Going
on pilgrimage is (or appears to an outsider as) an act of sacrifice, for it
narrows to the wide spectrum of the world to a single point. To complete the
pilgrimage, the pilgrim must first completely transform her self as true identity
(i.e. as a particular unit of identity, and which can alone instruct, and make
real and transmit identity), then actually touch/contact/collide her True Self
with that of another.
At
the moment of touch, she as it were explodes and disintegrates (i.e. loses) her
True Self. In the self-sacrificial act of touching, and becoming a real
identity, then losing it, she superimposes the realness affect upon non-identity,
thus ‘experiencing’ (or at least seeming to experience) the state of
unidentified unreality (perhaps Nirvana) and the restart of the universal drive
to create a real identity.
In essence, the true pilgrim
(in the Christian sense, the Jesus who becomes the Christ) prepares herself for
a sacrificial act that allows that which drives her, and of which she is merely
a local means, to experience itself as a true, because real, identity. In
short, her job is to give the unidentifiable unreal a real (Sanskrit: sat) identity (Sanskrit:
chit), and the
joy (Sanskrit: ananda)
that flows as an overwhelming rush from such cognition.