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WHY MAHARAJ ABANDONED RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUAL VERSIONS OF THE ULTIMATE MEDICINE AND TURNED HIS FOCUS TO PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALING INSTEAD
As mentioned earlier, some words are never used by one that called be termed a “fully realized non-dualist" for the sake of discussion.
(One can find examples of the exception mentioned, namely, when pointers are being offered to a seeker that is in an early stage of the “journey.” The teacher will “meet” persons at whatever place on the “path” they might be.”)
How to know if one is fully realized? The very question invokes feelings of defensiveness or even anger among many. The answer often generates even more anger and resentment as seekers rush to the defense of their "favorite guru or teacher or lecturer or author."
Here, there is no "one" that can be attacked or defended, so the subject that is so sensitive to many involves no apprehension at all. If the question is asked, it shall be addressed.
And the question is not insignificant, as far as completing all of the steps required for full realization and full freedom to happen. What shall be shared first is based simply in “floyd’s journey” with this emphasis: none of this is about judging another person. One might as well criticize a mirage in the desert.
It is about offering objective assessments so that the “journey” does become a needlessly-arduous, never-ending task.
In the case of “floyd,” much effort was put into following the disciplines set forth by a false prophet, yet most seekers never have an opportunity to see what is behind the mask and to find that none of the teacher’s claims are actually manifesting, that the teacher is still trapped in duality, and that his behaviors when “behind closed doors” reveal—if not clinically-diagnosable insanity—then certainly very serious personality disorders.
Much effort was also wasted with seven or eight “Big Name Teachers” / authors / lecturers who had studied Maharaj and are now “on the circuit,” promoting their books, making television specials, giving interviews, and conducting seminars across the globe. Only post-realization did the duality of their thinking and their words - and their bastardization of Maharaj’s message - become recognizable.
Thus, it is no easy task to find the teacher that is not just repeating what she/he has heard but is also sharing what is known within—and what was always known within—that aligns with their teacher’s pointers.
It is one thing to repeat words read or heard. It is quite another when the unblocked consciousness is fully in touch with “the realities of the relative existence as well as the Reality of the totality.
Of course, the rankings of “non-dual teachers” that can be found on the internet are more nonsensical than the everyday nonsense being shared across the globe. How much arrogance is involved, and how much duality is involved, in such separating? And WHO is “doing the ranking”?
Yet years can be spent in fruitless seeking if one does not have some means by which to avoid those whose “tell’s” can reveal that full realization has not happened and that seekers might want to continue the search for a fully realized guide.
Also, understand this: it have been noted here that there is no one, “best” way to present the understanding. There are a variety of methods being used, there are a variety of yogas, and there are a variety of approaches.
That which is offered by one and that might “work” for one seeker might not work for another at all. Those who visit this site and read the books available and still do not “get it” might very well find the truth being sought by studying with a different teacher. Continuing the search is never discouraged. That said, consider if you will:
One tool that might serve during your search is related to the ongoing discussion about words and language . . . about a Vocabulary of Realization and a non-dual-style vocabulary of marked by sanity and freedom from delusion.
Yet see the “catch”: the seeker needs some basic understanding of the Vocabulary of Realization in order to differentiate between the teacher that is abiding as the original nature vs. the one who is still attached to the trappings of the relative existence;
however, it is an understanding of that very vocabulary which is being sought but that is lacking, so most will spend the days of their “quest” with false prophets or with some "teachers" who sincerely believe that they are realized but are not. Thus, guidance in that regard will be offered to the seeker who wrote and asked.
If dualistic words or terms are used, they can serve as “tell’s,” revealing that full realization has not happened. A guest host in the past named Louise shared this observation about her niece: “I was fascinated as she began to acquire language – how this device begins to cut up the unified field into separate ‘bits.’ Our languaging actually needs to be changed to reflect Reality.”
And that is what happens among the realized: language changes post-realization. The words employed reflect both reality and Reality, that is, reflect both the I AM and the I AM THAT.
And do not cut up verbally the unified field into separate bits. To the seeker asking how to know if a teacher is fully realized, consider the words and language being used. if realized, words that support non-dualistic concepts will not be spoken.
Often, much of what a teacher offers might be non-dualistic, suggesting full realization has happened, but then certain “tell’s” are revealed as in the case of the following statements offered by one who seemed—as a result of the majority of what was shared—to be fully realized:
“All seems good to me as it is.”
“I meditate on my Self with devotion.”
“I am both full and empty, foolish and wise, asleep and awake.”
“I do not understand myself!”
Those are all 'tell's." It was noted earlier that many who studied the pointers offered when the consciousness called “Maharaj” spoke now focus on only a few aspects of the pointers in particular, which is the case with so many currently on the circuit who also studied the pointers offered by Maharaj and then selected a few as their own and are now marketing a narrow, limited, and incomplete version of his message.
Many who read the words of Maharaj and who now claim to be realized reveal, via their words and via the concepts that they espouse, that their claims might be questionable.
It matters not if persons throughout the entire relative existence have been fooled by others or if they are not fooling themselves. To be fooled is to be fooled.
Next, Molière pointed out: “A learned fool is more of a fool than an ignorant fool.”
As noted here many times, it has been witnessed during the past 32+ years of trying to share the non-dual understanding that the biggest fools I’ve dealt with were often among the most intelligent humans.
The masses for the most part have been fooled all of their lives, starting early on (as Maharaj noted when he said: “After the information given to you by the mother, that you are a boy or girl, all your further acquisitions are by hearsay”).
By years of objective witnessing, H.L. Mencken became confident that he could accurately say, “Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.”
One cannot compartmentalize situations in which one is being fooled. Beyond being fooled by religious persons and political leaders, Henry Fielding felt that one of the most frequent situations in which being fooled happens is in marriage. He said that there’s “at least one fool in every marriage.”
Let’s look at some examples which support his thesis:
I dealt with a woman whose parents told her to “forget getting an education - use your body and good looks to catch a man to pay your bills. You’ll bring in far more money that way than through any job you could ever get with a college degree.”
She has followed that advice all her life, and it has worked
for her, financially. As for “at least one fool in every marriage,” in her
current marriage the fool is her husband who believes that she sees him as her “Super
Husband” and her “Super Lover” when she actually sees him as her “Super Banker.”The same was also true in her former marriage and in her earlier relationships as well.
In plenty of other cases, I’ve worked with couples wherein the wife is the one being totally fooled, like the one who refused to believe the four women who contacted her and offered proof that they were having affairs with her husband. (He’s the guy who finally admitted in a session that “I didn’t have sexual relations with any of them. They only gave me oral sex.”)
Currently in the U.S., millions are being fooled by a politician who remains the titular head of a major political party that has been turned into a cult where a would-be dictator is being supported and worshiped because he advanced his followers' anti-abortion agendas and / or their white supremacist agendas and / or their “let’s destroy the federal government” agendas.
Maharaj’s game plan for seekers: “All you have to do is to give attention to the obstacles created by the foolish mind.”
Soren Kierkegaard said, “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
Maharaj would agree.
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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