Faking pilgrimage

 

 

A pilgrimage is a fake if the pilgrim perfects another’s goal. In other words, the pilgrim is faking it if she adopts another’s identity (religious or non-religious). The fake pilgrimage ends (fundamentally, but not actually) in a lie, in other words, in/as a self that is not the pilgrim’s own True Self.

 

The pilgrim on a true pilgrimage invents (or creates) her own identity/self, and which will be different from every other identity/self (therefore wholly original, therefore ‘pointing to’ the Original). She then makes it whole (i.e. wholly coherent, hence holy), and thereafter true (i.e. real), ending up with a genuine True and Real Self. If and when she attains her True Self she achieves total (read: original, absolute) freedom (and release, Sanskrit: moksha), experienced either as a brief period of rapturous joy (possibly supporting a Grand View) or as sustained bliss.

In India, a pilgrim who achieves a perfect True Self and is released (into absolute freedom), rather than the perfection of another’s True Self (thereby being released into the absolute freedom of another’s dispensation), is called an avatar. Recent Indian Gurus such as the Paramanansa Yogananda, the Maharshi, the Maharishi, and current gurus such as Sai Baba, Amma, et al are not true avatars, though true saints (because doing someone else’s thing perfectly).

 

The pilgrim who adopts another’s identity/self (or parts of it), and which will not be wholly different (therefore original and unique), hence incapable of becoming wholly real, therefore true, ends up with an untrue self, that is to say, with a lie.

However, if the pilgrim who has settled completely in (or as) another’s identity perfects the whole or a part of the adopted identity to full coherence (i.e. to unit of identity status, i.e. by suppressing her own identity), the release she experiences from completion (i.e. first from inner realisation, i.e. from ending her preparation, then from outer realisation, i.e. from applying the self she has perfected in the everyday world) will also be perfect and pay off in total release, experienced as brief rapturous joy or sustained bliss.

 

Consequently, the mark (read: hallmark) of the true (but not necessarily holy) pilgrim-become-settler (to wit. the saint or whole person) is originality. She is original because she has as it were touched the Original. The mark of the holy pilgrim-become-settler is absolute coherence, i.e. unit of identity status, true or false.

 

The religious pilgrimage as fake pilgrimage

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