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KEY SERIES HIGHLIGHTS / REVIEW
Maharaj said:
151. “To love and worship a god is also ignorance. My home is beyond all
notions, however sublime.”
152. “This is our stupidity, verging on insanity.”
153. “Ignorance causes sorrow.”
154. “Realization is but the opposite of ignorance. To take the world as real
and one’s self as unreal is ignorance, the cause of sorrow.”
155. “An ignorant man is ignorant of his ignorance.”
156. “Enquire: ‘WHO is ignorant?’ and ignorance will dissolve like a dream.”
[As an example of how that enquiry would work, return to the Tsarnaev Brothers
who set off bombs in Boston and ask, “‘WHO’ was so emotionally-intoxicated by
their religious training and programming and conditioning and indoctrination
and resulting beliefs that they determined that bombing people at a marathon
was the “right” thing to do?
Was it ‘Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’ or was it ‘The Super Muslims,’ ‘The Super Devout Followers of Mohammed,’ ‘The Superior Islamics,’ and / or ‘The Devout Worshippers’?”]
Maharaj also said:
157. “There is nothing that can help the world more than your putting an end to
ignorance.”
158. “In your ignorance you make mistakes and cause pain to yourself and
others, but the urge is there and shall not be denied.”
Maharaj made clear that “sin” is merely ignorance, and the greatest ignorance
is not knowing what you truly are.
Think you are “The Super Husband” or “The Super Wife”? Prepare for problems.
Think you are “The Super Hindu” or “The Super Jewish Person,” or “The Super
Christian” or “The Super Muslim” or “The Spiritual Giant Standing The Tallest
of All Among Spiritual Pygmies”? Prepare for trouble.
Think you are “The One Living in the Greatest Country on Earth?” Prepare for
trouble.
Relative problems are guaranteed when
(a) driven by the ignorance and stupidity and insanity of believing that
assumed identities are real and when
(b) being driven by those personalities’ hidden agendas
which are a result of perverted programming and conditioning and acculturation
and domestication and indoctrination and brainwashing
and
which subconsciously control non-Realized persons’ every thought and every word
and every action.
159. Maharaj eventually advised seekers to ignore the content of the book I AM THAT and to focus on the pointers in his later talks. In the end, his the invitation was to (a) abandon the magical thinking that manifests as a result of programming and conditioning (including religious and spiritual based magical thinking) and just abide naturally;
to (b) abandon the unNATURAL style of living that results from religious training and programming and conditioning; to (c) abandon the supposedly “superNATURAL” style of living that results from spiritual training and programming and conditioning;
and then to (d) abide in the same nisargan (NATURAL)
fashion that every living thing on the planet abides in . . . with the exception
of programmed, conditioned, acculturated, domesticated, brainwashed, and
indoctrinated humans.
160. He knew full well that the chaos and insanity and ignorance of the planet
was not the result of a god or gods or goddesses that love humans so much that “He
/ She / They” would give humans “free will,” allowing them to do whatever they
might be driven to do - in a totally unchecked fashion - and then tolerating
the resultant insanity and ignorance and fighting and wars and chaos and pain
and misery and suffering.
161. Maharaj was sane enough and clear-seeing enough to know that there is no
all-knowing god who would have experimented with free will and allowed the mess
that has resulted from messed-up “minds” to happen.
162. As a result, his emphasis evolved (or shifted its focus away from
spiritual “aspects”) and resulted in the shift mentioned earlier, a shift away
from a spiritual message to a non-spiritual, all-Nisargan message where his
teaching method took a “backseat” to his yoga.
The fact that he was “speaking differently” at the end
and was “emphasizing different aspects” led to his non-spiritual pointers,
included the following:
“Forget spirituality.”
Follow your “normal (natural) inclinations” rather than the subconscious
agendas of religious and spiritual personas that were assigned early on or that
had been assumed later on.
Just “do your normal duties.”
“Just give up spirituality.”
163. Maharaj knew that the main problem of humanity centers in the mind, along
with all of the subsequent problems of the planet as well.
164. He also knew that religion and spirituality could not address the problems
generated by the “mind” and that the proper approach is to be rid of the mind
entirely and to reach a no-beliefs, no-concepts, and, therefore, no-mind
state.
165. A cancer cannot be “healed” - it must be removed. Same with “the mind,”
which is nothing more than a storehouse for false beliefs, illusions,
delusions, misperceptions, and false conceptualizations.
To remove the mind, merely purge that part of the brain
of its content. That is, purge all belief in - and attachment to - the false
and insane content stored therein.
166. All living things on the planet, except humans, abide naturally, not
unnaturally (a.k.a., “religiously”) and not supernaturally (a.k.a., “spiritually”).
They do not need an invented God. They “work” during the day to feed
themselves. They do nothing that is self-destructive.
167. Every other living thing besides humans - are the naturally-abiding models
for persons who are, short of full realization, abiding most unnaturally and
who are making a job of mere living by trying to abide supernaturally /
spiritually / magically.
168. Maharaj was a surgeon of sorts, removing the cancers of body and mind and personality identification; removing the cancers of programming and conditioning and domestication and acculturation and brainwashing and indoctrination; removing the cancer of persona-generated fears and desires.
169. He also went about the business of removing the cancer of ideas, notions, concepts, misperceptions, conceptualizations, distortions, illusions, delusions (a.k.a., “beliefs”), including societal / xenophobic beliefs, religious beliefs, and spiritual beliefs; and removing all of the cancers that contribute to 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.
