May 26, 2025

Mahakala (Protector of the Dharma)
in Hindu and Buddhist mythology (महाकाल)

Monday:

My views on the unity of the source – May 26, 2025

Anything that is expressed in the world, anything that is apparent to anyone willing, flows from the transcendental downwards in a step wise manner, and at each step downward, from the original source, the apparent becomes expressed in an ever more diluted way. This is the world as it makes itself apparent, in line with the Dharma, at all moments in time. You can never create a complete representation of the world in the moment, because it is constantly being expressed in different manners, but in every moment it is clear that the world is converging from the source and diverging away from the source in this downward manner. This is the essence, as well, of sentient life in the world, as a process of something that is departing further away from the source. In the age of the Kali Yuga this becomes ever more apparent as the world enters a phase of entropy.

    The source can not be defined other than something that has set in motion everything in existence. As everything in existence gets ever further away from the source, existence takes on newer and less transcendental forms. In the period of the Kali Yuga the transcendental decay becomes complete and the world enters its final phase before the dawn of the new era, and the cycle repeats.

    As a sentient being it is therefore the duty of man to uphold decent respect for all sentient beings, including himself, by making actions that benefits the all, his highest goal in life – to operate for the benefit of all sentient beings and to become one with the source. This is not to say however, that man should be completely indiscriminate in his pursuit of the source; humanism is not compassionate, it is in fact quite the opposite of anything that could plausibly be described as compassionate. To demand that life should be completely void of struggle, hardship, and judgement is to not be compassionate, it is indeed to be evil. It is not compassionate to expect a person that cannot transcend the profane to do so and then to not pass on judgement. Judgement serves one purpose and one purpose only: to uphold the order of the world and to transcend the apparent entropy of existence. Without judgement, there is nothing to be compared to the source and nothing to be held accountable. The source is the unity of the all, but the all takes on different expressions and to fail to judge is therefore to fail to notice the unity of the source in the first place; without judgement the world becomes an ocean of unmitigated chaos with some islands of momentary order, before they also fall into disarray.

    The Dharma is the way of the source, but it is not the source itself, and to fail to observe the Dharma is to fail to see the source. The source is unity, but unity has to be reached, and that requires the insight of the Dharma and the hidden truth. In the modern world, man has departed so far from the source that he has started to take on the mistaken and false role of the transcendental himself – he has allowed the idolatry of the idea to saturate every legitimate form of being. The point of no return has already been passed at this point, but fear no change – the unity of the source has not departed, because it was always here. The world will be set right by the laws of nature and of the Dharma.

Reginald Drax – May 26, 2025.