Sunday, January 09, 2022

WHY MAHARAJ ABANDONED RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUAL VERSIONS OF THE ULTIMATE MEDICINE AND TURNED HIS FOCUS TO PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALING INSTEAD

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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.

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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.)

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