[Reader-list] Visas for Nirvana

[Lehar ..]

dear friends
a piece on the meaning of our present world.. and the
Great Nation State..
love..peace
Lehar.


Visas for Nirvana/Moksha
By Lehar

Name: Sanghamitra
Profession: wanderer
Purpose of visit: living the Dhamma
Father’s name:  Ashoka priyadarshi
Goods to declare: None
You are hereby given permission to stay for 3 weeks
following which 
you’ll 
be asked to renew your visa.

Imagine, this would be the scenario if Ashoka’s
daughter Sanghamitra, 
who 
went to Sri Lanka to preach Buddhism were around.
For this is one caste, One identity, which even The
Enlightened One 
cannot 
free you from. Dalits can move caste by embracing
Buddhism or Sikhism 
or 
whatever 'ism'..Persians traveled and settled in
Jhumritalayya and 
caste 
Hindus crossed seas and settled in Singh pur
(singapore)
But this is one tag which never leaves you.. The tag
of the nation 
state.
Defy it and you’ll be punished for treason.
You may not be a murderer. But you’ll get fate worse
than..
The Gurus spoke of the One Truth ..
casteless..Boundary less..Ek 
Omkar..They 
would never thought of the nation state.

In the name of the nation state poor Kashmiris are
being turned into 
guinea 
pigs while Two Nations test their Theory.
And what’s Mr. Roshan Lal Sethi of Rawalpindi and
‘assi te Hindu pathan 
hegge’ doing in Paschim Vihar? The nation state drove
out him from his 
home.
And what’s Lallan mian of Moradabad got to do with
Karachi? He’d rather 
starve than live in the midst of those fiery
punjabis/pathans and no 
tarbuz 
(water melons)..why do you think he cultivates his ‘Do
bigha zameen’ 
and 
gets called a minority (a muhajir on the other side)
on top of that?

It’s the Mother of all identities/ insertions..into
ones identity.
Of course everyone their loves their mother. And the
land of one birth 
is 
one’s mother. But never has one’s mother been used for
such laughable 
and 
ulterior motives.. We leave our mother behind when we
enter the 
monastry..and don’t carry her on our head to the
temple or the 
mosque..We 
don’t need to do that to show that we love her.. But
in the nation 
state's 
case we do.

The sense of identification.. which all seers/
Spiritual have been 
trying to 
break . for aeons.. Detach. Detach. break the caste
thread..Do not 
identify..with this body..this name..this caste.. this
self.. all goes 
to 
naught..when one is confronted with the Big I.
Wars are fought in its name and millions slaughtered
with clinical 
precision, in its glory.
Countries enslave others and ravage their soil.. to
enrich it. Dwarfs 
become 
enslavers to protect its boundaries..of with us or
against us..