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WHY MAHARAJ ABANDONED RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUAL VERSIONS OF THE ULTIMATE MEDICINE AND TURNED HIS FOCUS TO PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALING INSTEAD
When Religious and Spiritual Beliefs Lead Persons to Ignore Calls during the Relative Existence for Emergency Action
“Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword.”
---Yeshu’a (erroneously called “Jesus” by more than two billion people)
Maharaj came to see that his initial version of the Ultimate Medicine based in its compounded content of dogma plus non-duality pointers was totally ineffective in inspiring people to take the actions required to address the actual root of their relative problems.
He later came to see that his revised version of the Ultimate Medicine based in its compounded content of spirituality plus non-duality pointers was also totally ineffective in inspiring people to take the actions required to address the actual root of their relative problems.
He observed some persons smoking hash during their “spiritual exercises” and walked past some of them living on the streets:
They certainly seemed to be “at peace.” They certainly looked to the unwary witness to be functioning without “a care in the world.”
And they were no different whatsoever from the man discussed earlier, the one who had been unemployed from January to November of 2007.
He had been living off withdrawals from his 401k retirement fund, withdrawals that were accompanied with penalties and forfeited earnings of interest. He said that he only had enough money remaining in his 401k to pay the bills for one more month.
“After that,” he said, “I don’t know what my wife and child and I will be doing in January for food and housing, but, you know what, Floyd? In God's time, not mine.”
Maharaj heard similar promises from Hindus and Catholics, also based in the same kind of magical thinking which that man shared. He heard Christians who sought to bring new members into the fold by promising them what Paul the Apostle referred to as “a peace that is beyond all understanding.” Members of other sky cults promise the same.
And Maharaj heard many speak as the man did to me in November of 2007, basically saying, “I’m turning everything over to the gods and goddesses, Maharaj. They will take care of me and mine.”
And he saw that a dogma / non-dual version of the Medicine and a spirituality / non-dual version of the Medicine had both proved to be ineffective. He came to understand that there is no "too-little-dogma" factor that causes the Ultimate Sickness and that there is no "spiritual malady" that causes the Ultimate Sickness. He came to see that the Ultimate Sickness is centered in the mind and that the mind is the root of humankind’s relative problems.
Yet what Yeshu’a said regarding the modern day promises of "peace" was, “Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword.”
Yeshu'a said, “I have come to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.” Meaning?
Meaning, not to turn person A against person B but to turn personas A B, C, D, and E against themselves, allowing persons to see that false identities and the hidden agendas of those identities generate a sense of separation and conflict. Waiting for God to intervene or to “send His Son to rescue you?”
What a lie to believe in. What a lie that will inspire you into inaction and escapism and avoidance of the called-for work and effort on your part.
With that understanding, wherefore any need to have some "power" that one can theoretically "turn unwanted things over to"? Believe that anything "here" can be turned over to something "there," and believe that god is everywhere and is everything, and you might as well worship the tree in the back yard. It also qualifies as god, what with that "god is everything" claim.
So go bark at the bark and tell it that you are turning over your worries to it. Tell it you want it to fix such relative issues as the loss of employment and the fear of losing your home and the anger and fear over the loss of your 401k retirement funds.
A major obstacle to behaving sanely around what actions should be taken and what actions should not be taken involves (1) a disparity in assigning priority and (2) a tendency to have a fictional “go-to” solution for everything that arises (and calls for being addressed immediately) but which will not be addressed at all because persons who have been fooled have accepted a false belief and learned how to use that belief in order to avoid and evade having to take action and dodge and duck and avert.
When persons suffer a deep cut that is resulting in a significant loss of blood, they are all about focusing on that relative problem and all about tuning out everything else in order to focus solely on addressing the problem immediately by rushing to an emergency room. Some are even all about panicking, being alarmed, being distressed, being flustered, etc.
But the other relative issues which are calling for that same level of attention and action can be denied and ignored for decades.
Next, the seeker of the no-concept, non-dual reality that moves far enough along “the path” notices that the use of words and phrases such as “better off” or “worse off” or “good” or “bad” automatically vanishes.
Such words and terms are non-existent in the Vocabulary of Realization, so there is never even the slightest tendency to apply one label or the other to any happening. I Am and whatever is . . . it just is. That is all.
Or consider an alternative:
When asked if happenings happen here that provide food, clothing, shelter, etc., the answer is "of course." But is there ever any ego-state involved . . . any involvement or attachment that can trigger fear or desire or worry or anxiety or dread? Absolutely not. The issue is not about whether turning over one’s worries and fears and anxieties to a god can work or not.
The issue is not about whether relief comes or not, and the issue is not about how long such relief lasts if it seems to come. The issue is, WHO (what ego-state) thinks she / he is exposed, vulnerable, or threatened in a way that makes the "mind" believe that “relief” is needed, that worry and dread and anxiety must be turned over to some fictional power in some other world that is manipulating events in what is erroneously taken to be “this world”?
The task is not to seek some external power to help solve relative “problems.” Those perceived problems are merely the weeds, and the proper approach for handling the issue of weeds is not to trim them occasionally but to cut them out at the root. How are you to be done with the heaviness and reach that point of lightness unless all which is generating dread and worry is cut out at the root?
Rather than the perceived heaviness, there can be as a result of realization and incredible lightness. Might times of heaviness come? Of course, but they do not trigger emotional intoxication and they do not generate avoidance.
The lightness manifests after reaching the original state that is even beyond the “path,” beyond an understanding of the Absolute and the beingness, and beyond realization of authenticity and truth.
Louise in Cape Town, South Africa once described in the following way what has happened since reaching an understanding of the nothingness which is beyond any perceptions of somethingness and WHO-ness:
On Tuesday, walking on the Green Belt, there was this brief exhilarating disappearance of "louise" - the lightness and freedom - the vastness of this view - like that feeling in the tummy when a lift (elevator) drops too fast - falling through space.
Too absolutely funny that all the anxieties were about a "louise" who does not exist - an attempt to find an already existing freedom.
The “experience” during this happening was of instantly being outside of the body – being vast and undefined – no boundaries and watching the “scene” from this vast perspective.
What can possibly touch a speck of consciousness which is that free as a result of newly-found clarity? What worry or anxiety or dread could possibly attach to a quantity of energy that is so light and free and vast and undefined?
What could possibly bind the boundless? What could possibly attach to the witness that is so far removed from the relative happening that all events are merely being watched objectively from a distance?
Wherefore any need for talk of - much less belief in - some “power” that you can turn something over to? It would be no different for you to take the spoiled meat that was left out and that is creating a horrible stench inside your home and putting it in the trash bin in the pantry rather than being rid of it once and for all.
You can turn it over to the trash bin and the stench continues or you can turn it over to the collectors who will take the mess away to a landfill. And the garbage collectors are far more efficient than the god that a visitor and his sister-in-law tried to turn their garbage over to. Why?
The collectors make sure that it does not ever come back. Your “god” does not perform so well. As he was advised, "You believe in a dreamed up entity that you and she have taken to be real yet you do not see that “He” is being out-performed by a trash collector. My, oh, my. What a distortion to tote about in that "delusion carrier" called "the mind."
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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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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