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1. [See the offer in gold text following this post for details on how you can watch a retreat on video which includes a detailed discussion of all seven of the steps on the path as used by Maharaj]
2. 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. See the green text after today's post for the full meaning and implications of that.
3. A new video ("Number Ten: Awakening Together Satsang, March 2018") has now been added in the far right column of this page, offering the opportunity to view a recent 2018 satsang session with Floyd being interviewed by Regina and Jacqueline of "The Awakening Together Group." (See the details in the blue text after this post.)
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SEEKING: WHY, WHAT AND HOW?
To review for those that are still inclined seek:
1. Seek to abide as all life-forms on the planet abide except for humans: naturally, not unnaturally and not supernaturally.
2. Seek not to find all that you supposedly are; it is enough to find who / what you are not. (Maharaj)
3. Seek to understand how you were programmed, conditioned, domesticated, acculturated, indoctrinated, and brainwashed resulting in you and all humans at some point ending up with no ability to use logic and reason but instead accepting anything from any authority figure as truth without questioning and based on blind faith alone.
4. Relatedly, seek to comprehend how phony personality identities subconsciously determine and control your every thoughts, words, and deeds, thereby eliminating the ability to make conscious choices.
5. Seek to find the real source of the Ultimate Sickness and then seek the effective version of the Ultimate Medicine which can treat the Sickness.
The confusion over the actual causes of the Ultimate Sickness rest in thousands of years of some persons being told that the cause is that “there too few religious people” or that “there are too many people with an untreated spiritual malady.”
Only a few agreed with Maharaj’s final explanation that the Sickness involves widespread mental illness along with widespread (learned) “ignorance and stupidity.”
If one reads all of Maharaj’s talks, it can be seen that early on he alluded to a seven-step path, later modified to a four-step path.
He never enumerated the steps or laid them out in their particular order or in their exact, step-wise fashion as is provided here, but one familiar with the steps will find them all there at one point or another in his talks.
He did make clear, however, that seekers should “go back, reverse, to the source”
and should
“follow the same path by which you came.”
Included among the steps is a period when religious and / or spiritual roles are played; yet they are to be transitioned.
There has, however, been an old and still-ongoing debate about the true cause and the proper treatment (the proper Ultimate Medicine) for the Ultimate Sickness. Religious persons have asserted for thousands of years that the cause of the planet’s ills is rooted in their belief that there are too few religious people.
Some continue to make that assertion. Until recently, 97% on the planet reporting an affiliation with one organized religion or another, and that led to a planet-wide acceptance among billions that the cause of the planet’s ills - as stated above - is rooted in their belief that there are too few religious people.
That assertion should be a moot argument. A more recent belief is that the cause involves an affiliation “with the wrong religion or sect.”
Others, many of whom tried religion but later shifted to “spirituality” (and now proudly announce “I am not religious! I am spiritual!”) often take the stand that the ills of the planet are rooted in “an untreated spiritual malady.”
That kind of shift is not uncommon. It even happened with Maharaj and it happened here as well. In the eBook entitled “Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj And His Evolution,” the stages of his “development” or his “shifts in focus” were shown to have moved thusly:
He moved from guru-bhakti and bhakti
to
bhakti and jnana (and mention of “atma”)
to
jnana and nisarga yoga
and finally to
the Nisargan understanding alone.
[“Bhakti” from the root word “bhaj,” means “to belong to, to partake in, or to worship,” so - in the beginning - Maharaj held notions about worshiping one’s guru and about worshiping in general.]
Early on, Maharaj led visitors to the loft in bhajans - religious (Hindu) devotional songs expressing love for “the Divine.”
Along with those religious messages, he began to intermingle spiritual pointers in his talks, so his talks evidence a combination of religion and spirituality. As he evolved, he talked more of spiritual issues until he eventually abandoned both religious talks and spiritual talks. Why?
He had seen that none of those talks addressed the Ultimate Sickness at all. The focus of his talks shifted more to the mental roots and emotional (ego-based) aspects of the Ultimate Sickness.
Rather than agreeing that “too little religion” is the cause of the ills of persons on the planet, and rather than agreeing that the Ultimate Sickness is “a spiritual malady,” it became clear to him that humanity’s main problem was (and still is) centered in the fiction-filled mind which develops after programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, indoctrination and brainwashing.
So, Maharaj did not say that someday religious understandings would reach a point that they would confirm the veracity of the non-duality teachings.
He did not say that someday spiritual understandings would reach a point where they would confirm the veracity of the non-dual teachings.
Maharaj did eventually say that scientific understandings would someday reach a point where they would confirm the veracity of the teachings.
And which science, first and foremost, did he turn to after setting aside both religious and spiritual approaches to try to address the Ultimate Sickness? The science of the mind, the science of psychology.
His focus in the end turned to the analysis and explication of the role that the mind plays in generating and spreading the Ultimate Sickness.
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."
and
"Heaven and hell are not geographic places
"There is no hell."
teachings which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.
