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HUMANS STAY SICK WHEN THE WRONG MEDICINE IS USED TO TREAT WHAT REALLY AILS THEM
As for non-dual seekers specifically, Maharaj - again -
addressed that issue, as discussed in the eBook entitled “Sri Nisargadatta
Maharaj and His Evolution”:
“Whatever you have tried to understand during your spiritual search will prove false.”
“When the birth is disproved, the great noble meaning of spirituality and the
meaning of this world - everything - is disproved.”
He told later visitors: “Do your normal duties” and “just give up spirituality.”
Why that advice? Because Maharaj was sane enough to know - after having
witnessed accurately and objectively for decades - that spirituality does not
treat the Ultimate Sickness.
Moreover, spirituality does not treat polyps, cancerous polyps, neuroses,
psychoses, alcoholism or other addictions, planet-wide chaos, or
personality disorders, including (but not limited to) these by-products of the
Ultimate Sickness:
OCD, the Depressive Personality Disorder (P.D.), the
Histrionic P.D., the Factitious P.D., the Narcissism P.D., the Somatization P.D.,
the Avoidant P.D., the Borderline P.D.,
the Masochistic P.D., the Schizoid Avoidance P.D., the Schizotypal P.D., the
Passive-Aggressive P.D., the Paranoid P.D., the Dependent P.D., the Addictive
P.D.,
the Bipolar P.D., the Antisocial / Sociopathic P. D., the Pathological P.D.,
the Sadistic P.D., the Passive-Aggressive P.D., and Dissociative P.D.
Especially in his later talks, Maharaj offered the proper treatment - the
Ultimate Medicine - which had nothing to do with the spirituality that he spoke
of early on but which he later advised seekers to “give up.”
That compares to the methods used to treat the mentally ill in early 19th century America when care for the mentally ill was almost non-existent: the afflicted were usually relegated to prisons, almshouses, or inadequate supervision by families. Treatment, if provided, paralleled other medical treatments of the time, including bloodletting and purgatives.
Your granddad has a host of personality defects so we’re going to have to cut him open and drain out some of his blood.” Then, the real kicker: “purgatives!” So it’s like this: “Your granddad also has a host of mental defects, so we’re going to give him double doses of Ex-Lax to treat his mind problems. Then ‘keep coming back’! We’ll keep double-dosing him until he’s sane.”
More on trying that approach as discussed in “Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj and His Evolution” in upcoming posts.
The
key point is that the road to misery and suffering on planet earth is paved
with misdiagnoses and, therefore, inappropriate, ineffective, and unsuitable
treatments.
Any competent, all-powerful God that - for whatever unexplainable reason -
stood by and let things get as messed up as they are on this planet would
surely see how messed up things are and clean up the mess.
The fact that such is not happening is evidence of the additional fact that the
most popular means of trying to treat anything and everything on the planet
(namely, being religious and / or spiritual and / or praying or begging a god
or gods for relief) is not working.
Whether the problem deals with addiction, emotional illness, personality
disorders and neuroses and psychoses, trouble with “relationships,” health
problems, family crises, financial predicaments, physical pain, endless misery
and suffering, grief, guilt, and resentment, the problems are ultimately rooted
in body issues, mind issues, and / or personality issues.
And the most serious body issues, mind issues, and / or personality issues are not
going to go away by praying to a myth-and-superstition-based entity.
Because
all is matter-energy, and because matter-energy can neither be destroyed nor
created, then there is no Creator. And if there is no creator or Creator or
Creator-God, then there is also no Sustainer-God or Destroyer-God either.
For five thousand years, people have just made up all that “stuff” as they went
along. (When the author of the book discussed earlier explained to a man that
he had no faith in the validity of religious concepts, he was advised, “Why don’t
you choose your own conception of God?”) See? “Just make it up. Just dream up a
concept. Pick a version you like.”
Maharaj explained that the only thing that has been “created” in this regard is
the conception of a God, and conceptions are just “dreamed up things.” Thus, he
said:
“First of all you identify something as being good or bad for yourself. Then,
in an effort to acquire good or to get rid of the bad, you have invented a God.
Then you worship such a God and . . . you pray to that God for something good
to happen to you.”
As a result, humans over the ages have prayed to a conceptualized god or gods
but have also wished upon a star or at a wishing well; have put faith in a
four-leaf clover or a rabbit’s foot;
have
felt that hanging a horseshoe affixed over a door will protect those entering;
have believed that if garlic is hung inside a home that it will provide
protection against evil spirits; ad
infinitum.
But Maharaj made clear that “spirituality” has been proven meaningless:
Again, “When the birth is disproved, the great noble meaning of spirituality
and the meaning of this world - everything - is disproved.”
When a visitor said, “The scriptures say that we have our karma and our sins
and that is why we are here,” Maharaj answered: “That is for the ignorant
masses.”
When the doctors misdiagnosed the internal state of “floyd’s body” - failing to
realize that the observable symptoms were a result of benign, pre-cancerous,
and cancerous polyps - then all that they recommended prior to a proper
diagnosis were exactly the same as spirituality and holy books and holy
concepts trying to treat mental illness, namely, “of no use.”
One doctor defended the failure of the medical community to me, saying that, “In
the long run, you had to go through all of that and find out what did not work
and eliminate other possibilities before the stage was set to come up with a
proper diagnosis.”
That is not unlike the addict who tells another, “We had to do everything we
did in order to get where we finally got to so we could be given the proper
treatment.”
BS.
Treatment that is based in “a process of elimination” is not treatment. When
antibiotics were prescribed by a doctor for me as a treatment for what was
actually polyps, that was not a treatment.
When antacids were prescribed as a treatment for what was actually polyps, that was not a treatment. When Imodium, Pepto-Bismol, and Kaopectate were prescribed as a treatment for what was actually polyps, that was not a treatment.
And
the same kind of misfires apply when any form of the Ultimate Medicine tries to
treat the mental aspect of the Ultimate Sickness without using the proven “sick-mind-treatment
methods” employed by competent therapists.
Snake oil salesmen of days gone by sold a product that they claimed was a
single cure-all: “No need to buy a variety of products or undergo a variety of
medical procedures when you can buy one product that will wipe out anything and
everything that ails you.”
There is a modern version of the snake-oil salesmen that is alive and doing
well, financially. The modern snake-oil salesmen are also presenting a supposed
cure-all that could be called “Fix-It-All-Dogma” or “The-All-In-One-Spiritual-Fixer-Upper.”
But not unlike the medical community’s efforts to address a polyp problem with
antibiotics, antacids, Imodium, Pepto-Bismol, and Kaopectate, people are
reaching into their grab-bags of dogmatic and spiritual remedies and pulling
out that which Maharaj made clear is “of no use.”
Again, when dogma or spiritual exercises are prescribed as a treatment for
addiction, emotional illness, personality disorders and neuroses and psychoses,
trouble with “relationships,” health problems, family crises, financial
predicaments, physical pain, endless misery and suffering, grief, guilt,
resentment, body issues, mind issues, and / or personality issues, that is not
a treatment at all.
As with the process the doctors used here, improper treatment plans only
prolong misery and suffering and provide a false sense of hope that extends the
pain and that prevents a discovery of what is really needed to address any
given issue.
And again, that is why Maharaj made clear that “the great noble meaning of
spirituality . . . has been disproved” and why he asserted that religious and
spiritual concepts and scriptures and stories are “of no use.”
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.
