So...talking about 'bliss' and 'service' and 'things people do that nobody else notices' and 'spiritual people acting like clowns in a circus...'
Last night, it was a "Necro/Shivani Movie Night"...for about 8 hours, it was 'let's totally
do spiritual India'.
I started out with a documentary autobiography on the life and times of Swami Vivekananda and his address to the World Conference of Religions in Chicago in 1893...well, that did nothing for me...absolutely nothing! zilch!
From there, I watched a documentary about the life of Adi Shankaracharya, subbed in English...it must have been made like 60 or 70 years ago...the quality of the movie was
so bad and there were a lot of places where a scene was filmed, but not a single word spoken for 5-10 minutes...the
only thing I got out of that one was the awesome conversation between one of Shankaracharya's disciples and a caged parrot...about how ants are free, but it will take them many births to climb a mountain, yet a parrot can scale a mountain in seconds, unless it is locked in a cage, of course...and so the parrot goes 'well, let me out then' and the disciple did...I felt quite liberated myself at that point...but the rest of the movie was a bit boring...blech!
From there, I started to watch a Ram Dass commentary on the teachings of Ramana Maharishi and I had to stop myself from falling asleep...the title was "Abide as That" and I'm like "mmmokay...NEXT" after about 20 minutes in.
After that, I put on a documentary called "Kings With Straw Mats"...all about the 1986 Kumbh Mela festival in Haridwar...and I was like; "this is more
like it!" and the poetry/prose provided by Ira Cohen as a backdrop to it just blew mountains away! So yeah...there are Sadhus doing Tapas...holding their hand up in one position for like 20 years, until the fingernails all grow through their skin...do you think they
only do that when people are watching? nah!...also, what the Nag Babas can do with their penises made my eyes water...here is the video and
viewer discretion IS highly advised, as it contains basically everything that prime-time TV isn't allowed to show...but I do this in the name of all that is spiritual...all that is
real:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGvK_9ugecM
After that, I watched a documentary I had seen before called "Aghori Babas, Living With The Dead" before watching a hell of a lot of Youtube Shaktipat Transmissions and how it was affecting the whole nervous system of people according to their bodies involuntary muscle spasms...yeah, that kept me interested for a while...I mean, one can only watch
so much necrophagist cannabalism whilst trying to eat cheesecake.
Still, if all of that taught me anything at all, it was to respect my own spiritual lineage with due humility and silence when I am otherwise ticked-off by something...for you see, it's a-okay for a 'spiritual person' to be mad, angry, annoyed, upset, bored, frustrated etc, but it is NOT okay for them to show it, to speak about it or to share it with another living soul because then others
know they still have all of these detrimental emotions...but as long as others don't know anything, that's alright then...it sort of condones all the silence, in a way...lest they open their mouths and immediately be 'not spiritual' by doing so.
I'm a proud Shaivite...a proud Kapalika....yeah, time I started acting like one!
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