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HOW RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUAL AND NON-DUAL MESSAGES HAVE BEEN WARPED BEYOND RECOGNITION
You have no choice, only the illusion of it.
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“This is the function of the Guru - to make us see the madness of our daily living. Life makes you conscious, but the teacher makes you aware” [of having been fooled’].”
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“I have no faith in anything which has ever been told, not even what has been told by the Vedas. Only my own experience.”
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“There is nothing to seek and find . . . . “
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“Give up all and you gain all.”
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“You have accumulated knowledge and experience; this cannot be denied. But of what use is it all to you?”
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Clearing Away the Final Vestiges of Beliefs
Cleaning Out the Mind Parts of the Brain Which Always Cause Blockages
Originally, the human brain was an elemental plant food organ. As the size of the human brain evolved from the one-cup size to the 3-1/2-cup size, the “mind parts” evolved into being and were initially assets.
Actions or happenings which helped perpetuate the species were stored ad recalled. Later, misperceptions and false beliefs began to drive self-destructive behaviors and the mind parts became a liability.
It was then that the mind parts began to function in a Septicemia-like / sepsis-like manner.
Septicemia / sepsis is “a life-threatening complication of an infection.”
It
is as if the brain’s evolution set the stage for a brain infection to manifest;
then, as more and more ignorance was taught and learned - and as insane programming,
conditioning, etc. began to be used - the mind lost its non-dual, concrete character
and develop a dual-minded, concrete / abstract makeup. Life-threatening complications manifested.
When the mind introduced life-threatening complications, that aggravated the original infection. Full-blown case of the Ultimate Sickness took hold and have been increasingly-damaging to the normal, sane functioning of the original concrete, elemental brains.
No infant abiding in the zero-concepts, no-beliefs state has ever committed suicide. That act is reserved for adults who minds have been filled with thousands of concepts and caca beliefs which were never purged.
Thus, Yeshu’a, after being introduced to non-dual pointers, would say, “A dual-minded person is unstable in all ways.” The result of the brain evolving from a unitary organ into a binary organ is mental and emotional instability.
So the human brain originally was a concrete, elemental plant food organ with a nature of singularity; after its evolution, it became a dualistic elemental + non-elemental brain with its major part being elemental but with “add-ons” which became stored in the mind parts. Those added parts were notional and imaginary and abstract.
The brain shifted from being monistic to pluralistic. Once that shift happens, the brain generates instability and confusion and chaos.
Consider how appropriately Septicemia applies when the brain become filled with caca-like beliefs:
A septic tank is a container in which sewage (especially defecation) is collected and allowed to rot and decay and putrefy.
See? The mind parts nowadays are loaded with sewage which has been taught and learned and accepted as something with considerable value and believed to be worth fighting for and allowed to determine subconsciously the thoughts and words and actions of humans.
If the tank is not cleaned out and flushed out regularly, then everything inside one’s house (or life) can become contaminated when the tank becomes blocked and backs up.
The same applies when the pure, universal consciousness is blocked via a collection of contamination in the mind. Has there ever been anything which calls more for being purged?
Internal Conflict is Assured When Multiple Personalities with Differing Agendas Rule
In an earlier post, mention was made of ducks, squirrels, deer, bears, birds, fish, and persons (“persons” being a term which points to all of the “human spaces or forms” with ideas and concepts and beliefs that drive them to accept multiple false identities as being real).
Of
the millions and millions in those groups that move about planet earth, and of
the trillions and trillions that have ever lived on the planet, only the
members of one group have developed (that is, regressed) in ways that drive
them to assume that they are “different,” that they are “better than all other
spaces and forms,” and that they have control and “dominion” over all of the
other spaces and forms in other groups.
Some members of that group of “persons” or “human spaces or forms” also assume
that they should have control and dominion over all of the “other persons” or
“other human spaces or forms” in their group.
Of the millions and millions in those groups that move about planet earth, and of the trillions and trillions that have ever lived on the planet, all have an elemental brain but only the members of one group have developed (that is, regressed) in ways that have also resulted in a “mind” filled with ideas and concepts and beliefs.
And of the millions and millions in those groups that move about planet earth, and of the trillions and trillions that have ever lived on the planet, only the members of the group with “minds” have mental problems that drive them to fight others who believe different ideas and concepts and beliefs;
who have mental problems which drive them to inflict pain on themselves or others; who have mental problems that drive them to continue to engage in behaviors that have been proved to be harmful to their elemental bodies;
who
have mental problems that drive them to cut or shoot themselves or others; and
who have mental problems and such arrogance that they feel entitled to engage
in controlling and invasion and colonialism and enslavement and genocide.
Only the members of the group with “minds” have mental problems of such
severity that they actually believe that they are the roles they play; that
they really believe they can be something that they are not;
and that they truly believe it when other persons tell them that they are either “good” or “bad” (although the criteria for such labeling varies from culture to culture);
have such mental problems that they really believe that they are “different from” others; that they actually think that they are “better than” or “worse than” others;
and
that they should abandon the roles that their cultures tell them are “bad
roles” and that they should assume and play the roles that their cultures tell
them are “good roles” to assume.
Only the members of the group with “minds” have such severe mental and emotional
and “personal” (personality) problems that they think they must spend years -
or even a lifetime - of searching and seeking and working to “improve” or
“enhance” themselves.
As
evidence of how many are trying to “improve” or “enhance” themselves, consider
some of the titles of the bestseller books that are being marketed by those
types whom Maharaj pointed to with the term “big name teachers” when he warned
his followers to be wary of the concepts and beliefs that the teachers with
mass appeal offer and which are the most popular among the non-realized masses:
Change Your Thoughts - Change Your Life; Your Ultimate Calling; Incredible
You!; 10 Secrets for Success; Advancing Your Spirit; Ageless Body, Timeless
Mind; The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire; The Seven Spiritual Laws of
Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams; How to Know God.
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 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.
