A different story of a new world order

‘You know that dystopian fantasy of the deluded maniacal globalists?’
‘What, that bollocks of centralised control, being governed by the disgustingly limited vision of clowns who think it’s okay to do the most unspeakably evil things?’
‘Yeah, that fiction, well, in their deluded fantasies of grandeur, they seem to have missed that the joke’s on them no?’
‘Go on.’
‘Well, they talk about a new world order, but the whole time their anti-life dystopia of evil empire is nothing but the monstrous death throes of the old order! It’s just a gross manifestation of this dysfunctional paradigm based on control and domination that is on its way out. The new world won’t be one of domination, fear and control, no, that’s the way of something that will soon be seem as the old world. It is crumbling and it will soon be dissolved…
You know in Rāmāyaṇa, the tyrant Rāvaṇa thinks he is invinvible. He thinks he can abduct the innocent and play with it for his own ends. But he is wrong. And hubris brings the inevitable nemesis. When Hanuman goes in search of Sītā and enters Laṅka, he meets the guardian warrioress of the city. She confronts him but is easily overpowered. When this happens, she blesses him – that he may find Sītā and know success in all his endeavours, and then she says it is now time for her to leave, and she does. She, who is the śakti, the power of the city. She is gone. Hanuman does find Sītā. He does put the city to flames and single handedly wreaks a havoc the rākṣasa population can barely believe – remember one of the meaning of rākṣasa is the one who clings to the known, the one who is blinkered by attachment born of of fear. And after Hanuman has knwon great success in this part of his mission, he returns to Rāma who then invades the island kingdom Rāvaṇa thought was impregnable.
He thought it was impregnable! He thought he was smarter than Nature, more intellligent than Life! He thought he could play God! It is an old story…
Pride comes before a fall.
Hubris brings nemesis.
Hanuman is the son of the wind: qui sème le vent – whosoever sows the wind…
The whirlwinds are upon us.
Yes, in Rāmāyaṇa the terrible war still has to unfold, the dissolution of Rāvaṇa’s false attachments and delusions has to be reaped.
But it’s already done.
Those dystopians with their new world order fiction are prisoners of their own deluded fiction. Some of their celebrity mouthpieces like to spout things like ‘democracy is a fiction’, or even more laughably ‘there is no reason for human beings…’ But this is their fiction. They are experts at picking and choosing the skewed and tragi-comically partial narratives to perpetuate their kingdom of blindness. But before their fear-based fiction became normalised, there were other stories.
You know… you know it deep in your DNA.
Back in the day, we relied on each other. In the village, different people brought different skillsets and qualities to the collective. How about the possibility – contra what has been propagated upon us for centuries – that humans are not especially antagonistic, marauding or bent upon domination, extraction or exploitation? That such tendencies have always been the propensity of a tiny percentage of human beings? And that they have only been able to wreak the havoc they have because of the collective, collaborative tendencies of the greater part of the human species.
It is only because of communication and cooperation that we were ever able to rise to the top of the food chain. It is only because of collective endeavour that tyrants had populations to exploit, that marauders had grain and treasure to plunder, that robber/tech barons and their coteries have human riches to pillage.
Beyond the fictions, there is the reality that your very human form in the space of which cohere earth, water, fire and air is the living, pulsating embodiment of the innate human capacity to reconcile things that seem impossible to reconcile.
The gods in the heavens envy us for our miśrakarma – our mixed karma. As earthlings we are part of nature, that which is born, which will die and in between will experience change. As a human, we will know the pairs of opposites: pleasure and pain, gain and loss, joy and sorrow. And yet amidst all this coming and going, now and again, it could be in moments of great intensity, when running for our lives, when seeing the beloved after a long absence, or at moments of great simplicity: beholding the beauty of play, noticing the beauty of the sunset, washing the dishes or the clothes… we’ll come to moments of integrated presence that will prompt us to look, listen and feel more deeply and we’ll glimpse beyond the comings and goings. And the more we do this, the more we’ll remember our deeper nature. And this will dissolve the phantom fear that has haunted this aeon, when the stories of fear propped up systems of exploitation, seeking to dominate and control.
As Patañjali tells us, when we come out of the womb, into the pulsating, cycling world of change it is quite a heroic passage, from the known to the unknown, from a simple unity into a world of manyness. It’s only natural that before long we start to identify with our tenuous bodily vehicle, glorious, so rich in so many intelligences, but tenuous nonetheless. This identification brings with it then a kind of insecurity, which we try to bolster by creating a sense of I. I am here and I’m not there, I like this and not that. I am good at this, not good at that and so on. I am one of these and not one of those. Ah, the tragedy when our innocent efforts to alleviate our fears just perpetuate cycles of fear! So we develop our preferences and allegiances, our habitual desires and aversions, we cling to the known familiar and resist change, just as we clig to life and fear death…
But the gods in the heavens envy us for a reason. Because when we learn to be steady amidst the teeming pairs of opposites, when we learn to be steady and face our fear, we recognise our deathless essence and we expose our fear for the phantom it is.
As my teacher told me at the dawn of this century, the yogis have been after Kaliyuga for a while. The ways of cooperation, mutual respect, of living in rhythm and harmony, embodying our natural place as part of the beauty of this cosmos are resurgent. We are at a crack of the ages, just as Arjuna was when Kṛṣṇa gave him, and all of us, the Bhagavad Gītā. The time is now. There are those who would cling to the ways of fear, separation and division, who would try to control life! But Life is infinitely more powerful, Life knows how to live and it always finds a way, it always finds many ways.
If you think that ‘they’ – those who are blinded by fear and in the grip of evil/anti-life can control life, think of the simple virus or bacteria that mutates to survive and thrive! What to say of the human intelligence, the intellligence of the earth, water, fire, air and space! It is the same intelligence that holds the galaxies whirling in the skies that holds the cells pulsating in this body. Life knows how to live.
Have no fear.
Remember who you are.
Who am I?
Not who do I think I am.
Not who do they think I am. Or what will they think of me?
Not who should I be.
No.
Who am I?
…
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