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THE REASON THAT “NON-DUALISTS” SHOULD
UNDERSTAND PRIMATE CULTURES ON THE AFRICAN SAVANNAH
“Again, primates are primates are primates. The basic behavior of one primate will usually adumbrate the basic behavior of all primates. Apes mirror humans; humans mirror apes; moreover, what happens in Vegas might stay in Vegas, but what happens on the savannah will happen everywhere else on the globe where humans have clustered together in cultures and societies.”
--floyd
Yesterday’s posted ended with Maharaj’s advice: “Don’t be afraid of a world you yourself have created” or invented. To continue:
(Of course, you did not invent “the world” of your distorted perception as much as it has been invented for you over a period of thousands of years by men and some women who have dreamed up all of the ignorance-and-insanity-based-but-fictional concepts and beliefs that have been passed down to you and which now form the distortion and illusion which you take to be “the world.”)
Only one species on the planet has invented “social and psychological tumult,” the social tumult rooted in acculturation and domestication and the psychological tumult rooted in programming, conditioning, brainwashing, and indoctrination. And those are the roots of the Ultimate Sickness.
If that it understood, then it can be seen how the opinion of one critic of Maharaj’s shift in focus amounted to the scattering of BS when the detractor - who was stuck at the third step and has assumed the role of “The Spiritual Giant” and “The Judge” - concluded:
“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 as happens to many teachers.”
So why did Maharaj advise seekers to stop reading “I AM THAT” with its occasional glimpses of the Nisargan truth but with an excess of religion-and-spirituality-based pointers that he came to see were a diversion from what is actually required to address the Ultimate Sickness? That happened because he eventually saw the real problem and because he saw the real cure.
[The full details of his shift are available in the eBook below that discusses in detail “Maharaj’s Evolution.”]
Moreover, if it is understood that the roots of the Sickness are human-generated “social and psychological tumult,” then it should be clear why Maharaj’s message “evolved” and why his focus shifted from to a religion-based message to a spirituality-based message to a psychology-based message.
Why?
Because he came to realize that the Ultimate Sickness is not treated by pouring
on more dogma or by adding on more spirituality but by taking away, removing
that which was put into the mind which is the real root of the Ultimate
Sickness.
That is why Maharaj warned seekers that he would give them nothing but would, instead,
take everything away and why he said, “There is no progress.”
He said, “From my angle, you are nothing. You have no identity.”
Moreover, he explained that all spiritual exercises had been abandoned: “I am stabilized. There is no going into samadhi or coming down from samadhi. That is over.”
So many persons claim that they “want freedom,” yet they make a second job out of life, doing all of their religious activities and having all of their so-called spiritual experiences after doing all of their spiritual exercises.
What did Maharaj model (just as Jesus modeled by leaving organized religion behind)? Both by example showed that religious activities and spiritual exercises are merely two more things that are accumulated along the way that must eventually go the way of all other accumulations.
Additionally, what of the talk by persons that they have had “religious experiences”? What of the talk by persons that they have had “spiritual experiences”? Really? Maharaj said: “Whatever you have tried to understand during your spiritual search will prove false.”
Too, “religious experiences” and “spiritual experiences” would supposedly be experienced by . . . whom? Maharaj said: Once you realize, “Both experience and experiencer will disappear.”
So, recall from earlier: All psychological states (including religious and spiritual states) are really only “apparent states,” not real at all, yet the effects they generate are, relatively speaking, quite real.
Next, recall that Sapolsky showed that stress manifests with all non-humans that suffer a physiological threat. In those cases, the sense of stress passes quickly so its effects on the elemental plant food body are limited.
Stress also manifests with all humans that suffer a physiological threat and often that sense of stress might also pass fairly quickly (though unresolved trauma and unprocessed, undiscarded “memories” which remain are a major liability for millions of humans, relatively speaking).
However, stress also manifests with all non-realized-humans when they “experience” a psychological, merely-perceived-but-not-real threat, and that sense of stress seldom passes quickly; therefore, its effects on the elemental plant food body are long-term and, relatively speaking, highly detrimental physically, mentally, and emotionally.
Sapolsky and Maharaj were both spot on: the main problem with humanity - and the main cause of the Ultimate Sickness - centers in the mind. Maharaj’s advice in that regard: “It is the mind that tells you that the mind is there. Don’t be deceived. All the endless arguments about the mind are produced by the mind itself, for its own protection, continuation and expansion.”
The solution: “Remove [the mind’s] distortions and impurities” and then “go to zero concepts.” He explained further: “The mind cannot go beyond itself by itself. It must explode.”
If one reaches a no-belief, no-mind state of zero concepts and reaches a point where there is no longer a single statement that can begin with “I believe . . . ,” then one has reached the no-mind state that Maharaj reached and that he invited seekers to reach as well.
Otherwise, this will be the case: “Mind means disturbance; restlessness itself is mind.”
But this is what is possible: “When the mind is quiet it reflects Reality. When it is motionless through and through, it dissolves and only Reality remains.”
How to be free of the mind? Maharaj advised: “[If you] understand your own mind, its hold on you will snap. The mind misunderstands; misunderstanding is its very nature. Right understanding is the only remedy.”
Again, it is the Ultimate Medicine that has on occasion cured the Ultimate Sickness which is a mind-and-ignorance-and-insanity-based illness, not a too-little-dogma illness and not a spiritual malady.
Realization is the process by which the understanding comes and by which humans can be freed from abiding under the auspices of the mind and the auspices of body and mind and personality identification. Yet how can one be freed if one does not know what is imprisoning her or him? One cannot.
As long as persons buy into the nonsense that “the evil in the world and in their lives” can be cured by more dogma, then they will remain sick and will only become even sicker. As long as persons buy into the nonsense that their bodies and minds can be healed “if they will just become more spiritual,” then they will remain sick and only become even sicker.
If one would abide as sensibly as all other living things on the planet and would avoid being stressed as a result of dreamed-up fears and false “needs” and the frustration of the usually-unmet-desires of “psychological states,” then one must understand what truly made him or her sick and what can truly make her or him well.
Anything else that is bought into is comparable to “the cure all, snake oil” which con men sold in the Old West days in the U.S. and which con men and women and the “big name teachers” (who Maharaj warned about) are still selling today all around the globe. Theirs is merely a newer version, a religious or spiritual or philosophical or ideological version of the snake oil that was sold in bygone days.
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.
