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WHY MAHARAJ ABANDONED RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUAL VERSIONS OF THE ULTIMATE MEDICINE AND TURNED HIS FOCUS TO PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALING INSTEAD
The Preponderance of Evidence Is In: Insanity Reigns
It was
mentioned recently that George Bernard Shaw was once asked if he thought there
might be life on other planets. His reply was that he was certain that there
had to be life on other planets because people there are obviously using earth
as their insane asylum.
Mark Twain observed that "the way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane
people, but if we tried to shut up the insane, we should run out of building
materials"
and
"Really, what we want now is not laws against crime, but a law against
insanity. That is where the true evil lies"
and
"Once, I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have
talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the insane."
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj said, "This is our stupidity, verging on
insanity."
When does "Going Crazy" begin? It begins when language develops and allows a child to be exposed to the contagion - to the source of The Ultimate Sickness - specifically, to the virus of faulty programming, to the cancer of totally nonsensical conditioning, to the infection of warping domestication, to the potentially-fatal disease of acculturation, to the contamination of indoctrination, and to the malady of brainwashing.
The Sickness continues, in most cases, throughout the entire manifestation of consciousness. In some few cases, treatment for the effects of personality disorders is sought; is some cases, hospitalization provides an opportunity for clinically-diagnosable insanity to be treated;
and in some cases, the Advaitic, non-dual teachings provide a new understanding that ends distortion and delusions and belief in illusions and untruths, lead to clear perspectives, and allow the restoration of sanity to happen.
Sometimes cases are so severe that the need for a combination of many approaches is indicated.
When does "Going Sane" begin? When one is totally ready to discard
belief in lies; when one is ready to take each comment made and is willing to
pause long enough to turn it around 180-degrees so that the statement points
more toward the true than the false;
when one is willing to ask: "Is it possible that everything I have ever
been taught or told or now believe is false?"; when one is willing to seek
the Truth; and when one is willing to search until he / she finds a teacher
that has traveled the same "path" from going crazy to going sane and
can point the way to those who would travel it now.
Otherwise, there will be no relief from personality disorders and insanity, and
there will be no avoiding the chaos that follows attaching to, and dealing
with, others who are suffering from their personality disorders and varying
degrees of insanity. Can you relate?
Was there a time when you found "the man or woman of your dreams,"
only to see later that the person was really "the man or woman of your
screams"? Have you known certain persons whom you thought were wise but
who later proved to be insane?
Have you defended and even idealized those who exerted the earliest influence
upon you and who placed in your mind some of the most outrageous beliefs and
ideas and concepts imaginable? Have you denied that is what actually happened?
Have you ever had someone flow into your life in a way that seemed at the time
to be like a smooth, gentle, tepid wave rolling calmly toward the shore of a
warm-water beach, only to find later that your life with that person was
generating all of the chaos of a Category Five Hurricane, ruthlessly ripping a
path of discordant destruction through your relative existence that was nothing
at all like a gentle wave but that was far more like a devastating storm surge?
Have you experienced how very difficult it can be nowadays to be able to
separate the rarely-found cases of "sane human wheat" from the
now-far-more-frequent-than-ever cases of "insane human chaff"?
A Modest Consideration: Is It "They" Alone Who Are Insane?
Or worse, have you ever crossed over and joined one in his / her insanity, as
has happened with so many who have written or who have come here over the years
seeking assistance, having been driven by one motive or another to tolerate the
intolerable, often as a result of a desire to cling to "my better lifestyle"
or some other equally senseless agenda?
Have you played the justification-rationalization-blame game after being
verbally or mentally or emotionally or physically accosted by an out-of-control
or even insane partner? Have you set up permanent residence in a place where
the sane would not even visit?
Have you ever been like the woman whose husband called his blows against her
body "mere love taps," blows which she tolerated because she lied to
herself and concluded that she was the one who always caused him to lash out at
her while also coming up with the distorted view that "if he didn't truly
care, he couldn't get so emotional, so doesn't that passionate furor show that he really does have a feeling of love for me"?
(And does her
Christian belief in a male God that can love her unconditionally but can also
cast her into a pit where she will suffer physically from being burned forever
- and will also suffer mentally and emotionally as well - make it easier for
her to accept that a husband causing her physical and mental and emotional pain
also loves her?)
In that case, she adopted his insanity rather than disowning it outright. As a
result, she has been reduced - after twenty years of exposure to that madman's
personality disorders and insanity - to little more than collateral damage to
his volatile condition that detonates one explosive rage-bomb after another.
Have you ever denied reality in that same fashion? Have you tolerated the
intolerable, relatively speaking? Have you figuratively hung an "Insanity Welcome"
sign on your life? Have you seen (in terms of your partner selections) that
your so-called "choices" were being driven by the use of a broken
picker? Have you become a "Maniac Magnet"?
Did your peace take its final departure so long ago that you cannot recall any
of its now-long-gone pleasures? Has your mind aligned with a partner's
distorted mind and become an endlessly-revolving carousel of motion that
preempts any chance for harmony and stillness to manifest at all?
Have you had a long-standing appointment with serenity that you have not kept for
so long that you now have no hope at all that you will ever be able to
reschedule? It need not be. You need not suffer from personality disorders and
insanity, and you need not suffer from being affected by the disorders and
insanity of "others."
The message here is this: you need not suffer for even another second as a
result of enduring and accepting that which is totally unacceptable, namely, a
relative existence in which you are overwhelmed by personality disorders and
insanity and instability or by the personality disorders and insanity and
instability of persons around you.
You can begin this second to alter the course of the rest of your relative existence.
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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"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."
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