Riffin' On the Social Inclination Towards Grandeur/the Absurd

“But those who always worship Me with exclusive devotion, meditating on My transcendental form- to them I carry what they lack and I preserve what they have.” 9.22 Bhagavad Gita The Most Confidential Knowledge

Is there anything more crippling to the psyche…of a good man…to one who chooses to see the spiritual/spirit in each and every material form, in each and every engagement of the seemingly external world on behalf of individuated life forms… than the unfathomably superb, solitary meal? To be locked in a gobsmackin’ cycle of the low lows and the high highs, contained entirely within a solitary circuit, and not the right kind of solitary circuit, at that, but an incredibly meaningless one of replenishing Self, in the sense of only the individuated life form, with the immediate actions available to oneself. The situation has all of the dynamics of the larger mold, of “Life” proper, but sees only the individuated and some sort of environment/refining framework by which Infinity enters the fray…and none of the others. It is Adam, alone in the garden, a situation not entirely unfamiliar to the garden from which Adam recently sprung forth…  

Only so many of the labors of our respective lives are actually about us/getting us oriented. I would wager, in fact, that a lion’s share of our labor, especially in such an opulent day and age, actually is social- it’s about others in the world in need of some sort of re-orientation with Universal forces. The struggles of our day to day lives are only about Us wholly in the sense that we are interconnected with all life-forms through mysterious and natural forces, and when others are not thriving, the universe, if not society, as well, outright tasks us with laboring to get them up to speed. This may play out directly as direct action towards addressing the situation, but I think this happens mostly indirectly…it could be your afternoon tiredness, or your utter lackof afternoon tiredness… it could manifest in an Infinite number of modalities, but we are unto each other, as things are, whether we realize it or not.

        This is how we are unto ourselves, eventually. It’s a heroic/charitable thing, inherently, and when you hear dry religions say rather dry things the relevance of which escapes you, that’s what they actually mean by a spirit of charity… it’s your inherited psychology, and you’re already being compulsed into behaving as  a “social creature” so… you’re already doing it, probably.

                It’s honestly through the community…that the opportunities for conditional dignity, which itself is but an incentive game on behalf of the universe intended to keep the human family endowed with meaningful/effective wisdom, spring forth, and they are heroic/charitable at heart. This is the spiritual life…the idea that the teens would or even could opt out of it to chase something “cool” is farcical- that which is imbibed with the natural aura of “cool” time and time again has proven to be some sort of lesson for the youth whom are more willing to spontaneously try to reintegrate “wayward” types on “wayward” paths rather than simply having some sort of hard lesson be the last word regarding the situation…

                That which shines…casts the light.

                Religion, when it’s the real religion…the real thing…is enthralling. It’s the whole society, not just a subset of it. The discipline of religion as a self-contained thing is pretty special, but all self-contained disciplines can be understood as an engagement/study of Infinity by indirect means if you really think about it…

                The idea of tending to ourself is somehow drab. In this passage, Krishna promises the fulfillment of every need for individuals…they simply need to worship him with “exclusivity” in each and every moment/thing/phenomena. Somehow, the idea of simply doing this for the individuated self is not a victory over that hierarchy of needs that has been dogging us for years, but instead is encountered as some sort of personal hell. To be “exclusive” in our engagement of “devotion” and to only be accountable for our small Self, and to only tend to our small Self…is the kind of thing that really brings out the worst in a person/human/individuated life form.  We are hardwired to make a run on the jewels- we can’t yet begin addressing a single suffering without comprehensively dogging the entire institution of suffering.

                There is only Salvation at that point, and that’s what they mean about a Singularity… Salvation can be the state of individuals, but it’ll never be the pervasive state of the social world- humans in the world will always lapse back into suffering or the potential for suffering. This is a pleasure, part of what gives our individuated lives great, great meaning…suffering. But it shouldn’t be “suffering” and it should be the kind of “suffering” which yields immediately to conscientious/wise living.

                Love is the medicine. The means by which to accomplish it are omnipresent, and potent. They’ve already seized your day.

                In regards to mafia movies, I’ve heard people mention they feel as if the potential narratives are deeply constrained…ultimately it’ll end up being a story about how hierarchy is inherently unsustainable as every individual wants to be the boss, is compelled to be the boss in spite of a rabid loyalty to the boss, even, and somehow this is a tragedy as it creates a perpetuated cycle of violence and uses this cycle to try to bring order to some sort of social collective, which it actually does, albeit all in an unsustainable cyclone of sorts…  

Like that time we triumphed over sin by convicting a man of a crime He didn't commit and crucified him.

Like the time in high school where you got alcohol poisoning but it was still an awesome-sauce night...

                I guess my point today is to illustrate how the social identity is a tool by which we meaningfully experience that we have the power of a God…that through wisdom and action, or even ignorance and action… that we realize we really do have the power, that we are God, actually, or an extension of...One with.... We have the power, at times, over life and death with what we do/how we behave… and this is why we discipline our people, socially, as we do…because this life stuff is real and we are not fucking around here (did you know that women can grow PEOPLE?!)…and then we actually do get to completely fuck around most of the time, and it all works because of this cosmic framework of people automatically having each other’s backs cosmically, coupled with what our social authorities force us to do (jobs, etc.)…

That the idea of somehow having a reliable Source for providing “everything” we “lack” or for “preserving” “everything” we “have” is inherently distasteful whereas the idea of being able to do this for others in need is, like, the sweetest thing, like, ever…says everything about how under control we all are…

(Just because this is a cool perspective, in Transcendentalism they’d say that’s a clear indicator of universal will being done in live time. In theory the thing can reverse that near constant, and from what I’ve gathered, this is what happens to adults when they are sick/go into acute diminished capacity…at that point it is enthralling simply to tend to yourself…)

Ok so to recap so as to capture an important conventional abstract...the social identity, when played out is rigged up to realize that the Self is uncontainable, as all Selves are manifestations of the Eternal Spirit, and while such a platform affirms all of the great thinkers who have come before you, as well as their work, in regards to social dynamics it is a contentious sort of realization that often times puts you at ends with social authorities/the larger social world as the narratives of Hate/Ignorance are so pervasive/deluding...