Monday, January 3, 2022

Dichotomy of a Naga sadhu

It’s weird that for a creature that relies on pests for its diet snakes in the reptile family are pretty scary if you imagine. I think snakes are not weird at all but divine; I’ve heard ancient kings putting their hands on pots with venomous cobras to know whether their decision was right or wrong and it’s like putting your life first before putting millions under your decision; a good serpent never attacks an intention of non-violence. It could be equated to the Buddha’s decree of the middle path where he put his begging bowl on water and asked existence whether it would go against the currants and it did as written in the Buddhist scriptures.

For a person who used to delight in indulgences of self-pampering, the path of poverty is next to death but one sadhu has to accept every nuance of the world too. Nothing is indifferent to me whether it is an experience of a god or a beggar or a millionaire; what has come in my hands through destiny is mine and I am here to manifold what experiences have taught me. I wonder if experiences occur to make you rich or wealthy. It’s a drive that every human drive; a path to wealth giving his every labor in the accumulation of wealth and fulfillment of desires and there is nothing wrong in it but a man has to aim for Dharma and Moksha too apart from Artha and Kama.

I don’t know what a Naga Sadhu means and Kashi-the city of death is a dream destination that keeps me awake at night. I have recently started believing in Christianity for they believe man has a spirit and he combines itself with God's will to make himself holy in the sight of God. Maybe man works on his surroundings and the spirit of the lord works on man. I wonder if Christians would turn towards truth as to what is happening in the world or would cling to their superstitions. Even though I am unknown to its presence I am not different from Kashi and I am in touch with their world with belief and conviction that nothing is indifferent to me in this world; I don’t believe that anything is possible to god by faith but I urge the people to believe that life is this much only and lead a life of penance and which is worthy of god and find your treasure in God rather than at the hands of other men of this world. The disaster that the world has become is because of the desire of every man towards one true goal of artificially made opulence where everything is made from factories and not from nature; an uprising that has corrupted man in upscaling his demands not for sustenance but for brutal euthanasia of the world that he inhabits. Man has created a world from his own inventions and discoveries and discarded nature which is his true home. A change that would radically mutate the coming generations to god’s wrath.

 

 

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