Riffin' On that Yellow Yolky Yolk

“Endowed with such a faith, he endeavors to worship a particular demigod and obtains his desires. But in actuality these benefits are bestowed by Me alone.” 7.22 Bhagavad Gita Knowledge of the Absolute

It’s of absolute necessity that we begin today very much conscious of the capitalized use of “Me” in the Gita as a recurring short-hand for a state of effective Transcendental Communion between the individuated being and Krishna, himself, or perhaps, even, Krishna’s Source…Consciousness… the state of Being in which there is no “You” and no “I” effectively, while there still remains a differentiated world…a differentiated You and I… a world of meaningful Singularity amidst seeming contradictions…meaningful contradictions…between the finite conditions of matter and matter’s infinite subtext/basis…a world in a state of grace that only the magic of love can provide. 

        Through such a lens, it becomes apparent, if not a bit taboo, that today’s passage challenges us to look at devotion to the Supreme in a more assertive/pro-active fashion than we of the culture have been habituated into typically regarding it…to look at the agency of devotion as being very much internal, and entirely contingent upon your Being. The Supreme seems to be saying here that worship to any Image of him, if you really get into the weeds with it, topically, is worship to a demigod in some sense if it isn’t regarded, plainly, as what the “Me” is defined as in the Gita tradition.

                Which is one of the craziest hat tricks (meaningless analogy short of conveying yet understood/mastered novelty) that Oriental spirituality has ever pulled. The end all be all can be defined in an Infinite number of ways, but no matter the paradigms can be diluted down a to a dense handful of sentences…1-3 sentences…and we have something that hits for all 8 Billion people, eventually, once they accumulate the right life experiences… they have a simple product and yet it’s a necessity desperately sought in a recurring fashion…this is a utility of sorts…a necessity…a nutritional need…but I digress.

                The plain, harsh…badass…radical…contextualized…truth is that Beings are One with God. And here you can see it… the Mother Deer feeding her young… unless you regard yourself as in utter congress with God (this must not simply be a destination of the psyche, but also a fundamental truth of existence at all moments, and is probably the Source of our “bodies”/bodily states…. And is a thing we are supposed to awake to)…to be facetious you won’t be in utter congress with God…which allows for suffering to potentially creep in, even if it doesn’t… in my opinion that it starts to is one of the clear indicators that the progression from childhood to adulthood has actually occurred in a meaningful way, and it contextualizes just what we are here to do with the limited amount of time (lol) we have in this world (we hang around).

                Worship to a demigod isn’t ineffective even…which means…it produces miracles. If you really get into the weeds of how Krishna frames this…an astute mind can see that He’s saying that it’s all real, this devotional worship stuff, and that it’s all pretty damn close to the Most High thing that we ever experience in a mysterious way all over the place throughout each and every moment of our entire lives… but he’s saying it in a bummer sort of way…referring to this in a short-hand way, this institution of miracles manifested through worship, as a system of the “demigod”. To him, that’s how supremely important keeping Oneness/Transcendental Communion paramount, which really is what Christ taught as well, is (so that stuff about service to others and all of the advice that the church has actually been very great at fleshing out culturally is absolutely spot on, absolutelyyyy…if there has been a failure in the Church it’s been of both a mystical and democratic nature…the mystical side of the tradition got beat down while simultaneously the authority of the Vatican become needlessly elevated, or found itself needlessly elevated ((they elevated it back in an era where we who don’t know history at all have been led to believe the commonfolk bathed twice a year and were hundreds of years out from being taught the ways of reading script by the royals who were keeping it to themselves)) over the lay people and what they inherently knew to be true, in their consciences/hearts).

                He apparently really, really needs to hand down effective frameworks for allowing people to see where personal efficacy flows forth from in all phenomena…and to contextualize this for our modern world, but this really is timeless since the advent of social living, the need to contextualize the absolute in an appropriate form for the ages… Krishna feels an imperative need to do as much with the Devotees reading the Gita so that they can effectively pass the baton…so that they can effectively teach the subject matter of the chapter from which this was pulled, Knowledge of the Absolute.

                How can you teach what is not object? How can you regard a miracle as anything other than a pervasive statement, a testifying to truth, regarding the unique time and place in which it manifests? How could you ever expect to make any sort of pattern in this universe, let alone a method for miracles? Who are you? And where are we, even?

                All there is, is the journey inward. The spiritual seeking…. self seeking the absolute power its body is mischievously hardwired to demand for survival’s sake in the face of cultured notions of human limitations… all there is, is Consciousness (no separate God, no separate selves)… what we can teach people is to make their automatic and recurring habitual living patterns…their inescapable need to desire things…their need for social affection and prestige… whatever have you…a vehicle for the will of the Cosmos/Transcendental itself. Which is the whole Christian thing…being in this world but not of this world… a force of Light/Transcendence.

                It’s the same old story. The good people live the good life. It takes work, but what used to be work is now second nature, and a joyous labor, if a labor at all. Culturally where our systems in the West have strayed is in the stigma of regarding oneself as an equal to Christ, or God, even. “Spirituality” in its academic sense is about only doing as much…awakening people to as much (it’s a grind too…it refines you across time…it doesn’t exactly hug hippies with molly still caked to their nostrils, who are illegally parked in some van they don’t have a license to drive…but it is inherently witchy). It has been ransacked in the so-called name of “Devotion”…of respect to Christ or the Father or such and such…plainly, mysticism is an exploration of Oneness with Source, and it’s the foundation of all world traditions. It also gets stomped down, pervasively, by centralized authority in western traditions, but not Eastern.  

                You know, across time, the disconnect/repression gets so bad that our minds gets flipping B L O W N  by some Chinese Mime in a Top Hat who side-straddles out into a lone spot-light and uses hand-signs to indicate that the function of Thought/Perception/Sensory Data in the first place is to create a loaded opportunity for us to establish a state of meaningful efficacy/enlightenment/communion with Source in the first place…that just as there are five senses defining the same undifferentiated Infinity field in entirely unique/very different ways, we have these great Nations of the Earth and…

                I want out man. I want to join the circus man.     

What is “beauty” but a derivative/expression of the Source of all qualities… as in all I’m seeing is the all seeing eye and it’s freaking me out mannnnn…