"WISDOM" and "LOVE"

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"WISDOM" and "LOVE"

"Wisdom is knowing I am nothing. Love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves.  

A distinction has been drawn between what the masses take "love" to be vs. “That Which Real Love Is.” What most think "the world of love" is like is as illusory and as unreal as the imaginary "this world" which they have dreamed up and as imaginary as the other “worlds” they have dreamed up (such as a "better world" where "good" people go forever, and another being a "bad world" where "bad" people go forever). A distinction should also be understand regarding the distortions which manifests when one believes in concepts such as “this world” and “other worlds.”

[In truth, there is no “this world.” Note why it is impossible to define what “this world” is:

It is impossible to define in one way a “world” which is viewed in over 7.8 billion different views or different ways. No two humans could ever perceive “the world” in the same way, so anything viewed in 7.8 billion different ways can never be defined in one way.]

Maharaj: "The world you can perceive is a very small world indeed. And it is entirely private. Take it to be a dream and be done with it"

and "

. . . You and your world are dream states." 

Yet the delusions continue - and shall - driving persons to engage in what can only prove to be a futile search for the illusory version of "love" rather than come to know the Real version:

Maharaj: "You can spend an eternity looking elsewhere for truth and love, intelligence and goodwill, imploring God and man - all in vain."

To search for what the masses take to be "love" is to search for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. So what did Maharaj use to remove the blinders so that seekers might realize fully and know Real Love?

Maharaj: "The Nisarga yoga, the Natural yoga. It is the art of living in peace and harmony . . . and Love." 

Understand the teachings offered by that yoga and then you will understand Maharaj's next pointer:

"Love is not a result, it is the very ground of being. Wherever you go, you will find Being, Consciousness and Love."

Then, he offered this pointer which is an adumbration of the key point in recent posts which addressed the way that persons delude themselves and others with their claims of "I really love him / her unconditionally" and "She / he truly loves me, and I know that for a fact . . . without the slightest doubt."

To the contrary, Maharaj advised:

"Do not pretend that you love others . . . . "

[Alert: Don't try this at home if you and someone else have a long history of telling each other how much you love each other. Just understand if you keep saying it what "Love" means.]

Maharaj continued:

"Unless You have realised them as one with yourself, you cannot Love them."

Next, to the visitor who asked: "Is love a feeling or an emotion?"

The distinction is this:

Real Love can most assuredly will be felt by the realized, but it is not a "feeling." Real Love just Is; on the other hand, "love" as perceived by the masses, and as spoken of by the masses, is most assuredly an emotion, and emotions and emotional intoxication are the province of the non-realized who think they know what love is but who never consider what Real Love is and what “love” (as defined by the masses) is not.

This was offered to one who attended a retreat:

"What persons call ‘love' might seem to be the most magnificent experience of all; but at some point, it will also be seen to be the most horrendous experience of all. With such duality, how can that possibly be taken for The Real?”

And that point is not just about "relationships" which come to an undesired end. 

[Maharaj said that "relationship role-playing" often follows this pattern: stranger to acquaintance to friend to lover to fiancé / fiancée to spouse to one's greatest friend and lover to enemy to mortal enemy to divorcée and finally to enemy for life.]

No, that pointer from Maharaj can apply as well to, for example, a mother who felt something magnificent about her child who was later gunned down in the street by people who were supposed to be protecting that child when it was not with its mom.

The magnificent-joy-to-abject-misery shift can come in many forms.]

As for feeling or emotion, if Love manifests and is felt, take the ride and watch feelings rise and watch feelings fall; if 'love' happens as an emotion—that is, if it is being 'experienced' by a person in an ego-state—prepare for war."

Maharaj made clear that whatever or whoever gives a person pleasure will eventually give that person pain, and that whatever or whoever gives a person the most pleasure will eventually give that person the most pain.

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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