{"id":2087,"date":"2020-09-27T20:04:06","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T19:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/?p=2087"},"modified":"2020-09-27T20:35:45","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T19:35:45","slug":"on-projection-of-energy-and-surrender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/on-projection-of-energy-and-surrender\/","title":{"rendered":"On projection of energy and surrender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>From the forum:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Bhagavad-gita<\/em> isn\u2019t really the most accurate text if you want to understand karma, because Hinduism in general and <em>Gita<\/em> in particular don\u2019t really get it, and at the time of writing the commentary I didn\u2019t feel like getting into it in so much detail. I put much more thought into it in the later books. The Hindu concept, according to which one is born because of some karmic impurity, and no longer needs to return after this impurity is removed, is riddled with inaccuracies to the point where it\u2019s actually the opposite of useful. There are better ways of looking at it: karma is not an extrinsic element, it\u2019s the stuff your spiritual body is made of, and it\u2019s not \u201cremoved\u201d with the process of cleaning, it\u2019s restructured. Excess \u201cthermodynamic energy\u201d of stress, desires, fears or misapprehensions is \u201cexcreted\u201d like excess heat from a thermodynamic system, and as a result you get a more calm, \u201ccompressed\u201d substance, liquid instead of gas, or solid instead of liquid.<em> Yoga Sutra<\/em> deals with this excess of energy and its removal from the spirit-structure. The other problem are the attachments and desires, basically, investments of energy into all kinds of stuff. In your cases, it would be investment of energy into ideas, and desire to have those ideas work in order for them to justify the investment. \ud83d\ude42 It\u2019s not necessarily stuff like houses, cars or family, the way it is for most people; for some, almost all projections of energy go into their religious worldview, or authority of scriptures or holy persons. This also poses another problem: it mimics the vertical connection, to the point where it would be difficult to describe to some people why their religious ideas are a horizontal structure and not a vertical connection to God, but nevertheless, that\u2019s what they are, and once you are in the state of <em>darshan<\/em>, <em>samadhi<\/em> or something similar, it becomes quite apparent. For instance, in the process of initiation into <em>Vajra<\/em> those things are quite obvious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the forum: Bhagavad-gita isn\u2019t really the most accurate text if you want to understand karma, because Hinduism in general and Gita in particular don\u2019t really get it, and at the time of writing the commentary I didn\u2019t feel like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/on-projection-of-energy-and-surrender\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2087"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2103,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions\/2103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}