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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.
6. Seek - no DEMAND - not only a physically-healthy environment in your home but also a healthy mental / emotional environment in your home.
To continue with the discussion of the different ways by which the members of three groups believe that the problems of humankind can be addressed, the groups included those which claim that there are TOO FEW RELIGIOUS PEOPLE; that persons are suffering from a SPIRITUAL MALADY; and that humankind’s problems are rooted in MENTAL ISSUES / DEFECTS.
So what are some of the other ways that the members of three groups of persons differ in their perspectives about the cause of the problems of humanity?
Consider the contrast in the ways that the three look at the concepts of “death” and “the right to die” and how they believe those concepts should be viewed:
The TOO FEW RELIGIOUS PEOPLE argument: “God opposes suicide because He thinks only He has the right to decide who is to die and when they are to die” and “life is precious so you should not commit suicide” or “only God is to decide when you die so you have no ‘right to die’ when you choose” and “you may be terminally ill and in great pain and suffering mentally and emotionally, but you do not have the right to end your own life” and “as with sex and abortion and masturbation and what food you eat, you do not have the right to decide what to do with your own body” or
“it is okay to commit suicide if you die in the act of killing infidels in the name of our God (and, in fact, you will receive the greatest reward that God offers”) vs. “if you commit suicide, you will receive the greatest punishment that God can assess” or “committing suicide brings with it a social stigma and shames our family because life is precious and you have arrived into this life after scores or hundreds or thousands of births and this life provides an opportunity for you to make a giant leap to higher planes of existence and maybe this is the life that is going to allow you to attain immortality”
or “committing suicide or exercising your right to die will not only hamper your spiritual progress but will also set your progress back by several lives and will bring greater suffering once you are reborn following your suicide, but - all that aside - it can be an honorable act of self-sacrifice if undertaken to protest social injustice” or “to commit suicide is to commit murder for you are murdering your Self or Soul.”
The SPIRITUAL MALADY argument: “God does not want you to commit suicide because God alone is in charge of all and He alone has the right to decide the timing for all” and “you would only commit suicide if you are not spiritually fit” and “if you are spiritually fit, then you will be at peace with whatever circumstances arise in your life” and “if you are spiritually fit, you will accept everything just the way it is and - in fact - you will love whatever is” and
“if you are spiritually fit then you will know that it’s all good, so it is impossible for truly spiritual people to kill themselves” and “if you become spiritual, you will be able to ‘love what is’ and you’ll have a new, positive attitude and you will know that 'acceptance' is the key to happiness, so just learn to accept your pain and turn everything over to God.”
The MENTAL ILLNESS view: “Many of the reasons that persons kill themselves are rooted in their personality disorders which are generating suffering and misery” and “over 90% of the people who die by suicide have been diagnosed with a mental illness” and “some of the mental illnesses commonly associated with suicide include depression, the Borderline Personality Disorder (P.D.), the Schizophrenia P.D., eating disorders, the Bi-Polar P.D., anxiety disorders, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and others” and “addiction and substance abuse are associated with an increased risk of suicide as well.”
In the U.S., there is another perspective which aligns with the non-dual view on the issue, and that is the perspective held in the states of Oregon, Washington, Montana, New Mexico and Vermont which deem it legal for one to choose when to die and how to die and for one to exercise one’s “right to die” or one’s “right to die with dignity.” (It is required in these states that the patient be “of sound mind” when requesting assisted suicide, as confirmed by a doctor and other witnesses, and that the patient be diagnosed with a terminal illness.)
Right-wing elements in the U.S. dubbed Dr. Jack Kevorkian “Dr. Death” after he participated in at least 130 assisted suicides in instances where terminally ill persons were suffering unbearable pain. Members of conservative and religious groups pressed for him to be arrested and tried for murder, and they eventually got their way:
he was arrested and tried and convicted of murder and served eight years in prison for assisting persons who choose to end their pain and suffering (in spite of the fact that other doctors in hospitals in all fifty states remove breathing equipment and feeding tubes in hundreds of thousands of instances on an annual basis . . . and without consequence).
While some of the anti-suicide beliefs of Hinduism were listed above, there are some Hindus who accept “the right to die” for those who are tormented by terminal diseases; their beliefs allow one “to choose a voluntary death through the non-violent practice of fasting to the point of starvation.”
The “You-have-no-right-to-choose-when-you-die-because-that’s-up-to-God” groups in the U.S. were protesting again because the media reported that Brittany Maynard,
a terminally-ill 29-year-old woman, chose 1 November 2014 as the day she would die.
Brittany’s body had developed the deadliest form of brain cancer. After treatment, the average life expectancy is only fourteen months. When doctors told Brittany her death would likely be “slow and painful” as the tumor continued to grow, she “opted to choose her own ending.”
The doctors said that they have no medications that would be able to relieve her pain and suffering as the tumor grows but that they can offer to those who choose the “die with dignity” option a medication which “will give her a ‘peaceful and painless’ ending”;
certain groups, however, are protesting that she is committing suicide and has no right to do that, and they are sending messages in droves to her that she “will go to hell for eternity.”
Her reply: “This is not a suicide. There is not a cell in my body that is suicidal or that wants to die. I want to live. I wish there was a cure for my disease but there’s not. Being able to choose to go with dignity is less terrifying.”
How does Brittany’s perspective align with the non-dual view on the issue?
Maharaj said: “In some cases ‘death’ is the best cure. A ‘life’ may be worse than ‘death,’ which is but rarely an unpleasant experience, whatever the appearances; therefore, pity the living, never the dead”
and
“The end is in the beginning” in that “You end where you start - in the Absolute”
and
“The teacher does not evaluate. His sole concern is with suffering and the ending of suffering”
and
“Disease and suffering are not natural. There is noble virtue in unshakable endurance of whatever comes, but there is also dignity in the refusal of meaningless torture and humiliation.”
The realized understand that no one is born and that no one shall die and so, certainly, no one shall be “born again” and certainly no one will “live forever,” so no one will “suffer either eternal punishment or eternal reward.”
That is why here there is no concern at all about the taking of mahasamadhi. While that which the masses call “death” is not being sought, it is not being feared either; yet this manifestation would be brought to an end voluntarily if the kind of relative existence that Brittany is experiencing should manifest.
And that is also why here, the legal paperwork has been completed by an attorney and has been filed to make clear that there is nothing noble or virtuous or dignified about meaningless torture and humiliation and that this composite unity called “Floyd” by some will not allow breathing and feeding equipment to be used to extend a “quality-less” existence.
If freed of all delusions and illusions about “death,” there is also freedom from any fear of “death,” and only if freed from the belief in the concept of “death” can one be free to live without fear as well . . . free to abide for whatever remains of the relative existence without any fear at all between the time-frame from the point of full realization to the point of taking mahasamadhi.
Now that’s how the realized spell “relief” (which comes only when relieved of all beliefs).
[UPDATE: On 2 November 2014, Brittany finished her “final farewells” and then quietly and calmly and peacefully took mahasamadhi on that day. She used a word that Maharaj had used earlier in regards to her situation, saying that she was choosing a means by which to end the manifestation that is marked by “dignity” rather than the means endorsed by most in the medical community, by religious advocates, and by most governments that is far-too-often a means marked by barbarism and “meaningless torture and humiliation.”]
As always in the U.S., the “opposing sides” were from “the Left” and the “Right”; from Democrats vs. Republicans; from the non-religious vs. the religious.
While one political party claims to be the party of freedom, they are actually the party which strips persons of their freedom, declaring that they have the right to decide when people should die or not and declaring that they have the right to decide if persons have the right to an abortion . . .
ignoring such factors as the pregnancy involved a 10-year old girl who was twice-raped in an act of incest; ignoring the fact that the mother is likely to die if the pregnancy is forced to go full term; ignoring the fact that the child might live but the mother will surely die; ignoring the fact that the child has no skull and will die within a day or two of birth; etc., etc., etc.
If one looks at the way that the scenarios above allow some to live and some to die, it should be clear that the anti-abortionists are not “pro-life.” They are “pro-birth.” But after the birth, you’re on your own.
Look not to them for financial aid in spite of the fact that they have strapped someone with a $300,000 price tag, the current cost of raising a child through high school.
By the way, in some states in the U.S., you better not try to kill yourself and fail. Those states have declared suicide illegal and if you try to kill yourself and fail, they will send you to prison. The laws in those states require that you be “imprisoned for life” (but not “for death.”)
Finally, there is no one here who is “pro-life” or “pro-abortion.” There is a suggestion, though, that humans should mind their own business before they try to take charge of the existence of “others.” To do otherwise is evidence of the presence of “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity” (Maharaj).
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"
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"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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