Letting go of life itself is the aim of living for those who have realized the futility of being born into this realm of maya or this realm of illusion. The sannyasin and sadhus of India practice this art of letting go to the extreme so as to deny any form of attachment to this physical existence, to grow from childhood to old age like a mule carrying a load of baggage on its back for the benefit of someone else only to die at the end of the journey from exhaustion and frustration, delude and despaired and all simply because of the carrot that has been dangled before our eyes and the conditioning that has been imposed by parents and the rest of society. 'Work hard boy, and you'll find, someday you'll have a job like mine.' Letting go from clinging to dreams and fantasies, from ideologies and the need to stay ahead, to be pious and chivalry, to become famous and wealthy, is the lazy man's path to freedom. Not to get sucked into goal and achievement oriented style of living, not getting pulled and pushed by the competitive struggle to stay afloat and ahead of others is a trap that keeps man in bondage to this illusory existence that is part of the matrix of our existence. The pieces of bones and flesh thrown at us to be chewed upon are the token of appreciation of our eagerness to participate in this game of life as the rich and wealthy wine and dine accepting it as their hard earned privilege.
Today this hard earned privilege has led us to the brink of self destruction taking along with us the numerous lives of other species of fora and fauna, enough is never enough and we are being led by greed, hate and delusion as our demigods, our manifesto. If you fail it is only because you have not strived hard enough or use you brain well enough in order to grab the opportunities and possibilities to make it while on this super highway of life. Oppression and exploitation is the name of the game if one is to make it big and stand above all the rest and corruption is the ultimate source of short cuts towards being in the limelight. Grab all you can while you can and the hell with the rest of your fellow man and if it all fails violence is the answer to filling up your coffer. Some things, habits and motives are never easy to let go of and man will forever be a slave to his desires, not his needs but his desires. Desires for bigger and larger, for more expensive and upgraded, for never ending delights life has to offer keeps us tethered to the yoke of our existence as enough is never enough. We accumulate and hoard as much as our garage can hold and if not we will rent a storage facility or have garage sale at the end of the day to get rid of the old and hoard newer and better garbage. Material garbage is not as hard to get rid of as mental ones as the mind has a great propensity of hoarding more and more garbage as we get older and it takes more effort to do so. letting go mental garbage is a lifetime effort for every second of the day the mind accumulates more narratives and images as it can.
Most of humanity has become enslaved by the very believe in the fact that man can achieve any feat or action if the mind is put to the task and with this believe man has assumed an arrogant deceit that he is the creator/doer of his actions. Man's propensity for self aggrandizement has led him to developed an inflated ego with the tendency to out smart himself by challenging the law of nature itself and shove aside his spirituality in favor of his darker nature or as Jung called his shadow. His desire to outdo himself has become an obsession disregarding what the cost of his actions might have upon the fabric of reality itself. His ego knows no bounds nor does he care that he has lost his humanity and sense of love and compassion towards his fellow creatures and the planet itself; take care of number one and all else is of no consequences. man takes great pride in being able to overcome his limitations and this collective assumption has led him to build yet another Tower of Babel; he is in the process of defying even the Divine in creating artificial intelligence like Dr. Frankenstein because he can. The monster he is creating in this modern age will be far more foreboding and dangerous than the fictional character of Mary Shelly's novel. Man has abused his God given free will and is on the road to perdition, he is standing on the abyss of self annihilation as a specie and this will be the end of the Kali Yuga where the death of the spirit in man obliterates his connection to the divine nature in him; the age of technology is man's final creative spirit leading to his demise barring Divine Grace. The Super Ego wants to become God but fails to confront understand and overcome his 'Shadow'; the dark side prevails as a result of of this blind ignorance.
Letting go of the 'I' ; " The Great Yogi has extinguished the mind."
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