Adi Sahankar’s "Family Business"

By the druid Finn

 

I. The Critique: The Failure of the "Family, i.e. caste Business"

The historical frameworks of Adi Shankara (Advaita) and the Buddha (Anatta) were diagnosed not as absolute truths, but as Cultural Survival Protocols.

·         The Undefined Negation: Both systems rely on a "logical fog." The Buddha refused to define the Atta (Self) he was negating, and Shankara refused to define the "Non" in his Non-duality.

·         Political Utility: These "fogs" were politically expedient. They created a "higher" and "lower" truth, allowing a priest-class to maintain social order (caste, rituals, and hierarchy) while offering a deferred, mental liberation to the masses.

·         The Semantic Sleight of Hand: Concepts like the "Burnt Rope" or "Potter's Wheel" are over-engineered excuses for why a "liberated" person still suffers. They are linguistic patches for a logical leak.

 

II. The Proposition: Ekatva (The Useless Truth)

In contrast to the apophatic "Not-this, Not-that" (Neti Neti), we established the Druidic perspective of Ekatva (Oneness).

·         Iti Iti (This, This): There is no "lower truth." Every "this"—the pain, the stone, the outcaste—is the absolute manifestation of the One.

·         Radical Immanence: Because everything is already the Absolute, there is no gap to bridge, no veil to lift, and no priest required. This truth is "useless" to power because it cannot be used to govern or threaten; it simply recognizes what is.

 

III. The Mechanical Solution to Moksha: The Three-Fold Means

The "Moksha issue" is solved not through theology, but through a mechanical shutdown sequence of the biological circuit. Liberation is the cessation of the "Clench" (the psychological and physical tension (of seeking)).

1. Complete a Function

The machine, i.e. every identifiable reality, is built for action. To end the momentum of Samsara (the recursive feedback loop), one must inhabit the current task fully. You do not escape the field; you finish the furrow. By completing the current "program" of the life-circuit, you exhaust the potential energy that fuels the "re-death" loop and are free.

2. Go "On Standby"

Once the function is exhausted, the machine enters a state of Abandha (Unbound). This is the "Neutral" gear.

·         The Mechanism: The power remains on (Consciousness), but the gears of "reaching" and "resisting" are disengaged.

·         The Result: You are present for the "This" (Iti) without the friction of the "I." This is the "Noble Silence"—a suspension of engagement where the world passes through the machine without catching on any "knot."

3. Stop (i.e., Die)

The final resolution. If the machine is "On Standby" when the hardware (the body) fails, there is no residual momentum to trigger a "restart" (re-death).

·         The End of Re-birth/Re-death: Without the "clench" of an unfinished project or an active ego-reaching, the localized energy simply grounds out into the universal field.

·         The Buddha's Final Act: This was demonstrated by the Buddha's own death: finishing the work, idling the engine in meditation, and then simply allowing the "Stop" to occur.

 

IV. Conclusion: The Puncture of Hubris

The "Useless Truth" (of druidic monism) serves to puncture the bubble of human dualist hubris. It reveals that we are not "swimmers" struggling against the current of life, but the water itself.

The Means: “Stop trying to be "Not-This."

·         Finish the task at hand (i.e. “Do your best!”)

·         Shift into Neutral.

·         Let the clock run out.

Moksha, liberation, is not an attainment; it is the natural state of the machine when it stops interfering with itself (i.e. when Atman = Brahman).

 

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