HOW RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUAL AND NON-DUAL MESSAGES HAVE BEEN WARPED BEYOND RECOGNITION

 

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HOW RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUAL AND NON-DUAL MESSAGES HAVE BEEN WARPED BEYOND RECOGNITION

“Be empty of all mental content, of all imagination and effort, and the very absence of obstacles will cause reality to rush in.”

--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“You have no choice, only the illusion of it.”

--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

ILLUSION – DELUSION

(continued)

So what did Maharaj have to say about illusion and delusion?

ILLUSIONS

Maharaj: “Memory creates the illusion of continuity.”

[I’ve had many seekers who came for the satsang sessions being offered back then who mistakenly believed that the consciousness which manifested at the beginning of their relative existence is the consciousness which remains.

To the contrary, the fact is that consciousness is conscious-energy, and that energy cannot be accumulated and stored any more than a body can “hang onto” the energy received from eating food or can “hang onto” the hydration which comes with drinking a glass of water.

I recall watching the 1981 Irish hunger strike, a culmination of a five-year protest during “the Troubles” by Irish republican prisoners in Northern Ireland. Before the strike ended, ten prisoners had starved themselves to death.

The peoples of the planet watched as each prisoner approached days 50 to 60 because the human body typically can survive about two months without food. As a rule, depending on ambient temperatures, a body can last only about three days without water.

As with water and food, conscious-energy must be re-supplied regularly, by eating plants or by eating animals which ate plants.]

Maharaj: “Perception, imagination, expectation, anticipation, illusion - all are based on memory.”

[And since memories among the non-realized masses - numbering most likely around 99% of all humans - were registered when illusions and delusions reigned, then the memories held by those masses are flawed. Meaning?

Things were never as they appeared to be then, so they were nothing like what is seemingly recalled in the present. Those who long for “the good ole days” likely have no accurate perception of what those days were truly like.]

Maharaj: “Why do you worry about the world before taking care of yourself? You want to save the world, don't you? Can you save the world before saving yourself? And what means being saved? Saved from what? From illusion. Salvation is to see things as they are. I really do not see myself related to anybody and anything. Not even to a self, whatever that self may be. I remain forever - undefined. I am - within and beyond - intimate and unapproachable.”

Maharaj: “After all, it is the mind that creates illusion.”

Maharaj: “You cannot be rid of problems without abandoning illusions.”

[What is another term for “illusions” stored in the mind? “Beliefs.”]

Maharaj: “I am neither king nor beggar. I am the dispassionate witness. The guru said, “This is your last illusion that you are a jnani, that you are different from, and superior to, the common man.”

Maharaj: “When all illusions are understood and abandoned, you reach the error-free and perfect state in which all distinctions between the personal [I AM] and the universal [I AM THAT] are no more.”

Maharaj: “Don’t talk of means; there are no means. What you see as false, dissolves. It is the very nature of illusion to dissolve on investigation. Investigate - that is all. You cannot destroy the false, for you are creating it all the time. Withdraw from it, ignore it, go beyond, and it will cease to be.”

Maharaj: “This consciousness is only an illusion. It is the basic cause of all unhappiness and my true state is before this consciousness arose. This is beyond all concepts and any name given is a concept.”

[So much for any noble connotation given to the consciousness. Persons do not laud electrical energy nor chemical energy nor mechanical energy nor thermal energy nor radiant energy nor heat energy, etc., etc., etc. So why laud conscious-energy?  Were it not for the presence of conscious-energy, no one could be bizarrely programmed, conditioned, domesticated, acculturated, brainwashed or indoctrinated.]

DELUSIONS

Maharaj: “The guru stands for reality, for truth, for what is. He is a realist in the highest sense of the term. He cannot and shall not come to terms with the mind and its delusions. He comes to take you to the real; don't expect him to do anything else.”

Maharaj: “When the mind is kept away from its preoccupations, it becomes quiet. If you do not disturb this quiet and stay in it, you find that it is permeated with a light and a love you have never known; and yet you recognize it at once as your own nature. Once you have passed through this experience, you will never be the same again.”

Then, he said, the change will become permanent “that day when all bonds are broken, delusions and attachments end and life becomes supremely concentrated in the present.”

To be continued.

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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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