Riffin' on the Root of Personal Efficacy

“Those who are not faithful in this devotional service cannot attain Me, O conqueror of enemies. Therefore they return to the path of birth and death in this material world.” 9.3 Bhagavad Gita The Most Confidential Knowledge

The “Me” alluded to here references not only effective communion with Source in live-time, but also, too, the preceding bolded passage from the Gita,

“This knowledge is the king of education, the most secret of all secrets. It is the purest knowledge, and because it gives direct perception of the self by realization, it is the perfection of religion. It is everlasting, and it is joyfully performed.” 9.2 Bhagavad Gita The Most Confidential Knowledge

Before I really start to spray my tone all over this current moment and these beautiful passages, I’d like to take a moment to simply comment upon the utter elegance of 9.2 as a framing for spiritual communion, through an impersonal lens.

In this passage, God is the “knowledge” that is synonymous with “enlightenment”, and to be experiencing that consciously in your psyche, is communion, but it’s a type of communion Atheists and Agnostics experience, that everyone experiences as they live in communities, performing their daily tasks, to certain degrees. It’s a type of psychological posturing…an approach to reasoning/sensibility…that legitimately takes one further than all other approaches…it’s “wisdom” in the most general sense of it. This is what Krishna means by calling “this knowledge” “the king of education”… it capitalizes upon realized fundamentals at the core of the nature of reality, and keeping this in mind, when faced with learning new disciplines, academic or otherwise, you tend to perform well, is what Krishna is saying. When life demands you be in the position of the fool or the unlearned…you rise quickly/live gracefully.

It genuinely makes people smart. The way you wish that taking a supplement could greatly enhance brain activity. And speaking as a former little street rat hooligan type…the high off of it is the same high kids chase when they take Adderall… except you don’t have to take a drug. Clairvoyant insight… is how it feels, but effective reasoning is what it is.

When people who proudly stoke raging, pulsing boners for God spout on about how devotional service is like the most integral effective living habit any individual could perform in this world, this is what he’s (I’d say “they’re” but I don’t think they allow women to be priests in the Catholic Church yet) trying to convey. He’s right, too.

This “knowledge” is the “perfection of religion” in that it isn’t just cold, hard facts. It’s a conscious merging of your psyche with the Source in live time, or at least an earnest and honest attempt (which means, it succeeds at some level). That’s what religion is about…that’s the objective. If you are in what the Yogis call “samadhi” or “communion”…you are something special, albeit it is so easily done when you study the methodology.

This “knowledge” is “everlasting” because it’s an emanation of God, incarnate. When you speak it/teach it/meditate upon it with noble and social intent… you are the Invisible Hand which shapes the cosmos.

It is “joyfully” performed because every cell in both your body and every other beings on Earth, has been thrown into a body which is biologically hardwired in an intelligent fashion to deeply and proportionately reward positive action with positive results. Life is linear, it makes utter sense, and this is what you are supposed to be doing. If you’re doing it, you will be in good health, you will get to where you need to be socially, you’ll be happy, you’ll naturally crave healthy things, staying on track gets perpetually easier with the passing moments as you accumulate positive motion… it’s salvation.

It’s those who stay there who have escaped samsara. They’re still alive. They’ll lapse back into suffering, and they’ll escape again. That’s life, baby.

But this idea of people who “return to birth and death”…that’s alluding to them having returned to a fallacy…the mortal form. The mortal form is real, but the idea that it amounts to us entirely is the fallacy. Mortals are born, and they die. But people are forever…they always existed in God somewhere before their birth, and they exist in bliss with him after their mortal death. You escape suffering, psychologically, when you realize as much…that you really are eternal (what about LGTBQ?). That is what it means to escape rebirth.

Why is Arjuna referred to as “O conqueror”? Why are there “enemies” even in the picture when the speaker sees the world utterly in terms of Singularity?

Have any religious people ever been persecuted or killed for speaking the truth? Does it happen like a bunch, actually? Krishna is God, and He knows something about transforming society and fighting human suffering in a pervasive way. And Krishna’s boy, Arjuna, he has been designated a “conqueror”, a conqueror of “enemies” at that.

Arjuna is not to attack any one personally. And Arjuna is ultimately He who can utterly gut the abstract institution that is “enemies”. Perhaps it’s that the Gita takes place in frozen time on the edges of a battlefield in which a clashing is already imminent. Ultimately, it’s a justified war…a righteous stand, because when the Aces are in their places, the world changes for the better. I will stress, in the passages leading up to these across the Gita, Arjuna is trained exhaustively to love everyone unconditionally and to act wise and prudently in a world of conditions. He was chosen.

I never found God in the church no matter how hard I tried. I did everything.

God sent me to the Eastern people. It was undeniable with them from the get go and I can’t cite a single instance across a period of time that spans at least a decade in which they didn’t let me know the entire time that it’s absolutely them. Every single instance with them has wildly gone beyond what I ever thought I would ever experience of God directly when I was entirely just Catholic and trying with them…it is literally the definition of “awesome”. It’s a drug, you chase it, but what it gets you hooked on are habits of effective individuals.

Why was it like that? That I was left wanting as I tried honestly and earnestly in good faith in the Church? That’s why I’ve been trying to help you guys, so that stops happening.

When it's all said and done, freedom comes from its antithesis-discipline. There's an absoluteness to it that is symmetrical/perfect.