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Another instructive consequence of the adolescent revolution can be found in the Indus civilization.
Little is known of what occurred in the Indus Valley until the fifteenth century B.C. What we do know, however, is that between the thirtieth century B.C. and the eighteenth century B.C., there was a highly developed civilization concentrated around the cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro, and that the marvel of this civilization was the drainage system in the cities, and the bathrooms. There is historic evidence that the Indus civilization, at its peak, was dominated by the mother goddess. (And what is more, bathing belonged to female-dominated cultures.) We also know that toward the end of this great civilization, approximately the seventeenth century B.C., there was the cult of the phallus and the bull, indicating male domination and meaning that the adolescent revolution had succeeded. We also know that when the Aryans invaded the Indus Valley from the Northwest, in about 1500 B.C., they met with no opposition. The Harappan culture and civilization had disintegrated; human skeletons lay everywhere, either because there were no survivors to bury the dead, or because there was complete indifference toward death.
The once beautiful cities were slums. If one turns back the pages of history, one will discover that great civilizations always disintegrate before being conquered.
What then happened to the Indus civilization?
A little of what probably occurred can be deduced by the artistic remains, such as statuettes and seal impressions, and above all by the legacies of Harappan culture, the main ones being a passive attitude to life, a contempt for work, worship of the god Shin and the cult of yoga.
In my view, the Harappans reached the peak of their glorious civilization when life was influenced and organized by the Great Goddess. Only in a mother-oriented society could work have been held in such high esteem. Such important technical realizations could only have been achieved where work was honored and revered.
By the seventeenth century B.C. the Harappans were in the adolescent phase. Once in power the Harappan males were lost when faced with the organization of life. In this adolescence they were confronted by a singular absurdity, an absurdity created by a male mind suffering from conceit. When they realized that they were incapable of organizing the daily work necessary for their earthly life, the Harappans became hostile to all earthly activity. Earthly activity brought them face to face with reality and alienated them from their world of conceit. Living became despicable, because work, that essential part of life, was denigrating.
The Harappan adolescent despised life because he was unable to organize it to suit his self-infatuation. It is only a short step from this negative attitude to the glorification of negativism, passivism, and escapism. Soon these negative attitudes became virtues.
The outcome of this negative attitude toward life was starvation, and the result of starvation was yoga. Seal impressions from this period depict yoga positions. Today there are many flattering explanations for yoga, but in reality yoga is nothing but what it was at its origin: the natural adaptation of the body to asceticism, to starvation.
However transcendental the cause of the starvation may be, yoga is just a natural bodily reaction to it. It is somnolence caused by an exhausted and weak body, exhausted by deprivation or starvation. It is a position in which the body uses the least possible amount of its vital energy, a position in which the body can survive longest with the minimum resources.
What was the point of surviving this contemptible life?
The answer can be found in another absurdity of the adolescent mind: exhibitionism. Adolescents enjoy showing off their superiority to life. It was the hallucinatory illusion of superiority created in the brain of a starved body, a starvation brought on by so-called "dignity."
Nirvana, so glorified also by modern escapists, is nothing but a state of mental stupor caused by malnutrition and immobility. The blood of a starved human being starts to concentrate on the vital organs, such as the heart and lungs, at the expense of non-vital organs as the brain. Nirvana is the brain suffused with a minimum flow of blood. Nirvana is not a metaphysical achievement, but a physical phenomenon. It cannot be achieved with a full stomach, however strong the mind or the will.
Anyone who has spent time in a concentration camp can tell you how starvation forces people into all kinds of yoga positions and states of Nirvana. They are simply natural reactions to starvation.
The god Shiva, known as the great "yogi," is another Harappan legacy to mankind. Shiva was a gloomy deity, a fierce deity, a deity of yoga, a deity of lasting death, a deity of the enraged adolescent imprisoned within the cul-de-sac of his mind. That Shiva was a negative and depressing god can be deduced by the necklace made of skulls belonging to his wife, Kali. The necklace was either a present to her from Shiva, or she wore it to please him.
Shiva inspired Buddha's decision, so praised by his followers, to abandon earthly responsibilities, to abandon his wife, his young child, and his species, and to take refuge in a transcendental world, in "contemplation." An animal would never abandon his young and the species in order to "pray" or to "contemplate." Man, the only animal capable of fooling himself, is convinced that he is superior to other animals because he is able to behave unnaturally, to go against the natural law.
The Harappans also became obsessed with copulation, copulation which became more frequent the more difficult life became to organize. The result of this obsession was overpopulation, which contributed to apathy and lethargy.
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