I am a little baffled if the name I chosen for this blog would precisely interpret what I wish to say. My atheist status disqualifies me not in from looking around and get flabbergasted in absolute bewilderment about the opulence of material luxury in the name of spiritualism and renunciation.
My beloved India is country that’s a cauldron of known, unknown, fathomable and unfathomable realities. They all go hand in hand and get linked to your individual psyche somewhere or the other in time and space. Independent thinking… most of the time is limited either when one is alone or miserably drunk to the point of distinguishing not a donkey from boss.
It amuses me to observe huge hoardings of ascetics (In India we call them Swamy / Baba / Mata / Guru / Bhagwan) Depending on how they wish to project themselves though the irreversible ignorance of their band of howling followers… they start with the humble status of a teacher and reach the pinnacle in calling themselves Gods.
Spiritualism is the greatest invention of east… I cannot call that discovery because even when it is intrinsic within each human being, no one has the time or need or sense to discover it on their own. This is the area where the salivating hyenas take over and to tell you how detrimental the nutritiously sinful apple is…all the way scrunching, crunching and munching those apples in their mouths.
I do get surprised at the subtle similarity millionaires and these self styled gods. The first category enjoys the fruits of their labor or inheritance or exploitation in an endemic fashion and be disinterested in that deep inside. The second category however do the same with a difference… their labor is renunciation… their inheritance is actually earned through the mob of bleating sheep who are their disciples… and their exploitations cannot be heard seen or spoken about in the name of god. Some times in the name of the real hypothetic God or sometimes… Ahem… (Are you nuts or what… that I need explaining who the God is???)
The concept of renunciation deeply intrigues me and really makes me feel that I need to empty my cup before I fill it again with wisdom. I also need to vacate myself from material world and go deep and close to nature that’s not marred by development and deceit. I am proud to claim that my beloved country has such places that are untouched by the verges of materialism or realism. Deep in jungles, remote villages and totally inhabited places like mountain regions on the north… you will find some people who go deep in to spirituality. They just try to unify their senses towards nothingness that is termed as God.
Now the problem is even when one realizes the need of spiritualism while they permanently captivated by enticements of greed, necessities and responsibilities…few intelligent and shrewd business tycoons discovered the opportunity to encash this uncertain or inadequate gap in senses, without being tainted by the concept of polluted idealism.
They travel not in cars… But luxury cars… they wear simplest robes… but always entombed in the comfort of climatic controlled environment and sit on cuddly cushions. They do not wear gems are jewelry… but watch the same being offered with their sparkling eyes closed behind the placid eyelids that radiate seclusion.
It made me laugh when I discovered a GURU MATA (Teacher Mother) who gets heavily made up with blood red lips gloss and machine straightened hair probably dyed. And with her eyes closed in devotion or ecstasy… (By looking at her picture I truly could not discern what is what). Now depending on what kind of perversion you suffer within, you might interpret her theatrics from seduction to salvation.
And almost all GURUS (Teachers) teach renunciation with a benign smile on their faces looking at the subtle hints of submission from the mob before them. If they get not such submission they have the weapon called God or fear of haven and hell anyway. And the greatest stratagem of these heartless gentlemen (Because they renounced everything including their hearts) is to let lose a portion of their exploits to the society around that feeds on scarps of rotten grab like a leper dog. The long term benefit of getting associated with such mindless power automatically makes them attractive to the political leaders of my beloved country that further elevates their importance sky rocketing.
If God or religion allows not a person to discover wisdom within one self, I term it as a failure of thought. Personally I don’t believe such possibility exists with well documented words of God and dictums of religion. It requires more than intelligence, devotion, detachedness and unbiased judgment when it comes to discover oneself within… without the aid of God or religion. And it’s a mammoth task to confront a powerful mob that relays more on what’s not understood by them but believed blindly.
But my indignation is not about those who have faith in god. It is towards those who discovered that the concept of god is a “No Investment – High Returns” business opportunity. You need not pay taxes and be a part of social responsibility for communal growth in reality terms. And I feel nauseously pity towards those who fall for these vermin who expect nothing less than everything beneath the veneer of nothing.
Our god men won’t pay taxes… and our politicians rob paid taxes. We… people like you and me… on the other hand are the people, who pay our taxes, and renounced the concept of materialism to certain extent even without knowing about it.
Very interestingly there is a GURU whose teachings drawn my attention to a noticeable extent but again when I see behind him… I see nothing but indisputable materialism. I had to tell myself to sieve these two facts from each other and leave the necessary evil aside and needed wisdom on my side. His disciples claimed on his tomb that “Never Born – Never Died – Only Visited Planet Earth Blah Blah Blah”
After all these years of introspection I suddenly started realizing that the greatest spiritual experience one feels is already experienced by everyone in the world and none were aware of it at that point of time.
Its infancy and childhood… Innocence and ignorance…
Being cuddled in love, by love and only love is the salvation...
Laughing out loud till guts aches, crying till anger and tears flow out and… giggling immediately over something that makes us laugh… is spirituality...
Looking at mom, dad, sister and brother and having irreversible confidence on their ability to buy you candy… is faith...
Fighting with a friend going home back crying or with a winning smile… and then meeting that friend again and giving him or her… your much cherished… left over candy is… forgiveness...
Listening to someone in pain though we understand nothing and giving them toothless smile when we were infants in crib is… Universal love...
Reciting alphabets and numerals… even in disorderly fashion to those who taught us… watch them tore their hair in frustration… or see them smile in pride is… acquiring wisdom…
We have our own GURUS within us… We have our own Gods in the people who love us...
We don’t need idiots whose shoulder length hair and naval length beard is revered where we disrespect the same in an artist or a person who wish to lives the way he lives. We don’t need morons who douse themselves in luxury explain that the core of their existence is renunciation where buying a plate full of food for an urchin that extends his life span by a day should be seen as more important. We don’t need an day long stupid speech about love and God wherein you are not permitted a genuine yawn… but a silent empathy over someone who is emptying the pain in soul by means of sobs and tears.
Don’t think it over my friends… Unless you see what is spirituality within yourself…
(I wish this blog be read by M… I know she won’t agree with me… But accepting her disagreement is… my journey towards my spirituality. I love her a lot…)
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