Like a Christ in a cross (Mathew 27:45-46), Sri Hanuman has outcried to heaven: “Voltaire, Voltaire, why have you forsaken me?” Voltaire, one of the major exponents of the French Enlightenment (1650-1789), has been vainly put in question by our Guru. With the phrase “obscurantism in the country of the ‘lights’ “, Sri Hanuman has satirized the shutting down of “the lights” in France, a country that, along with England, was the cradle of Enlightenment during the 18th century, known as the Century of Light. This cultural and intellectual movement of French and English wedge had the declared purpose of dissipating the darkness of humanity through the lights of reason. Paradoxically, since Wednesday, 7 January of this year the French life forms looked after by reason and science have suffered a violent setback with Islamic style terrorist killings perpetrated against the cartoonists of the weekly paper “Charlie Hebdo”, in Paris. Without waiting for an answer from Voltaire, who is in heaven, Sri Hanuman continues his outcry: ॐ त्र्यम्बकं यजामहे सुगन्धिंम् पुष्टिवर्धनम् । उर्वारुकमिव बन्धनान् मृत्योर्मुक्षीय मामृतात् ।। But the crucified man outcries in Sanskrit, and Yahvé does not respond either. Guru takes us to respond from now on to this question: “Is this an era of enlightenment? And he adds in Western alphabet: om we adore the three-eyed the one with the sweet fragrance that nourishes, restores and prospers | as in its due time the ripe cucumber is liberated from the vine, liberate us thus from attachment and from death grant us liberation and immortality || The Enightenment from the point of view of this proposal is the acknowledgement of thinking the present as individuals that can and should exercise a practice that would depart from a horizon of hope that we nurture in our transitoriness.
Posted on: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 02:56:09 +0000
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