Riffin' On the Confusing Fact that whether it's the peak or the subtext, it's simply the Iceberg

“After seeing this universal form, which I have never seen before, I am gladdened, but at the same time my mind is disturbed with fear. Therefore please bestow Your grace upon me and reveal again Your form as the Personality of Godhead, O Lord of lords, O abode of the Universe.” 11.45 Bhagavad Gita The Universal Form

“The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: My dear Arjuna, happily I have shown you, by My internal potency, this supreme universal form within the material world. No one before you has ever seen this primal form, unlimited and full of glaring effulgence.” 11.47 Bhagavad Gita The Universal Form

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In my supreme optimism that the constraints of life are as such that the universe forces us to spiritually enlighten naturally across time as we sift through various phenomena, accumulating life experiences (which is why young people are intolerably dumb demon brats and, generally, the older people are more mellow/palatable) I sometimes forget the supreme principle of Buddhism…ultimately it comes down to One…One fundamental truth at the core of duality…One proper way to be in effective congress with it as you live a life ridden by dualistic frameworks… Jesus is he who, in kneeling in our wake, draws the line in the sand… there is a clear right and wrong.

When it’s all said and done, your life is your life….mine is mine… and we are fully accountable for ourselves in a way in which we rarely ever are for others. Salvation is a state of Being…and you either Be it or you don’t. You can be induced with mysterious and opulent acts…but the intended design of this all is a modality of Being that is available day in and day out. It’s availability, both a service to you, as well as a service to others when you take it on.

We can see this in a poignant fashion in today’s passages regarding the revelation of the Universal Form. Krishna reveals to Arjuna the Singularity “within the material world”. What he shows him is probably formless, and so the forms are esoteric and metaphorical…what he’s really revealing to Arjuna is that he truly has omnipotence over All that is transpiring…because technically he is doing it All…he has a say over what is allowed to transpire… he is All.

You’d imagine showing this to a person would inspire bliss within the witness, but instead it absolutely petrifies Arjuna. Why? Because ultimately, the whole game this universal form is playing is the game of the “Lord of lords”…the game of the Supreme…the game of the Most High….the game of Love, supreme.

Life is about learning that life is fair… that you do have the power… you want to live life on life’s terms because doing as much testifies to the heart of existence itself, saying that existence does work, and that what is taking place at every moment is actually perfect, and that we have a decent shot at realizing as much from time to time for sustained periods of time.

To see the deterministic is sort of to see… whatever it is that allows for illness and war and famine and all of those crazy dark irreconcilable aspects of the human experience to not only exist, but to exist robustly as if they are a counterbalance to life itself.

Sometimes the things that ride us aren’t dark. They shouldn’t ever be. Sometimes nags are from pests which seem to dissipate instantly in the scopes of direct, conscious attention. But sometimes, however, to see the things which ride us is also to see the pervasiveness of death or the very real threats of illness or acute danger that any random individual faces as they live their respective lives…after all, Mankind has developed technologies which, in theory, could destroy Mankind.

And while that is not without it’s implications, as a Man of God, arguably an enlightened Yogi, I feel that I’d be doing you a disservice if I didn’t disclose that I strongly feel, in a clearly supernatural way, and have on many an occasion when considering the reality, as if there are safeguards at the level of Universe regarding these technologies. Nonetheless, that these things exist comes with its implications, and naturally these implications make a great impression on our behaviors forevermore after the fact.

Is that freedom? Is that salvation? Is that truly God triumphant even though, as a solace, it’s arguably God in control?

Eventually, arguably it gets us there, socially, but it’s a fitting example to prove my larger point regarding today’s passages…this Universal form of the Almighty which ensures the continued success of Mankind and keeps individuals within reach of personal salvation at mostly all moments (in this day and age, civilization has been robustly successful)…is potentially as awful as suffering incarnate. The subtext of it all is…this isn’t the plan…this isn’t the end.

One of my favorite teachers, a rock act based out of Minneapolis with Dharma lessons abound, Wookiefoot, have a lyric in a song called Don’t Stop which goes along the lines of, “In the end it’s all ok. If it’s not ok, it’s not the end.” While this force of God, now deemed the “universal form” (which essentially means the universe itself) sets the table for our destinies, it can’t do our living for us. Ultimately it falls into the hands of each and every man, the entire fate of…All. We can’t escape the interdependence we were born into…

And undeniably, as we study the mechanics of the universe and how they intersect with what we know of the atypical actions of man, it becomes apparent that the meaning of life is to act in accord with our inherent nature, and in doing so we become larger than life itself/transcendent…both happy and unattached entirely to the very vehicles allowing for our happiness. We experience something from the beyond within the simulation… we embody that “eternal principle” that is the shadow behind the form, life-force itself, and this life-force clearly, from our personal experience of it, implies that it will carry on beyond the constraints of the simulation…to experience it is to experience eternity/the afterlife.

Which essentially means, we do have our eye on the prize within the simulation. If we are after happiness, which we are hardwired to be…at some point you realize the force which gives meaning to the notion of “happiness” is life incarnate…the shadow behind the form that is happiness is eternal life. Bliss is transcendent. Bliss is not attached to worldly forms or implications; it always was rooted in the Eternal, and is arguably but a mask for.

The afterlife is no stranger. The eternal has clearly always been hidden in our midst…there are layers to this onion that are personal…that exist for you as something external, but aren’t in that same setting for me when I’m at that place… but before I lose you with pompousness, I want to repeat it once again, the eternal has clearly always been in our midst. The great beyond is here and now.

It’d be silly if there was ever a time where the eternal was not around, right?

And the way human relations are set up…we really cherish when somebody can access it, reliably, in a consistent and disciplined fashion. It’s where social value really is flowing forth from…where real value at the level of universe is flowing forth from…and if we considered that this Source if Infinite, and that Jesus truly really did multiply the fish and loaves… we can get what was truly being taught there…the Earth will provide, and the Earth is Alive, and the Earth is His Father.

These things are here to serve to purposes of relaying the curriculum. They will always be here. But we do need to look scarcity in the face…and were we ever concerned about there being enough, it helps to know that the better we are at teaching that curriculum…the more we will gather.

This is truly a simulation. Things like the white room in the Matrix…things like mobs of trenchcoat people rushing in through seeming wormholes and breaking you out…there have been real spiritual experiences in the modern era where that actually happened. That’s riffing on pop culture…and if we didn’t at least make a note of that next to an asterisk somewhere, we’d be bad at keeping records. When the transcendent is using a popular media franchise exactly as that media franchise was presented to the public…that’s like a nod that they got it as right in the first place with that media franchise. That’s an endorsement of sorts lol.

Actually happened.

Then again, probably not any crazier than the Father God freezing time over the battlefield you are on the precipice of going to war on, arriving in a horse-drawn chariot and stuff, greeting a Freddy Mercury look-alike named “Arjuna”…

When it’s all said and done, today’s passages lift up the spiritually enlightened devotees of the world…the Yogi types. Ultimately, Arjuna doesn’t want to see the universal form, but his humanoid friend Krishna, who, despite having four arms, is not so unlike him. Just a super nice, lovable dude…who happens to have the most important answers in the universe for the inquiring mind. How could you not love him?!

And that’s the point to the person reading this. The person who receives the Gita fully will see nothing but the universal form everywhere at all moments as they face life. Should they want to fall into the warm graces of those around them, arguably they’d be like Krishna to Arjuna, and befriend people, offering their wisdom in an appropriate fashion.

And ultimately we learned the most appropriate fashion would be to approach Westerners in airports and so…

The four arms thing is like going super sayain in Dragon Ball Z…it implies communion with Source…so you can be the blue humanoid four armed dude to others by communing with Source and then engaging them in a social hang as a mystic…

The point is, this is like fascist work culture…if you see something, say something! If you can see… “it” as you are out there in the world…act on it! If you’re sitting on God-given wisdom…give it away to loved ones.

Also too, you now understand “It’s only rock n’ roll (but I like it!)” by the Rolling Stones.