TODAY'S CONSIDERATIONS
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WHY MAHARAJ ABANDONED RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUAL VERSIONS OF THE ULTIMATE MEDICINE AND TURNED HIS FOCUS TO PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALING INSTEAD
Why
discuss the "birth" and "death" concepts alongside the
invitation to stop believing any of the lies you were taught and any of the
other misperceptions that are being spread around the globe?
Because the birth / death falsehood is likely the second earliest lie that
children are told - a lie then believed and forever repeated by adult-age
persons . . .
(a) because they do not recall even the most basic scientific facts that they
were taught in their 7th grade biology class and, therefore,
(b) because they do not even have the slightest clue about "how babies are
really made."
(The earlier lie? Likely that "you are a girl / boy." Of that,
Maharaj said, "After the information given to you by the mother, that you
are a boy or girl, all your further acquisitions are by hearsay.")
He made clear: "My true state, which is whole, undifferentiated, is beyond
birth and death. I am never bound by my body and mind. I am limitless."
Yet the "boy / girl lie" and the "birth / death lie" are
only the beginning of the thousands of falsehoods which are taught during the
early years. Most children are told what "the world" is like and
either given a distorted
"look-at-everything-through-rose-tinted-glasses-view" or made
paranoid for the entire existence by the early picture of "a world that is
a scary, dangerous place," a perspective that is passed along to many.
Parents who are prone to put a spin on everything in order to appear to be
"positive and not negative" will set their children up to be adults
whose view of everything is distorted and removed from both reality and
Reality;
conversely, overly-protective, fear-based, and indulgent parents will set the
stage for a child to be driven by fears and insecurities when they finally have
to move out and try to "survive out there" on their own.
(Many nowadays are so emotionally and mentally imprisoned that they become
"boomerang kids," tossed out of the house but constantly coming right
back. All very unnatural when parents pass along their own distorted,
falsehood-based views of "the world.")
Maharaj explained their actions this way: "The world is nothing but the
picture of your own 'I' consciousness."
Why else must this "birth concept" be disproved if persons are ever
to be able to cast aside their belief in all of the other falsehoods that they
were taught and now hold sacred? Because of this:
ninety-seven percent of the planet's population claim to be affiliated with
one or another organized religion, the greatest source of duality which has
ever existed and the greatest source of myth-and-superstition-based falsehoods which are passed on not only as "The Truth" but also as "The
Truth That Cannot Be Doubted or Questioned, At the Risk of Unimaginably
Horrible and Never-Ending Punishment!"
Here, the invitation is to question everything and to ask, "Is it possible
that everything I have ever been told or taught or read - or now believe - is false?"
Maharaj: “When the birth is disproved, the great noble meaning of spirituality
and the meaning of this world—everything—is disproved.”
If the fallacious timeline of "birth-life-death-judgment-eternal
reward-eternal punishment" is not seen to be false, then a lifetime will
be lived, not naturally but, in the most unnatural and supernatural manner
conceivable.
Many who buy into that timeline prevarication have been doomed to live in
either paranoia or guilt or both; many have developed severe cases of religious
workaholism and / or spiritual workaholism (to the detriment of abiding
naturally and comfortably, relaxed and free of having every thought and word and action being driven by unmet desires and baseless
fears).
Of that, Maharaj said: "Whatever spiritual things you aspire to know are all
happening in this objective world, in the illusion. All this is happening in
the objective world. All is dishonesty. There is no truth in this fraud."
Yet how many hours and days and months and years - along with how much money as
well - have been spent in "The Search," in "The Quest,"
with "The Work" . . . involved with wanting to attain eternal continuity and
ever-lasting salvation and limitless bliss for a totally bogus, totally dreamed
up agenda of a body-mind-personality triad?
How useless, the expenditure of energy (and, in some cases, the expenditure of
vast fortunes) in the search for that which does not exist. One may as well
seek the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, may as well seek the gold in El
Dorado, or may as well seek the goal of personal power now and access to a
Higher Power or Supreme Power or Omnipotent Power now . . . and forevermore to
boot.
One might as well substitute a search for a bird's nest on the bottom of the
ocean for the religious / spiritual search and for being a religious workaholic
or a spiritual workaholic. Of that, Maharaj said: “Whatever you have tried to
understand during your spiritual search will prove false”
and
“From birth what has made the body grows? It is no power in the world. It is
the power of beingness, the atom, the consciousness . . . call it
what you will.”
Beyond all of that work that steals precious hours and days and months and
years that could be spent relaxing and taking it easy and "recharging
one's batteries" with recreation / "re-creation," the
consequences can be even more serious - relatively speaking - when religious or
spiritual fanatics are programmed to believe not only that they must do all
that is assigned by their leaders but must also eliminate from the face of the
earth those who leaders are offering teachings from a different "holy
book."
Of that concept, Maharaj said: “I have no faith in anything which has ever been
told, not even what has been told by the Vedas. Only my own experience.”
Once it is understand that the truth cannot be stated but that it can be known,
then why would anyone be susceptible to believing any lies ever again?
Because they are not really convinced that the truth cannot be stated but can
be known. There are still some beliefs they have that they think are true and
can be expressed as what they believe, so surely - they conclude - truth can be
stated. That is a false belief that non-Realized persons reinforce all day long
as they feel compelled to share their ideas and concepts and beliefs and dogma
and theories and ideologies.
The old joke is that "the way to tell that they are lying is to watch
their lips closely. If they are moving, they are lying." Now you know:
it's not a joke.
A consideration before moving on: "How often are your lips moving
nowadays?" vs. "How often are you enjoying the silence and thereby
allowing others around you to do the same?"
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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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."
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