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

Thinking purely politically, one notes that Democrats have self-less zeal for their cause while Republicans have none.  (Well, maybe a small sign of Republican enthusiasm.)  The zeal of Democrats is remarked as religious by not a few.  Actually, it is demonic, which usually appears as religious, or as near enough to it to be described as religious, even though the describer almost always knows there is nothing truly religious about Democrats’ zeal.

Their zeal is utterly self-less and this, as not a few note, gives Democrats’ zeal great power to persuade and to overwhelm.  As one thinks about and describes that zeal one senses one is thinking about and describing Caliphists as well.  Their zeal, too, is self-less, powerful, all-consuming, remorseless, indefatigable.

Against such, Republicans have no effective much less decisive force.  They could have but they want not to have.  Why anyone should take Republicans seriously is beyond this one’s understanding.

The zeal of Democrats and Caliphists is the same zeal motivated by the same devotion to a pseudo-religion.  The pseudo-religions are not the same, but the zealotry engendered by devotion to them is.

It were best to call that zeal demonic zeal rather than religious zeal.  First, because religions do not inspire zeal.  They inspire calm strength.  Second, because the object of either Democrats’ and Caliphists’ zealous devotion is not a religion.  It is a demonic obsession.  (Demonic: having ultimate concern for that which is not ultimate.)

A synonym for demonic zeal is fanaticism.  However, that description, in current deployment of the English language, may have less illuminating power than the term demonic zeal.  Still, one can take one’s pick.

Seeing no decisive force willing and able to defeat either Democrats’ or Caliphists’ demonic zeal for their respective pseudo-religions, one should conclude, or at least posit, that the Almighty intends for it to burn itself out rather than be extinguished.  This — the fire’s ending — will happen, surely, so one’s advice to the living is: as far as is possible, avoid being fuel and let the fire burn.

Or: hold on to that which is good, be strong and be happy.  Salvation comes from God, not politics.

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA