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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.
Is it becoming clear why those who criticize Maharaj for “moving away from a religious / spiritual approach” in his efforts to address the Ultimate Sickness do not have even the slightest clue at all about why that shift occurred?
The shift is explained in detail in a book which deals with Maharaj’s Evolution. In that eBook, some of the criticisms leveled at Maharaj are shared, including these three:
1. One man wrote: ““The later books of Maharaj do not enjoy the same clarity as 'I Am That'. It seems that he himself got complicated or rather evolved himself or declined maybe as happens to many teachers.”
[Rather than “losing clarity,” by the end he attained more clarity; rather than “getting complicated,” his message became more simple than ever; finally, his message did not “decline.”
He merely declined to continue to use the two medicines which he had used early on to try to treat the Ultimate Sickness because both of those medicines - a religious one first and a spiritual one later - proved ineffective; as for his “evolving,” indeed, guilty as charged.]
2. Another said of Maharaj: “At first when he was still listening to his guru he was telling the truth, like he did in 'I AM THAT.' In his other talks, his ego made him start telling things he dreamed up on his own that were not true.”
[The fact is, when his final teachings eventually were based in the science of psychology and when advances in science - as Maharaj predicted - came to provide concrete evidence which proves that what he understood and shared about the way that the problems of humanity center in the mind rather than in “too little religion” or in an “untreated spiritual malady,”
then those final sharings were indeed completely different from what he was sharing when he was still trapped in his early, admittedly-less-informed “guru-bhakti stage.”]
3. Another wrote: “He deteriorated from one of the great spiritual men of all times to one of the least spiritual people of all times.”
[Maharaj would agree completely. He said: You think that you are now spiritual giants. Compared to you, I am a spiritual pygmy. And that's the way he intended it to be, in the end.]
If persons . . .
were to gain even a slight degree of clarity along with even a few shreds of wisdom
and
if they were to use those to look objectively at their beliefs,
and
if they were to attain a modicum of the courage required to challenge and question the beliefs that they think are their own but which all came from “others” (most of whom are / were suffering from their own serious cases of ignorance and insanity),
then
they would see that the religion-based explanations repeated in the last few posts as well as the spirituality-based explanations that were repeated in the recent posts are nothing more than religious “knowledge” with very ancient roots (all of which Maharaj eventually dismissed as “learned ignorance”).
If they were to gain the requisite clarity, wisdom, objectivity, and courage, they would see that religious explanations are myth-based and superstition-based and ignorance-based beliefs that are hand-me-down concepts, handed down starting with persons who lived 5,000 years ago and who were sharing from “the pool of conventional wisdom” which then – as now – is less of a pool and more of a cesspool of ignorance
and
they would see that spiritual explanations are based in the ramblings of assumed ego-states and egotism and arrogance; in magical thinking and distortions and delusions;
and in dreamed up concepts, all of which are delivered in as stirring and as moving and as inspirational a fashion as possible in order to aggravate the already-existing condition of emotional intoxication which is plaguing those who are trapped in an extreme state of what they take to be a noble and lofty condition but which Maharaj dismissed as “their kindergarten-level spirituality.”
The masses are suffering from the symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness which has now reached the point of being a global pandemic. The irony? They are worrying about contracting “this virus” or “that bacteria” without having a clue that there is nothing on earth that could make them sicker than they already are right now.
The additional irony? They are paralyzed with fear over that which they might contract but which they will likely never contract even as they ignore completely that which they have already contracted.
They are already suffering right now from the most debilitating Sickness of all even as they ignore completely the fact that their relative existence - because of the Sickness which they already have - is presently dominated by their self-destructive thinking and their self-destructive behavior;
by their dualistic thinking; by chaos; by insanity; by a lack of freedom; by a lack of consistent peace; and by the presence instead of consistent instability.
Are many likely to gain the requisite clarity, wisdom, objectivity, and courage to challenge the ignorance-and-insanity-based beliefs that have been passed along to them in the form of “religious dogma” or “spiritual teachings” or cultural programming and conditioning and domestication and acculturation and brainwashing and indoctrination? No.
Are many likely to gain the requisite clarity, wisdom, objectivity, and courage that would allow them to start using factual evidence (rather than mythology and superstition or lofty but baseless concepts that focus only on things “celestial and extraterrestrial”) in order to understand what is truly the more immediate cause of - and the proper treatment for - what ails them? No, not likely.
So it is, but so it need not be.
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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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.
