Killing Roaches, Krishna, Ghosts, Yamaraja, Snowe and Gorby
I warned them for a week. I told them to get out of Dodge. I put the word out that there was going to be a massive hit and that their home in my home was about to be made very uncomfortable. For a couple of days I thought they got the message but then they were back. So I did it. I got out the Boric Acid and sprayed that stuff all over the kitchen. Roaches went scurrying and falling dead all over the place.
I don’t usually go in for sprays. But a professional told me that Boric Acid was the only stuff that really works on Roaches. I went on line and found some place in Ohio that had it. I ordered a container of it and spread it around tonight. It is supposed to be the natural way to kill them. As opposed to using my fingers to squish them, something that I find to be a great reminder of the Ant battles I used to enjoy as a youth. As a child I could spend hours watching ants, making red and black ant battle one another and pouring water on an ant hill to see how they coped after I fed them bread crumbs and sugar.
As I grew older and discovered eastern mysticism I decided that ants would join horses and dogs and cats and warm blooded creatures as deserving compassion. So I refrained from killing them. I would sweep them aside. Ants I enjoy, I don’t even mind when the bite into my arm or leg, I figure that I deserve it for all the experiments I did on them as a child. Spiders were my friends at my old trailer by the beach. I had hundreds of them. But cock roaches and I have never gotten along. Mostly they stayed away from me. But a few months ago I noticed one or two of them. I imagine one of the neighbors imported them. I didn’t have them when I moved in here. But now my place is infested. I kill dozens of them every day. I shout curses at them, reason with them, warn them and finally today I got out the bomb. Now they are dieing by the hundreds. My place is a regular charnel house of roaches.
Prabhupada is said to have allowed his devotees one good cleanup of bugs and insects. He said it was ok to kill them and set a standard of cleanliness in a new place. But after that first battle of Kurukshetra, after that initial sweeping out of the old age and introduction of the new, it was considered bad karma to be constantly killing bugs. Like you have a low vibration or you are dirty if you attract them after you have cleaned house. But what if they came after you had been clean? What if as I suspect the neighbors brought them? Whose Karma is that? Now I know if I move they will be in my stuff and they will come with me where ever I go if I don’t destroy them here. But if they are coming in through the walls from the neighbors the only answer is to disinfect the whole building. What a hassle. But first I have to get rid of them here. Then move on the the people next door. I guess that is one way to get to know your neighbors.
I think there is a logical inconsistency in the Krishna believe in killing souls one time. I understand the concept of bringing spiritual order into a disorderly place. Also I understand the concept of being the agent of divine justice or wrath. But roaches don’t ever go away. All you can truly do is contain them. Does that mean that even in the vedic path there is a gray zone, a sort of purgatory where one spends ones time battling evil forces, or the forces of disorder or simply the other life forms that have different agendas than humans do.
In Buddhism there is the concept of doing good deeds for the souls of the dead ancestors. A particular devotee named Mulian was able to bring his mother back out of hell by the force of the good deeds of the Buddhist monks. Based on that tale a whole industry of paying monks to insure the souls of dead relatives are taken care of was developed. There was in China in the 9th century even a traveling minstrel show of monk entertainers who did a song and dance routine to convince the masses that only through the intercession of the monks could their dead relatives and ancestors be relieved of an evil fate in hell. Pretty good scam if you ask me, like the Catholic selling of indulgences. I guess the practice was universal.
The Buddhists were able to even satisfy the spirits of ghosts, especially women who did not have husbands because they died young and unsatisfied, they would even arrange marriages for these ghosts to living men to keep them from causing too much trouble in this world. I wonder if that is why nuns in the west have to marry Christ, to keep their dead souls from looking for a mate? Could be.
I have chased away ghosts or as I used to call them left over vibrational patterns from persons who got attached to a place. When I was in that gnostic community we didn’t believe in ghosts as they are popularly called. We saw them as leftover energy whirlpools sort of.
For a while when I lived in San Francisco I had a poltergeist that used to follow me from one place to another. It would come up to me rattling keys and blow on my face and stuff. It was kind of scary at first but then I learned to laugh at it and it eventually went away. But it was pretty intense for a while, I would be frozen in place, listening to it walking down the hall rattling those keys and whistling sometimes.
That reminds me whistling attracts ghosts according to my ex-french Hare Krishna spouse. She also would give me a hard time if I ate standing up. She said Yamaraja, the Hindu god of Death would come get me and make me choke if I ate standing up.
I sure don’t want no Yamaraja to come get me….No sir. No Ma-am!!!
On to other things. The Senate finally passed the Health Care Bill out of the Finance committee and they even got a lone Republican Senator Snowe to make it bipartisan. Now all we need is for something to make it through both houses and the conference committees. The Insurance industry finally played their hand over the weekend trying to stop the bill in Finance but I suspect that was all a charade. They got what the wanted, no public option.
Somebody finally noticed the same thing I was thinking the other day. Obama is kind of like an American Gorbachev. This is the piece from Club Orlov.
“by Dmitry Orlov
Club Orlov (October 09 2009)
I’ve said it here before: Obama is the new Gorbachev, the smiling face
behind the crumbling imperial façade, the personable, non-threatening
loser. Gorbachev got his Nobel Consolation Prize in October 1990; a little
less than a year later the USSR was no more and he was unemployed.
In awarding him the Peace Prize, the Nobel committee actually did some
good: by reaffirming his legitimacy as a leader, it helped to weaken the
hand of the conservative forces within Russia, which later staged an
unsuccessful coup in an effort to reclaim control of the dissolving empire.
Gorbachev certainly deserves credit for making sure that the USSR
disintegrated with a whimper and not a bang. May Barak Obama be just as
successful in completing the dissolution of the USA, quietly and without
any undue bloodshed. Moving forward, I wish him a long and happy
unemployment.
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Gorbachev wins Nobel peace prize
by Jonathan Steele in Moscow
guardian.co.uk (October 16 1990)
“President Gorbachev yesterday won the world’s biggest consolation prize.
He took the Nobel peace award for losing the Cold War, becoming the first
communist leader to win the trophy worth GBP 360,000 after dismantling the
system his party spent seventy years creating.
“The Nobel prize committee in Oslo did not quite put it that way. It cited
Mr Gorbachev for ‘his leading role in the peace process’ which today
characterises parts of the world …
“In Moscow, hit by shortages of basic foods and consumer goods, the mood
was more reserved. When the president of the Supreme Soviet, Anatoly
Lukyanov, announced the news to MPs, they applauded for barely five
seconds. Gennady Gerasimov, the foreign ministry spokesman, said: ‘We must
remember, this certainly was not the prize for economics’ …”
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… Nor is it the prize for economics this time around! If anything, the
financial hole the USSR left behind was a whole lot smaller.
Now, some people think that Obama isn’t doing a good job. He isn’t. That’s
because it’s not a good job. It’s not even a bad job. It’s a downright
terrible job. But some body’s got to do it, and that somebody just won a
Nobel prize, so he must be doing something right.
http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2009/10/obama-wins-gorbachevs-peace-prize.html
Ghosts, Obama and Health Care. What more can we ask for. Rain!!! Yes we got rain in LA early this year.
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