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THE CONCLUSION, Part One
Yesterday’s post ended with this:
Maharaj’s take on all that? He noted that at the core of all human misery and suffering is personality, ego-state adoption, and egotism. Those are internal obstacles and constraints. So much for an “Incredible You,” especially when his pointers were intended to end arrogance, an exaggerated sense of self, a reduced sense of self, and - eventually - all sense of self.
To continue:
Maharaj said, “I have no mind”
(so he had no thoughts to change); “success” is a persona-based concept, he
taught, as is “power,” as is “A Power,” and as is “power now.” To that end he
said:
“The nearer you get to the truth, the more you lose interest in worldly
affairs. Such a one will not have any interest in the world, but will act like
an ordinary person.”
He made clear that the body is a temporary form and that the “mind” is finite
as well, not “ageless.”
As for “fulfilling desires,” he taught that all misery and suffering are rooted
in personal fears or in trying to fulfill personal desires.
Contrary to “fulfilling dreams,” he made clear that dreams are something to be
rid of after seeing they are not the Real.
As for “spiritual advancement,” he said:
“There is no progress”
and
“There is no question of elevating to a higher level. Here it is only a
question of understanding.”
As for “spiritual laws,” he said:
“Whatever spiritual things you aspire to know are all happening in this
objective world, in the illusion. All this is happening in the objective world.
All is dishonesty. There is no truth in this fraud.”
As for being “called” to some “ultimate calling” and as for “knowing the caller”
or “knowing God,” 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.”
All such concepts and ideas adopted by persons run counter to the no-belief,
non-dual, no-identity, no-concept, no-idea, natural abidance and normalcy that
mark the relative existence of all forms on the planet except for persons.
One has never seen a deer
trying to improve or enhance itself. That which believes it can change or grow
or develop into something that is different from what it actually already is is nothing more than a speck of
consciousness that has been fooled.
That which believes it can become enhanced or improved or made better or made
worse or ungraded or downgraded is a speck of conscious-energy that has been
fooled. Maharaj said, “Only that person will visit this place whose virtue and
sin have [both] come to an end.”
All concepts and beliefs such
as those referenced above are rooted in the duality of either (1) an
egotism-based notion of being “very good” or even “great” or (in true
narcissistic fashion) “incredible”; or (2) a guilt-and-shame-based notion of
being “bad” or “unworthy.”
Moreover, it is only the members of the group with “minds” that buy into
dualistic beliefs, ego-states as identities, egotism, a false sense of
greatness, and the arrogance-generating delusion of many members of that group
that they are part of “an exclusive and superior group or race or species.”
Also, it is only the members
of the group with “minds” that buy into “self-destruction” and “destruction of
others” as a result of first buying into guilt and the notion of being “bad” or
“unworthy” or, conversely, “exceptional.”
Is it any wonder that Maharaj invited those trapped in the delusion of
body-mind-personality identification (and those being driven by their false
ideas and concepts and beliefs) to abandon all of the learned ignorance that is
inspiring them to live unnaturally or inspiring them to try to live “supernaturally”?
Is it any wonder that Maharaj spent decades inviting persons to abandon all beliefs and to then abide naturally instead, as do ducks, squirrels, deer, bears, birds, fish, and all other “spaces-or-forms-cum-temporarily-manifested-consciousness” with the lone exception of “persons”?
The objective witnessing of all of the relative chaos and all of the relative misery that have occurred historically on an international basis would reveal that it has always been the beliefs of the people in one nation that drove them to engage in wars with people in another nation who had different beliefs.
The objective witnessing of all of the relative chaos and all of the relative misery that have occurred historically on a national basis would reveal that it has always been the beliefs of people in one part of a nation that drove them to engage in wars with people in another part of that nation.
And the objective witnessing
of all of the relative chaos and all of the relative misery that have occurred
on what people take to be a “personal basis” would reveal that it has always
been their “personal” beliefs that have driven them to argue and fight and
separate and even, in many cases, to murder.
It has been shared in other works by this author that in the U.S., 59% of all
women killed annually, and 41% of all men killed annually, are killed during
the act of arguing and / or fighting and / or “breaking up” as their
conflicting beliefs drive their words of conflict and their actions of
conflict.
Yet of all of the requirements for full realization and for total
freedom and for complete independence to happen, the requirement to abandon
beliefs - and one’s belief in false identities - is probably the most resisted.
It might seem that, if one saw the international and national and “personal”
consequences of humankind’s beliefs as referenced above, that all beliefs would
be abandoned not only willingly but also posthaste.
Yet like the addict that has opportunities on a regular basis to witness the (relatively) detrimental and the (relatively) disadvantageous results of his or her addiction but then ignores the evidence and continues to have all thoughts and words and deeds driven by the addictive personality disorder, so it is with persons and their beliefs.
Conclusion to be completed tomorrow.
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.
