Advaita Vedanta: CAUSATION and RELATIVE EVENTS AND BEHAVIORS: “Evil?” or “Ignorance, Stupidity, and Insanity”?

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CAUSATION and RELATIVE EVENTS AND BEHAVIORS:

“Evil?” or “Ignorance, Stupidity, and Insanity”?

A REVIEW OF THE KEY POINTERS REGARDING THE DUALISTIC BELIEF IN “GOOD” VS. “EVIL”

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CAUSATION and RELATIVE EVENTS AND BEHAVIORS:

“Evil?” or “Ignorance, Stupidity, and Insanity”?

The following are some of the statements which end all discussion and which block understanding and which always result in persons remaining trapped in ignorance:

“God works in mysterious ways. We can’t understand everything he does.”

“There is some purpose behind everything that God allows to happen.”

“That’s the result of evil.”

“That’s what happens when people don’t stay close to God.”

“That’s part of the Divine Plan and we cannot know what the Plan is.”

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290. What persons deem to be a result of “the evil in the world” or “the evil forces at play” or “the evil generated by Satan” or “the evil that children are sometimes born with that must be exorcised” does not exist.

291. Even the supposedly
“liberal” Pope Francis warned at his first mass, “If we do not confess, if we do not pray to the Lord, we are praying to the Devil.”

292. Continuing is a debate over the need for exorcisms by Catholic priests to remove evil from people. According to Italian media, “the Pope appeared to have performed an exorcism on a wheelchair-bound young man from Mexico who believers in the practice claim was possessed by evil,” continuing, “leading exorcists insisted that the Pope had indeed taken on the forces of evil.”

293. Father Gabriele Amorth, the Catholic Church's best known exorcist, claimed that the Mexican male was “possessed by four demons” and he added, “There is now, more than ever, a need for exorcists to combat people possessed by 'sorcerers' and 'Satanists'.”

So much for the scientific, factual basis of the wheelchair-bound male's illness. Ignorance and stupidity and insanity typically displace facts and truth.

294. Nevertheless, those are the beliefs being espoused by the hierarchy of 1.3 billion Catholics worldwide who are, in turn, allowing their nonsense-spreading leaders to control their beliefs. The same is the case among all of the billions who claim to be affiliated with one organized religion or another.

295. Again, children are not born with evil or with demons inside them which must be exorcised; adults are not possessed by “the evil caused by Satan having entered them”; “sorcerers” do not exist; and the fact that millions or billions of people of one religion think and believe otherwise does not make it so.

It only makes clear how prevalent that ignorance and stupidity and insanity can become after exposure to ignorance-and-stupidity-and-insanity-based dogma or teachings of any kind.

296. The concept of “evil” is one part of the dreamed-up dualistic lie of “good vs. evil,” and what is supposedly “evil” is now being defined and determined by the most arrogant on the planet who have assumed personas, who believe that they are among “the good,” and who believe that all “others” who are different from them are “evil.”

297. The advice from Maharaj to those who assume imaginary personas as real identities and then allow imaginary and imagined things to control and drive their thoughts and words and actions:

298. “See that you are not what you believe yourself to be” (including “a Christian,” “a Jew,” “a Muslim,” “a Hindu,” “an exorcist,” or “a person possessed by evil forces or demons or Satan.”)

299. When the wise feel that they are “losing it mentally and emotionally,” many among that group will seek help from professional, mental-healthcare providers, not from those trapped in magical thinking, religious thinking, or supernatural thinking.

If you have a physical ailment, seek help from professionally-trained health experts, not magical thinkers. In that regard, Maharaj said, “There is no other way out of misery, which you have created for yourself through blind acceptance without investigation.”

300. One sure sign of the high level of egomania among those who are infatuated with a false, elevated sense of their own goodness is their preoccupation with “evil in others.”

301. There are no persons who are right and moral and good and virtuous and there are no persons who are wrong, immoral, evil, and sinful.

302. To suggest that personality-driven, and egotism-inspired, and ignorance-and-stupidity-and-insanity-based acts happen because certain people are not virtuous (but are sinful and evil instead) is to oversimplify the actual chain of causation.

303. It is the use of such religious and ideological and spiritual-based judgments and assessments that prevent the masses from ever understanding what is actually at play behind any and all acts of fighting and violence and bombing and mass murder and war.

304. As long as persons believe that dualistic pairs are valid (which the non-realized believe) then they will believe that all people are, absolutely, in either “the right and moral and good and virtuous group” or in “the wrong, immoral, evil, and sinful group.”

305. Among the realized, there is no preference for any conceptualized, personalized “us” over “them”; for some “me” vs. “another or others”; for Christians over Muslims; for Muslims over Christians; for sin over virtue; for virtue over sin.

306. Yet there are no nonsensical persons or ignorant persons or stupid persons or insane persons. There is just nonsense and ignorance and stupidity and insanity and elemental plant food bodies which are burdened with - and driven by - “minds” that are packed to overflowing with nonsense and ignorance and stupidity and insanity.

307. A questioner ask Maharaj, “Do you mean to say that between good and evil there is no wall?” to which Maharaj replied, “There is no wall because there is no good and no evil.”

308. On another occasion, a questioner asked, “How is it that there is so much evil in my world?” to which Maharaj responded, “There is no evil . . . . ”

309. Ignorance, stupidity, insanity, and the inability to choose words or actions are all rooted in programming, domestication, acculturation, conditioning, brainwashing, and indoctrination:

after the effects of those are in place in a “mind,” then whatever happens with any person after that will be a result of being on “auto-pilot.” Any and all ability to choose will have been relegated to the false identities that follow programming, conditioning, etc.

310. Some persons nowadays talk about someone having been “radicalized” by someone else, but the fact is that everything about programming, domestication, acculturation, conditioning, brainwashing, and indoctrination processes is radical.

How radical can some fanatics in the U.S. be nowadays? So radical that those types are demanding that a 10-year girl who was impregnated after being raped twice should be forced to carry the fetus to full-term. Here, radical has become synonymous with “ignorant, stupid, and insane.” The wise do not allow “leaders” and “influencers” or anyone else to radicalize them.

311. Maharaj: “Like everything mental, the so-called law of causation contradicts itself. No thing in existence has a particular cause; the entire universe contributes to the existence of even the smallest thing; nothing could be as it is without the universe being what it is.”

312. How simple the solution could be. Maharaj said: “From my angle, you are nothing. You have no identity.” End of story. End of chaos. End of what persons mistakenly call “the results of evil.”

313. Yet because of assumed and assigned false identifications, chaos will continue and persons will contradict their own words and intentions at every turn.

314. Maharaj explained it this way: “You do and undo at every step. You want peace, love, happiness, and work hard to create pain, hatred and war; you want longevity and overeat; you want friendship and exploit.”

315. Is that not the precise description of what ignorance, stupidity, and insanity look like in practice?

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.)

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