VIOLENCE AND METAPHYSICS
It is generally little known that metaphysical life is in fact violent, violence turned inwards against the beastly ANavam that obscures visions and thereby disallows the souls from glowing in TRUTH, in Pure Light. Also as the real Satan, with demonic powers to pull unto itself and cause self destruction thereby , cause both psychical and physical death as such, it has to be BATTLED with in order to escape from its ghastly pulls.
All severe penances, self mortifications , the denial of the "pleasures of the flesh" are expressions of this violence, directed of course inwards at the level of metaphysical existence. But prior to that it may express itself as social violence that we see among the religious along with enormous amount of self sacrifice . Only the VIOLENT can sacrifice self which is in fact KILLING the EGO and offering it to BEING.
Selflessness is a product of violence of self over itself.
This is a kind of violence that all great shapers of civilization all practised. They waged wars physical or intellectual not like a king who wants to gain sovereignty over the lands but rather DESTROY the hold of ANavam , the Satanic forces and bring back civilization.
And they fought all these battles as surrogates to divine powers that takes control over them and hence transpersonal in their thinking acting.
BEING itself is VIOLENT for it has to BREAK the primeaval DARKNESS spread by ANavam in order to SHED LIGHT. In the beginning there was DARKNESS, only chaos of Darkness and it has to be violated to make present Light and hence consciousness.
But this violence is out of LOVE, in order to do GOOD for the infinite number of souls that remain atomic and TOTALLY blind in the bosom of ANavam that is BLINDNESS itself. Each violent burst of BEING , the productive intrusion, is shedding light, making VISION as such possible for the souls and because of which they break lose of blindness and atomicity and begin to SEE, of course, in stages.
BEING is violent only because it is LOVE supreme. And this is where it differs from the violence that is evil and criminal. The violence of BEING is the violence of a HERO who provides SECURITY through battling the evil forces and keeping them at bay . Without the VIOLENCE of BEING the creatures are NOT SAFE against the bestiality of ANavam. BEING because HE is benign also becomes the Rudra and the Terrible Mother Kali and so forth , all to provide security for the creatures so that they can sojourn safely in their metaphysical search.
The destructive and gruesome archetypal presentations -- Rudra, Kali, Durga , Narasimma and so forth are also benign like a Hero who brings and provides security and hence prosperity for the people.
The leader who turns out to be HERO is the type of individuals who can provide the right leadership and take the people in the RIGHT WAY, the TiruneRi.
BEING as the violent throws the creatures into sufferings that are Tiikkai, burning off the inherent atomisers, the mummalam by throwing them into the deserts , into the fires. At physical level, there is actually walking over the fire, sufferings through self denial and social isolation. At metaphysical level, however they become intense thinking , meditation and so forth that breaks through the metaphysical IGNORANCE and secures a PURER WORLD. The acts of meditation are acts of violence that removes the dirt within and brings about self purification.
Only those who cannot face and execute the INNER VIOLENCE set up certain conformities as THE authoritative and REFUSE thereby to think and effect the metaphysical inner violence.
( editing and re-paragraphing by his student )
No comments:
Post a Comment