RAMANAM
In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen.

Countrymen,

For years I have admired the so-called Cynics of Greece.  They are denominated a school of philosophy and that they are, but they are much more than that.  All the Greek philosophical schools were religious convents.  And one way and another they reflected Vedic archetypes.  Cynics saw as often I do.  They saw concupiscence.

Althouse posted regarding the Wikipedia entry on Cynicism.  Most of the comments are trivial, as her very popular blog, also, and most comments thereon, tend to be.  I commented, with edits here, as follows.

The wiki article does not quite get to what drove the so-called Cynics. It did get that the epithet was put on them in consequence of their — the visible ones’ — manner of living. It does not mention that most Cynics were out of human sight precisely because of their naturalistic manner of living. Who needs the distraction of jeering crowds?

The article does not mention that the so-called Cynics followed the logic of renunciation, of religious development, mental, spiritual and physical, to its liberating end: all is illusion, nothing is reliable, nothing can be known — including that nothing can be know. All is relative merely, including relativism. There is no knowledge, only awareness, bliss and being.

Cynics were honest about the consequences of their labors for insight, unlike modern radicals, who proclaim chaos outside then retreat to their wine cellars and private islands for epicurean festivities.

Cynics were the Greek version of the Vedic Mendicant, the fourth and final stage of spiritual accomplishment (liberation), the one which immediately precedes being carried over into the ecstasy of The Divine Presence.

Greek is a Vedic language and Greek philosophical schools — really religious convents — reflect Vedic philosophy, as for example Pythagoras and the monastic order he founded, a precursor of Benedict/Benedictines and Bernard/Cistercians/Knights Templar.

Update 1: Ignore The Dire Warnings About Our Lives Because It’s Just Hysteria

AMDG – VICTORY