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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.
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