on the next part of the Bhagavad Gita, we reach a point where
we are forced to consider the difference between following
the materialistic, the temporary or follow the permanent…
but this too is a false understanding…for what is the permanent?
I am not saying that the materialistic is the true path, no, but I am
saying to follow the “permanent” is not the path either because what
is the permanent?
You look at life and life is full of the material, full of things
that are temporary, brief, momentary, transient…
the table that I am writing on and the books I am reading
and the stove in the kitchen and the water bottle I am drinking from…
all are transient, temporary, momentary…….as I am temporary, brief,
momentary and transient… and so the religious and the philosophical
think, if we are so transient and all our material goods are transitory,
then let us pursue that which is not brief, momentary, transitory…
the religious say god and let us pursue god,
the philosophical say, all that is left outside of material
is spirit, so let us pursue that spirit…
and as the east, Buddha says, the material is about suffering,
let us forsake the material and thus forsake the suffering……
once again, pursuing the permanent……by not being reincarnated,
we can avoid suffering and how do we avoid being reincarnated?
by overcoming the material in us and becoming the Buddha…
overcoming is the means by which the Buddha became the Buddha…
by finding the permanent and avoid the temporary, the materialistic,
us and everything that is of material which is temporary, brief…
but we find that in thinking about it, we find that there is a permanent in life
and that we find in the original beginning of the universe… and we see
as the basis of Einstein’s formula, E=Mc2… energy and mass is equivalent…
we can take this as being the permanent in the universe… everything has mass
and everything is energy and the two are convertible to each other…
the immediate form of the mass or the energy is not relevant…
the mass can be anything, anything at all, a stove, a book, a water bottle,
a human being, a planet or my lunch… and energy can be anything at all,
a stove, a book, a water bottle, a human being, a planet or my lunch…
and they are convertible to each other… thus we find that the permanent
in the universe is mass and energy… what the mass and energy momentarily
looks like is irrelevant… for mass and energy is permanent and the shapes are not,
the shapes of mass being a stove or a water bottle or a human being or a planet
and the temporary shape of energy can be a stove or a water bottle or a human being…
that, that is the permanent aspect of our universe… not the temporary,
momentary, illusion of matter and energy… the temporary shapes that mass
and energy has at the moment is just that, temporary… the real point is the
mass and energy itself… that is permanent aspect and can only be changed into each other…
the temporary forms they take, who gives a fuck… it is about what the mass and energy
is… which is mass and energy which is permanent…
Kropotkin