REALIZING WITHOUT DOGMA, WITHOUT CONTINUOUS SPIRITUAL PRACTICES, AND WITHOUT A PREOCCUPATION WITH “THE NATURE OF REALITY AND THINGS NOUMENAL” ALLOWS ONE TO AVOID THE RELIGION-AND-SPIRITUALITY-BASED DUAL-MINDEDNESS ABOUT WHICH YESHU'A (JESUS) WARNED

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To review the key pointers being discussed at this point: 

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. 

The most influential obstacles of all to realizing and being free have come via dreamed up myths and superstitions and via "religious" and / or "spiritual" sources, including religious and / or spiritual thoughts, ideas, concepts, notions, views, theories, inklings, perceptions, a.k.a., "beliefs." 

A man who was abused as a child by a priest approached and asked for a way "to be guided to a state of realization and freedom without religion." 

The popular venues where seekers seek (or don't) have a 5000+-year history of failing to set persons free of their distorted and delusional and freedom-blocking and independence-blocking belief systems.

Thus it should be clear why Maharaj eventually advised seekers to avoid those, leading to this totally different option: 

REALIZING WITHOUT DOGMA, WITHOUT CONTINUOUS SPIRITUAL PRACTICES, AND WITHOUT A PREOCCUPATION WITH “THE NATURE OF REALITY AND THINGS NOUMENAL” ALLOWS ONE TO AVOID THE RELIGION-AND-SPIRITUALITY-BASED DUAL-MINDEDNESS ABOUT WHICH YESHU'A (JESUS) WARNED 

Consider these parallels between Maharaj and Yeshu'a / “Jesus”: 

Maharaj: 

"There is no chaos in the world except the chaos which your mind creates." 

Yeshu'a / “Jesus” 

(about 1,950 years earlier): “A dual-minded person is unstable in all ways." 

Maharaj: 

Grew up in a highly-religious culture (but not a highly religious home; he would go on to hear and study and consider the dogma spread via Hinduism; he abandoned organized religion for the most part (though he did offer Hindu / non-dual combination sessions in his loft in the early days of his teaching); and he eventually abandoned the use of religion and dogma completely and eventually focused on the non-dual / Nisargan message only, for the most part. 

Yeshu'a / “Jesus”: 

Grew up in a highly-religious culture; he heard and studied and considered the dogma spread via Judaism; he abandoned organized religion for the most part (though he did offer a combination of religious and / or non-dual pointers in his teachings (depending on his audience); and then he eventually abandoned the use of religion and dogma completely and focused on the non-duality message only, for the most part. 

Maharaj:

When Westerners began showing up in the loft and Maharaj stopped offering bhajans and turned his back on organized religion and advised people to toss the pictures of their gods into the sea and shared spiritual / non-dual combination pointers instead, the religious Hindus criticized him. 

Yeshu'a / “Jesus”:

Yeshu’a at the age of 12 was teaching Jewish dogma in the temple. Eighteen years later, he had turned his back on organized religion and was sharing spiritual / non-dual combination pointers, and the religious Jews criticized him and left him to the Romans to get rid of. 

Yeshu'a / “Jesus”:

How ironic that an organized religion was founded in the name of Yeshu'a / “Jesus” when he modeled abandoning organized religion completely. How ironic that Christians today criticize anyone who worships with them for a time but then abandons organized religion, just as their Christ did. How ironic that the non-duality pointers offered by their so-called “Savior” are ignored by them while the content of the Jewish texts (which Christians call their “Old Testament”) is more influential on them than Christ’s teachings (in what they call “The New Testament”). 

Maharaj

How ironic, too, that a cult has been founded around Maharaj with persons who pay a fee to visit the loft and drop to their knees in order to bow and pray and worship him therein; how ironic that persons go to sites Maharaj visited - and which are now deemed to be "holy" - and bow and pray and clap and chant there; 

and how ironic that persons go to another room thought to be "special" and "holy" where some of the ashes from Maharaj's funeral pyre were collected and where those ashes are now on display and where those persons join others in bowing there to a handful of the remaining, burnt plant food elements of a body which Maharaj did not identify with at all.

*****

Again, "There is no chaos in the world except the chaos which your mind creates” and “A dual-minded person is unstable in all ways." The latter is an accurate pointer which can be expanded to include: 

"Dual-minded persons in a 'relationship' will be unstable in all ways" 

and 

"Dual-minded owners of multi-billion-dollar corporations will be unstable in all ways" 

and 

"Dual-minded citizens of a nation will be unstable in all ways" 

and 

"Dual-minded 'leaders' and presidents and dictators and prime ministers etc. of nations will be unstable in all ways" 

and 

"Dual-minded, xenophobic 'Super Patriots' will be unstable in all ways" 

and 

"Dual-minded citizens of a nation, or citizens of nations in conflict, will be unstable in all ways." 

Can any sane and objective witness possibly claim that the key traits of the lives of most persons all around the globe are anything other than “chaotic” and “unstable”?

And what is at the root of all of the chaos and instability?

Duality.

Dualistic thoughts. Dualistic talk. Duality-driven actions.

The bane of humans right now might be the sickness generated by coronavirus Type 19, but the bane of humans has far longer been the Ultimate Sickness which is rooted in dualistic thoughts and dualistic talk and duality-driven actions which are generated by what Maharaj identified as global, widespread "ignorance, stupidity and insanity."

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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