More often than not, we see, that truth manifests itself in a structural form. A truth that bestows itself on us through some Philosopher, or some guru, often accumulates itself in an organized way. Then, we witness a split between the manifestation of truth and the truth itself.
Mostly, it is the manifestation that is most easily corrupted by lies and dishonesty, whereas the abstract nature of the truth keeps it safe, however the same nature is responsible for the manifest corruption. Say, In Hinduism, Caste and its Philosophy.
Caste is an attempt to organize a society and its division of labor. In Idea, that is, in abstraction, it begins with the hypothesis of people, in a way opting for their castes by their specific skill sets and action. In essence, this is what I am calling the Truth. That part of the philosophy that offers freedom. At least offers, whether it necessarily intends to do so, is a question we need to inquire further. Were the makers of caste intending to liberate men or to further enslave them?
The truth of caste Philosophy seems to be liberating. To formulate a law which provides a nomenclature to the Early man to which he can identify and work upon it. Actually, the effect of giving a name to a concept is giving it already a manifestation. But then the manifestation becomes a compulsion. The idea should have preceded the liberation but the necessity to liberate becomes the driving force of implementation of the idea.
This is the dark fate of all ideas of human history. It has fallen in hands of Bodhisattva complex. Some people who had this feeling that they are the saviors of the world and the order-making is their responsibility.
Caste in its manifestation, works like a policy of segregation. And its role does not seem to be liberating by providing a name to the skill rather, it enslaves the man of occupying a particular skill due to being in one caste.
Why did this transition happen? Why Manifestation of truth changes the content of truth. I claim, this is done for pragmatic reasons, as they say. Pragmatism is the world's oldest ideological dogma.
Pragmatism is when in implementing your idea, you, in appearance, try to adapt to the world's specific needs and try to fit your idea in the needs of the world order, often the hegemonic discourse, and then deem it as the "Only practical solution".
What I mean to say is, the one who changed the Policy of Caste segregation from action to birth, was a pragmatist with a Saviour complex or Bodhisattva complex.
The interesting encounter happens when these pragmatists, today being in the majority of this world, Machiavellian as they are, meet people who are "By the book" or as they derogatively use, "Idealists".
They call Idealists as "Traditionally dogmatic". What an interesting irony. Ironical is this that they dare not call themselves as the perverts. People who pervert the ideas of truth and manifest it to suit their needs. Practicality took the mask of truth and mimicked truth. But it never was, it never has been, it never will be.
Truth and its manifestation suffer a split. Split because someone thought that Implementing truth all at once will take all their privileges. That's why they perverted it.
This happened with women. Women should be free so far as women of my own house remain in my control, says the new age patriarch.
"But you don't understand, Vibhat! The society is bad! Women are not safe! They need to be in control, in order to be safe!" Says the Patriarch conservative.
I dare say, "yes! Women are unsafe because of you! They need to be taught to be free, not taught how to be in control!"
The repressed women, when rises and kills the man, through ruining his mental health, or killing him and putting him in containers, often in news nowadays, or alimonies, then man cries. I am oppressed.
Yes, you are! Because you could have taken a stand for your sister's good education, your mother's against your father's ill treatment, your wife being mistreated by your own mother. But you chose silence. Because Silence was pragmatic.
Remember, Beware of "pragmatism". It is the worst form of ideology possible. Pragmatism is the new way ego wants to protect itself.
But maybe you know this, you already know that Your practicality and your pragmatism is just an attempt to protect the ego. And you are no spiritual, you just want your ego's welfare. You are on your ego's side. You are dishonest.
And Dishonesty, Oh God forbid, is mankind's biggest enemy till date. It is the oldest, probably older than Pragmatism, possible crime and ideological crime. A dishonest is a cold-blooded murderer of soul. A dishonest is the man who puts poison in his own father's tea. A dishonest is like a man who rapes his own wife. Dishonesty is man's attempt to abetment to suicide of his own soul. A dishonest man forces his own soul to commit suicide. And then lives like a Zombie his whole life.
The message of spirituality seems to be Cryptic here. Do not be serious says, Osho, but that is again mistaken as Do not take morality seriously, you are free to be Charvakians. Nope! Rules of life are to be taken seriously. Because there it is not seriousness, it is honesty, sheer honesty. Do not take yourself seriously, your desires and your ego, these do not matter. But honesty, that matters a lot. That matters to death.
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