TODAY'S CONSIDERATIONS
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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
From yesterday:
The "mind" has been filled with fiction; with beliefs that are based not at all in fact; with beliefs that have never been questioned; and with beliefs that have been accepted with no evidence at all but have been accepted on "blind faith" alone; thus, they are all 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"), all of which can be summarized as "beliefs."
The reason that Maharaj estimated that only 1 in 100,000 will ever realize and then later changed that estimate to 1 out of 1,000,000 and then eventually changed that guesstimate to 1 out of 10,000,000 was because he saw that
(a) few seek
and because he saw that
(b) among the few who do seek, most of them mess up the seeking process and thus block any chance of finding from ever happening.
And how do they mess it up? By believing that the seeking and the finding both involve something beyond the phenomenal; by believing that "realization" involves something noumenal; by believing that what they are to find is somewhere beyond this realm;
by believing that the seeking and "the path" involve something religious or spiritual (and which supposedly require supernatural-level activities and "beyond-this-realm understandings" rather than seeing that realization has nothing whatsoever to do with anything beyond the phenomenal (which is understood via science).
Maharaj would eventually explain this:
"Realization is nothing more than being freed from all belief in the 'learned ignorance' which the masses are taught." That has nothing to do with anything "noumenal" or "religious" or "spiritual."
Instead, that has everything to do with an all-phenomenal happenings which lead to outcomes that result when what Maharaj called "ignorance and stupidity and insanity" (as well as lies and deceptions) are all passed down as "wisdom" and "the truth" from one generation to the next - over and over for millennia after millennia - by way of the use of ignorance-and-stupidity-and-insanity-driven programming and conditioning and domestication and acculturation and brainwashing and indoctrination.
There is nothing about that process of spreading lies and ignorance which requires any understanding rooted in anything beyond the phenomenal activities of humans who are driven by beliefs that were and are rooted in "learned ignorance";
thus, Maharaj eventually said, "You need not find the answer to the question 'Who am I?' You need only find all that you are not" (namely, all of the personas and personalities and ego-states and false identities which have been assigned early on or which have been adopted later on).
Moreover, all identities are false, including the "bad ones" (such as "The Sinner," "The Real Alcoholic," "The Sex Maniac," or "The "Illegal Alien") as well as the supposedly "good ones" (such as "The Super Spouse" or "The Super Mate"; "The Truly Pure One" or "The Perfect and Flawless One"; or "The Super Seeker," "The Super Religious One" or "The Spiritual Giant").
What needs to be realized, and what Maharaj was suggesting that "you need to see" and "which you are not," is this: all so-called "identities" and all so-called "Identities" are false.
Moreover, because all identities and Identities are false, he suggested that any and every belief in them should be discarded so that they can no longer unconsciously drive persons thoughts and words and actions via the agendas of assumed or assigned personalities.
Additionally, all false identities are products of the phenomenal, meaning there are no supposedly noumenal identities which have any reality to them (such as "The Infinite Self," "The True Self," "The Supreme Self," blah, blah blah).
At this point, most ask, "So what am I, then?"
Phenomenally, relatively speaking, you can be called "a composite unity" for the sake of discussion only; specifically, that is a unity of plant food elements which are temporarily-forming a space where the elements and the air and the conscious-energy all circulate throughout a limited relative existence.
If you must have a label, then for now you are the temporarily-cycling energy-matter currently existing in a mostly-"free-ranging mode"; it is what "you" are for now. Too, it is all that "you" have ever been and is all that "you" can or shall ever be.
The elements which form the space all come and go; the air comes and goes; the conscious-energy comes and goes. At the point when mahasamadhi is taken, a process begins which allows the conscious-energy to return to the universal pool of conscious-energy;
which allows the air to return to the universal pool of air; and which allows the elements to return to the universal pool of elements. After mahasamadhi is taken, never the twain (or trio or three "parts") shall meet.
Because the parts of the composite unity all go their separate ways, there's no way that anything which was a temporary part of this I AM-ness can exist as some kind of "entity" or in some kind of "similar form" post-manifestation.
Having come to understand that, Maharaj explained that there is no need to try to find the answer to "Who am I, really?" It is enough to understand that there is no who-ness now and that there is no WHO-ness later.
Science deals with the phenomenal, for only the phenomenal involves provable facts:
There is this thing called "earth" for the sake of discussion. Science can prove what the planet is made of, when it first took shape, when it will eventually be consumed by the expanding sun, when it will collide with particles of gas, and when it will decay and spiral inward.
By contrast, no one can prove that there are also upgraded and downgraded versions of this "earth" which are called "heaven" (the upgraded version) and "hell" (the downgraded version).
What persons would have you believe in about things supposedly noumenal - and believe in unquestioningly and with blind faith alone - is all as false as the present identities and "Future Identities" which they have dreamed up in order to try to control you and the masses.
In other words . . .
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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."
