He was an anomaly.
He didn’t finish his degree study in Madras, because he concluded that mind doesn’t exist. His philosophy didn’t change much from these early days. It just developed into some brutal, no-bullshit approach to (or should I say against) spirituality.
Who the hell knows what happened to him during his calamity? It was a physiological thing, that’s for sure. That’s how he describes it, and according to that, his body started to function differently. There is no way to repeat such a situation. He said that, and obviously, he was right. It was a mutation of a sort — an anomaly.
The effects of those processes combined with his already established disgust for spirituality made the U.G. picture we know. What he was talking about was not the result of enlightenment, but his life background. He already knew all these things before his “calamity.”
What to think about insisting that people should not listen to him? If you exclude that very statement, yes, I would say that nothing that he said is usable and in any way worth listening. But if you include the statement “don’t listen to me,” then you are left confused, trapt in the paradox. Perhaps, that is the most intriguing part of U.G. phenomenon. That’s why people was coming to listen to him, and that’s why they are still reading his words in the books.
He came out, at least in words, like a people hater. Seemingly he didn’t have any tolerance for their affairs, considering them self-centered and thus not worthy of concern.
On the other hand, he was saying that he felt the movement of the Moon and other cosmic happenings. Apparently, his sensitivity was heightened, but not for human affairs. That is what I found strange. Or, to be precise, I found it odd because it contradicts experience I have.
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A heightened level of sensitivity in the body is something I can vouch for. It happens merely when the body is left to its own intelligence. The driver (ego, self) is the one who dumps the impulses from the outside and superimposes to them the impulses from himself. The result is dumbness.
But, once this is gone, EVERYTHING matters. The state of human affairs is as vivid and as palpable as would be the boiling oil spilled over your skin.
Matter a fact, U.G. once said he feels people thoughts “like other people feel the humidity.” And that is something I know very well. I suffer enough because of that, and I would do anything to avoid it.
There is no sure way to know what people are thinking and feeling in particular, with all the details. But in general, an enlightened body can feel the direction of those thoughts, their shape or taste. The enlightened body can smell them, just like you would smell the rotten garbage pile in your neighbor’s backyard.
That’s why I found strange U.G. lack of concern for what will happen to humanity. I could quickly agree with him that we are the worst species ever (at least the worst we know about). There are none so bad and so dangerous as us. Also, I could quickly agree with him that we are doomed and that there is no salvation for monsters like us.
If I would say any word or show any action towards helping humanity, towards creating a better world or some such things, it would be because I am sick from what people are doing. It’s not just a word. I literary get sick when people are suffering. I have headaches when some bastards wipe out a village full of women and children on the other side of the world. God, I feel constant discomfort because people are torturing animals, and I do smell the stale content of zillions of their intentions and actions.
I do close my “windows,” though. I am trying to cut myself out of all that. I am running away, living in deserted places, trying to find something that will protect me from people. But, there is no escape! I can lessen the impact of the very existence of so many people, but I can not avoid being in pain due to so much suffering they cause, to themselves and others.
You see, it is not a matter of morality. It is not a matter of compassion. It is a matter of trying to live free from misery!
If U.G. didn’t feel it, then he was one lucky bastard! He felt when he was hungry. He dealt with his everyday affairs efficiently. For others, he advocated that it is only natural to listen to urges and desires and to make themselves happy. It is a mystery to me how he could manage to overlook the overall sensitivity of the enlightened body to the affairs of others.
You have to bear in mind that, even though self-centredness is no longer here (of course, with self gone, there is nothing to be centered on), the body is still human. You and me, we are, just like U.G. was, born humans. That has to make us sensitive to our species. We are monsters, deviated, corrupted, broken, and in every way pitiful creatures. But what can we do now? Death will bring an end to that fact. But if you were gone before the death of the body, and the body is left to itself, what is there to do about it? It cannot become a body of an ant or a dolphin. So, we are stuck with people.
I would rather be stack with something else, but I can not help myself. For some time, I was considering the solution in the form of shapeshifting. But, this ability didn’t come to me naturally. It is hard to achieve (I succeeded only partially) – so hard that it is easier to endure the torture of sensing human affairs than to expose myself to that. It may be the solution to some, but, unfortunately, this body is not among them. I did develop some techniques to dampen the harmful effect that the existence of humanity has on my body – enough for surviving. So for now, I am living with it.
Back to the topic. U.G. was against any actions in the direction of “saving” or “changing” the social status of our world. In the same time, he was taking care of his daily needs, and advocate others to do so (not to abandon or reject some pleasures or urges, etc.). Maybe his calamity, unrepeatable anomaly or genetic mutation, gave him the blindness – or the ability not to feel what others are doing on a global level. That is something we will never know. But, I assure you that enlightened body will feel the impact of everything that is happening around it! It will develop some protection mechanisms, but it is inevitable that at some point after you have gone, your body – and your mind or whatever is left of it – desperately starts looking for a solution for an immediate need: how to get rid of this harmful influence?
It is the same mechanism that will make you run from the tiger looking at you from the bushes. Or, that will make you fight against the tiger if you have a gun.
I don’t have a gun. That fact is pure luck for humanity. You see, when you are under such a pressure because of people stupidity, and there is no escape (I was looking forward that we find a way to go to other planets, but it didn’t happen so far, and it is not likely that it will occur during lifetime of this body), it is only natural that you start to think about how to get rid of them! I would if I could. Honestly. No thinking involved. Nothing at all.
As I said, it is pure luck for humanity that I am in no position to do so. Similar to the shapeshifting idea, an action in that direction would demand from this body much more than enduring the situation like it is.
So, humanity is saved by the economy, at least in my case.
I want to make clear that if I am talking about a better world, changes, disappearance of suffering, and all these things, I am doing so because I have to. I have to avoid being sick and in pain. It is natural for a body to do so. And, it is the only thing left, while I am waiting for this body to cease to exist, and we are all waiting to destroy ourselves.
So, my position is compatible with all humanitarian, compassionate, loving, and kind individuals who are desperately trying to make the world better. I never expected to be in that position, but here I am, or at least it seems so.
U.G. was continually saying that he has no conflict with society. The state of no conflict is possible only if his body was comfortable, And, apparently, it was. Why he was insensitive to the mess humanity made around him, I can’t say. But again, he vas an anomaly. The lucky one, it seems.
For the rest of us, if this impossible thing called enlightenment ever downs in our bodies, this will probably be different. It is impossible to say how each body will react to that situation. Everything is possible: from rising the heavy shields if you have them, and safely and happily hide behind them; through starting the end-of-the-world destructive campaign against everything humanity ever made; up to kind and loving inside-the-heart-revolution which will change us for the better, once and for all.
But, whatever enlightened body will do, it will not be because of the abstract idea of “goodness,” and especially not because of the utterly ridiculous idea of some particular virtues in humanity or its unique position. It will be because, at that moment, for that body, this action will be implied in the situation and thus unavoidable and the only one possible.
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When you read about the life of U.G., you can not help but wonder. After his calamity (that was the word he used about enlightenment), he continued with his life (in most cases, there are no other options). There were people in that life, and they keep asking him about the enlightenment.
How does it happen? What we can do that enlightenment happens to us?
Ah, what a misunderstanding!
It will not happen to you. The end of you is not a part of you. It is the end of you! Life will go on, but not yours. Just Life.
U.G. correctly understood that nobody wants that. People have no idea what are they talking about when they „wish“ for enlightenment. They think it is a part of spirituality, but the song of spirituality is always the same: it is the song about me. How I can achieve this, how I can accomplish that. It stinks, U.G., stinks all the way up to the sky. But we can not do anything about it. The smell of misunderstandings will always remain the same.
U.G. wanted to turn people off from spirituality and himslef. He was not particularly successful.
He told them: „Whoever is chosen, it will happen to him.“ Pure luck, then. Go home, people. Go home and wait. If you are (un)lucky, the enlightenment will happen. Thus spoke U.G..
But, he had something in him; something that made people come. They had urges, and U.G. attracted them. Usually, when people are the victims of a deceive, they see a false prophet and think he is the real thing. In U.G.’s case, it was vice versa: people saw a false prophet in a real thing! They believed that U.G. would lead then and somehow, anyhow, satisfy their needs. It is no wonder that he chased them out from meetings and lectures. It would be better for them to stay at home and watched television.
It is hard to say if U.G. had problems with people, or he just had fun with them. He was saying that he doesn’t like people, but at the same time, confessed that he never speaks the truth. Well, nobody does.
But the fact is, Maya has an end. It is also a fact that there is a crack in everything; that’s how the light comes in (thank you Leonard) in the dark chamber of the unenlightened human mind. In other words, in spite of strong orientation towards themselves, there are traces of „higher intelligence“ in people. The Reality. The Truth. It sounds unbelievable, but whatever people do to stay blind, in the end, they will see.
And that means they will come. Desperately, they will try to get rid of the illusion, even when their motives are wrong. They will hit the truth with their head, sometimes so hard that they will break it (head, not the truth). But afar that, they will ask for help, heal their wounds, and forget what has happened. People will go into denial, reject, fantasize, build imaginable fortresses, destroy them, suffer, laugh, spin in magic circles for many, many years. But the illusion can not go forever. Maya has an end. Period.
The enlightenment will happen to everyone, not just the unlucky ones.
And here is the space for „doing something.“ It is a kind of a trick. You can not wish yourself into enlightenment. It doesn’t work that way. Anyone sane would not have a wish for „the end of me“. But, there is something in a conscious being, something hidden, pushing us in that direction. Some people are not (yet) aware of that force, and some feel the unexplainable need they can’t resist.
You can not send people home, U.G.. Nobody can. They will not listen. They will come again and again. We are stuck with people.
You got out, but the rest of us will be still here for some time. And while we are here, why don’t push them, at least a little, in the direction of an exit? It will help some of them. And if only one passes through, that is one thorn less in a painful heel. And if few would pass, or god-what-a-luck, many of them, who knows, maybe I would be able to run again without pain!
Would that be wonderful?
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Sanjeev
Nicely presented and written.