning under the influence of learned ignorance" and that "Realization is but the opposite of ignorance."]
Low IQ levels notwithstanding, most of the symptoms Maharaj discussed have little to do with conditions "at birth" but have to do with ignorance being taught, with stupidity being taught, and with most insanity having being passed down to offspring and then those offspring passing it down to the next generation.
While the brain damage incidence rate is approximately 5.14 per 1,000 "live births," Maharaj estimated that the “mind damage incidence rate” is zero per "live birth" but becomes approximately 9,999,999 out of 10,000,000 as persons become programmed, conditioned, domesticated, acculturated, brainwashed, and indoctrinated with nonsense which fills their minds with “inveterate [ingrained, entrenched] beliefs.”
[“9,999,999 out of 10 million”? Yes. Originally, Maharaj said that only 1 out of 100,000 will escape the symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness. Later, he amended that guesstimate and predicted that only 1 out of 1,000,000 will escape the symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness. In the end, he said that only 1 out of 10,000,000 will escape the symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness.]
The first place where the young are exposed to nonsensical and “ignorant, stupid and insane” programming and conditioning is in the home (a.k.a., “domestication”).
With ninety-seven percent of the earth’s population claiming a religious affiliation, the second and most influential place where the young are exposed to nonsensical and “ignorant, stupid and insane” programming and conditioning is in religious venues (a.k.a., “acculturation” and “brainwashing” and “indoctrination”).
With that ninety-seven percent claiming a religious affiliation, most youth are guaranteed to be exposed to nonsensical and “ignorant, stupid and insane” programming and conditioning in the religious venues where 97% of the non-realized masses take their children to be taught what will become their “inveterate [ingrained, entrenched] beliefs” which will likely be clung to throughout their entire relative existence.
Thus, the rest of Maharaj’s pointer from above:
27. (continued) Of these [inveterate ingrained, entrenched beliefs] the idea that you are the body is the worst. With the body comes the world, with the world, God (who is supposed to have created the world) and thus it starts:
XXfears, religions, prayers, sacrifices, all sorts of systems, all to protect and support the child-man, frightened out of his wits by monsters of his own making."
Next, note these key points:
1. Once the Ultimate Sickness takes hold, then persons will be driven by “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity,” none of which can be compartmentalized. Meaning?
2. If “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity” control and dominate a mind as a result of early religious training which forces youth to accept
(a) the most insane and ignorance belief systems as facts and accept
(b) the belief that merely questioning whatever has been taught will cast one into a place of eternal punishment and fire and suffering post-manifestation, then
3. ignorance and stupidity and insanity-based beliefs will not manifest solely in terms of religion but, instead, one’s inveterate [ingrained, entrenched] beliefs about god but will also result in ignorance-and-stupidity-and-insanity-based beliefs which will control one’s political beliefs as well as one’s beliefs about relationships and one’s views about the superiority of one’s country of origin and the superiority of one’s race, ad infinitum.
Between the ages of 5 to 6 in the “Sunday school classes” where our parents placed my peers and me, my classmates and I were taught and were expected to believe unquestioningly . . .
(a) that humankind began 6000 years ago when God made a white man and then used one of his ribs to make a white woman, both of whom he placed in a jungle in a northern Africa-like environment;
(b) that the woman disobeyed a rule god made about not eating apples from a special tree in his garden;
(c) that all women who have a monthly period now suffer menstrual pain to remind the world of the evil that came when an evil woman enticed an otherwise good man to eat one of the apples from that tree anyway;
(d) that they had two sons and one killed the other and then - to trigger the beginning of an entire human species - either a mother had sex with her son or a son had sex with a sister born to his parents;
(e) that a whale swallowed a man and, three days later, regurgitated him and he was fine per the power of god;
(f) that god loves everyone unconditionally but he nevertheless drowned all of the people on the planet except for the members of one family;
(g) that homosexuals should be stoned to death, again, unconditional love notwithstanding, etc., etc., etc.
I was one of the few who questioned all of that nonsensical dogma, but most of the children and most of adults in that church believed all of the ignorant teachings without question, based in blind faith alone.
Now if you can train up children to become adults who will unquestioningly believe all of the nonsense dreamed up by authority figures, then you will also have an adult population who will vote for a dictatorial, sociopathic, psychopathic leader to be the head of their nation; will hate rather than love; will kill if requested or ordered to do so; will believe that if they are different from others that they are automatically better than those others; etc.
Again, “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity” cannot be compartmentalized. If it is present in one aspect of a person’s life, it will be present in all aspects of one’s life.
Recall the words of the Advaitin Yeshu’a (“Jesus”):
“A dual-minded person will be unstable in all ways.”
Therefore, Maharaj said:
To believe in a god who is supposed to have created the world starts . . .
“fears, religions, prayers, sacrifices, all sorts of systems, all to protect and support the child-man, frightened out of his wits by monsters of his own making” (including monstrous gods who are willing to drown and to kill and to burn and to commit massive acts of genocide).
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 their god / their 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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