Riffin' On the Nectar

“That happiness which is derived from contact of the senses with their objects and which appears like nectar at first but poison at the end is said to be of the nature of passion.” 18.38 Bhagavad Gita Conclusion- The Perfection of Renunciation

Passion…I love it as a modality of experience because it echoes back towards the vehicles which bring us to the very moment of transcendence…and implies an independent identity to them that truly isn’t there when it’s all said and done, establishing the unique identities of the vehicles in the first place, and seeing the forms as both precious in their specific identities, as well as interwoven meaningfully with our identities/destinies…

When it’s all said and done, the cultural modalities we experience are but vehicles for the transcendent, and the happiness they stir within us is somehow not peculiar to the forms themselves…they are vehicles devoid of independent meaning/identity in that the only thing that gives them order and specificity/quality and quantity…is the Transcendent.

From this perspective it’s easy to lose the preciousness of unique identity…if identity itself is just a construct meant to execute an intended aim and the specifics of it are fluid, changing with each changing context… is the personal identity ever really all that unique, and is that uniqueness all that special? If people are equals… does it matter how they dress or what they wear and do?

At one level, not at all, and at another, obviously, because this is what these people are doing, and what people do matters…

I guess it doesn’t exactly follow that if the various cultural modalities we experience are but vehicles for the transcendent that the specifics of each respective one we experience in any given moment is of no real significance. That seems silly, actually. I guess everything is important, as annoying/daunting as that seems.

I guess everything is shimmering with Infinite potential and is brimming with hope.

Which is why you have to love passion as a modality of experience… it hasn’t forgotten the world or its worth. The material realm is made of the Infinite…and while the Infinite is infinite, we’re told that it has a personality, and this personality characterizes the Infinite’s relationship with matter, itself… and it’s a positive relationship!

The “happiness” any of us receives from interacting with the world is not of the world or tied to any of the worldly forms…it is God incarnate. It is in some things in some situations, in others in different situations…we know this to be true of shifting contexts and moral behavior. It’s “passion” as a modality of experience which can staunchly remind us of the importance of timing…

At times “passion” will cause the objects our senses interact with to provide “nectar”…at others, “poison”. These framings are not the ultimate framings in that they don’t necessarily frame the “sense objects” entirely in terms of the Infinite… but they haven’t moved completely beyond the world either, which is a foolish move to make if you are embodied. After all, the “ultimate reality” apart from the world is a mental point of reference more than it is the “ultimate reality”. The “ultimate reality” is the reality you are encountering.

It all comes down to timing…with everything. All things…in their time. That’s what we are hoping for as we experience our moments…

It’s my humble opinion that that’s as simple as seeing things as they are…soaking in the sense objects entirely. These are the things, and the time is now… this is It.

And the fact of the matter is that while all of this is super real…it all lacks an independent identity…it only arises forth from God if you truly start to think about the origins or qualities of anything…no matter what you are focusing on or thinking about… the rules of the simulation our consciousness is bound in are of a nature that simply there’s no way to deny that the only thing allowing for any of this is God, and we can see God everywhere at all moments…and once you learn how to, you really can appreciate the specific “why” of specific things optimally.