HINDU ORTHODOXY

You are made to feel alienated from God by your Elders (not just any God of yours for choosing), so you are proselytized to embrace Bhakti, their God; you are made to feel separated from the Spirit, so you are made to embrace Yoga by Yogis, breath control, etc; you are made to feel ignorant by Spiritualist, so you made to embrace knowledge; your are made to feel you have to do to gain, fruits you will surely reap. If you see clearly that Vibhakti, Viyoga, Avidya, and Karma are merely concepts, then you will understand that there has to be black for white to exist. Everything, your intellect, your mind, your senses, will have to go in the trash bin, but we are used to this, aren’t we? You know, it is frustrating. Elders grab you by the ear and drag you into a hall of garlanded cement swamis. It is forced upon to wear this and that, or take your shoes off, damn orthodoxy. I mean, chant the Vedas all you like, is a stuffed deer and real deer? No dear. I mean, come on, they, the priests and preachers, don’t even understand the basic. How can you shun a barber or a cobbler as unworthy, like a dog? In fact, some dogs are greater devotees then those priests. They think an onion will blemish Moksha. They think Garlic will blemish Moksha, likewise, a dog, cobbler or barber will blemish them. Dattatreya; Tripura Rahasya; XVIII; Verse 19; Moksha is not anything to be got afresh, for it is already there only to be realized. Such Realization arises with the elimination of ignorance. Absolutely nothing more is required to achieve the aim of life.” How can Consciousness be blemished? By wearing shoes in a hall of worship blemishes Consciousness? Or is it that I will get magnetic vibes directly via my soles, or my Soul from a cement swami? Don’t we see the whole space is God? Just drop the ego, that is all that is required, and it is the greatest respect and reverence one can render. All this orthodoxy and dogmas is actually an insult directed at Abstract Intellect. Can we see this clearly? That can! As if That doesn’t know, so we wallop insults at It. How can Consciousness be tarnished? Tell me please. It is “tarnished” by thoughts, that is all. Let me illustrate by citing Sri Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi. There was a dog who revered Sri Bhagavan on the Hill. But this dog would dine at a Devadasi’s (Temple Dancing Girl) house in the evening and rest at a swami’s place. He would expend the rest of his time during the day around Sri Bhagavan who was fond of dogs and regarded them as devotees. Perhaps it was this very Devadasi who once performed at the Ashram in the presence of Sri Bhagavan, but he was unmoved and untarnished, observed by his excited biographer. All a play on the screen of Consciousness. So, what does a dog and a devadasi mean in terms of orthodoxy? Was there pollution? So, where does pollution arise? Do we reflect from whence comes this pollution? From the house you are born in, where else. Is a baby born polluted? Are we polluted in sleep slumber? So, we need to take care about the state of our mind because mind itself is pollution. What we don’t know, we know not pollution. Once Sri Bhagavan and an unorthodox devotee prepared breakfast for all, including orthodox cooks and others orthodox devotees at the Ashram. They did not know, so they ate the breakfast—their Moksha vanished. This is an Upadesa about the mind and pollution by Sri Bhagavan, that is why the writer says mind is pollution. Makes the writer chuckle. We must reflect within ourself and realize our true nature. Moreover, we must See God As He Really Is.