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WHY MAHARAJ ABANDONED RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUAL VERSIONS OF THE ULTIMATE MEDICINE AND TURNED HIS FOCUS TO PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALING INSTEAD
[To continue with the variety of ways that children – and later, adults – have their minds filled with false beliefs]
In the 1950s in the U.S., baseball announcers and sports reporters started using the term “wheelhouse.” When they referred to a batter's “wheelhouse,” they were alluding to the area of the strike zone where a batter swings with the most power.
Humans, and before them human-like beings, began to believe in myths and superstitions and all sorts of falsehoods to explain "thunder" and "lightning" and "conception" and "death" and "different skin color" and thousands of other concepts.
Then, starting at least 5000 years, would-be controlling persons began to build institutions and organizations which incorporated and codified ignorance and beliefs and began exerting the greatest amount of influence on persons listening to them.
They legitimized false beliefs and duality-based beliefs and began teachings those from their pulpits and rostrums and later from boardrooms and from leadership positions.
For many of those would-be controllers and power seekers, their “wheelhouse” involved originally (and continues to involves to this day) the ways which they have accumulated “the most power” to control their followers’ thoughts and words and actions by way of reinforcing existing false beliefs as well as implanting certain new and also false beliefs in their minds.
Interestingly, the ones that have acculturated the most power are also the ones who have dreamed up and disseminated the most duality-based beliefs. Those persons and institutions and organizations define what is good and what is bad, who is good and who is bad, and who will get rewarded for being good and who will be punished for being bad, both now and for eternity.
And those persons’ and institutions’ and organizations’ input come from so many quarters and from so many directions as they bombarded the masses with their beliefs about how certain persons are “different from” their followers and how their followers are “better than” those others and how those others are “worse than” them.
The “most power” lies in the hands of the largest and oldest institutions, but the masses are exposed to duality-based, lie-spreading sources as commonplace as weather reports on the television.
For example, the local weather forecaster reported last week that “our area is in for a bad week with the possibility of rain every day.” So rain every day for a week is a bad thing?
Never mind that the area has been in a drought for months. Never mind that vegetation needed the rain. Never mind that the foundations of houses were cracking from shifts in the dry soil.
According to his thoughts and words, an entire week was going to be “a bad one,” that assessment offered to an entire community by a person with preconceived notions (that is, with firmly-fixed, pre-conceptualized beliefs) about what makes a day “good” or “bad.”
Once such dualistic notions are applied not only to weather but also to spouses, to neighbors, to “foreigners,” to people with a different skin color, to people with a different sexual preference, to people with a formal education, to people of a progressive political party, etc., then the roots of disharmony, fighting and even war become evident to the observant. It becomes clear how one can declare the entire populations of nations to be members of "an axis of evil."
Consider the plethora of places that fill the mind with nonsense:
Programming begins in the home but is soon continued in churches, synagogues, temples, groups, and a variety of other such sky cults, you name it.
Conditioning also begins in the home but is soon continued in churches, synagogues, temples, you name it.
Domestication is confined to the garbage implanted in young brain while in the home.
Acculturation occurs in society as a whole - throughout the entire culture.
Indoctrination begins in the home; continues in churches, synagogues, temples, you name it; continues in schools; continues as politician make public speeches; continues in colleges; and reaches an even higher peak in churches, synagogues, temples, etc. and during military training, militia training, police academics, etc., where their “seek out and destroy the enemy” mindset is taught and then put into action.
Brainwashing takes place in all of the above venues.
Once the words “good” and “bad” have been introduced and stored as thoughts, then the basics of duality - and judgmentalism and arrogance - have been set in place. Once dualistic thinking begins to control what persons say and do, their vocabulary will undergo a near-limitless expansion involving dualistic words and concepts will dominate the dualistic belief systems that have been passed down to them.
Thereafter, all people and states and nations will be mentally divided and will be spoken of in terms of being either moral or immoral; right or wrong; righteous or evil; deserving to live or deserving to die. An understanding of the no-concept, non-dual reality is almost impossible.
Then, dualistic thoughts and dualistic words become the tools that the non-realized use to fabricate illusory (but seemingly real) gulfs, splits, schisms, divisions, subdivisions, separations, hierarchies, and dreamed up multiplicities.
From that point, fluctuations and instability and disharmony mark the relative existence. Because the quiet is anathema among the non-realized, dualistic words must be used to try to drown out the screaming thoughts coming from the disjointed, dualistic “mind.”
The preference for excessive levels of noise adumbrates the clamor and the pandemonium that occur in the “minds” of the non-Realized, and excessive levels of mouth-noise (a.k.a., talk via mind-language) is used to garner attention, to try to earn “love,” and to attempt unconsciously to support ego-states.
When thoughts and words inspire an egotistically-based “quest” for attention and illusory “love” and the sustaining of false identities, then persons will consider no alternatives and will undergo a restless, chaotic existence marked by the instability that was pointed to by the words of the post-realization Yeshu’a when he said, “A dual-minded person is unstable in all ways.”
Nowadays, that could be modified to, “Minded persons are unstable in all ways”; furthermore, their vocabulary will reflect that instability, and their actions will generate unsteadiness, insecurity, volatility, flux, and disharmony.
Those become the legacy of dualistic thoughts and dualistic words, passed down from one generation to the next, accepted as “normal parts of life” by persons who have also accepted unquestioningly that “that’s just the way it is and that’s just the way it has always been and that’s just the way it is always going to be.”
And for the masses who have been programmed and conditioned to accept by faith alone all of the dualistic nonsense that they have been told, with the penalty of eternal pain and suffering awaiting those who do otherwise, a nisarga style of functioning will most likely never be found.
With unnatural or supernatural / magical thoughts leading to unnatural or supernatural / magical words, the result will be that the 95% or more of the masses who are prone to follow along in a sheep-like, sleep-like fashion - never questioning the validity or lack of validity in what they hear from “authorities” - will behave in an unnatural or supernatural / magical fashion.
Distorted beliefs and distorted thoughts will lead to the use of words that express distortions and which, in turn, will lead to (relatively) destructive behaviors that further separate you from Self and from peace and from freedom and from knowing the unicity and Love.
Therefore, the invitation is to utter none of the words and terms and phrases that are rooted in duality. With the use of words, practice impeccability, exactness, and accuracy. Begin to purge your self/selves of what Maharaj called the use of “mind-language” when he said:
“ . . . Mind-language will talk only about the impressions it has collected. The knowledge ‘I Am’ is not a thought but observes the thoughts.”
By reaching on “the path” the two witnessing stages, the dualistic words and the dualistic thoughts that drive separatist deeds can be seen, and the seeing - the objective witnessing of nonsense - might lead to:
a completion of the entire multi-step “journey” to reality; to a purging of cultural corruptions; and to replacing the use of mind-language with the use of a vocabulary that might be referred to as “The Vocabulary of Reality” or “The Vocabulary of Sanity and Non-Delusion.”
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"
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"Heaven and earth shall fade away."
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"Heaven and hell are not geographic places
"There is no hell."
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