Riffin' On Construes Regulative Habit as Temporary/Clearly Irrelevant in the Spiritually Mature Life…and indirectly claims the only way to evolve as a people is through recreational activities…

My dear Arjuna, O winner of wealth, if you cannot fix your mind upon Me without deviation, then follow the regulative principles of bhakti-yoga. In this way develop a desire to attain Me.” 12.9 Bhagavad Gita Devotional Service 

                         Bhakti-yoga…the yoga of devotional love…of devotional service. In many ways, Bhakti-yoga is simply a placeholder here, one choice amongst many appropriate options. It’s a holistic living system in that it attempts to orient the individual, effectively, conscientiously, with the entirety of creation…it often goes entirely unexplored, but introducing people to holistic living systems is only done under the pretenses that this is a fundamental aspect of having a meaningful spiritual experience…or at least beginning a journey towards one, to posture the individual as existing within a meaningful harmony with the rest of creation. To do as much mechanically induces some sort of functional brilliance, as well as initiates some sort of primordial sequence sleeping latent in every fiber of our genetic material… the kundalini rises, our states of consciousness ascend, and the future, as it was always going to be, begins to manifest. It’s the only way to usher it on…

                         The function of discipline…the epitome of discipline…is to see all things, effectively, in terms of God…in terms of an unconditional love that is inexplicably made possible by a Person, a love whose dominion is total, as well as miraculous. Whatever makes that happen, is what the day demands…it’s the way. To adhere to it is to adhere to balance. To replace it with indirect means…means to that very end, even, is somehow disastrous. To make “hustle” your deity moreso than “communion”… will at times serve you, and, at others, strip you down. There’s only…the way.

                         Bhakti-yoga is clearly, respectfully, God, incarnate. It is a potent spiritual tool for communing with. It may be supernaturally endowed. All of as much could also be true about a public jazzercise class…

                 And, also too, Bhakti-yoga is…Bhakti-yoga…a human venture… very much capable of making mistakes, and very much not a fitting vehicle for miraculous boundlessness (is anything?!)… it works both ways with differentiated things (dualistic nature)…

                          But if you do master the art of just fixing your mind on the Supreme/Transcendent…well in theory it goes beyond that built-in pitfall in the realm of potentiality (maybe that’s what Western religion was trying to convey about “original sin” or the “human condition”…) and you never fall short/leave God’s clear dominion. Truthfully, said dominion should be more evident socially…we’ve fallen into an extended period of irreligiosity as a culture, I really do believe. It should be near impossible…to think that we could ever be meaningfully alone…that we  could ever be in a hopeless plight…the sin doesn’t naturally trend towards the end of sin/suffering and the prospering of spirituality…a lot of these modern nightmares arise from secular ways of being that are cheaply forced onto the masses…it’s delusional relative to what’s going on culturally, and at some level on day to day culture relative to our material situation as Americans probably reflects as much.

                         “Regulative principles” are not God, incarnate. At a certain point in spiritual maturity, once a certain maturity is achieved, they drop off in relevance/become problematic. I always used to poke fun at Buddhism for building up the institution of “inaction” as inherently sacred during…these…times, but at a certain point the onset of whatever change devotional practice practically brings about becomes so much more inactive/effortless…to do anything other than posture yourself simply is to waste precious time/opportunities.

                         I theorize that this is the guru thing, in disguise. Things shift. The focus becomes outward…on the specific individuals around and the specific situations that they are in…and the service to fellow man thing really starts to groove. It’s part of emptying out as a person, I think.  

By the way, if you're interdependent and live in the midst of all sorts of other Beings...then all you've ever known is some sort of level of undifferentiated consciousness...that's what your entire internal world has to be. Undifferentiated consciousness is the way reality is constructed...it's what we know...it’s the crisis we face as adults and we have to find into accord with the rest of the social world…there's a way to potentiate it/come into effective congress with it, this matrix of internal relations somehow in Congress with…All…

The highest concept imaginable, the things we are hardwired to chase, and rightfully so, are the only thing we’ve ever known. We are Soul, Whole. Our lives are still unfurling.