The Driver of Pilgrimage

 

 

Pilgrimage happens when an individual departs an unhappiness (because incomplete) producing state A - thereby achieving the happiness of departure - and arrives at a happiness producing (because complete, whole, perfect) state B.1

 

The initial driver is unhappiness. The end driver (i.e. a driver that pulls) is happiness.2

 

That’s all there’s to it! A person

 

1.     becomes unhappy when she stays, i.e. when she attempts to retain her status and which decays (because of repetition = sameness).

2.     becomes happy (because freed, i.e. fissions from) when she departs (or opens herself)

3.     becomes happy (because free to) when she arrives (or closes via fusion herself)

 

The intensity of happiness, i.e. as joy, elation, ecstatic joy, rapturous bliss and so on) depends on how much of her self departs (i.e. de-fragments) and arrives. If she departs fully (i.e. wholly = holy) and arrives fully (i.e. wholly = holy = sanctified) she gets the full whack of ecstatic joy.

 

Conversely, a person who does not depart, and therefore cannot arrive, suffers increasing unhappiness, sorrow, misery, agony and so on. That’s because (she as) state A decays. She decays because she needs energy to survive and fails to input new energy. She experiences her decaying state as a half-life, i.e. not living, not dead, and suffers accordingly.

It’s because (she, i.e. her self, as) state A decays (i.e. dissipates energy) that she is driven to leave it. If she doesn’t leave her decaying state A, she decays with it, and suffers accordingly. If and when she departs, splits from her decaying state A, the happiness (or relief) she experiences will be proportionate to the amount of energy she frees up.

 

1 … Basically, the driver of pilgrimage is incompleteness, un-wholeness and so on and whose degree/intensity is signalled by the biological system to consciousness by the various intensities of discomfort, unhappiness, sorrow, pain, depression and so on. In short, the driver of pilgrimage is the need1 to eliminated incompleteness and to achieve first virtual, thereafter actual (or real) completeness and which sustains or enhances life.

11 … In this regard see the Brhad-aranyaka Upanishad and Genesis 1

2 … The feeling of happiness is a user-friendly biological signal (a sort of emotional language instruction) indicating a surge (or surplus) of (survival) energy in the system. The latter can be achieved either by fissioning off bits of data (i.e. the infamous ‘stone’ or burden which religious pilgrims carry) that obstruct, drag or slow down; or by fusing with data that furthers (i.e. speeds up) pilgrimage ending.