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NEEDLESS and INEFFECTIVE WORK THAT COMPLICATES ONE’S LIFE
and
FAILS TO ADDRESS THE REAL CAUSES OF HUMAN PROBLEMS
Yesterday it was shown that - once Maharaj quit focusing on dogma and quit focusing on spirituality and began focusing on the psychological roots of the Ultimate Sickness - he began making clear that the key problem with humanity (a) centers in the mind and that the three key symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness involve three specific mind problems, namely, (b) ignorance, (c) stupidity and (d) insanity.
If the problems of humankind center in the mind, then it is time to ask . . .
“How can what most non-dual seekers - and many other seekers as well - possibly receive a proper treatment for their mind issues when they are talking about, thinking about, and concerned with such concepts as the following which have nothing to do with healing the mind?”
WHO-ness and / or who-ness and “SELF-Realization” and liberation and a so-called “spiritual malady” and finding your life’s purpose and becoming who you are and working to have an ageless body
and
being preoccupied with such concepts as finding some “Infinite Self” or “Supreme Self” or “Eternal Self” and being taught that “Nothing is real” and being told that they need to work on “advancing their spirit.”
What do any of those concepts have to do with addressing mind issues such as personality disorders and neuroses and psychoses? Maharaj eventually said, “Nothing.” And “nothing” is the only spot on answer to the question.
So if the problem centers in the mind, and since a sick mind - obviously - cannot heal a sick mind, then what is the solution, per Maharaj?
Let’s review the recently-offered pointers which have led to focusing on the roots of the Ultimate Sickness (which centers not in too little dogma and not in a spiritual malady and not in a failure to be “A Supreme Self” or “God” but in the mind).
Those who have witnessed clearly the overall evolution in
(1) the teaching methods used by Maharaj;
and in
(2) the specific shifts in focus as he moved from the use of one yoga after another;
and in
(3) the focus of the pointers he offered . . .
can trace many adjustments he made in his effort to address the root cause of the Ultimate Sickness as he moved from
(4) attracting Hindus and leading them in bhajans and injecting some non-dual pointers in the religious exercises to
(5) attracting both Hindus and Westerners to the loft and then
(6) focusing more on the “spiritual messages” that Westerners preferred and blending “spirituality” and “non-duality" to
(7) continuing to endorse Self-Inquiry all the while to
(8) eventually making clear that “it is enough to know who you are not rather than finding the answer to “Who Am I” to later
(9) advising seekers to “stop reading the talks in the book I AM THAT and listen to my later talks” and to “give up spirituality” and to “follow your normal inclinations" and to "forget spirituality" and to abide naturally to
(10) focusing on the understanding that the problems of humanity and the symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness at their core all center in the mind.
So if the answers to humankind’s problems are not to be found via religion, and if the answers to humankind’s problems are not to be found through spirituality, and if Self-Inquiry is not an absolute requirement, and if the root of humankind’s problems rests in the mind, yet if there is no such thing as the “peace of mind” (which so many humans are seeking) then is there no hope at all for humans to ever be free and at peace?
Of course there is, yet only a few - per Maharaj - will ever reach the understanding required to bring those into existence and to allow those to remain after addressing that which blocks the manifestation of continuing peace, that being, per Maharaj, mind-and-personality-based fears and desires.
And what is desired more than anything among humans? Ask most parents, “What is your greatest hope for your child?” The reply most of the time: “I just want her / him to be happy,” ignoring the insanity of such Pollyanna-style wishing and dreaming and hoping, blindly believing that anyone can always be forever happy during a relative existence wherein the only guaranteed constant is . . . change.
Thus, when happiness comes, it is the high point of what amounts to a roller-coaster ride through life. Prepare for a drop. Prepare for change rather than anticipating a lifetime of uninterrupted happiness and joy. Yet most don’t, wanting to be free of the annoyances and irritations and discontentments which are marking and marring their relative existence.
Maharaj said of that: “What makes you come here is your being displeased with your life as you know it”
and
“You have some experiences and you try to benefit from them, but remember that whatever is going to be of use to you ultimately is going to harm you. Wherever there is use, there is also dis-use in this world of duality. Whatever you like is going to create harm for you. Whatever you like most is, in the end, going to be most harmful for you.”
Even those deemed to be “realized” – while free of the effects of ego-state-generating emotions and emotionalism and emotional intoxication – will not be freed from having to feel feelings on occasion, feelings which the non-realized will deem to be “bad feelings.” The relative existence is a duality-based existence, so it will be a source of what persons call “high’s” and “low’s.” Such, rather than unhindered happiness, will be the rule.
Maharaj asked one visitor: “You are welcome to stay in your contentment, but can you?”
And how often is so-called “contentment” really just a temporary state because it is rooted in being temporarily identified with - and in assigning great value by the mind to – whatever one’s culture defines as “valuable” and “successful” and “that which will provide a sense of security”?
On that, Maharaj said: “Youth, vigour, money - all will pass away sooner than you expect.”
For example, there will be cases when sky-high happiness manifests when a couple that has been trying to start a family looks at the results of a home pregnancy test and sees that a pregnancy has indeed happened; but there will follow within a seven-week period on average at least 4.4 million instances of miscarriage in the U.S. alone during a first pregnancy (often a result of the propensity nowadays for eggs and sperm cells to be damaged as a result of the bastardization of the food supply by the addition of unnatural elements by businesses for the sake of increasing profits).
The effect on millions of persons each year: the sky-high happiness which had come initially followed within weeks by a sudden transitioning to an ocean-bottom low of the lowest degree imaginable.
Maharaj: “Enjoyment is a state of mind - it comes and goes. Its very impermanence makes it perceivable. You cannot be conscious of what does not change. All consciousness is consciousness of change.”
The question becomes, has one developed coping strategies or certain understandings which allow objective, impartial witnessing to happen (which has nothing to do with denial or spinning or dissociating or believing you have to “love what is.” That is total BS. Any couple who wanted a child, became pregnant, and then miscarried is insane if the are willing to follow such advice and claim, “I must love this miscarriage.)
Recall the woman who came here who had spent considerable time working with a "Big Name Teacher" (Maharaj's term, used by him to identity those whom seekers better stay away from). Her Big Name Teacher told the woman that the way to process the pain and misery around her rape was to . . .
"Love your rapist. Have him over to the house that you and your husband live in and cook him a meal and serve him.” Such advice is the epitome of what Maharaj called “humanity’s ignorance, stupidity, and insanity.” Yet recommending a lifetime of preoccupation and round-the-clock hating would also be detrimental to one's peace, both mentally and emotionally.
This was asked recently:
“So if the problem centers in the mind, and since a sick mind - obviously - cannot heal a sick mind, then what is the solution, per Maharaj?”
More on that tomorrow.
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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