Advaita Vedanta: THE HIDDEN AGENDAS OF THOSE PLAYING THE PHONY ROLES OF “THE SUPER RELIGIOUS ONE” AND / OR “THE SPIRITUAL GIANT”

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THE HIDDEN AGENDAS OF THOSE PLAYING THE PHONY ROLES OF “THE SUPER RELIGIOUS ONE” AND / OR “THE SPIRITUAL GIANT”

“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.”

--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Ultimately, nothing matters to the wise non-dual guide other than to offer the Ultimate Medicine in order to treat the Ultimate Sickness so that humans can enjoy freedom during the AM-ness.

While those playing the roles of “The Super Religious One” or “The Spiritual Giant” have a hidden agendas of trying to gain, the wise non-dual guide encourages giving away, specifically, giving away all of the freedom-robbing nonsense which was planted or accumulated in the mind.

To that end, Maharaj told seekers who came to the loft not to come expecting to get anything but, instead, understanding that he will take everything away.

The Ultimate Sickness centers not in having mastered too little dogma and not in a “spiritual malady” and not in a failure to become a “Supreme Self” but centers in the mind.

As for the THAT-ness, it functions on autopilot; moreover, post AM-ness, there will be no one that remains post-mahasamadhi to experience anything involving the THAT-ness.

So freedom is available now only. Again, Maharaj explained that realization is nothing more than freedom, specifically, freedom from the learned ignorance and imposed stupidity and the obligatory and resultant insanity which come with humankind’s always imposed and always ignorant, stupid and insane programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, domestication, indoctrination, and brainwashing.

Maharaj said that “realization is simply about being free from the effects that learned ignorance have on the relative existence.”

The discussion now will continue with the example yesterday of one of humankind’s most ignorant and stupid and insane beliefs, namely, that . . .

there is a God [which was “invented” (Maharaj)] and which will see to it that “something good can happen to you” (Maharaj) if you pray to that God and worship that God and sacrifice to that God.

The earliest forms of sacrifice which were used to appease that God and inspire that God to grant one’s wishes included the killing of animals and virginal females.

More recently, the sacrifices being requested by God’s representatives on planet earth are “your prayers, your presence, your (unpaid, voluntary) service and your gifts.”

The gifts are, preferably, to be in the form of . . . money, but in the early days of religion, the life of a daughter who is a virgin was preferred.

Since the first day that the first couple handed over their virginal daughter to a priest in order to be sacrificed in the first Communion Service - and continuing right up to this very day - the agenda of humans dealing with gods and goddesses or “The One God” . . . the motive of those dealing with gods and goddesses or “The One God” . . . was to get a payoff.

What was - and is - the perceived payoff? To have their desires met and / or to have their fears alleviated. That is, to get access to power / The Power which can give fear-driven humans to be able to control whatever they want to control.

[Maharaj explained: “The desire for bliss creates pain. Thus bliss becomes the seed of pain. The entire universe of pain is born of desire.”]

What was feared and what was being desired in the case of the virginal daughter offered up to have sex with a priest and to then have him cut her heart from her body and eat the flesh and drink the blood and then pass the heart through the crowd and let all enter into communion with a particular god by also eating the body and the blood together? What was feared in those earliest cases was crop failure and starvation.

Once persons mastered agricultural skills to some degree, then many previously-nomadic tribes settled into communities. They believed that they would not have to forage for food but could settle down and raise their own food.

When it rained, the community gathered at a temple that usually looked something, like this

and expressed gratitude to the Rain God for the rain which was allowing their corn crop to flourish. (“Attaboy, God. You’re doing a great job. Keep it up! Let it rain, let it rain, let it rain!! Say what? Flooding out the villages downstream? So what?! To hell with them!”)

During times of drought, however, they would gather at the temple and pray to the obviously-angry Rain God or beseech him or whine to him or beg him or plead with him or try to enter into a deal with him to satisfy him in order to appease him and inspire him to bring rain.

The association of “sacrifice” and “god pleasing” is ancient, so the self-appointed priests came up with a plan which was most appealing to them: If a male is angry, what can appease him? Sex, of course.

And since the Rain God was obviously angry and since the priest was the representative on god on earth, then the priest would have sex with a virgin and that should help appease the Rain God, but a sacrifice and communion with god was still required; thus came about the vampirism and cannibalism associated with the earliest communion services and with modern day communion services as well.

Most of the temples had an “inner sanctum” (an especially “holiest among holy places” which only the priest could enter). That was usually where priests had sex with the virgins before bringing them out and placing their bodies on a stone table / altar where their beating heart would be cut from their body. (See the blood red section in the following picture):

Maharaj said: “Desire is the memory of pleasure and fear is the memory of pain. Both make the mind restless.”

The experience here has been as Maharaj predicted: “You will receive everything you need when you stop asking for what you do not need.”

To the contrary, what - for over 5000 years or more - was wanted and / or feared by those praying to gods or beseeching gods or whining to gods or begging gods or pleading with gods or trying to enter into deals with gods? And what are some of the typical motives nowadays?

The desire to have god intervene for the sake of their business and save the source of their income.

The desire to claim “We are all sinners who are constantly sinning, so we must ask God to forgive our sins and restore our purity in order to assure we receive rewards now and forevermore.” (That allows persons to do what they like to other persons and then ask for forgiveness and have their “clean slate restored” and then move on to more sinning, ad infinitum.)

To interrupt the laws of nature and save the lives of friends or relatives whose internal organs are worn out and who are dying.

To send providers, persons who will take care of them and provide food and clothing and shelter so they do not have to do that for themselves.

To control nature and pray away storms which are headed at their communities and redirect them to hit other areas and other people.

To take away their desire to abuse substances which are no longer helping them cope the way those substances seemingly did at certain points in the past.

To allow them to defeat the people or nations identified by political leaders as “the enemy” and to protect their children going off to war against those who are supposedly threatening them.

Again, the primary addiction among humankind is the addiction to control - weather, people, places, circumstances, etc. - and the secondary addiction among humankind is the addiction to power (or to a Power) in order to be able to control.

The items of the list of what persons want to control is infinite, is endless, but Maharaj reminded seekers that . . .

“When desire and fear end, bondage also ends. It is the emotional involvement, the pattern of likes and dislikes which we call character and temperament, that create the bondage. Don’t be afraid of freedom from desire and fear. It enables you to live a life so different from all you know, so much more intense and interesting, that truly by losing all you gain all.”

To be continued.

Please enter into the silence of contemplation.

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Here, with those who are still driven to talk about "god," the "Son of god," the "Holy Spirit," "Buddha," "Krishna," etc., etc., etc., the invitation to them is to view those as verbs, not nouns.

THE EXPLANATION

If looked at as nouns, they point to illusions and are, therefore, a total waste of time to even discuss; if looked at as verbs which are resulting in certain sane but rare behaviors among humanity, then they are worthy of some attention during the relative existence.

Meaning? There are members of certain groups who say things such as "My concept of god in the past was of a weak god, an absentee god, A Santa Claus-type god, a mean, punishing, vindictive god, etc. Today, I am in close contact with a loving and caring god whom I worship and praise and glorify and give thanks to."

The reply to that usually goes like this: "If you are in contact with a god that wants to be worshipped and praised and glorified, then you're dealing with someone like yourself - a narcissist - and hanging out with narcissists will never bring an end to your narcissism (that narcissism evidenced by the fact that you think you are "godly").

Next, in the phrase 'loving and caring god,' any supposed god that truly had her or his act together would tell you that the totally irrelevant part of that phrase is 'god' and that the only part that is relevant is the "loving and caring" part.

"That is, a non-narcissistic their god / their goddess would say, "I care not an iota about being worshipped and praised and glorified by you or anyone else. How arrogant and insecure and needy would I have to be to want that? Forget the man-made, dreamed up noun 'god' and focus on the 'god as a verb' understanding and then go forth and let loving and caring be verbs - not adjectives - and let them generate the act of love and the act of caring and let those actions manifest through you."

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"

--Yeshu'a (Jesus)

and

"Heaven and earth shall fade away."

--Yeshu'a (Jesus)

and

"Heaven and hell are not geographic places

but are states of mind, nothing more than

concepts dreamed up by men."

--Pope John Paul II

"There is no hell."

--Pope Francis, the current pope

in an interview with journalist Eugenio Scalfari,

a writer used by the Pope to issue off the record

teachings which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.

[That said, would that the popes who have shown the courage to reject a core concept of their dogma - namely, "hell" - would find the additional courage required to question the very existence of their institution in light of the centuries-long cover-up of their history of raping children and in light of the mental and emotional and psychological scarring of billions of their members past and present.

And that need for courage also applies as questions need to be asked about why so many other sky cults are still being supported and allowed to continue to exist as well. When certain types of programming and conditioning have been shown to blind the masses, they should end. Will they? Not likely. Why?

Because what the masses think and say and do is most influenced by the international crime families which hold sway over the masses as criminals conduct their planet-wide operations. What are the major international crime families and which are the most influential and have the largest memberships?

The Mafia / La Cosa Nostra; the Catholic Church (with it 1.2 billion followers) whose Vatican Bank worked for decades with the Mafia while laundering mob earnings (for a 15% all-profit charge by the Bank); Protestant and Evangelical Churches (with over 1.2 billion followers) like the one I was raised in where the youth director molested and sexually assaulted young girls; big business which has long created environments in which people have been abused; powerful political bodies like the U.S. Congress, etc., etc., etc.)

With all of those crime families, neither the followers nor the leadership ever voluntarily step down or shut down their criminal activities. Be they gangs, organized crime families, religions, big business, politicians, etc., they all want control and they all want power and they all want money, and nothing internal will interfere with the driving forces at play.

The masses must demand that all those in charge must step down and their groups and institutions must shut down, and there's the real problem because the continuation of their crimes are enabled not as much by the people running such crime organizations as they are enabled by the masses of people who - wanting some perceived "payoff" - remain involved with them and give them money and support them and aid and abet the continued existence of those criminal enterprises and thus facilitate the ability of church criminals and political criminals and other types of criminals to continue to commit their crimes.]

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