Meditation on Vivekenanda

“Effects of meditation”

“Day and night think and meditate on Brahman, meditate with great one pointedness of mind. And during the time of awareness to outward life, either do some work for the sake of others or repeat in your mind, “Let good happen to Jivas and the world!” “Let the mind of all flow in the direction of Brahman!” Even by such continuous current of thought the world will be benefited. Nothing good in the world becomes fruitless, be it work or thought.”

Saying you’re a hypocrite does not stop you being one. It’s like saying, “I’m not really here” haha. Being that I’m a hypocritical human being by nature, is an introduction to say we can be perfectly honest about shortcomings here.

I used to make statements about God/dess. Tho I have never adhered to the above principle before now.

Being physical anyway, with the power of the human mind which learns in our society to only concentrate on the physical added to the constant conditioning and reinforcing of that as a “corrupt” state (what an hypocrisy) “fallen” and “”ev”il.” That is the real degradation on this earth. And yes, I have partook, that is why I know. Maybe Eve fell down the rabbit hole one day while she was sleeping and this is a kind of giant outward projection.

It’s all moving toward Brahman., no matter what double speak you poison the planet and the rest of us with, no matter what your logic of “it’s black therefore it’s white” stifles your own actions to you, one day you will let down your slippery lie in your heart, which both you and God know, and the light will shine in.

They can NEVER destroy the light. No matter they say “God belongs to me and those who look like me”, “God believes” as if God were their representative. “God gives me permission to cause another harm”. Its simply called, deception.

“It’s wine. Relax. Let’s all be friends and be happy.”

Following Arjuna, I will fight those till the end, but I will still not hate them.

Seems like a daydream of a small child arm. So ridiculous and uncharacteristic. And I can hear the taunts as I write this “oh cause cals talking about love he must think he’s jesus.” Just cut the entire argument that we should all get along, down by a personal swipe. Oh yeah, but you’re on the good side, are you? But it was my dream, and tho the world of people we are in is disintegrating as fast as Aussie politics, funny, is it not, that this follows swiftly on the heels of climate breakdown?

It is what we must believe in in order to keep united, strong, and with love in our heart. And to heal the environment as well.

If I could apply Vivekenandas section more particularly to today I would say

Let’s hope again, let’s not be afraid, it’s not beyond reach until you say it is. Even love the vermin as you throw them out your house. It’s all been repeated by every religious leader.

That’s why if someone hurts you and you’re healthy you retaliate. You feel justified in inflicting it back. As the source of the main teachings about love, Jesus said “give to Caesar what is Caesars.” While Vivekenanda says “wish well for them.”

And perhaps you wonder why do all (good) religious leaders (of which I certainly am not one) have all preached ” love your enemies”.?

Life is a reality so to speak, commonalities we label “science”. For example, protecting ourselves so we do not wind up walking into a gas chamber, cause sorry to say, that’s where it’s headed.

But just as we do it, like Arjuna, Krishna would tell us not to be captivated by the hatred of it. But to even handedly or detached play his part in justice.

As an aside, I detest the idea of detachment. I think it was a mistake. One pointedness, yes. For it has made us believe nature and ourselves imperfect. Consequence of such, we see life as a bad thing and vice versa.

And essentially, this is the crux of my argument it’s all related back to our relationship with Nature. For as the Samkhyans say, Spirit is already liberated.

By breaking life apart through detachment is, I believe the cause of many current ills.

Penny dreadfull: “all a man needs to be a monster is to be told he can be”.

Backtracking a bit from Jesus the idea of love through Ramakrishna and Vivekenanda. But it was always only brotherly love and love of the male, so consequently it has had little impact on the development of humanity, beyond talk, despite their best efforts.

As per my usual episodes, it’s back to me. I’ll tell you a really personal “day in the life”. But I think other oppressed people could relate. Walking through B- this morning, cut from every angle, the snake in the chemist, the slithery eyes, the sweaty aggression, sounds of a sick society, and oh God, should I tell you the worst? The appalling pity! Perhaps once, my brothers words “remember your armour” would come to mind. Aah but man, this passed week! and I realised armour is simply unnecessary. Why clash heads with locusts?

Why would anyone believe people who have never even talked to me yet act as if they know me better than God/dess? Why would you listen to abusers? It goes against all common sense and decency. “It’s black therefore it’s white ” the same argument that keeps cropping up. And even seemingly sensible people believe this “logic”.

This Orwellian doublespeak is dangerous, no matter what they say, that is why we study logic in the first place. No matter who they begin to use it on, saying, like true abusers “you made me do this”, it will rot away at minority rights, in the end. For it is an anti-logic, a kind of black magic, which, again like true abusers, like those priests in the witch burnings, project their fantasies onto their victim.

I can look within at my heart, and I see good intention. Can they say the same?

So I’m not afraid of those locusts that seem to have infected B-.

But too, at exactly the same time, I no longer hate them. That is how they got me upset In the first place, using my own hatred against me, cause they want to get inside.

So, typically, being schizophrenic I can think outside the box: if there’s no hate, there’s no pain, they don’t affect me. They draw you in by making you hate them, and use your own failings against you. So I’m being perfectly honest about my shortcomings.

So if it sounds weak to say “love your enemies” it’s actually the opposite. But (another shortcoming) do not let that be egotistical, I remind myself at this point, the double crossing ego.

Which is why I always remember Vivekenandas words “follow the heart”.

And actually reading this back, my head goes goes “don’t let them know”. But my heart goes “give no matter what they say and keep giving.” The glory is God/dess anyway.”

Perhaps it may help someone dealing with the same kind of issue ie the oppressed.

As quoted, let the mind move then toward Brahman (God/dess) we can’t really stop it or separate it.

They will never defeat the light tho perhaps they would for a hundred lifetimes, but could never.

So, don’t be scared it just seems they can and that is the art of manipulation: they say “call me King”, “we own jesus” “we own god” “God I say, servant”. But it’s all lies, and in the end utterly futile. Their only power lies in how they can manipulate you into hating them or someone else less fortunate than you. And they will never tell you that, else they’d lose their power over you. You’d choose love, and one day, in perhaps many lifetimes hence, they will come to the very same conclusion. And perhaps then, it is OK to still dream we can all be friends?

Cal Kalve

19/12/23