Hearken, O Mādhava, what more can I say?
Nought can I find to compare with love:

Though the sun of the East should rise in the West,
Yet would not love be far from the worthy,

Or if I should write the stars of heaven on earth,
Or if I could pour from my hands the water of all the sea.

-- Vidyapati

I feel my body vanishing into the dust whereon my beloved walks.

I feel one with the water of the lake where he bathes.

Oh friend, my love crosses death's boundary when I meet him.

My heart melts in the light and merges in the mirror whereby he views his
face.

I move with the air to kiss him when he waves his fan, and wherever he
wanders I enclose him like the sky.

Govindadas says, “You are the gold-setting, fair maiden, he is the
emerald”

Among the hills, when you sit in the cool shade of the white poplars, sharing the peace and serenity of distant fields and meadows – then let your heart say in silence, “God rests in reason.”
And when the storm comes, and the mighty wind shakes the forest, and thunder and lightning proclaim the majesty of the sky, – then let your heart say in awe, “God moves in passion.”
And since you are a breath in God’s sphere, and a leaf in God’s forest, you too should rest in reason and move in passion
.

-- Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Open your eyes ...

Open your eyes ...

Mirror-pond of stars …

Suddenly a summer

shower

Dimples the water.

-- Sesshi

He who has been instructed thus far in the things of love, and who has learned to see the beautiful in due order and succession, when he comes toward the end will suddenly perceive a nature of wondrous beauty(and this, Socrates, is the final cause of all our former toils)—a nature which in the first place is everlasting, not growing and decaying, or waxing and waning; secondly, not fair in one point of view and foul in another, or at one time or in one relation or at one place fair, at another time or in another relation or at another place foul, as if fair to some and foul to others, or in the likeness of a face or hands or any other part of the bodily frame, or in any form of speech or knowledge, or existing in any other being, as for example, in an animal, or in heaven, or in earth, or in any other place; but beauty absolute, separate, simple, and everlasting, which without diminution and without increase, or any change, is imparted to the ever-growing and perishing beauties of all other things. He who from these ascending under the influence of true love, begins to perceive that beauty, is not far from the end. And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth and mount upwards for the sake of that other beauty, using these as steps only, and from one going on to two, and from two to all fair forms, and from fair forms to fair practices, and from fair practices to fair notions, until from fair notions he arrives at the notion of absolute beauty, and at last knows what the essence of beauty is.

“This, my dear Socrates”, said the stranger of Mantineia, “is that life above all others which man should live, in the contemplation of beauty absolute.... But what if man had eyes to see the true beauty—the divine beauty, I mean, pure and clear and unalloyed, not clogged with the pollutions of mortality and all the colours and vanities of human life—thither looking, and holding converse with the true beauty simple and divine? Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.Would that be an ignoble life?”

-- Plato, Symposium

Thursday, July 4, 2024

The greatest race, according to Nietzsche

 It should make anyone think, that Friedrich Nietzsche, the man who wanted to destroy all religion and all morality – attacking the very concept of morality – who hated & lampooned & spat upon all races & creeds – reserved the very highest praise for the Jews.

Everyone admires the unity, the purposiveness, the ambition, the cohesiveness, and very specific intellectual qualities of the Jews.

So do I.

But I would consider it a dishonour to be admired by Nietzsche.

After spitting on Brāhmaas his entire life – this obscene-Graffiti-scribbling pervert sort of came up with some positive views about the Laws of Manu – in his loathsome diatribe, “The Anti-Christ”.
This admiration has 
permanently damaged the reputation of Hinduism, and of the Manusmti!

To be admired by Nietzsche is like being admired by a child-rapist.

WE DO NOT WANT IT.

 

Beneath are two quotes from “Beyond Good and Evil” – in which reading between the lines is as important as the lines themselves.

It is one of the most excruciating intellectual duties of life, to put up with the lunatic ravings of this vicious little bastard, feel the slimy stinking spittle from his screaming mouth spray & soil one’s face, to hear his atrocious howls of hatred & spitefulness – and wade through the cesspool of his gutter brain, swarming with feculent maggots of the obscene lust for universal corruption & decomposition.

 

For all the filth this charlatan spews, he is nothing but a dirty “Commie rat”.

One of the more sneaky objectives of scum like Friedrich Nietzsche is to drive a wedge between priests and the nobility-royalty-aristocracy.

This is an integral part of the process of overthrowing the ancient world order, which necessitates all the sordid ingenuity of these vermin.

Nietzsche pretends not to be a Liberal insect – but he merely represents another prong of the same pitchfork.

His entire life was a sham, a pretence, a farce.

You need to attack religion not from one point of view, but from every point of view.

He represents one of the many.

The unbelievably puerile theory – at the same time very shrewd – of a permanent, inherent, psycho-spiritual antagonism of Priest & Aristocrat – seems to be a hot favourite with the Modern German intellectual elite, who have regurgitated this reeking vomit consistently over the past 2 centuries – while the whole Liberal world laps up this same stinking vomit & regurgitates it untiringly, till today.

The idea is to pit the Priest against the Warrior – and to worst the Priest in the whole affair – (mis)representing him as a mortal enemy of the “noble” king, of the intrepid warrior bursting with life & energy, of the dashing nobility gushing with overwhelming grandeur & uncontrollable bestial impulses for massacre, rape & loot.

So these crafty bastards have concocted the “man of intellect” as an enemy of the “man of action” – the Priest being the smarmy, weak, deceitful, manipulative man of limitless cunning – the Aristocrat being the “honorable”, “truthful”, arrogant & candid man of bravery & murder.

The Priest is a man of sickness who thrives on the sickness of others – and he needs to control & subjugate the Aristocrat who has all the healthy instincts of an “innocent” & brutal & healthy predator.

All admiration is lavished on this “manful” predator – this rapist “blonde beast” – the Aristocrat full of majestic haughtiness – and infantile cruelty.

The Priest is the parasite, the leech, the mosquito sucking out surviving on the vigorous blood of the beautiful but violent, magnificent but brutal, heroic but destructive animal of an Aristocrat – all the while draining & bleeding the great beast of its vitality & confidence.

This rubbishy idea is regurgitated by Oswald Spengler in a more rarified, sophisticated, sophistical form in his Decline of the West.

THIS IS NOTHING BUT “COMMUNISM” PRETENDING NOT TO BE COMMUNISM.

Its aim is to make Priests & Aristocrats – or their advocates – fight.

It presents an extremely dirty picture of both – all the while pretending to admire an amoral – even immoral – and overwhelmingly imaginary “blonde beast”-type of Aristocracy.

You either have the invading, mass murdering, raping, destroying & looting nobility (whom Nietzsche pretends to slobber all over) – or the conniving, drooling, shady, plotting, scheming, backstabbing priest.

All Priesthood is Priest-craft.

All religion is lies, manipulation, deceit, & “control”.

This is nothing but Liberalism at its lowest, worst, most despicable nadir.

It truly aggrieves me to say that this specific notion is a very specific disease of the Enlightenment & Post-Enlightenment German soul, which, unfortunately, today, is beyond therapy.

The Royalty was already either subjugated or assassinated out of existence, and the nobility, already dead & destroyed, by the time Nietzsche was spewing his filth.

Whom was this croaking toad spewing it for?

For no one!!

He very well knew that the Royalty and the Aristocracy are gone – so whom is he defending?

It was all posturing!

Having destroyed the Aristocracy & Priesthood, these swine wanted to create a NEW Aristocracy & Priesthood.

It is in preparation of THIS NEW ELITE, that Nietzsche smears his pseudo-intellectual feces all over the place.

 

BTW, I am amazed that spitting-spuming, raving-ranting, trashing-thrashing Nietzsche is ever considered a German, because I’ve never come across anybody who hates Germans as much as Nietzsche does.

The venomous muck quoted below proves that he’d happily subjugate the German to the Jew.

There are more quotes – other quotes.

I will come to them in good time.

All italics mine.

 

 

“What Europe owes to the Jews?—Many things, good and bad, and above all one thing of the nature both of the best and the worst: the grand style in morality, the fearfulness and majesty of infinite demands, of infinite significations, the whole Romanticism and sublimity of moral questionableness—and consequently just the most attractive, ensnaring, and exquisite element in those iridescences and allurements to life, in the aftersheen of which the sky of our European culture, its evening sky, now glows—perhaps glows out.

For this, we artists among the spectators and philosophers, are—grateful to the Jews.

 

(Honestly, I didn’t understand a single word.

Sounds like utter (pseudo-)-poetic drivel, to me.)

...

“It must be taken into the bargain, if various clouds and disturbances—in short, slight attacks of stupidity—pass over the spirit of a people that suffers and WANTS to suffer from national nervous fever and political ambition: for instance, among present-day Germans there is alternately the anti-French folly, the anti-Semitic folly, the anti-Polish folly, the Christian-romantic folly, the Wagnerian folly, the Teutonic folly, the Prussian folly (just look at those poor historians, the Sybels and Treitschkes, and their closely bandaged heads), and whatever else these little obscurations of the German spirit and conscience may be called.

May it be forgiven me that I, too, when on a short daring sojourn on very infected ground, did not remain wholly exempt from the disease, but like every one else, began to entertain thoughts about matters which did not concern me—the first symptom of political infection.

...

“About the Jews, for instance, listen to the following:—I have never yet met a German who was favourably inclined to the Jews; and however decided the repudiation of actual anti-Semitism may be on the part of all prudent and political men, this prudence and policy is not perhaps directed against the nature of the sentiment itself, but only against its dangerous excess, and especially against the distasteful and infamous expression of this excess of sentiment;—on this point we must not deceive ourselves.

That Germany has amply SUFFICIENT Jews, that the German stomach, the German blood, has difficulty (and will long have difficulty) in disposing only of this quantity of “Jew”—as the Italian, the Frenchman, and the Englishman have done by means of a stronger digestion:—that is the unmistakable declaration and language of a general instinct, to which one must listen and according to which one must act.

...

““Let no more Jews come in! And shut the doors, especially towards the East (also towards Austria)!”—thus commands the instinct of a people whose nature is still feeble & uncertain, so that it could be easily wiped out, easily extinguished, by a stronger race.

The Jews, however, are beyond all doubt the strongest, toughest, and purest race at present living in Europe, they know how to succeed even under the worst conditions (in fact better than under favourable ones), by means of virtues of some sort, which one would like nowadays to label as vices—owing above all to a resolute faith which does not need to be ashamed before “modern ideas”, they alter only, WHEN they do alter, in the same way that the Russian Empire makes its conquest—as an empire that has plenty of time and is not of yesterday—namely, according to the principle, “as slowly as possible”!

...

A thinker who has the future of Europe at heart, will, in all his perspectives concerning the future, calculate upon the Jews, as he will calculate upon the Russians, as above all the surest and likeliest factors in the great play and battle of forces.

That which is at present called a “nation” in Europe, and is really rather a RES FACTA than NATA (indeed, sometimes confusingly similar to a RES FICTA ET PICTA), is in every case something evolving, young, easily displaced, and not yet a race, much less such a race AERE PERENNUS, as the Jews are such “nations” should most carefully avoid all hot-headed rivalry and hostility!

It is certain that the Jews, if they desired—or if they were driven to it, as the anti-Semites seem to wish—COULD now have the ascendancy, nay, literally the supremacy, over Europe, that they are NOT working and planning for that end is equally certain.

...

Meanwhile, they rather wish and desire, even somewhat importunely, to be insorbed and absorbed by Europe, they long to be finally settled, authorized, and respected somewhere, and wish to put an end to the nomadic life, to the “wandering Jew”,—and one should certainly take account of this impulse and tendency, and MAKE ADVANCES to it (it possibly betokens a mitigation of the Jewish instincts) for which purpose it would perhaps be useful and fair to banish the anti-Semitic bawlers out of the country.

One should make advances with all prudence, and with selection, pretty much as the English nobility do.

...

“It stands to reason that the more powerful and strongly marked types of new Germanism could enter into relation with the Jews with the least hesitation, for instance, the nobleman officer from the Prussian border it would be interesting in many ways to see whether the genius for money and patience (and especially some intellect and intellectuality—sadly lacking in the place referred to) could not in addition be annexed and trained to the hereditary art of commanding and obeying—for both of which the country in question has now a classic reputation.

But here it is expedient to break off my festal discourse and my sprightly Teutonomania for I have already reached my SERIOUS TOPIC, the “European problem,” as I understand it, the rearing of a new ruling caste for Europe.”

 


Next quote:

 

 

In the Jewish “Old Testament,” the book of divine justice, there are men, things, and sayings on such an immense scale, that Greek and Indian literature has nothing to compare with it.

One stands with fear and reverence before those stupendous remains of what man was formerly, and one has sad thoughts about old Asia and its little out-pushed peninsula Europe, which would like, by all means, to figure before Asia as the “Progress of Mankind.”

To be sure, he who is himself only a slender, tame house-animal, and knows only the wants of a house-animal (like our cultured people of today, including the Christians of "cultured" Christianity), need neither be amazed nor even sad amid those ruins—the taste for the Old Testament is a touchstone with respect to “great” and “small: perhaps he will find that the New Testament, the book of grace, still appeals more to his heart (there is much of the odour of the genuine, tender, stupid beadsman and petty soul in it).

To have bound up this New Testament (a kind of ROCOCO of taste in every respect) along with the Old Testament into one book, as the “Bible,” as “The Book in Itself,” is perhaps the greatest audacity and “sin against the Spirit” which literary Europe has upon its conscience.”  





(Added subsequently:

By “German” I specifically mean the German intellectual & political elite.

Not the people of Germany.

Germans are amongst the most brilliant people in the history of mankind.

But their intellectual elite has played merry-hell with the rest of the world, since the Age of the Enlightenment.

They are essentially the only European community to recognize the true value of Ancient India, for instance, but they’ve messed that up painfully, too.

The whole “Aryan” race theory has mangled their already conflicted soul – and in the process, their intellectuals have inflict almost irreparable damage on the Indian psyche.

I also sense a deep-rooted spiritual confusion in the Germans – which one doesn’t sense in the English and the French, for instance – though there are elements of conflict everywhere in Europe.

For instance, the very fact that Christianity is not a European religion, but an Oriental, Asiatic, Semitic one, is, I think, something which secretly torments all Europeans.

The Bible is not the brainchild of the European, the White, the Caucasian, the Teuton, the Nord, or the Anglo-Saxon.

Christianity was overwhelmingly imposed on Europe – on the Germans – and they remember quite a lot, of their “heathen” past.

The violent rift between the Roman Catholic Church and Lutheranism is another fracture that has left its own scars on their already secretly divided soul.

Then comes the Enlightenment, with all its hatred for Kings & Priests, overthrowing the brilliant, uniquely European achievements of several centuries.

Then the Industrial Revolution – then the progressively more sleazy & disgusting forms of Liberalism – now “Wokeism”.

The European soul – and the Germans seem to be particularly sensitive in this respect – has been put under a bizarre number of strains, over the past 1,000 years.

Nevertheless, it is a point of honor, on my part, to recognize & admire the genius of this brilliant people, and salute its magnificent contributions to mankind, in the past several centuries, as well as their unswerving commitment to excellence in all matters of life, especially in science, engineering, and manufacture.

The German people is undoubtedly a force to reckon with.)