Suukshit Blowmuhdicksa 🕉
️ @Forestofenchantment@furville.drinkanddrive.africa
"To us, the high-resounding “isms” to which our contemporaries ask;
us to give our allegiance, now, in 1948, are all equally futile: bound to be
betrayed, defeated, and finally rejected by men at large, if containing
anything really noble; bound to enjoy, for the time being, some sort of noisy
success; if sufficiently vulgar, pretentious and soul-killing to appeal to the
growing number of mechanically conditioned slaves that crawl about our
planet, posing as free men; all destined to prove, ultimately, of no avail. The time-honoured religions, rapidly growing out of fashion as present-day
“isms” become more and more popular, are no less futile — if not more:
frameworks of organised superstition void of all true feeling of the Divine,
or — among more sophisticated people — mere conventional aspects of
social life, or systems of ethics (and of very elementary ethics at that)
seasoned with a sprinkling of out-dated rites and symbols of which hardly
anybody bothers to seek the original meaning; devices in the hands of clever men in power to lull the simpletons into permanent obedience; convenient
names, round which it might be easy to rally converging national aspirations
or political tendencies; or just the last resort of weaklings and cranks: that is,
practically, all they are — all they have been reduced to in the course of a
few centuries — the lot of them. They are dead, in fact — as dead as the old
cults that flourished before them, with the difference that those cults have
long ceased exhaling the stench of death, while they (the so-called “living”
ones) are still at the stage at which death is inseparable from corruption.
None — neither Christianity nor Islam nor even Buddhism — can be
expected now to “save” anything of that world they once partly conquered;
none have any normal place in “modern” life, which is essentially devoid of
all awareness of the eternal.
There are no activities in “modern” life which are not futile, save
perhaps those that aim at satisfying one’s body’s hunger: growing rice;
growing wheat; gathering chestnuts from the woods or potatoes from one’s
garden. And the one and only sensible policy can but be to let things take
their course and to await the coming Destroyer, destined to clear the ground
for the building of a new “Age of Truth”: the One Whom the Hindus name
Kalki and hail as the tenth and last Incarnation of Vishnu; the Destroyer
Whose advent is the condition of the preservation of Life, according to
Life’s everlasting laws."
- Savitri Devi