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KEY SERIES HIGHLIGHTS / REVIEW
The Conclusion
371. To fail to understand that very basic fact regarding
what motivates persons to do what they do is to believe erroneously that persons
are making choices.
372. Moreover, when being driven, someone (or something) else is in charge.
Initially, the “someone” includes programmers, conditioners, acculturators,
domesticators, brainwashers and indoctrinators. That group will expand in
number to include any and all influential persons who assign roles or who
inspire persons to assume roles as identities.
373. So it is on a planet where programming-induced “ignorance, stupidity and
insanity” run rampart. Persons have no ability to choose, so no one can choose
to be “good” or “evil.” If programmed, conditioned, acculturated, domesticated,
brainwashed, and indoctrinated, any and all ability to choose or not choose
anything has been preempted. (If that is understood, wherefore hatred? Wherefore
lingering resentment?)
374. Next, the invitation is to consider this key point: the masses
absolutely love their belief in the concept of evil; thus, the masses are
never likely to seek realization because there is a prerequisite for seeking
earnestly which was also identified by Maharaj: “Only that person will visit
this place whose virtue AND sin have come to an end.”
375. How comforting - and arrogance-engendering - it is to the masses to
believe that their “sin has come to an end” (or that they have been forgiven
thousands of times by a God or gods or goddesses or a Higher Power and will
continue to be forgiven a thousand times more, which is a major draw of
organized religion and spirituality-based programs or movements). Yet how the
ego abhors the notion that one’s “virtue has come to an end.” How objectionable
. . . how detestable . . . how repugnant
. . . to even consider the possibility.
376. Those trapped at the third steps on the “path” to realization (where
religious and / or spiritual identities are assumed and played) absolutely love
“their new and improved self” . . . or even better yet, “Self.”
At that third step, what happens shortly after the assumption of a religious and / or a spiritual identity is what happens shortly after any ego-state is assumed: the new self or Self is upgraded to a super self or Super Self which demands that all “others” who are not a mirror image of that same “Super Self” will be downgraded.
In the process of such upgrading, an entirely new set of
assumed personality traits manifest, including, being good; then being more
than good; then being virtuous; being righteous; being worthy; being honorable;
being moral; being upright; and, yes, being “different from” by virtue of being
“better than.”
377. With that mindset, is it not obvious why “The Super Religious One” or “The
Spiritual Giant” hates to hear the message offered via the Nisarga (Natural”)
Yoga? Is it not obvious why the masses absolutely love their belief in the
concept of “evil”? Is it not obvious why so many objected to Maharaj’s
pointer, “Only that person will visit this place whose virtue and sin have come
to an end”?
378. “‘Sin’? Yes, of course, most assuredly. ‘Sin AND virtue’? I don’t think
so.”
379. Some may recall the earlier sharing of the words of the comedian who,
after the Boston Marathon bombings, took to Facebook to shake his verbal fist
in the air at all terrorists by sending a message to the “evil” ones in the
world: “The good outnumber you, and we always will.”
380. Yes, “we” - we who are “the good” - outnumber you evil people and “we
always will.” That is the way the self - the false self - upgrades itself
(classifying itself as “the good”), and that is the way that the self - the
false self - downgrades “others” (by classifying them as “the evil ones.”)
381. How popular that message is among the masses, and how popular it is likely
to always be among the non-realized hoards. Conversely, how unpopular a “no
virtue and no evil” message will always be with the masses. Pandering draws
crowds; Truth disperses crowds.
382. You see, if there is no “evil,” and if there are no “evil people,” then
there can be no “good people” either.
383. Again, how the ego abhors that notion because what also comes to an end is
the upgraded self-image that one is righteous; worthy; honorable; moral;
upright; and different from by virtue of being better than.
384. All ego-states require a counterpart to exist. In the realm of the
duality-dominated masses, there can be no “good” without the counterpart called
“evil”; there can be no “morality” without the counterpart called “immorality”;
there can be no “virtue” without the counterpart called “sin”; there can be no “righteous person” without the counterpart of “a wicked person”; there can be no “worthy person” without the counterpart of “an unworthy person”;
there can be no “honorable person” without the counterpart of “a dishonorable person”; there can be no “upright person” without the counterpart of “a corrupt person”;
there can be no “honorable person” without the
counterpart of “a dishonorable person”; and there can be no “virtue” without
the counterpart of “sin.”
385. Moreover, the arrogance-and-delusion-and-duality-based self-love (which is
the primary infatuation among the masses) will guarantee that non-realized
persons will also absolutely love their belief in the concept of evil and will,
therefore, come up with arrogance-and-delusion-and-duality-based comments such
as “the good outnumber you [evil people], and WE always will.”
386. The fact: you are not “good” and they are not “evil.” Why? Because “you”
are not, and “they” are not. What IS is ignorance and stupidity and insanity,
and it is ignorance and stupidity and insanity that motivated the bombing of
citizens on the streets of Baghdad and on the streets of Boston.
Moreover, it is also ignorance and stupidity and insanity
that motivate the arrogance which subdivides The One into “the good” and “the
evil” and which imagines a war by which “the good” will eventually triumph over
“the evil” and will eventually eliminate evil once and for all.
387. It is ignorance and stupidity and insanity which motivates the slaughter
of children in an elementary school as happens in the U.S. and in Afghanistan
and in Russia.
388. It is ignorance and stupidity and insanity which motivates persons to
believe that those in their economic bracket are better than those in a lower
bracket.
389. It is ignorance and stupidity and insanity which motivates persons to
believe that they are better because of their lighter skin color than “others”
who have a darker skin color.
390. It is ignorance and stupidity and insanity which motivates persons to
abide under the influence of xenophobia and believe as a result that those who
are citizens of the nation they live in are better than all “others” living in
other nations.
391. It is ignorance and stupidity and insanity which motivates one to believe
that her or his dogma is right while the dogma of all others is wrong.
392. And it is ignorance and stupidity and insanity which motivates persons to
believe that they are “better than” because they are spiritual rather than
religious.
393. Mostly, though, it ignorance and stupidity and insanity which set the
stage for the kind of judging and anger and hatred that are all rooted in a
duality-inspired “us vs. them” mentality which, in turn, drives all fighting
and chaos bombing and killing and war.
It need not be so.
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.
