organizing the sky

A devotee daubed in coloured powder prays as she takes part in the immersion of the idols of the Hindu god Ganesh, the deity of prosperity on the fifth day of the ten-day-long Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Mumbai, September 2, 2014.
REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui

 

 

One of the two-edged delight/horrors of spiritual endeavor is that, like the sky, spiritual life cannot be organized. As a result, there are vast libraries and wise men galore: Where intellect and emotion simply cannot tell a credible or satisfying tale, what a relief to enter a land where paltry bureaucracies and explanations fall flat.

Organization passing as understanding is ... so tiring, even if it makes socially-acceptable sense. Organize the sky? What nitwit made that stuff up?

Yes, it's a relief to stop organizing the sky.

But that doesn't mean it can't piss people off something fierce.