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SEEKING: WHY, WHAT AND HOW?
Above all else, the non-dual understanding is about being able to differentiate the true from the false. That applies to understanding causation; to the fact that nothing has ever been created; to the fact that what truly is has always been and may or may not be involved in “cycling”;
to the fact that no one has ever been born; to understanding that death and an afterlife are bogus, dreamed up concepts; to determining if what a parent or teacher or guru or politician or preacher or rabbi or ayatollah or cult leader is saying is true or false; etc., etc., etc.
WHY MESSAGES CAN CHANGE, EVEN AMONG THOSE NOT SEEKING PERSONAL GAIN
Was Maharaj convinced that what he was sharing early on was “the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth”? No. Following his guru’s instructions, he was attracting people to his loft with a message based in Hinduism more than anything and then peppered with some non-dual pointers delivered with “spiritual” overtones.
Unlike many nowadays who use that guru’s “bait and switch” method and who do so for financial gain, Maharaj's motives differed.
However, he did come to see that his intent to address the Ultimate Sickness - and his methods to try to do so - were totally off base; thus, his focus changed.
His wisdom expanded via observation of the results (or lack of results) from what he was sharing early on and via years of experience which revealed (a) what was not working and (b) what at last proved to be somewhat more effective; therefore, as his treatment plan for the Ultimate Sickness evolved, so too did his message. The truth came out, but it came at the end of his years of sharing pointers when he stopped sharing pointers to attract Hindus and stopped sharing pointers regarding spirituality to attract people from around the globe.
THE GENERAL ATTITUDE OF THE MASSES TOWARD “TRUTH”
Most persons do not want to be quiet long enough to hear truth, most do not sincerely want to hear truth (especially “their own truth”), and most persons - who are dependent and insecure and who want to be liked - do not want to speak truth and do not have the courage to speak the truth if they happen to understand it.
(Those who tell people only what they want to hear are still so deeply trapped in personality that their belief - that they “know” and “understand” and “have realized” - is their greatest distortion and self-delusion of all. When the last personal identification is gone, only then can the pure, universal consciousness speak and only then can the pure universal consciousness be heard.)
Note also that one cannot hear truth when one is talking. Maharaj said: “Truth is not . . . a prize for passing some tests. You are eligible because you are.” To receive it: “Stand still, Be quiet.”
To those who claim that they want to realize the truth, the fact is that most only give lip service to a willingness to find and accept the truth - especially when it comes to the truth about the facts surrounding their false selves and the actual state of their relative existence:
Maharaj said: “You are asking for truth, but in fact you merely seek comfort, which you want to last forever.”
[Thus, few will ever grasp this: “It is always the false that makes you suffer: the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false ‘relationships’ between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain. Truth makes happy. Truth liberates.”]
SEEKING IS STILL ABOUT A DESIRE
Human fears and desires - rooted in the agendas of assumed personalities - are the source of suffering. So, what triggers a desire to search? Why do seekers search, really? Most often, that happens as a result of a combination of motives:
Because of fear, usually unrecognized; because of discomfort, usually either minimized or highly exaggerated; because of some degree of a sense of feeling imprisoned; because of a desire to escape that current condition of feeling imprisoned; and because of a longing for freedom, even though most have no clue at all about how imprisoned they really feel.
Maharaj: “You have projected onto yourself a world of your own imagination, based on memories, on desires and fears, and you have imprisoned yourself in it. Break the spell and be free.”
Some also seek because of a desire to replace “the bad person” (which they think they are or which they think they were or which they have been told they are) and to replace that identity with some “new and good and improved” persona / identity.
Others seek to escape supposed birth-life-death-rebirth cycles. Others seek as a result of a desire for continuity, but not just any continuity. They want a continuity marked by reward, both now and “later,” and a continuity devoid of pain and misery and suffering, both now and “later.”
Such beliefs are totally rooted in delusion:
Maharaj: “Don't talk to me about past and future. They exist only in your mind”
and
“In reality nothing happens. There is no past nor future; all appears and nothing is”
and
“There can be no continuity in existence. Continuity implies identity in past, present and future. No such identity is possible, for the very means of identification fluctuate and change. Continuity, permanency . . . these are illusions created by memory, mere mental projections of a pattern where no pattern can be.”
And some are seeking because they desire a “good and happy ending,” meaning one that finally ends hundreds or thousands of “births-lives-deaths-and-rebirths” or an ending in which they have earned an eternal life marked by a reward-filled existence forever.
Maharaj: “In your world everything must have a beginning and an end. If it does not, you call it 'eternal'. In my view, there is no such thing as beginning and end - these are all related to time. Timeless being is entirely in the now. Being and not-being alternate and their reality is momentary. The immutable Reality lies beyond space and time.”
If one is not trapped in the all-too-common distortions about “reality” and “Reality,” then one has no concern about the bogus concepts of “eternal reward,” “eternal punishment,” “later,” “a good ending,” “the future,” or “eternal, personal continuity.”
Therefore, the truth be known about “why” most seekers are seeking becomes clear: their searching is really being driven by relative events and happenings based only in the Is-ness, in this AM-ness, and that makes sense (without their even understanding that motive) because "this" is all that anyone shall ever know, shall ever be conscious of, shall ever be aware of. There is only NOW.
There is no “one” to survive the manifestation intact and there is no “one” that will be available to receive either a reward or punishment.
Contrary to ideas about “THAT” and about “What is to come” and about “the future” - all of which are nothing more than dreamed up concepts or words used to point to a fact - it is the present beingness and not any post-beingness state which should be the key issue.
“This deal” is really about (1) what is called here "Applied Advaita" (without any belief in "An Applier") and about (2) allowing the non-dual understanding to be overlaid on the relative existence in order to reach a state of peace and freedom and joy NOW and to enjoy the pleasures that can only be enjoyed NOW via the manifested consciousness.
“This deal” is not about "supernatural issues." This understanding is about what is (A) practical, relevant, hands-on, everyday, concrete, "down to earth," pragmatic, reasonable, rational, no-nonsense, viable, functional in order to bring stability to the relative existence,
and
is about (B) making this existence a sound one, a sane one, and one that is
finally free of the influence of the learned ignorance which was transferred
via programming, conditioning, brainwashing, domestication, acculturation, and
indoctrination.
WHY HUMANS SEARCH
Why - through no fault or blame or choice - does the search almost always unfolds in a way that a child would go about the process.
To review: as for WHY people seek, the possibilities are numerous:
1. Because of fear; and
2. because of desire; and
3. Because of discomfort; and
4. because they want “freedom” (but from what?); and
5. because they have been seen as being “bad” but want to be seen as being “good” (in order to keep what they have or to get what they do not have, or both); and
6. because the consciousness automatically wants continuity, so they spend an entire existence being driven by fears and by desires involving the false concept of continuity; and
7. because they have been fooled . . . led to believe - almost from “day one” - a plethora of beliefs that are totally false, totally magical, and totally supernatural beliefs about:
a. “gods” and “goddesses” or “a God” or “Sky Deities” or “Sky Kings and Queens” or “a Heavenly Father” or “a Son of Heaven”; and about
b. reincarnation and multiple lives and how to escape the potentially-endless cycles of rebirth-life-death-rebirth; and about
c. “souls” and “spirits” and “angels” and “eternal life” and “eternal reward” both “now” and “later” or “eternal punishment” both “now” and “later” or “the afterlife”; and about
d. “Heaven” or "Vaikuntha” or “Tian” or "The Upper World of Heavenly Gods" or a "Higher Place" or “a Higher Plane” or a “Better World” or “The Holiest Place” or “Paradise” or “Purgatory” or “Hell” or “an Underworld” or “Another World” or something attained, such as “Nirvana or Moksha” or “a place where endless carnal pleasures await those who die fighting for God, including seventy-two virgins, thousands of wives, and thousands of concubines” or “several heavens with varying levels of pleasure” or “Five Major Types of Heaven” or “many planes beyond the earthly plane” or “The Good Kingdom” or “The Final Communion with Brahman,” etc.; or
8. because of illusions and delusions; and
9. because they have been fooled by programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, brainwashing, and indoctrination; and
10. because they have been fooled by being led to believe that great punishment awaits those who question any aspect of the dogma which they have been taught; and
11. because they have unquestioningly succumbed to being manipulated into living a life according to the dictates of those who either (a) dangle a carrot of reward or who (b) make threats about being punished forever if they do not believe "by blind faith alone" all that they are told; and
12. because of belief systems that are based in total delusion; and
13. because they are seeking a “good and happy ending”; and
14. because all on the planet have been raised in a dysfunctional environment which is the cause of the development of personality; and
15. because the development of personality removes from persons the ability to be free of a constantly-in-motion train of thoughts which are endlessly churning away in a fiction-filled mind;
and
16. because the development of personality is in place by the age of five or six, causing persons to fixate at that level, the result of which is that the hidden agendas of personalities - for the rest of one’s entire life - will determine (subconsciously and unconsciously) every thought that is thought, every word that is spoken, ever feeling or emotion that is felt, and every action that happens.
To be continued.
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THE EXPLANATION
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"
and
"Heaven and earth shall fade away."
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"Heaven and hell are not geographic places
"There is no hell."
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