Posts
Dark Shadows Movie Download
10 years ago
Sunday, September 14, 2008
i-Muse
Spirituality is a drug.
Anything that helps you transcend reality, anything that takes you to the surreal, anything that kills the present in you, and creates delusions of the future, is a drug.
The Alcoholic lays his hopes, dreams, sorrows and aspirations on a sublime glass of wine.
The typical Junkie shoots his insecurities out of his vein to the ethereal through the prick of a needle on his skin.
The Spiritualist?
He pins his hopes on the unseen and the unknown, stews in the ecstasy of belief that his karma is being fulfilled and that enlightenment is right around the corner, while in reality the clock of opportunity is ticking ominously near him, and is beckoning his blissfully unaware self to give sanity a chance.
Why, then, does our holier-than-thou community not hate the Spiritualist with the same fervor with which they hate the Alcoholic and the Junkie?
If productivity in life by human standards is the utmost virtue, why this blind-sided bias? Why this conscious denial of common sense?
I have seen men sauntering about in the name of discovering themselves, while their families squalor in poverty and in dire need of help. These men proudly renounce worldly pleasures, thinking that bliss for them lies elsewhere in the mystic realms of existence.
Either I'm crazy, or I live in a seriously tragicomic world. Jeez.
Free...
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
9 comments:
nice one.. another critically acclaimed post.. :P
spirituality is more hygienic when compared to alcoholism.. thats the only difference i see.. :D
lol... methinks crazy... but yeah, its hygienic.
only cowards can aquire alcoholism but not all spritualists are cowards who run away frm life. Infact most of the ordinary pl are spiritual by nature, gaining strength from their faith in a higher power and use it to draw confidence, hope n try to come up in life. Spirituality , in my opinion, is not a drug but a medicine which taken in blinded excessiveness can turn into a harmful drug.
u hardly write much i see..practice crapping abt a lot more things. its fun n satisfying atleast :D
Hmm.. the giving-up-on-all-thats-worldly part is the one that irks me a lot.
yes, the common man who is a spiritualist within but goes about his normal life is alright, but what of the ones that 'renounce' their everything to go in search of something thats undefinable?
yeah my dad used 2 term alcoholics as cowards. one reason my curiosity never got the better of me...
giving up on existence is crazy... cuz desire is the mother of quest.
i got a lot of ranting lined up for this week, so i guess m gonna be blogging quite frequently in the forthcoming days....
I thought you were a true Nihilist who could appreciate giving-up-on-all-thats-worldly!! So you don't like those people who are like fuck the desires.. fuck the stuff that other ppl and society want you to want..
All i can say is they have the right to lead their lives in any way they see fit. And it's awesome that they have the self control to overcome the desires and be brave and do what they want to and practice what they believe in..
As to why the society doesn't despise them , I guess it's because substance abuse anyone can do.. Anyone can go get drunk or do drugs anytime and attain a state of bliss but that doesn't involve Self control, the power of the mind over the body and all those stuff...
Even though the aim of the Junkie and the Spiritualist is the same, I guess respect comes for the latter via the means he uses to attain the goal.
The Journey is more important than the end and of course, nothing really matters, so free..
i still stand by my nihilist views... and yeah, i think giving up on desires is futile.
i do appreciate all the effort they put into trying to give up on all desires... but fact of the matter is, they can't.
desire is the essence of survival, mate. its the oldest concept of evolution. u breathe, u thrive, u mate, and u last only because u wanna live. no man can claim to have laid his desires to rest.
spiritualism is in itself a desire to fathom the unknown... to experience something different.
nothing can be ideal. even nihilism. our nihilist views doesn't take us into rejecting the existing system rite. nobody has the will or the inclination to do that.
Religion is a drug.
Spirituality is a drug.
Science is a drug.
Philosophy is a drug.
'Love', also a drug.
Any answer-providing-mechanism...a drug.
To the freedom of open questions!
-SR
Post a Comment