Psychology and Metaphysics-9

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Psychology and Metaphysics-9

 

 

Being and being Deluded

 

In the realms where clarity is so difficult and where so many gurus and messiahs

are on the scene with claims of authority of some kind of other and who are

mutually contradictory, we have no choice but reflect for ourselves and attain

as much clarity as possible and always standing resolutely by the dictum of Mey

KaaNal, Truth Seeking and Seeing. For TRUTHS are objects out there and certainly

not fictions of my bedeviled mind but rather things common to all. Science

founds itself as an activity concerned with TRUTHS however the science we are

practicing certainly is NOT the positive sciences but rather the Hermeneutic

Sciences where the data are TEXTS and the activity is that of INTERPRETING.

Metaphysics belongs to the field of Hermeneutic Sciences and as we shall see

later, does not discredit the positive

sciences but incorporates them within it as a specialized expression of the

spirit of rationality but restricted to the physical. Science in the most

general sense is both physical and metaphysical and it is this metaphysical

dimensions that we are exploring here. And metaphysical is essentially

psychological for the mental and hence the dynamics of self is disclosed here.

 

And what have we found so far ? I am PRESENT against the Black Holes that

surround me and ever trying to wipe out my Being-there-in-the-World, or simply

my existing here and now as such and such. In existing, in enjoying EXISTENCE,

there are forces at work that establish me as PRESENT in the world. I AM and

this is-ness of myself, the Being of my self is there even when the Vedantins

and idealists of all kinds declare that I am deluding myself, caught by the

Maya Sakti and imagining all kinds of things. For to be deluded as thus I have

to BE, only within Presence or Being-there or existing that I can be deluded or

can say someone is deluding himself and etc. etc. Existing as the deluded or as

the one continuously being deluding requires in the first place that I AM, that

I enjoy the primordial PRESENCE or simply Being.

 

Bound and FREE.

 

And now dawns a TRUTH about myself, something that was there all the time but

simply escaped my notice because I was preoccupied with other matters, the

intentionally constituted PRAXIS of various kinds. I have torn myself away from

that Seduction or Imprisonment, have managed to establish a FISSURE between

myself and the forces that in giving the PRESENCE also implant various kinds of

INTENTIONALITIES and because of which I ACT, become Praximatic. This tearing

myself away from the clutch of such forces and turning back and LOOKING into

them have opened my visions -- I now begin to SEE the presence of the

Black Holes that bring about DEATH and the presence of forces that VIOLATE these

Black Holes and

confer upon me PRESENCE or existence. Behind or more accurately at the Depths of

of Being and unknown to me were and are forces in great conflict, in great war

and in which only if the Black Holes are defeated I can continue to LIVE and

even allow the pleasure of being deluded at times.

 

What does this show about myself?

 

That I am at the mercy of forces out there and independent of me to LIVE and

continue living and that at any moment this LIVING can be snatched away from me

and I become dead! The moment I realize this my EGO is shattered -- I am NOT

AT ALL independent autonomous and all my egoistic pronouncements and

promulgations are not that of my own making and even if they are , ti is all

possible only because I AM present and that because of some forces out-there. I

CANNOT bring myself into the PRESENCE though I can willingly surrender to the

Black Holes and put an end to my presence. My Existence is something I enjoy

but not something of my own making but rather something like a gift, a blessing,

an aruL.

 

Though humiliated thoroughly at this recognition, I attain a true

understanding of myself: that I am infected with Black Holes that can bring

about death anytime but at the same I am blessed and continue to be blessed by

forces that VIOLATE these agents of DEATH and allow me to LIVE!

 

Let me call these blessing powers deimons for the time being ( reasons will

become clear later). I am at the mercy at these deimons to BE, to enjoy Being,

enjoy EXISTENCE and that these deimons are NOT fictions of imaginations and

fantasies but rather real powers out there and inside me and everywhere keeping

at bay the terrorist attacks of the Black Holes that know only bring about death

and nothing else.

 

Thus I am Non-autonomous and Dependent -- always at the mercy of these

deimons to survive and continue to live. I come to terms with myself - I am such

and such, simply one at the mercy of these deimons to even breathe and live. I

cannot displace the function of these deimons and breathe life by blowing air

into my own nose or even that of others . This is what I am -- a miserable

creature who owes the living to other forces and at whose mercy I am all the

time !

 

But having realized this BOUND nature of myself itself , it dawns that it is

POSSIBLE to extricate myself from this state of Being-in-the-World, of assuming

a body, come into existence and live with breathing and so forth. Deep in my

understanding there is ALREADY an understanding of this possibility, that I can

attain a WAY of Being in which I am spared embodiment and hence along with it

being in the company of the Black Holes and the deimons that fight them off. I

can attain a state of being in which I am FREE of these forces and thus a state

where I enjoy a FREEDOM from the intentionalities and hence worldly praxis.

 

This FREEDOM is NOT the freedom that goes with anarchism , a social condition

where I can do whatever I like ( within some minimal constraints) but rather a

freedom where I am freed from being praximatic, the need to effect actions at

al and becuase freed of intentionalities. It is PURE way of Being in which

intentionalities do not show up like mushrooms, living in an interior landscape

that is desert-like in which no vegetation grows at all , no desires arise at

all.

 

Thus I am Bound-and- Free, an individual who is now at the mercy of the deimons

to live but who holds the possibility of raising oneself to a ground where I

need NOT be anymore in the mercy of these deimons for there I am also ABOVE the

death bringing Black Holes. It is a GROUND of Being of Absolute Purity where

there is not even the shadow of the Black Holes, the Dark Forces, the Yama of

mythologies.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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