Riffin' On the Singular Vehicle

“Although You are one, You spread throughout the sky and the planets and all space between. O great one, seeing this wondrous and terrible form, all the planetary systems are perturbed.” 11.2 Bhagavad Gita The Universal Form

“All the various manifestations of Lord Siva, the Adityas, the Vasus, the Sadhyas, the Visvedevas, the two Asvis, the Maruts, the forefathers, the Gandharvas, the Yaksas, the Asuras and the perfected demigods are beholding You in wonder.” 11.22 Bhagavad Gita The Universal Form

“O mighty-armed one, all the planets with their demigods are disturbed at seeing Your great form, with its many faces, eyes, arms, thighs, legs, and bellies and Your many terrible teeth; and as they are disturbed, so am I.” 11.23 Bhagavad Gita The Universal Form

There’s this fascinating phenomena which plays out in the flow of circumstance when one is working with the vehicle that is the concept of the Divine/Absolute/God in which all roads/acts are constructive. Within the concept of God, and this is the only conceptual vehicle (It and it’s meaningful parallels… “Infinity”; “the Source”; etc.) within embodied existence which seems to unilaterally do as much, dissolution…is the solution(destroy your egoooo- not a technically accurate framing at all, btw). Death and destruction truly are the very same as self-actualization and progress in such a light… all acts lead to the event horizon that is God’s will, across linear time, and because God has a fixed, incredibly loving nature, all acts are Messianic, within the scope of this particular vehicle, the notion of God…

The Buddhists call this layer of the onion something along the lines of “the end of Duality”. The Christians have a slew of interchangeable terms for it as well, the most popular of which are communion, salvation, or ‘living in Christ’.

At times it seems silly to say that all acts save (especially if your tradition is obsessed with sin). Truly, this isn’t true; No matter what tradition you are working with, even if no tradition at all, you must consciously and comprehensively give the entirety of your life/mental schisms over to some sort of worldview which sees all acts as inherently redeeming; in the doing of this, particularly with individuals who are working with purely secular frameworks, although you do see a ton of this within established religion, as well, you’ll often see people commit to a code of behavior they intend to never deviate from…for instance some secular moralists (is that even a term?) would make the vehicle of redemption “compassion” and reference the electric effect it seems to have on the psychologies of others, and as thus are bound to a life of servitude to the great God that is Compassion, so to speak…

(Btw, codes of conduct are great tools but the ultimate framing regarding sin is that you turned your attention to an outcome that isn’t meaningfully synonymous with God…that you’ve fallen out of His Will…and codes of conduct won’t fully take you there; listening attentively and being open-minded/deferring to a higher power as a means of effective living will).

It’s in determinism that we taste freedom, being bound to effective living by this whole ‘survival of the fittest’ nonsense…

Truly you can already start to glimpse how the separation of the poles is intolerable/unsustainable. Determinism really needs to be equivalent to freedom, and truly the only vehicle I’ve seen which can make this happen, as I alluded to earlier, is the notion of God, or perhaps Love, incarnate or maybe you just find a paradigm that will be a fitting vehicle as soon as you intend to be a better person and put a little effort in…maybe this all springs forth spontaneously, but reliably, and the only people who have been studying this layer of the onion and noting the trends tend to have names that I can’t pronounce, and really cool scarves…

So no, not all acts save, but after you set that initial intent to be on a positive path of self-growth, you probably end up hurdled into the territory of the “Singular/Salvation” in which each and everything you do somehow builds a linear route to your very destiny. We know that conscious recognition of as much seems to empower people to pull more out of this Universal truth. The idea of praying to God in the first place was founded on these mechanics, and was always meant to kinda show people in general, this praying stuff, that the stream of consciousness inside of our own heads always has been a meaningful dialog with God. Communion is already a reality…

Are you doing it well?

In today’s first passage, Arjuna seems to imply that when the planetary systems see the true reality of God/the nature of material existence, it “perturbs” them. To those of us bleeding heart, cool librarian-with-dreadlocks-types, many of us rallied against Church culture in the West because we felt that it was tonally horrendous…too glum, too threatening and serious…sir, you’re scaring the children…why would anyone ever be afraid of God?

Then again, I realize now, we are the generation that nearly grew up with smartphones. We have the internet. We weren’t drafted into World Wars.

I’m being a bit of a pied piper here. “Perturb” does indicate a swell of emotion down the line, disturbing emotion at that, but one would speculate that this springs forth from the recognition of opportunities wasted. What’s happening is that the mental systems of these planets are becoming “disordered” or “deranged” by the fundamental reality that is presenting itself. Entire ways of being that were considered best practices and based on sound logic are being glimpsed to be kind of foolish/immoral to be doing…

The truth of God bewilders at times. In a purely emotional sense, to experience it is like experiencing the only thing ever that ever throws the baby out with the bathwater in a victorious way, and it feels good.

Like imagine if no matter what we did, we would end up the most successful person to ever live, in some true sense of it. Turns out that’s every single life lived (equanimity). It’s a physical truth of every life lived, even lives that were never born successfully into this world. This is life affirming, and comforting to hear, but at times to glimpse this truth from some awe-inspiring, magnanimous event is…perturbing. It’s like Beatle-mania, except with extreme sadness/confusion instead of sexual urgency, as one looks back at their own life. Hilarious stuff.

Also doesn’t seem very believable right? We wouldn’t see that play out for longer than a very short event…a flash of a second…like looking up at a great big firework in the sky and feeling a tremor of fear that then leaves you behind entirely, before the light itself fades from the sky.

This is because the truth of it is that all roads lead to Rome, so to speak. Every great conception…every conception of greatness, spiritual or secular, is made in the image of the fundamental truth of God that is making itself evident in our first passage. So no, God’s never going to flash across the sky and cause us to realize that our great cultural heroes are piles of outright trash…that we’ve been feeding things that don’t serve us particularly well. Occasionally you will see that we’ve been feeding things that we aren’t getting enough of a return on, but when God shows, one of the things you realize is that He’s been around, that you’ve unwittingly been giving him the best of your labor, and that the state of the nation is strong.

Can you imagine an apocalypse? He has control over everything that transpires…would he pretend He hasn’t been watching and then pretend He just showed up and is shocked, and wants to reset it all? There’s no schisms which doesn’t make him look like a culpable idiot regarding that scenario.

Which, in its own weird way, is what our third passage really captures/conveys. These people are in the world HE made…and they are SCARED and FIGHTING FOR THEIR PERSONAL SURVIVAL. They don’t like spiders, they’re scary. They don’t like that thing with teeth…those teeth are gross. Don’t even get us started on the sadistic assholes who started teaching “chastity” as a course in Catholic junior highs…

WE INHERITED THIS MESS.

It’s one of those things where, to quote the great DMX, “They don’t know who they see…they don’t know who we be.” Somehow there is a disparity between the surface level appearance, which truly is the actual Universal form of the Almighty God…the Universe and everything in it… and what we do know to be true of God’s nature. Much of the difference is accredited to mental ignorance at the level of conception, and this is inside of people who are still enlightening/growing self-actualized. An even smaller amount is accredited to ignorant acts out there in the network of mutuality that you were born into.

So what does one do? Merely set an intent to be a better person, or perhaps save the world, or perhaps to get to know one’s self, or perhaps to get to know the Source of one’s own existence. That’s it, at that point you become incapable of screwing it up, even when you do screw up.

It sounds like an impressive problem/daunting situation, but it’s not. People just need to make that step where they realize that this is a compassionate simulation that is trying to make us equals with the most important life forms to ever grace existence, and then devotionally acknowledge that that’s so is a loving service provided by the Source of Life itself.

They tend to kill us, don't they?