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THE ULTIMATE SICKNESS and THE ULTIMATE MEDICINE
Maharaj explained that "knowledge" is itself "learned ignorance."
He said in the end that realization is simply the condition of being free from functioning under the influence of learned ignorance.
He said: "Realization is but the opposite of ignorance."
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Stage IV: The De-Accumulation / Actual "Journey" Stage
By now, it should be clearer why Maharaj estimated that only a few thousand persons on the planet will be fully realized at any given time (that is, free of any and all belief in all “learned ignorance”).
It has been noted that Maharaj's instruction for following the "path" and completing the "journey" requires that the seeker "go back, reverse, to the source" and that the seeker "follow the same path by which you came"; however, there was no "Hänsel-und-Gretel-style-crumb-dropping" on the way in which can now be followed easily to find the way out.
To review: So look again at the challenges that seekers face before they can even begin the "journey":
they must find . . .
. . . a guide that understands exactly where the seeker "was" in the days prior to conception;
. . . a guide that understands the exact steps by which a speck of consciousness moved from that Absolute ocean of awareness and manifested in a body-cum-consciousness;
. . . a guide that understands the exact steps that were taken in order for that speck of originally-pure consciousness to become so blocked and so corrupted that it moved, step-by-step, until it reached a point where it took itself to be anything and everything that the ignorant said it was;
where it could accept the most unbelievable tales as believable; where it accepted as fact that which is not provable by fact; where its ability to see became so limited that it could not see the limitless and infinite nature of reality and could only accept that who (what) it is, at its core, is merely an elemental, plant food body;
where such ignorance could manifest that there is no understanding of how that body came to be, naturally, but is thought to have manifested with some supernatural intervention as well; where that which is natural has been replaced by that which is unnatural and believed to be supernatural;
where it is believed that the causes of natural happenings are supernatural instead; where there is no ability to distinguish between true and false; where the most simple question such as "Who or what am I?" cannot be answered accurately; where such statements as "I don't even know who I am anymore" can be made and can be true to degrees far greater than intended;
and where the relative existence is characterized by, what Maharaj called, "learned ignorance," "insanity," and (oops) "stupidity."
[The more that Maharaj attempted to guide seekers along the Direct Path, the more direct his delivery of pointers became. The most tender egos often left the loft on their own in anger before being tossed out.]
To review further: As you consider why so few will ever realize fully, understand that all of the elements of the Ultimate Sickness listed above are addressed by heavy doses of the Ultimate Medicine that are not provided until Stage Four where the actual "journey" begins and where the steps are actually taken.
Difficult enough it is to find a teacher who even understands the reverse path out, let alone that has the ability to actually teach the way back to seekers.
That notwithstanding, consider the other obstacles that must be surmounted and that compound the difficulty of reaching a teacher that has the Ultimate Medicine and that understands the one and only proper way that the Medicine must to be administered.
Even before reaching Stage Four where the mouth of the "path" is located and where one can begin the "journey," a seeker must move beyond (must "get pass") forty years of programming, conditioning, acculturation, and domestication as well as two levels of faux seeking.
To review, the first level of faux seeking involves outward-directed seeking rather than inward and properly-directed seeking, as offered by those whose paths require seekers to travel in a sleepwalking state (such as religious paths and kindergarten-level spirituality paths);
or,
the first level of faux seeking which is offered by those who heard the consciousness speak and point toward truth but who have subsequently bastardized the message in order to make it appealing to the masses who now buy the distorted versions via multi-million-seller books and lecture tours and multi-thousand-dollar retreats.
Also before reaching Stage Four where the actual steps are taken, seekers must move beyond the next obstacle of faux seeking that involves wandering about as if in a forest and trying to find one's way, without a guide, through the maze.
Interestingly, this level of seeking is actually necessary (as is some version of the first level of faux seeking) because it is this second (forest dweller) level which moves the seeker away from searching in the very venues that lead the masses to entrapment in the dream of the planet and that provide no means whatsoever for awakening from the dream.
Yet this second level does allow "The Seeker Ego-State" and "The Super Religious Ego-State" and "The Spiritual Giant Ego-State" to wean themselves, to stop suckling at the teat of the dream-inducing charlatans, to stop dozing off during their activity that supports a false-and-ever-coming-and-going-sense-of-comfort state, and to wake up at least enough to see that the dream is not the real and that it is the real which they seek.
This second level allows the focus to move from away from those whom the masses have accepted as their sleep-inducing guides, allows the seeker to move away from the corrupting influences of those who work with the masses and prevent them from awakening, and to consider the possibility that some other way must surely exist.
This second level of solitary seeking allows the possibility of seeing clearly that the path being followed by the masses is the path to continued dreaming, not to awakening; that some other "path" must surely lead away from the dualistic instability that results when the masses are programmed to accept that "there are good times and bad times and that's just the way it is";
that leads away from accepting instability and fluctuation and even chaos as "parts of life that are not optional but that must be accepted as 'the way it is'"; that breeds dependency on outward sources and outward powers and outward Power(s);
that opens the door to the realization that there must be some other path besides the one that is trudged by the masses and that inspires them to accept with blind and unquestioning faith that they are awake when they are asleep; that leads them to mistake nonsense for sense; that results in their believing that black is white and that white is black;
that convinces them that they know when they do not know at all; that inspires them to believe that dualities represent truth; that leads them to believe that they are their bodies and minds and personalities; and that drives them to believe that those three false identities can be real for eternity when they are not even real now.
All of that is what seekers are "up against" in the search for truth and reality. If you find that you have circumnavigated all of those blockages and are now ready to seek in a venue where you have never sought before, at least with a guide that knows both the way in and the way out, then you are ready to move to Stage Four and to begin walking the one and only path that provides at its end the Ultimate Medicine that cures the Ultimate Sickness.
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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