Spirituality through Horror
I am talking about the concept of a Ghost. A Ghost is one whose consciousness remains, awareness remains but he loses his body and mind, so much so that he is caught in his desirous self, where he can desire but cannot fulfil his desires because he no longer has his body or mind.
Isn't this human condition? Just A human being still has his body and mind. For instance, An adult grows to be old. He craves for sexual pleasure, but he cannot do it now. His sexual drives has bodily limitations. His urges does not leave him. He keeps on lingering on women bodies, but all in vain. He has to console his self through Spirituality.
Spirituality is not a consolation prize. Anyone who practices it like that, is a ghost in human form.
A man always craved for material success. He could not. He turned into a pervert of material success. Now he practices Spirituality as a means to control himself. This pervert is psychologically ill.
In any World transaction, non-self-aware people turn mad. The winner becomes neurotic. The loser becomes a pervert. A pervert is one who keeps on wishing for success. A Neurotic is someone who will base his whole identity on the success. His ego inflates. He will not kill for saving his ego.
Actually, Non-self-aware souls turn into living ghosts. The pathetic Indian Ghosts we saw in Bollywood films. Like, See, Shaitaan, R Madhavan, did not die. But the question for unlimited power through charms and tantra, made him a toungue less pervert.
There are many Ghosts who won and became Neurotics. Like, In the movie "Haunted", The soul of the Professor has won over the soul of the woman, he is a winner. His win did not make him free. His win made him captive of the haunted house.
In the film, 1920 Evil returns, The ghost enter the body of the woman, to eat tasty non-vegetarian food. The Gluttony and the lust for taste remains.
The world is transitory but the effects stick. The man keeps it in memory. The change is perceived as loss.
The Ghosts of Vengeance, "Manjulika" Comes in memory. The lust for vengeance takes over the whole identity.
Isn't it suiting to say, that Ghosts are personifications of Human desire only? No Ghost exists devoid of a self-made meaning for himself. This meaning is mostly desire driven.
Actually, Purposelessness is divinity. It is the state in which Bhagwaan wants to see us. But we crave meaning.
Why do we crave meaning? Why do we want to prove someone something. Why do we run for pleasure? Why do we get depressed?
All these answers connect to desire and desire alone.
Needs of the body and mind cannot justify the quest for desires. Needs fulfilment requires a selflessness. But the insecurity of man dictates that man is in search of something more than needs.
Actually man justifies his desires by calling it needs. You body making sounds for food is a need, but you making sound for Aloo paratha is a desire.
So, if someone asks you, "have you seen a ghost?" Say, yes, I look daily in the mirror.
A ghost is a pathetic state of being. A ghost is what humans normally live as.
Pathetic creatures who keep torturing other souls for somehow getting rid of their desires.
When you rudely talk to someone, what are you doing? You are announcing, "I am an unfulfilled desire ghost". I am in need of solace. But in vain.
What happens when you desperately wish something would happen? You are a ghost.
If you really, really, someday meet a supernatural creature, like a ghost, pat him. He could not fight his demons. He could not uploft himself.
His drive to live outgrew his drive to die. Nobody other than the ghost can make himself free? You can just feel sad about the ghost.
What pity! Sad that human civilization has to see ghosts in majority and very few Mukta Purush. Very few Buddha, Osho, JK.
Very few people who outgrow their drive to live. They outgrew wishing.
I hope you fall in this Category Aatman!
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