"GENERAL IDEA
This is the main root of the distorted, illusory, sickly, demented and delirious BRAINWASHING system THEY perform thoroughly over your mind, which you may label as "THE AURIC SACRIFICE DOCTRINE", and which you need to dismantle and literally smash from its very foundations.
This system has been artificially and intelligently placed in the songs you hear, in the movies you watch, in TV programs, in advertisements, in the radio, and of course in the sentences you hear and images you see all the time.
It is based on the cynical, hypocritical and false idea that you would have to make a so-called PAYMENT or buy a so-called TICKET, in order to get access to the BACKSTAGE reality, which THEY try to sell you as a delirious DREAMWORLD that simply doesn't exist.”
I think of the opening paragraphs of this chapter that they are so bombastically far-fetched that I did not what think about it until I thought I could do some research about what it says in lyrics, the evidence was appalling. Take a little bit of it and realize for yourself what I say:
"You had something to hide
Should have hidden it, shouldn't you
Now you're not satisfied
With what you're being put through
It's just time to pay the price
For not listening to advice
And deciding in your youth
On the policy of truth
Things could be so different now
It used to be so civilized
You will always wonder how
It could have been if you'd only lied
It's too late to change events
It's time to face the consequence
For delivering the proof
In the policy of truth
Never again
Is what you swore
The time before
Never again
Is what you swore
The time before
Now you're standing there tongue tied
You'd better learn your lesson well
Hide what you have to hide
And tell what you have to tell
You'll see your problems multiplied
If you continually decide
To faithfully pursue
The policy of truth
Never again
Is what you swore
The time before”
Should have hidden it, shouldn't you
Now you're not satisfied
With what you're being put through
It's just time to pay the price
For not listening to advice
And deciding in your youth
On the policy of truth
Things could be so different now
It used to be so civilized
You will always wonder how
It could have been if you'd only lied
It's too late to change events
It's time to face the consequence
For delivering the proof
In the policy of truth
Never again
Is what you swore
The time before
Never again
Is what you swore
The time before
Now you're standing there tongue tied
You'd better learn your lesson well
Hide what you have to hide
And tell what you have to tell
You'll see your problems multiplied
If you continually decide
To faithfully pursue
The policy of truth
Never again
Is what you swore
The time before”
“Policy of Truth” by Depeche Mode
Refer to the "keywords dictionary" for getting the meaning of the lyrics' 'brain washing.' In this particular case I see the brain washing as a positive one.
I cannot give other example out of what happens when one wants to become a Hare-Krsna devotee. The movement Hare-Krsna is allegedly based on love. But it is not so; at least not anymore as it maybe was when it just begun; back in the nineteen-seventies.
The only first-hand experience of monastic life I have... it was acquired after I took shelter in Lord Sri Krsna's feet in my early twenties. But, from the beginning, the experience was not based on love, but on all sort of coercions, fears, needs and social designs. In occident the point is that, either you pay for your place in an ISKCON ashram or you pay them your stay with slave labor.
The fanatics' arguments are very contradictory on themselves. They would say 'everything belongs to the Lord, so let's trade heroin in wholesale quantities' or 'let's pirate collector items massively', or 'let's go begging shamelessly every weekend, for food, shopkeepers have to give it to us, it's our right', or 'let's accumulate as much 'resources' (wealth) as possible, for using them in the services of the Lord' and other reasonings of this sort, all gravitating around the "everything belongs to the Lord” mentality.
I went to a 'seva' of Krsna. If one goes on a guided tour of a Krsna mandir one should ask the devotees to show one the 'seva.' But then, when one wants to buy, note that I say 'buy' not 'beg', a scripture from them, in their flashy shops or stands, they are going to charge one three times the price of a normal book. They are very inflexible with payments; it is possible to be charged in advance in an ISKCON guest-house. Do you get the point of the greediness at play there? And it is a religious institution. It is like... very contradictory, but it is very palpable: they apply the law of “everything belongs to the Lord” with the objects that belong in material nature or 'maya'---objects that they covet---and they exploit at will, yet, they sell you their 'spiritual world' for prices higher than any, supposedly, non-spiritual object.
This of paying for having access to Krsna's “nagual reality” is just the beginning in a long list of conditions they will try to teach one and make one follow. But the krsnas call 'spiritual world' to the “nagual reality” and 'rules and regulations' to the myriad conditions they allegedly follow and will try to indoctrinate one about. Then, if you do not see the point in some of them, and if you ask them why it has to be that way, they are going to tell you that the original writer and compiler of the scriptures is the Lord Himself and they have to be followed without questioning; only if it is that you are still a jivan, of course.
Other point, one may emerge spiritually, live spiritually and be awakened with them, but they are not going to allow one to any of the advanced 'platforms' if one is still a neophyte. They will try to indoctrinate one with the idea that for reaching the 'transcendental platform' one will have to work very hard. Until then, one is considered to be in 'maya', I.e., totally clueless about how to behave, live and feel in the 'transcendental platform.'
And the krsnas accept Lord Buddha as an incarnation of the Godhead---the ”Confederate of Nirvana” remember?---so one can include Krsna's devotees in the label “THEM.” I will tell you more, when I was with the krsnas we had talks about brain washing and they admit to brain washing neophytes who aspire to become devotees; these were not from ISKCON, they were from the other math (school). But they say that it is a very positive brain washing and a prerequisite for becoming an aspirant to initiation; this beside the 1788 mantras one is advised to chant daily and following a list of 'rules and regulations.'
I share the view of PON for this chapter. With all those beautiful things PON says about love I do not have nothing left to tell about love. The author expressed my view of love with his definitions of it.
“Erotic love, if it is love, it has a premise. Loving from the essence of the self---and living the other person in the essence of that being---.” (Fromm)
I cannot give other example out of what happens when one wants to become a Hare-Krsna devotee. The movement Hare-Krsna is allegedly based on love. But it is not so; at least not anymore as it maybe was when it just begun; back in the nineteen-seventies.
The only first-hand experience of monastic life I have... it was acquired after I took shelter in Lord Sri Krsna's feet in my early twenties. But, from the beginning, the experience was not based on love, but on all sort of coercions, fears, needs and social designs. In occident the point is that, either you pay for your place in an ISKCON ashram or you pay them your stay with slave labor.
The fanatics' arguments are very contradictory on themselves. They would say 'everything belongs to the Lord, so let's trade heroin in wholesale quantities' or 'let's pirate collector items massively', or 'let's go begging shamelessly every weekend, for food, shopkeepers have to give it to us, it's our right', or 'let's accumulate as much 'resources' (wealth) as possible, for using them in the services of the Lord' and other reasonings of this sort, all gravitating around the "everything belongs to the Lord” mentality.
I went to a 'seva' of Krsna. If one goes on a guided tour of a Krsna mandir one should ask the devotees to show one the 'seva.' But then, when one wants to buy, note that I say 'buy' not 'beg', a scripture from them, in their flashy shops or stands, they are going to charge one three times the price of a normal book. They are very inflexible with payments; it is possible to be charged in advance in an ISKCON guest-house. Do you get the point of the greediness at play there? And it is a religious institution. It is like... very contradictory, but it is very palpable: they apply the law of “everything belongs to the Lord” with the objects that belong in material nature or 'maya'---objects that they covet---and they exploit at will, yet, they sell you their 'spiritual world' for prices higher than any, supposedly, non-spiritual object.
This of paying for having access to Krsna's “nagual reality” is just the beginning in a long list of conditions they will try to teach one and make one follow. But the krsnas call 'spiritual world' to the “nagual reality” and 'rules and regulations' to the myriad conditions they allegedly follow and will try to indoctrinate one about. Then, if you do not see the point in some of them, and if you ask them why it has to be that way, they are going to tell you that the original writer and compiler of the scriptures is the Lord Himself and they have to be followed without questioning; only if it is that you are still a jivan, of course.
Other point, one may emerge spiritually, live spiritually and be awakened with them, but they are not going to allow one to any of the advanced 'platforms' if one is still a neophyte. They will try to indoctrinate one with the idea that for reaching the 'transcendental platform' one will have to work very hard. Until then, one is considered to be in 'maya', I.e., totally clueless about how to behave, live and feel in the 'transcendental platform.'
And the krsnas accept Lord Buddha as an incarnation of the Godhead---the ”Confederate of Nirvana” remember?---so one can include Krsna's devotees in the label “THEM.” I will tell you more, when I was with the krsnas we had talks about brain washing and they admit to brain washing neophytes who aspire to become devotees; these were not from ISKCON, they were from the other math (school). But they say that it is a very positive brain washing and a prerequisite for becoming an aspirant to initiation; this beside the 1788 mantras one is advised to chant daily and following a list of 'rules and regulations.'
I share the view of PON for this chapter. With all those beautiful things PON says about love I do not have nothing left to tell about love. The author expressed my view of love with his definitions of it.
“Erotic love, if it is love, it has a premise. Loving from the essence of the self---and living the other person in the essence of that being---.” (Fromm)
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