No subject

State, it is I. (the 
French Emperor’s slogan), L’Etat has been the bane of
saints and seeker 
alike.

Imagine…Sant Kabir waiting in the customs room before
commencing on his 
weaving.
Or Guru Nanak standing in a visa queue outside the
Saudi embassy, 
‘Gotta do 
the Hajj mates.. need a letter from King Fahd..’
Sikhism wouldn’t have been founded today.. would have
probably been a 
grant 
given by USAID to spread social equality and poverty
alleviation 
amongst the 
farrming communities of the Punjab.
Or, The Tathagata( Buddha)..A social justice project
to alleviate 
violence 
and trauma from war torn orrisa, (Kalinga). Grant
approved by the 
project 
director, Washington DC..
Or imagine again.. Rumi and the Sufis .. Prayer mats
getting inspected 
by UN 
agencies before being distributed on discount amongst
the impoverished 
peasantry of Bengal.. To improve farming and promote
healthcare by the 
5 
times prayer and social equality.
Whew..
The nation state would stand between man and God and
ask him his visa 
dates 
for making an appt with the Almighty.
--
Sanghamitra is in trouble..
Her visa has run out and she needs another letter from
her father in 
Patliputra..A pigeon has been flown to Ashoka
Priyadarshi and will be 
bringing it soon..

The Enlightened One/Tathagata had faced similar
problems while 
travelling 
from Magadha to patliputra, since he was actually a
Sakyan. Hence 
needed a 
visa for at least 13 states, which comprised the
Indian landmass..
Each had a different taxation system and treated its
lower castes and 
minorities differently..

Once he was even jailed an agent for inciting
minorities and dalits to 
convert..
The chief minister of one state..a fiery actress
turned state advisor.. 
forbade mass meditations and bhikkus were locked up
under the  
PODI..Prevention of Different Identity act..
(The fellows were inciting people to wear maroon
saffron robes and 
throw the 
National Dress to the chandals..)
She also taxed thousands of farmers and peacock makers
to go war 
against the 
neighboring country. a bunch of irritating yavanas,
who were always 
crying 
foul at her Line of control. You know, The line with
which you control 
you 
entire landmass and the people.. your state’s
BORDER..The Holy 
boundary.. 
which separates the sacred from the profane..the
lovable from the 
killable..The keepable from the dispensible..The
likable from the 
detestable.
Even temple doors can be opened after centuries to
lesser mortals..but 
this 
is one boundary.. Which only the sacred few may
cross.. young men are 
slaughtered trying to protect its sacred sanctorums
and it is usually 
mined 
with explosives to prevent all but the sacred few..
For the best experience in this, ask the people of the
West Bank..they 
are 
the On Line experts, crossing lines there, usually
between cities, 
markets 
and even toilets can provoke armed raids.. and then
these have to be 
avenged 
by suicide squads.
So.. the Line of Control. is the sacred thread..
Baptism..the incision 
of 
faith..which defines the believers from the infidels..
The sacred kirpan. Before which all kirpans..bend.

On our side of the planet they call it the Radcliffe
Line.. how propah 
dear. 
After Cyril Radcliffe who cracked the sturdy hatta
khatta Punjab. Into Two Nations.
It has single handedly replaced all the marks of
faith..
The True age of globalization. Nietsche was right,
when he declared.. 
God is 
Dead.. Long live the nation state.
--

We proudly studied the dawn of the modern world in
school in an 
innocent 
looking chapter titled..’ The rise of the nations in
Europe’. A 
landmass 
filled with Catholics and Protestants and French
speakers.. Splitting. 
and 
splitting and splitting into..pieces.. till each had
to go out and make 
its 
own raids to fill its State coffers..to sanctify
itself.

Hence offerings were needed.. from blood to gold ..The
more the 
offerings, 
The more the sanctity..
So we went out into inaccessible nations like South
America.. and the 
new 
nation India ‘discovered’ by our man Columbus..to
compete with our 
rivals..and the dispensable Natives..(for they are not
of our Nation)
So, Demanding Lagaan, Land Revenue- for Her Majesty,
became the Law. ( 
aptly 
titled like PODI, the Land Revenue Act).
It flows out (4 bn pounds a year) and drains the
entire Bengal.. see 
the 
begging starving peasants? Queued before the Her
Majesty.. singing Ke 
Bhaiya..Chooti Lagaan..!

Queing people. That’s the USP of the nation state. No
one else before, 
had 
perfected the Art of the Queing so well.
We even brought the entire Indian subcontinent to its
knees..single 
handedly 
replacing their Hindu God and their Muslim minarets
with the steeples 
of 
Westminster and the pound coin. Till today they don’t
know what hit 
them!
So, they stand in visa Queues outside Chanakya puri ..
waiting for The 
United State/Kingdom.
Our Lord who are in the United State, Thy Kingdom
Come.The 
Pravaasi(exiled) 
angels sing..
--
The Buddha was thought to be an IS, Inter State
agent.. and almost got 
locked up under PODI..
Only a letter from one of his previous ministers in
the sakyaland.. who 
supplied  ‘imported’ lipsticks to the lady’s state got
him out..

Then came so many other meddlers like the Buddha..
Now Guru Nanak.. was the most unbelievable one of them
all! Travelling 
to 
God knows how many countries, without visas..!
Just barged into Bangladesh and India and Pakistan and
Iran and Saudi 
Arabia 
and Afghanistan as if they didn’t exist.
His followers are singing the same tune again.. Awwal
Allah noor 
upaya.. ek 
Rab ke sab bande.. All men are the creation of the
Same One God..One 
race.. 
One Truth..Ek Omkar..
Problematic.

And then, as if the Prophets Mohammed and Jesus
weren’t troublesome 
enough..
The former actually made slaves from Other countries
and Other Backward 
Castes his satsangis/prayer singers..And told them to
travel to China 
freely.. without visas ..for Knowledge.! for The One
God has made the 
whole 
earth.
He also forced Kings to pray alongside their Subjects
(now called 
citizens) 
in a bizarre horizontal(!) queue..without asking
anyone to produce I 
cards..(the all Important ‘I’)
His followers circulate this site in Arabia.. coming
from 80 different 
countries, all  without visas..till the Kingdom Of the
Saudis Came.

And I don’t even want to think of the Nazareth One..
And his community.. The bearded worshippers of One God
again..
Wandering Jews they are called..
But God isn’t important enough.

So. a Jew can become Muslim and a slave can become a
slave owner.
And a King can become a monk and a Siddhartha can
become a Sakyamuni. 
But 
but an Indian can never become a Pakistani and a
Russian can never 
become a 
Pole..
The Godhead sings..Hey partha. For one who worship me
alone with mind 
detached from his identification with HimSelf., comes
to ME truly..

Even if you have renounced the world and the sacred
thread and all 
that’s in 
between- The state recognizes no religion..But Itself.
--

How does it work? The nation state has the uncanny
ability to reduce 
everything to an ‘Ism’..loving fellow beings to
humanism, common sense 
to 
rationalism, madness to fundamentalism, separating God
and King into 
secularism, not burning people at the stake to
leftism...and 
questioning the 
State, into anarchism..till nothing remains but the
Imperial ‘Ism’..

And like everything else, it has a Dual nature. Like
citizenship.
As Albert Einstein said,  Masses is energy. Energy is
masses. Just 
Multiply 
and Divide. Divide and Rule. That is the rule.

Just like the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.  An oxymoron. A
contradiction.. 
for 
an Islamic ‘state’ cannot be a Kingdom.. or even a
‘state’ in the real 
sense 
of the word. Till the ‘gift of Enlightenment’ bestowed
upon us by 
Europe, 
the Islamic countries.. battling with mullahs and oil
wells and the 
United 
States’ ogling of them..did not exist.
The ideal Islamic country would not exist at all..it
would be a 
contradiction..for there can be no King but God.
It could only be a trusteeship, a communally held
post.. doing its duty 
of 
the people.. for the people ..by the people.. (They
say Hazrat Ali, the 
trustee of the people sniffed out candles when people
came to him for 
personal matters after nightfall..)
An eminent scholar writes, that criticizing the state
was a Duty under 
Muslim law..not a Right to be exercised once in 5
years by standing in 
a 
voters Queue.( that queue again).
No wonder the Jews have always called al Andalus, Arab
Spain their 
Golden 
Age.  (Before their ‘Catholic Majesties’, Isabella and
Ferdinand took 
over 
and threw them out and burnt all others..at the stake.
Before sending 
their 
man Columbus to look for more.. The 300 year long
Spanish Inquisition, 
the 
National purification by the Fire)

The now authoritarian Friday sermon was a lesson in 
Dissent..critiquiing the 
mullahs, The King .. the State.. (Aurangzeb had a
mighty hard time 
controlling The Masses.. who ridiculed his banning of
music..carrying 
the 
coffin of music after Friday prayers thru the streets
of Delhi..)..
An eminent Delhi sociologist once said that the Jama
Masjid is Not an 
Islamic structure, because according to the shariat..
it was built by a 
King! And an imam appointed by the King is no
imam..and a rule, a 
veil.. a 
religion imposed by a Nation state/ Ruler king..is no
Law.
Will the Generals of the ‘Pure Land ’ please stand
up..? and the 
jihadis..And the psuedo-democrats in saffron and
khaki..?

Our pal Ashoka Priyadarshi knew the same:

‘Ashoka priyadarshi does not attach importance to
reverence as King .. 
but 
Only to the Dhamma..’
--

Sanyasis renounce their families and their entire
wordily identity.. 
but 
they can’t renounce their passport..and there is no
passport of the 
planet 
Earth.
So what could the Germans do when their elected
esteemed leader went 
around 
slaughtering women and children in gas chambers? Like
all true 
nationalists 
they had to comply.. and the Truth be hanged . Even
Jesus couldn’t 
denounce 
Adolf Hitler… he would have been denounced as an
Jewish IS (Israeli 
agent) 
traitor..

All religions fail before the almighty State.Buddhas
crash and fall..
Mosques break..and Gurudwaras are sterile under
tanks..
Operation Blue Star recognizes no Guru and no One
Truth..
But the hand of the state.. the Allmighty national
interest.

All the religions and the Prophets, avatars are
anarchists.. 
Revolutionaries.. and ultimately..anti national.
For they’ve challenged the might.. and questioned the
very existence of 
the 
nation state..
They recognize only nation on earth..The nation of its
people. Those 
who 
oppress and those are oppressed..
And their teachings lead us.. From this life to the
next.. to the path 
of 
killing the Ego..the root of all delusion..and .. to 
Nirvana..moksha..Jannat.
That’s why Prophet Mohammed said in his last sermon
"O mankind, the Arab is not superior to non-Arab, nor
vice-versa; the 
white 
has no superiority over the black nor vice-versa; and
the rich has no 
superiority over the poor. All of you are Adam's
descendants and Adam 
was 
made of earth."
And a charioteer of a kshatriya King, spoke the same
Truth in 
Kurukshetra,

O Partha, I pervade the entire universe by Myself..
giving up all sense 
objects unattached..devoid of the idea of
ownership..Free from self 
identification/ ego. He attains peace..
But today the Truth is inverted..its truly the
areligious secular 
age..they 
seek religion desperately in online mediation camps
and violent rath 
yatras 
and jihad..but what are they really seeking?
So Sanghamitra waits in the Queue.. while the officer
stamps her 
passport 
and cries out ‘next.. please..’
--
Optlnl: The saint of Sufis, Hazrat Nizamuddin,.. who
lived thru the 
reigns 
of 7 kings.. without entertaining any of them., said:
’A fakir’s home/hut has two doors.. when a king walks
in through the 
front.. 
the fakir walks out the other’..
---

Jan 2002.




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I have learned so much from God
That I can no longer call myself a Christian, a Hindu,
a Muslim, a 
Buddhist, 
a Jew.
The Truth has shared so much of Itself with me
That I can no longer call myself a man, a woman, an
angel..
Love has befriended me.
It has turned to ash and freed me
Of every concept and image my mind has ever known.

- Hafiz, Persian Sufi

Organised religion is the prop of a man who has not
found his Self/ God 
within.
- Shaheed Bhagat Singh


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