Riffin' On Dem Der Dreamy-Creamy Feelies 10.11

“To show them special mercy, I, dwelling in their hearts, destroy with the shining lamp of knowledge the darkness born of ignorance.” 10.11 Bhagavad Gita The Opulence of the Absolute

There is some sweetness in Krishna’s take on the pervasive rot from which we have seemed to have awoken mid-stream from, surrounded by…this dreamy rising above we’re wont to do anything but welcome on, It but consciousness’ invulnerability undoing the very frailties we’ve seared into ourselves by insisting delusion paramount…it’s all born of ignorance.

Suffering, darkness, the idea of meaningful suffering, any sorts of conceptions/misunderstandings that actively feed the institution of fear and leech sentient agents of their vibrancy/peak cognitive ability in live-time…anything that allows for a sense of separation from their fellow man or anything in the Universe, really…these things did not exist until imperfect creatures made mistakes. These things are not real…in the sense that whatever is real of them will be subject to a tenacious and sentient universe filled with hundreds of billions of living individual creatures of some variety that are all living entirely under the determinism of the loving creator, Krishna himself.

In the end, love is the only force allowed to win out. It’s the only force structurally capable of winning the game of social dynamics, and it’s also the natural progression of beings across time- we actually tend to really thrive instead of just withering up and dying off, believe it or not. Life is good. The Universe is a loving Mother.

And we are all unto each other, even if on the surface level, to our egos, that seems like an assurance of war to come more than it is a notion of consolation, but believe it or not…

The suffering started with us. We didn’t arrive and find ourselves thrown into it. The source of the external world, as counterintuitive as it seems to the western-rational mindset, is the individual. The “usual suspects” of hobgoblins which whip us into shape didn’t exist until our fallacious perspectives and salacious actions did- and this applies to the plant and animal kingdoms, on the terms of the individual species and what righteousness is to them in regards to living habit, as much as it does to the humans; we’re all guilty.

Aside from one Agent who is entirely perfect and who did nothing wrong. It sounds brutal when summarized so abruptly, but mysticism is about opting into that identity, somehow taking it on as your own, in harmonious co-existence with your own, and making it the platform from which you act as an acting agent; impeccability. Transcendental communion, in the abstract, is this.

But also too, I could see you taking on a path where you don’t play the perfect soldier role with what I gave you, where you complain that the frailties of the human child are thus that you might as well blame all of the world’s suffering entirely on the Big Man who set this lousy game up, and I could see that angle also being particularly fruitful, perhaps even preferred by anybody who doesn’t have a redlight fantasy of being fireman-carried into a surreal, candle-lit dreamworld of sorts, into some strange stretch of time where the Universe is obviously just and the eyes of the ancestors are somehow the entirety of the very woods which surround the two of you…

The forces out there in the world that propagate ignorance, and by proxy, suffering, or that outright just inflict suffering for suffering’s sake, were facets of the psyche of individuals that projected their ignorances onto the external world with brute force. Rarely ever was it done wittingly, but instead because of a sense that it was somehow right. They thought that they were doing right.

Illumination always comes from within, even when without. This is how one has to play duality; in service of the masses. In the Yin and the Yang, one is ignorance, flowing into consumption by the eternal truth. Ignorances spring forth again, but it’s always an assured path back towards a positive state.

The whole system trends positive.

The light of illumination comes from the sacred heart beating within your chest, which is the very Heart of God (it also comes from engaging conceptions of “the Absolute”, which is a focus of this chapter of the Gita). We bring Light into the world by turning towards it before we act, and framing our acts in terms of It. You will find it out there in the external world, joyously, but the fact of the matter is that when maturation is achieved…you know even when you don’t know that you know. We don’t want anybody being a charismatic leader type that leeches you of your autonomy. We don’t necessarily even want adults to have strong coaches unless they’re really into that. You know. Life becomes about tapping into your Self…making the most of the life experiences you were gifted.

It’s by the shining “lamp of knowledge” that the Sacred destroys the darkness born of ignorance in this world, at the psychological level. At the social level, we help do this for others when we use our knowledge, our wit, in service of Life itself, in service of God. Doing as much amounts to a “special” kind of “mercy”; it’s magical.

In the shorthand, somehow magic became stigmatized, and pragmatism was equated with rationales that saw the human as anything but the definition we ascribe to God the Father in the West; all-loving, all-powerful, and all-knowing. The Eastern spiritual path helps fix this malady of the ages, making systems of sensibility predicated moreso on the Infinity explored in spiritual curriculums such as that of the life of Christ seem more fundamental…more normal/right than systems predicated on the constraints of pure materialism, and in the process the tone of life subtly changes from self-constrained conceptual rot to the Real/Spiritual (spiritual topics do not amount to spiritual executions). The locus of control seems to shift away from the ego and more towards the unconscious…the ego is forced to restructure itself under the thumb of various “higher powers” in the social world that are but masks of the same Eternal principle that has been reverberating around since the dawn of Man…

‘Now for ten years we’ve been on our own… And moss grows fat on a rolling stone! But that’s now how it used to be… when the jester sang for the King and Queen in a coat he borrowed from James Dean and a voice that came from you and me. And While the king was looking down, the Jester stole his thorny crown.’

You submit to the will of the Universe, only to accrue social controversy if the social schisms surrounding you aren’t aligned with the fundamental values of spirituality/truth. The narrative of the modern era of History has been the refining of civilizations. It’s seen a lot of great martyrs/spiritual heroes. Less and less, in regards to outright martyrdom fortunately…

Systemically, systems are getting better. However, with each generation…ignorance on the level of individuals is pretty consistent even if people in general are growing more culturally enlightened across time. Youth is intolerable/unbearable. There are going to be storms. You gotta know how to kill a storm.

Anyways, the point is that the entire crude world as it is becomes the kingdom of Heaven for the enlightened one. It’s the funniest thing, there are so many people unaware of the very wonders below their feet as they trudge through their days, but that’s ok…