Month: December 2006

Unilateralism – American Autarky

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Wondering if the early morning telly news calls for Rejoicement or Mourning? Well! for me it was a mixture of both but more of mourning. Saddam, the terrorist who had Weapons of Mass Destruction hung to death. And it was a free and fair trial and Americans had nothing to do with the judicial process. Can there be a bigger joke than this to end 2006 (yes there is another right at the end of this blog). If Saddam had to reap what he sowed, rope sellers would make it a big industry manufacturing ropes to hang the American Presidents to reap what they sowed too. Killers in Nagasakki, Hiroshima, Vietnam and at the drop of the hat bomb any place in the world as if American lives are any more precious than other lives in this world, and more recently Afghanistan, Iraq when killing and counter killing never seem to end. All said and done, Iraq was the most prosperous Arab nation despite the stories of torture and abuses (tell me which dictator USA propped up, weren’t) and it took the might of the US of A and Bush’s policy to bring Iraq to the current state.

Saddam deserved whatever he just got. My point is Saddam looks only a wee bit dirtier than Geroge Bush and whether George Bush will get his due. The numbers Saddam achieved sounds microscopic compared to what Americans are doing day in and day out, bombing left, right and centre. I am sure the innocent Americans would pay for the lousy things that this clown is doing. According to me, Bush ranks quite high along with Bin Laden, Taliban et al for making the world precarious and dangerous to live in. I am sure we haven’t seen the last act of this Play. The world will pay heavily due to the folly and fancy of this single man. In that respect, I am proud of the Indian Government‘s response. For a change, the response was immediate and prompt. Condemning the Execution. The world needs to condemn in the most despicable terms, this unilateralistic attitude of the Amercian Government. As the former U.N. human rights chief in Iraq, John Pace put it, “Human rights abuses in Iraq are as bad now as they were under Saddam Hussein, as lawlessness and sectarian violence sweep the country”

At the end of the day, George Bush you have made the world a very difficult place to live in for yourself, your countrymen and the rest of the World too… Come to think of it, all whom America is fighting today are their own creation of the past. Taliban, Saddam and many more who are tightening the noose round the neck of USA. Having dug a deep hole called Iraq, something worse than Vietnam is in the making.

You have to give it to the Americans or more specifically someone who answers to the name George Bush – whose origin is explained below 

Three Texas plastic surgeons were playing golf together and discussing surgeries they had performed.

One of them said, “I’m the best plastic surgeon in Texas. A concert pianist lost 7 fingers in an accident, I reattached them, and 8 months later he performed a private concert for the Queen of England.”

One of the others said. “That’s nothing. A young man lost both arms and legs in an accident, I reattached them, and 2 years later he won a gold medal in 5 field events in the Olympics.”

The third surgeon said, “You guys are amateurs. Several years ago a cowboy who was high on cocaine and alcohol rode a horse head-on into a train traveling 80 miles an hour. All I had left to work with was the horse’s ass and a cowboy hat. Now he’s president of the United States.”

Considering what is happening, I am sure it is a true story 

God is in you

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Eshwara pranidhanad va” meaning “Just by pointed devotion to God.” Just by surrendering to the lord, you can achieve the fully blossomed state of consciousness. Now, what is the lord? Who is the lord? Where is he? It is easy to say surrender to God, but what is God? Where is God? Nobody has ever seen God. Then comes the next question. What is lordship? What is that which rules this world?

 

You find that it is love that rules the world. The core of the existence rules this universe. Like the Sun is the centre of the solar system and rules all the planets, the very core of your existence life is governed by love. That consciousness, that core of existence is responsible for this whole creation.

 

A bird feeds its young out of love. Ducks hatch eggs out of love. Cows take care of their calves out of love. Have you seen monkeys? How they care for their young ones! Love is in-built in this creation. That is how creation functions. That is why Jesus said, “Love is God and God is love.”

 

Patanjali in the next Sûtra beautifully analyses this state of consciousness.

 

“Klesha karmavipakashayairaparamrushtaha purushavishesha ëshwaraha” meaning “God is that special self who is free from affliction, action, fruit of action, impression and untouched by events.”

 

The core of consciousness is free from suffering. There are five types of suffering which are enunciated. One type of suffering is ignorance or avidya. When your consciousness is filled with ignorance, then there is restlessness, there is unhappiness and suffering. Misery is because of ignorance. Ignorance is giving importance to something not worth the importance. Ignorance is thinking something that is changing to be permanent or imagining something to be joyful which is not joyful. Do you see what I am saying? Just like, when someone passes a comment about you. It is just a word that came from the person’s mouth and vanished. But thinking it is a permanent thing, keeping it in your mind is ignorance.

 

Asmita means “me, me, I, I” and is the second cause of suffering. What people think about me? What do I want from them? How do I take advantage of them? Do they think I am good or bad? All these things are asmita. They give nothing but misery. They give you misery because of not being one with existence. This asmita eats you up. That is the cause of your suffering. The third is raga or craving for anything, fourth is dwesha means aversion or hatred and fifth is abhinivesha or fear. These are the five sources of misery.

 

That consciousness deep down in you is devoid of these five factors. Though outwardly you are miserable, outside you are craving for something, if you really go to the core of your existence, deep down, in the very centre point of you, you are free from it. You may be hating somebody on the outside, but from the centre of your existence there is no hatred. There is fear only on the outside. There is ignorance only on the outside, but when you come to the core of your existence, there is no fear. There is no ignorance there. There is no ‘you’ there.

 

When these are eliminated even from the outer body, then whatever is in the centre becomes eminent, so obvious. The Lordship in you blossoms. God in you is manifested. So God is that purusha, that being which is devoid of sufferings or misery.