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WHY MAHARAJ ABANDONED RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUAL VERSIONS OF THE ULTIMATE MEDICINE AND TURNED HIS FOCUS TO PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALING INSTEAD Nothing can be considered to have been successfully “turned over to a god for the sake of relief” when the “relief” is fleeting . . . only momentary. To abide as the original state is permanent and to abide as the  natural state is presently ongoing, not fleeting and not momentary. It happens with the few that realize during the manifestation; it happens with all humans via the taking of mahasamadhi. The options during the manifestation are either (a) to attach to the non-real, which is fleeting or to (b) realize fully and be done with the worry / relief cyclings once and for all. Visitors initially are invited to see that fear and anxiety and worry and escape have become their "norm." They are also invited to see   (1)     how all of the methods they’ve used, including the types which a sister-in-law used as reported in on-going discussions with a man writing about her as he defended her nonsensical beliefs and some of his own, and to see    (2)        that neither received a permanent solution. None of their beliefs, and no beliefs of any other humans, will give anyone an enduring solution to the fear and anxiety and angst and instability which flows from the content of the mind; instead, the content of the mind must be rejected. Again, Maharaj said, “There is no such thing as ‘peace of mind’,” to which I added, "there is only peace if you are out of your mind" (meaning, out of being influenced by the content of the mind. Peace comes when the snake is seen to be a rope. As long as distortion and delusion perpetuate a belief that the rope is a snake - even after the light has been cast on the rope - then false beliefs will continue, and so will the fear that delusional people experience when they think ropes are snakes. It is also delusional to think that illusions and mirages - dreamed up by ignorant persons thousands of years ago and accepted as truth by ignorant persons in the present - can address relative issues, and delusional people cannot be at peace as long as they keep taking the rope to be a snake. [And the ignorant persons in the present are not necessarily without intelligence. They have been made ignorant by having been taught that concepts which were rooted in ignorance are true.] That sister-in-law’s religious ego-state is talking and she's fooling herself. So it is. But why should the man writing about her let her or anyone else continue to fool him? The supposed truth which most persons operate under for their entire relative existence is received from outside sources such as the church and parents and a mate’s relatives and teachers and religious leaders and politicians, etc., etc., etc. On this site, there is no suggestion at all that anyone should believe anything offered by way of the pointing and the pointing out which happens here. The suggestion here is that seekers find what you can only find via the inner resource instead of those outer resources. Persons’ IQ’s can be higher than anyone else’s that they know, but knowledge avails them nothing. On the other hand, the truth can be accessed from within if all obstacles are first removed and if they would but stop defending their learned ignorance which they verbalized via mind-language and mind-speak. Only if one removes those obstacles and eliminates the body of ignorance which they have been taught might they be able to differentiate the true from the false. The man who could not give up his effort to pick a fight that his stubbornness and his egotism were itching for, so I wrote to him: “Your arguments here will avail you nothing. Any counter arguments offered here will avail you nothing. All that will avail you “something” - namely, an awareness of Reality and reality and yruth - can only come from within.” “But the mind-speak of other persons and the mind-speak from your mouth is drowning out the inner guru that would speak to you if you could just be quiet, so you cannot tap into the truth that is buried deep within your mind and which have disarmed your BS detector.” “So again, why believe the words of someone that you have seen is “a real nut” (and for that matter, why believe the words you read here) rather than investigating that which you know within but refuse to acknowledge and / or refuse to remove the obstacles which are blocking your access to that which is within?” “There is only one permanent solution, and how could anything permanent be found via the impermanent? Moreover, that one permanent solution is available now as an option, but it will be forced on you someday when mahasamadhi is taken. What’s your preference?” “The location of the solution has been pointed to, but you keep allowing self to pull you back to the nonsense. Be done with it. Go the way of the reason and logic, not the way of ‘the nut’.” His reply: “Hey, the biggest mistake I made was even mentioning that bitch!” “So, be quiet. Stop quoting “nuts” and “bitches” (as you call them) as if they are really onto something “good.” Then, stop all of your dualistic labeling of “good” and “nut” and “bitch.” Physician, diagnose yourself, not ‘others’.” “Further, it is a fact that to mention her ignorance-based beliefs was totally unnecessary, but what started this thread was your jumping on board and sharing your own ignorance-based belief that ‘turning it over to a god in the past brought you relief’." “As far as ‘the mistake,’ there was not a ‘mis-take’ or a ‘mis-taking.’ There was instead a ‘taking,’ the taking of a statement from her as truth when you have been told time and again that the truth can be known but cannot stated.” “What you ‘took’ was a line of BS, and instead of allowing your BS Detector to sound the alarm and call ‘BS!’ on that, you endorsed it. Someone you call “a nut” said something nutty but you agreed. What does that say about you? Suddenly years of supposedly focusing on the non-dual understanding were for naught.” “That is how easily the mind will distort, and that why it must go completely. If present, it will continue to think, and one of the thoughts that it will set forth is that you are realized . . . or ‘getting there.’ Yet because the ‘mind’ is yet present with you, and because its very presence guarantees the presence of bogus beliefs and concepts and ideas, it will be heard.” “And what was heard here was that, ‘After four years of study, I have not even made it beyond the second step of the seven steps to realization." In typical dualistic form, you have two inner voices.” “In one case a seeker might grasp the truth when the inner resource or inner guru inaudibly ‘speaks’ it, and might point toward it at times.” “In another case, a different source speaks falsehoods via mind-language and then converts those to audible words heard via the vocabulary of mind-speak.” “In your case, mind-speak is sanctioning ‘the benefits of being delusional and of fooling yourself and of allowing others to fool you’.” “The only opportunity for any persons to find truth is to share the false ideas and concepts you believe and then be willing to at least consider any feedback that leads you to contemplating the contrary. Recall that a rule of thumb which often works is, "Take every idea you believe, find the 180-degree opposite, and consider that." “No, I hear you. And, I am aware that I have been (I guess still am) trapped by time, memory and ego.” “ For now, you have more than enough to consider and much to re-consider. This thread is over, and the subject of mind-language and concepts and words will end with this pointer from Maurice Frydman: The mind was originally a tool in the struggle for biological survival. But, in the process the mind acquired the art of symbolic thinking and communication, the art and skill of language. Ideas and abstractions acquired an appearance of reality, the conceptual replaced the real, with the result that man now lives in a verbal world, crowded and dominated by words. When realization happen, worry ends, existence is not "dominated by words," and real worry-free peace begins. And the peace is not interrupted with the egotistical need to talk-talk-talk all day . . . the arrogant need to be heard. The silence becomes the ‘norm,’ as it is with the deer grazing in the front yard here this morning and as it was with human-like beings for millions of years prior to the manifestation of the current, very noisy condition across the globe.” “The suggestion is to enjoy the quiet more and to use your distorted and distorting vocabulary far less.” To be continued. Please enter into the silence of contemplation.

 

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Here, with those who are still driven to talk about "god," the "Son of god," the "Holy Spirit," "Buddha," "Krishna," etc., etc., etc., the invitation to them is to view those as verbs, not nouns.

THE EXPLANATION

If looked at as nouns, they point to illusions and are, therefore, a total waste of time to even discuss; if looked at as verbs which are resulting in certain sane but rare behaviors among humanity, then they are worthy of some attention during the relative existence.

Meaning? There are members of certain groups who say things such as "My concept of god in the past was of a weak god, an absentee god, A Santa Claus-type god, a mean, punishing, vindictive god, etc. Today, I am in close contact with a loving and caring god whom I worship and praise and glorify and give thanks to."

The reply to that usually goes like this: "If you are in contact with a god that wants to be worshipped and praised and glorified, then you're dealing with someone like yourself - a narcissist - and hanging out with narcissists will never bring an end to your narcissism (that narcissism evidenced by the fact that you think you are "godly").

Next, in the phrase 'loving and caring god,' any supposed god that truly had her or his act together would tell you that the totally irrelevant part of that phrase is 'god' and that the only part that is relevant is the "loving and caring" part.

"That is, a non-narcissistic their god / their goddess would say, "I care not an iota about being worshipped and praised and glorified by you or anyone else. How arrogant and insecure and needy would I have to be to want that? Forget the man-made, dreamed up noun 'god' and focus on the 'god as a verb' understanding and then go forth and let loving and caring be verbs - not adjectives - and let them generate the act of love and the act of caring and let those actions manifest through you." 

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"

--Yeshu'a (Jesus)

and 

"Heaven and earth shall fade away."

--Yeshu'a (Jesus)

and 

"Heaven and hell are not geographic places

but are states of mind, nothing more than

concepts dreamed up by men."

--Pope John Paul II 

"There is no hell."

--Pope Francis, the current pope

in an interview with journalist Eugenio Scalfari,

a writer used by the Pope to issue off the record

teachings which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.

[That said, would that the popes who have shown the courage to reject a core concept of their dogma - namely, "hell" - would find the additional courage required to question the very existence of their institution in light of the centuries-long cover-up of their history of raping children and in light of the mental and emotional and psychological scarring of billions of their members past and present.

And that need for courage also applies as questions need to be asked about why so many other sky cults are still being supported and allowed to continue to exist as well. When certain types of programming and conditioning have been shown to blind the masses, they should end. Will they? Not likely. Why?

Because what the masses think and say and do is most influenced by the international crime families which hold sway over the masses as criminals conduct their planet-wide operations. What are the major international crime families and which are the most influential and have the largest memberships?

The Mafia / La Cosa Nostra; the Catholic Church (with it 1.2 billion followers) whose Vatican Bank worked for decades with the Mafia while laundering mob earnings (for a 15% all-profit charge by the Bank); Protestant and Evangelical Churches (with over 1.2 billion followers) like the one I was raised in where the youth director molested and sexually assaulted young girls; big business which has long created environments in which people have been abused; powerful political bodies like the U.S. Congress, etc., etc., etc.)

With all of those crime families, neither the followers nor the leadership ever voluntarily step down or shut down their criminal activities. Be they gangs, organized crime families, religions, big business, politicians, etc., they all want control and they all want power and they all want money, and nothing internal will interfere with the driving forces at play.

The masses must demand that all those in charge must step down and their groups and institutions must shut down, and there's the real problem because the continuation of their crimes are enabled not as much by the people running such crime organizations as they are enabled by the masses of people who - wanting some perceived "payoff" - remain involved with them and give them money and support them and aid and abet the continued existence of those criminal enterprises and thus facilitate the ability of church criminals and political criminals and other types of criminals to continue to commit their crimes.] 

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