THE EVOLUTION OF MAHARAJ’S MESSAGE: From dogma to spirituality to psychology

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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   

“The idea that you know what is true is dangerous, for it keeps you imprisoned in the mind.”

--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj  

Here, there is nothing that is believed, so there is no one here who wants you to believe anything, either. Here, the invitation is to be free of all that you have been programmed, conditioned, acculturated, domesticated, indoctrinated, and brainwashed to believe so that you can be free, period.  

--Floyd Henderson 

Maharaj said, “The true teacher will not imprison his disciples in a prescribed set of ideas, feelings [that is, emotions] and actions; on the contrary, he will show them patiently the need to be free from all ideas and set patterns of behavior"; thus, he advised, “Reach a state of zero concepts.” 

The only prison which need concern most seekers in the prison of the mind. The irony is that while each belief forms one of the bars of that prison, even a single remaining bar can prevent clear seeing. To be totally free, all of the bars of the prison must be eliminated. The only one no longer being fooled is the one that no longer believes anything that she or he was told. 

If you are not abiding under the auspices of a brain as it existed in its pre-development-of-a-mind-state, then you will most assuredly feel as if you are in prison, trapped behind iron bars and feeling miserable, and many of the wisest of all ages have seen what truly imprisons humanity: 

Richard Lovelace accurately noted: "Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage"; instead, he made clear, it is the mind which makes a prison. 

John Milton said: “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.” 

Yeshu'a (Jesus) said after he was exposed to the non-dual teachings: "No one shall ever see the kingdom of heaven for it is within," now. 

So if "heaven" is within now, so is "hell." Pain is of the body; misery and suffering are of the mind; therefore, either "heaven" (joy or bliss or happiness or contentment) or "hell" (misery and suffering and insanity) is within, and now is the only time that either can be known. 

Maharaj said, “You are not in the world. The world is in you.” Meaning? Meaning that the world is imagined by you so it is “in you” . . . that is, "in your mind"; therefore, any misery or suffering being experienced in what is taken to be “this world” is nothing more than a mental construct to one degree or another. 

[Again, that is why Yeshu'a shared the non-dual pointer that "Heaven and earth shall fade away," meaning - at the point when mahasamadhi is taken - the conscious-energy shall fade away from the elemental plant food body and return to the universal pool of unmanifested consciousness and, with that fading, the concepts of "heaven" and "earth" and "hell" shall also have to fade away because they were only in the mind anyway.]

Similarly, any reward supposedly attainable in "another better world" or any punishment supposedly imposed in "another worse world" is also a mental construct. Thus, anyone telling persons about the dualities of "heaven vs. hell" and "reward and punishment" and "this world vs. a better world or a worse world" are passing along mental constructs which are all based in lies. 

Lies, in turn, are all based in concepts, ideas, notions, perceptions / misperceptions, thoughts, designs, impressions, images, opinions, views, theories, and supposed knowledge (a.k.a., "learned ignorance") which can be summarized in one word: beliefs.

[And by the way, you have no beliefs of your own. There is no one who can accurately say, "These are my beliefs." All beliefs are passed down from "them," so they are all "their" beliefs.]

In the book entitled FREEDOM from BELIEFS (Believers, Non-Believers, and "No-Belief-ers") 

the following was asked by way of offering an introduction to the subject as well as the rationale for abandoning all beliefs and reaching the "no-mind" state or the "zero concepts" state which were recommended by Maharaj: 

Why is it that the peace and harmony and happiness that Maharaj referenced cannot manifest if there is a "mind" (which he reported he no longer had after realization)? 

Consider the implication of the title of the book

"There's No Such Thing As 'Peace of Mind' (There Is Only Peace If You're Out Of Your Mind)"

That is, there can only be peace and harmony and happiness if you are out from under the influence of what is taken to be "your mind" when, as noted, there is no such thing as "your mind"  because a mind is nothing more than a storehouse of "their" beliefs; therefore, what is taken to be "your mind" is actually "their" mind. 

(Among the non-realized, "parents" may have died twenty years ago, but they are still very much present, chattering away - like the chatter of a thousand monkeys - from within the mind they built and filled with their culture's nonsense and left behind.)

So what there is among the not-fully-realized is "their mind" ("their" referring to all persons who have taught you any idea or concept which is presently stored in the section of the brain called "the mind"; thus, it is the content of "their mind" which has been passed down and transferred and is always taken in error to be "your mind." Why is it "their mind"? 

Because whatever is in it, you did not put in there. "They" put it in there. Who are "they"? The members of your family of origin, relatives, friends, teachers, religious and / or spiritual influencers, political leaders, and all who were in positions of "authority" during your childhood and who exposed you to their ideas and concepts (beliefs) which you have adopted as "your own." 

“They” are everyone you have encountered during your childhood and throughout your adulthood who have exposed you to ignorant and insane programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, brainwashing, and indoctrination.

Moreover, the adoption of ideas and concepts (beliefs) continues even now, into adulthood, for all who are not realized (that is, who have not discarded all of the learned ignorance which was passed down and remains stored in "the mind").

All "mind" have been filled with fiction; with beliefs which are based not at all in fact; with beliefs which have never been questioned; and with beliefs which have been accepted with no evidence to support them at all but have been accepted on "blind faith" alone. 

 

To be continued.

Please enter into the silence of contemplation.

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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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