Wired and Weird

[krsnaraja]

Wired & Weird



We have been engrossed too much in the images of ourselves we have lost track of reality. When we should be attending physically to people out there in the streets begging for food , the poor sick who are dying in hospitals, prisons, refugee camps, the elderly who need our care. We will in the future be like the modern Japanese whose parents were victims of the nuclear bombs which exploded in Nagasaki & Hiroshima. Who almost do not go out anymore from their homes but stay inside tinkering with computers & playing video games. In short, Isaac Asimov , the sci fi author in the book on Robotics was right when he made a commentary on Shelly's " Frankenstein." Saying our minds in the present are wired to data bases of giant computers. That someday we become robots ourselves & collectively you & me can cause the disappearance of objects in the sky, collision of ships, super typhoons, earthquakes, etc.

I wrote this article in the yoganandaji message board on March 28, 2014, 7:46 AM. Ahead of Super Typhoon Yolanda that devastated Leyte, Philippines.



The Aftermath of Super Typhoon Yolanda

[gruntal]

I remember as a kid looking at my class mates and getting rather disturbed if not disgusted. The minute the teacher turned his or her back most of the kids went crazy! How destructive can that be? Was that what life was all about - trashing any and every thing if you could get away with it?

Later in life I saw these very same go out and do and be significant things. Not to mention the fun they had doing it. Being prim and proper by then seemed an insult to the Cosmos. The thought occurred to me all of creation was one big joke on the honest and sincere. Just smash you way to success!

The only challenge I faced was acquiring knowledge. In that respect no force; no bribe; all the money in the world wold get me no where. Unless I was willing to accept the truth and someone was willing to share it with me. Even then narcissism reared it's ugly head. Why did I want to be so smart? Did it serve any purpose for anybody else other then to gratify my own ego?

e will always have the sick and hungry; death and destruction; but do we always have ignorance? Do we even deserve to go beyond the latter if we are all too willing to accept the former?

[krsnaraja]

Knowledge and ignorance we`ll always have just like we will always have the sick and hungry; death and destruction. But do we deserve to go beyond ignorance if we are willing to accept the truth and willing to share it with me even when self love have reared it`s ugly head? Why did I want to be so smart? Did it deserve any purpose for anybody else other than to gratify my own ego?



Life sucks. There is one born every minute.

[gruntal]

I hear things thru my local study groups that is knowledge that was only shared with the human race in modern times. That should make me feel very privileged. I don't know if it has changed anything. Or what I would do if it did. I suppose that is great therapy to be among the restless and the seekers. But to be healed would mean I would be expected to assume greater responsibilities.

I did not ask for this. Well not all of it. I assumed the refuge would last forever and I would always be comfortable. I guess you can't have it both ways. Why me?