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WHY MAHARAJ ABANDONED RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUAL VERSIONS OF THE ULTIMATE MEDICINE AND TURNED HIS FOCUS TO PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALING INSTEAD
Yesterday’s post ended with this:
Many who studied the words of Maharaj and who now claim to be realized reveal, via their words and via the concepts / beliefs which they espouse, that their claims might call for objective questioning.
For example, would the truly realized speak of “ambition,” of “the meaning of life,” of “changing your life,” of “someone having a calling,” of being “incredible,” of “succeeding,” of “controlling outcome via intention,” of “fostering ambition,” of “finding your life’s purpose,”
of a “Self that is infinite,” of “seeking power and gaining power,” of having “an ageless body and mind,” of “fulfilling desires,” of “spiritual laws,” of "sacred contracts," of “a God or Gods,” or of “knowing God”?
The answer is unequivocally “No.”
Yet a half dozen or so who studied the teachings of Maharaj are now some of the most famous persons “on the circuit” and are using those exact terms above. Those are all “tell’s,” revealing that truth is not known to any of them or that truth is being ignored for the sake of marketing.
If you disagree, your questioning of this speck is welcome; however, might you not also welcome the opportunity for further understanding by questioning yourself and your attachment to, or belief in, any of the concepts above or any of the speakers, authors, and lecturers who teach and talk and write about the concepts in the list above?
All of the words and terms listed above are exact quotes from persons who studied the words of Maharaj and are now using those words in lectures and books—words that are “tell’s.” In the process, they are disseminating concepts and reinforcing belief in concepts rather than guiding seekers to freedom from concepts.
Disagree if you like, but would you be willing to try an exercise before ending all consideration? If so, list each word or term above (“ambition,” “meaning,” “power,” “Infinite Self,” etc.) and then write an explanation that explains WHO (that is, which ego-state) feels a certain affection for each of those concepts.
WHO (what persona) wants power? WHO (what ego-state) thinks he/she has power? WHO wants to be ageless? WHO wants to control? WHO wants eternal continuity?
Then write an explanation about how each is merely a concept, how each of those ideas has been dreamed up by persons with desires or fears, and how each is only endearing to persons attached to relative concepts and to bogus teachings regarding body-mind-personality issues and to a belief in the possibility of post-manifestation continuity of the body-mind-personality triad.
Some proclaim, “But millions speak of such, and millions are seeking those things and studying those things and are interested in those things and seem to have an internal need that is common to all people to gain those things. Millions cannot wrong.”
As noted before, that is a fact. Millions are not presently wrong in regards to their thinking and beliefs and desires and fears. In fact, it is billions that are confused, misled, and believing that popular fiction is actual fact.
Why do books on the dualistic concepts on the list above garner such huge sales and why do lectures on those topics rake in millions and billions of dollars in sales? Because billions are trapped in their body-mind-personality identities, are consumed with the notion of continuity, are attached to things relative, and are ensnared in the relative desires and fears of their assumed ego-states that want power and control and "more" rather than "less."
Because billions do not have the basic understanding of the vocabulary of duality as opposed to the vocabulary on non-duality and, as a result, have no means by which to differentiate statements based in logic and reason vs. statements based in nonsense. So it is, but so it need not be.
One seeker asked: How can I know if a teacher is fully realized?
Another asked: I’ve been reading Maharaj over and over and haven’t gotten from him what you evidently did. Any suggestions? What am I missing?
To the second questioner above:
On his journey,
“floyd” read volume after volume of the transcripts of Maharaj’s talks and was
often more confused than ever after each reading. To be discussed shortly,
Maharaj said that you must go back, reverse to the source, but he never
delineated the order of the steps “in” or the steps “back out.”
Once, when asked directly if he could identify the exact steps required in the
process, he did not answer the question.
That was his “style.” He used an approach that allowed seekers to sometimes
find “the way” during the one to two weeks he allowed visitors to attend the AM
and PM sessions in his loft. Most, he sent on their way with instructions to
consider the teachings received. Some reportedly took years after to “get it.”
Why are so many confused when trying to read and understand Maharaj without
seeking their own guide? As has been noted previously, he addressed seekers in
the order in which they came, so there was no rhyme or reason to the order of
his talks. One day, he addressed a seeker at the body level; the next, he might
address a seeker that was ready to move to the second witnessing level.
The result is that, in the transcripts of his talks during the early years when
visitors were invited into the loft, seemingly-but-not-actually-contradictory
pointers were offered. They were not contradictory but were simply responses
made in a level-appropriate manner, so there was no exception to Maharaj’s
impeccability of word usage, just a tailoring of each response in light of
where the seeker’s words revealed the seeker was located at that moment on “the
path.”
Whatever changes came were those which came because Maharaj abandoned religious and spiritual versions of the Ultimate Medicine and turned his focus to psychological healing instead.
Yet what Maharaj never offered was a clear-cut listing of the steps making up the “exact order” in which the “reversing to the source” has to occur. If one can read Maharaj and “get it, get this understanding” so it is; unfortunately for many seekers who read I AM THAT, they will not grasp the understanding in its totality unless they receive additional clarifications.
His pointers were not confused but they can be confusing to seekers who need such clarifications about his approach as some of the ones offered above.
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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