However, no matter where you are located in the heirarchy you are born into a form of debt. Catholics call it "original sin". Others might call it a debt to life, or a debt to the universe.
The price of living from day to day must be repaid in earthly work.
Even if you are at the top, you will be working to make sure you stay there.
Is there a way to permanently repay this existential debt? Is there a way to break out of the cycle? Can you even samsara?
Who knows, but we can re-arrange the organizational chart.
(1) devarina or debt to God, (2) rsirina or debt to the sages, (3) pitririna or debt to the ancestors, (4) manavarina or debt to mankind and (5) bhutarina or debt to the subhuman beings.
Ritual, memorization, and procreation. A guru is you!
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Drenki ago
This is all true pretty much.
However, no matter where you are located in the heirarchy you are born into a form of debt. Catholics call it "original sin". Others might call it a debt to life, or a debt to the universe.
The price of living from day to day must be repaid in earthly work.
Even if you are at the top, you will be working to make sure you stay there.
Is there a way to permanently repay this existential debt? Is there a way to break out of the cycle? Can you even samsara?
Who knows, but we can re-arrange the organizational chart.
pitenius ago
(1) devarina or debt to God, (2) rsirina or debt to the sages, (3) pitririna or debt to the ancestors, (4) manavarina or debt to mankind and (5) bhutarina or debt to the subhuman beings.
Ritual, memorization, and procreation. A guru is you!
Drenki ago
Nah, let's play yazatas and daevas, I mean cowboys and Indians, I mean cops and robbers, I mean home team vs away team, I mean voat vs reddit :)