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THE EVOLUTION OF MAHARAJ’S MESSAGE:
From dogma to spirituality to psychology
"Science will someday advance to the point that it will confirm the validity of the non-dual teachings."
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
[Continued from yesterday]
THE EVOLUTION OF MAHARAJ’S MESSAGE:
From dogma to spirituality to psycho
"Science will someday advance to the point that it will confirm the validity of the non-dual teachings."
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
To make clear, the claims by religious persons that “Maharaj had a problem with religion” (or that such a problem exists here) are totally misguided.
However, relatively
speaking, there have been plenty of people who would admit that they had a problem with
religion, if they could speak today. For example:
Those imprisoned and tortured and murdered by the religious leaders of the Spanish Inquisition might well admit they had a problem with religion.
Those
imprisoned and tortured and murdered by the religious leaders of the American
Inquisition (that is, the Puritans' witchcraft trials). Moreover, there are also those impacted throughout the centuries from the early 1600’s to the present as puritans first and puritanical types later have made an uninterrupted effort to force their
religious and social beliefs on the masses and have thereby generated problems for
millions upon millions of people.
Additionally, the 150,000,000 indigenous inhabitants of what is now called “The Americas” that were murdered
because they were in the way of European Christians whose purpose was to
"go to the fours corner of the earth and baptize everyone in the name of
Jesus Christ" (and kill the ones in "the new world" who
refused) might admit they had a big problem with murderous religious fanatics.
In addition to those killed during “that American Holocaust,” those killed during "the European Holocaust" might well say that they had a problem with religion, namely with the Catholic Adolf Hitler and his Catholic and Lutheran henchmen in Germany (and Austria and in some Scandinavian nations) who actively or passively supported the killing of 6,000,000 Jews and led to the deaths of the 85,000,000 people who died during WWII.
Also, those touched nowadays by the wrath of Islamic extremists and Christian extremists and Jewish extremists might well say they’ve had a problem with religion.
The examples could go on and on if one reflects on the religious Crusades and the other religious conflicts which have led to the murders of billions of persons in recent centuries as well.
In the U.S., religion-based (that is, duality-based) conflicts continue. In 1987, the Supreme Court set off a caca storm when it ruled that creationism is religion, not science, and cannot be advocated in public school classrooms.
Yet the religion vs. science differences have been debated, and fought over and killed over, for hundreds of years all around the globe, and now Republican leaders of the state government of Texas are controlling which textbooks will be used nationwide because they are one of the largest buyers of such books and thus control what textbook publishers / sellers do and do not included in those texts.
This has been noted: "Science acknowledges reason, empiricism, and evidence while religions include supposed revelations, blind faith, and supposed sacredness whilst also acknowledging philosophical and metaphysical and spiritual and religious explanations with regard to the study of the universe."
In other words, the latter prefers to assign spiritual, supernatural explanations for what are natural (or unnatural) happenings. Flooded? You've displeased God. Struck by tornadoes or hurricanes? You've displeased God. Had buildings knocked down when terrorists flew planes into them? You've displeased God. Home destroyed by wildfires? You've displeased God. You've displeased God!! You've displeased God, dammit!!!
Now, in the U.S., with increasing numbers of Christians (and their fellow conspiracy theorists) being elected to state, local and federal positions of political power and influence, science has once more come under an all-out attack.
Meanwhile, the few that are “realized” continue to focus on advocating for truth and logic and reason.
As for those who are attached to their lies, asininity, nonsense, senselessness, and unreasonableness, they can continue to try to deflect by claiming that they are “being targeted for their religious beliefs” rather than admitting that it is their false, asinine, nonsensical, senseless, unreasonable beliefs - along with all of the darkness generated by what Maharaj called "ignorance, stupidity and insanity" - which are having light cast upon them.
MAHARAJ'S TAKE ON THE RELIGION / SCIENCE DEBATE
As in all things and all ways, Maharaj was neither "pro" anything nor "con" anything. He was concerned only with the factual and the true. All else is to be abandoned; thus, he abandoned religion and spirituality and endorsed only natural (Nisargan) abidance.
At one point, he said that "science will someday advance to the point that it will confirm the validity of the non-dual teachings."
Yet he said at another point: "Science deals with names and shapes, quantities and qualities, patterns and laws; it is all right in its own place. But life is to be lived; there is no time for analysis. The response must be instantaneous — hence the importance of the spontaneous, the timeless. It is in the unknown that we live and move. The known is the past."
ONE OF THE MORE RECENT EXAMPLES WHERE SCIENCE IS ONLY NOW "CATCHING UP" WITH THE NON-DUAL UNDERSTANDING (WHICH HAS LONG EXPLAINED WHAT SCIENCE IS ONLY NOW REALIZING)
Consider this recent headline:
NEW YORK, N.Y. (WIVB) — RESEARCHERS IN NEW YORK SAY THAT AFTER A PERSON DIES, THE BRAIN IS STILL ACTIVE
That "news" report from the past went on to say:
What this means, according to CBS contributors, is that “in many cases, people can be aware that they’ve passed away.”
The research has been done by a team at New York University’s Langone School of Medicine. They are studying people who have suffered cardiac arrest.
Dr. Sam Parnia told Live Science, “Technically speaking, that’s how you get the time of death — it’s all based on the moment when the heart stops.”
KDKA, CBS contributors in Pittsburgh, cited a report from Live Science, which said the following:
“They’ll describe watching doctors and nurses working; they’ll describe having awareness of full conversations, of visual things that were going on, that would otherwise not be known to them,” Parma said.
The team of researchers wants to find out more about what happens in the brain before it stops working.
“We’re trying to understand the exact features that people experience when they go through death, because we understand that this is going to reflect the universal experience we’re all going to have when we die,” Parnia said.
The fact: Maharaj understood more than seventy years ago that "after a person dies, the brain is still active." He understood "the exact features that people experience when they go through 'death.'" He understood the exact stages which plant food bodies and manifested consciousness transition through during the movement from beingness into non-beingness and beyond.
In some translations, the Advaitin Yeshu’a (a.k.a., “Jesus”) spoke of heaven and earth fading away and he and his followers used that “fade away” term in many instances. Why?
Because conscious-energy is manifested in every aspect of any plant food body and when any body undergoes mahasamadhi, the conscious-energy is not released 100%, instantaneously, but “fades away” as it eventually merges into the universal pool of conscious-energy from which it came.
And that is why for a brief period “a brain can still be active” and why some report “seeing” the body as the conscious-energy is exiting the space but then seeing doctors or medics or others “revive them.”
And Maharaj and other non-dual sages have understood all of that for innumerable years.
Once Yeshu'a ("Jesus") came to understand certain non-dual pointers, he also understood - more than 2000 years ago - all of the "exit phases."
[So to further clarify the above: He said, "Heaven and earth shall fade away." What he meant by that was that the consciousness - blocked or not - does not leave a plant food body instantly but slowly fades away, so the beliefs stored in the mind - such as false concepts about "this world" (a.k.a., earth") and a "better world (a.k.a., "heaven") and a "worse world" (a.k.a., "hell") - will fade away, allowing the opportunity not for "the brain" to remain active but for the manifested-but-unmanifesting consciousness to remain active, for a time.
Hence, many people claim that they looked down upon their bodies as they were "dying" and saw rescuers working to revive them and then saw themselves returning to their bodies and "living" (and then thereafter claiming erroneously that "it was a miracle").
The misunderstanding has led many to claim that "they died and went to heaven" and then "came back," and they might well believe that. (Others who wrote books about going to heaven and then returning to earth have admitted that "they just made it all up to impress their religious friends and leaders" and / or "to made some money.")
Many of them have made fortunes from religious types who have paid for the books written about that "journey" or to watch the movies made about such events, all of which are pure nonsense of course. Only a few have been honest enough to admit "they made up the whole damn thing" and none have shown any evidence that they understand what actually happens during the unmanifesting of conscious-energy / consciousness.
Again, far from what some describe as "a miracle" is a happening which is really just a commonplace event which the wisest non-dualists have understood for thousands of years. What any others describe as "a miracle" is a misunderstanding at best or is a full-blown con at its worse, dreamed up and then used to further a dogma-based agenda or a financial agenda.]
The explanation of what really happens at the moment of mahasamadhi and unmanifesting will continue with tomorrow's post.
To be continued.
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THE EXPLANATION
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"
and
"Heaven and earth shall fade away."
and
"Heaven and hell are not geographic places
"There is no hell."
