Rudyard Kipling"
“When you're left wounded on Afganistan's plains and
the women come out to cut up what remains, Just roll to your rifle
and blow out your brains,
And go to your God like a soldier”
General Douglas MacArthur"
“We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.”
“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.” “Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
“The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.”
“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .” “The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
“Nobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
The Soldier stood and faced God
Which must always come to pass
He hoped his shoes were shining
Just as bright as his brass
"Step forward you Soldier,
How shall I deal with you?
Have you always turned the other cheek?
To My Church have you been true?"
"No, Lord, I guess I ain't
Because those of us who carry guns
Can't always be a saint."
I've had to work on Sundays
And at times my talk was tough,
And sometimes I've been violent,
Because the world is awfully rough.
But, I never took a penny
That wasn't mine to keep.
Though I worked a lot of overtime
When the bills got just too steep,
The Soldier squared his shoulders and said
And I never passed a cry for help
Though at times I shook with fear,
And sometimes, God forgive me,
I've wept unmanly tears.
I know I don't deserve a place
Among the people here.
They never wanted me around
Except to calm their fears.
If you've a place for me here,
Lord, It needn't be so grand,
I never expected or had too much,
But if you don't, I'll understand."
There was silence all around the throne
Where the saints had often trod
As the Soldier waited quietly,
For the judgment of his God.
"Step forward now, you Soldier,
You've borne your burden well.
Walk peacefully on Heaven's streets,
You've done your time in Hell."
In an ancient temple, there are secret carvings of snake, monkey and the lizard. Why? What is the meaning of them? How are they connected to the ancient Indian philosophy and psychology? Hey guys, the ancient temple of Tirupperunturai is purposely hiding some very strange carvings. Nobody has ever seen or analysed these carvings, even though they are hiding in plain sight. Look above the main entrance, what is that?
A monkey and a lizard. What is the meaning of this? Are they just showing 2 animals fighting? This must be something important, otherwise why would they carve this on top of the main entrance of this temple?
What about this carving, what does this mean? Here you can see a monkey, but this is not a lizard, it is a snake. Look carefully and you may notice some very odd details in this carving.
Why would they put these carvings in a temple, in a place of worship?
And what about this carving? A Lizard eating a snake. Look at this, the snake’s body is seen faintly here, what is the meaning of all these carvings and why did ancient builders carve animals like the Monkey, Snake and Lizard on top of the temple?
These three animals are symbols representing parts of the human mind. These three animals symbolize the Id, the Ego, and the Super-Ego of your Psyche. I know this sounds very strange, because these three terms were kind of invented by Sigmund Freud only in the last 150 years.
Sigmund Freud who is the founder of Psychoanalysis, explained that the human psyche was like an iceberg made of the Id or the Unconscious, the Ego or the conscious self and the Super-ego which is both conscious and unconscious.
The snake represents the Id. It represents your pure burning desires and it can drag you into doing things you are not proud of. Sexual desires and aggression arise from the id.
In Indian philosophy, the Id is referred to by various names like Kundalini, which is the raw, unbridled energy inside of you that is full of desires. Kundalini is usually represented as a Snake. While the feeling of burning desire is called Kundalini, the object of desire is called Maya, which is also represented as a snake.
For example, if you are a man and you see a beautiful girl, you may feel a rise in your blood flow which is Kundalini, while the girl’s perceived beauty is called Maya.
Now, of course you can ask, Praveen why do you say the snake represents the id? Look at this carving, also found on the roof along with the other carvings. Very strange, isn’t it?
He is holding the snake in one hand, but see what he is doing with the other hand? He is clearly getting aroused because of his primal desires. Humans don’t get aroused by holding snakes, you get aroused because of your primal desires or by the objects of those desires. And look at that face. This person is not in his conscious self, he is clearly in his animalistic, primal mode, completely lost because he is at the peak of his desires.
The id only cares about pleasure & immediate gratification and it tries to avoid pain at all cost. According to Freud, you are born with just the Id, the ego and the super-ego develop later in life. The Id is not logical, it can have contradictory wishes side by side. It wants to eat that cake all the time, while also wanting a pain free healthy body. In the western world, the id is sometimes mentioned as the devil on the left side of your shoulder.
But this idea is a little bit flawed, because it can also be thought of as innocence, it doesn’t judge itself, it is like a baby crying in hunger, its desires are raw, and there is no hiding, no inhibitions, or judgments.
