Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000

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

Countrymen,

ORBIS NON SUFFICIT
SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT

There are two kinds of authority:

the authority of station and the authority of experience.

The authority of experience can exist without the authority of station.

The authority of station cannot exist without some authority of experience.

Therefore, authority of experience antecedes and has prerogative over the authority of station.

The authority of station is transmitted impersonally through rituals.

The authority of experience is transmitted personally through bloodlines.

For denominating leaders, bloodline is a better guarantee of a coincidence of the authority of station with the authority of experience than is ritual.

Secular and spiritual affairs are equally important.

Both guarantee or garrote the welfare of humanity.

The churches cannot elevate or depose leaders by enacting rituals, such as coronation and anointing.

The churches cannot interfere with and must accept the dynamics of the process of transmission of authority by bloodline.

The Donation of Constantine was composed by the Roman Curia in order to justify their attempt to entirely replace the authority of experience with the authority of station — that conferred by the Curia of the Roman Church.

This action put the churches in the position of disrespect they suffers today.  The Church, the Spiritual Community, is belong praise and blame.

Now the churches are under attack and threat of usurpation by opportunistic, ego-ridden lawyers and businesspeople because the churches’ own improper behavior gave these people an opening.

The original fault is not with the lawyers and businesspeople but with the churches’ leadership: trying to replace the authority of experience — family and bloodline — with the authority of station — ritual and sacrament.

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA