AYYAPPA AND THE PRIESTS

THERE IS A TERRIBLE INSECURITY THAT THESE PRIESTS SEEM TO PROJECT ON TO GOD, WHEREIN THEY APPEAR TO PROTECT GOD, RATHER THAN SEEKING PROTECTION. SO THE WOMEN OR LOWER CASTES SHOULDN'T ENTER THE MOST SACRED SPACES ACCORDING TO THEM. A SORRY STATE, AND A CONCEPTION ABOUT GOD WHICH REDUCES EVERYTHING TO ANTI-EGALITARIAN RITUALS, RATHER THAN THE LIBERATIVE POWERS OF GOD OR THE PROPHETIC TRAIL. A BUDDHA OR PROPHET IS BASICALLY A HUMAN BEING WHO HAS GAINED INSIGHT INTO GOD AND THE EGALITARIAN PRINCIPLES SO THAT HE /SHE CAN CREATE A CHANGE IN HUMAN MINDS AND REPLENISH THE WORLD. IF SOMEBODY THINKS OF GOD IN TERMS OF PRIVATE PROPERTY, WHICH THEY HAVE ACQUIRED FOR THEMSELVES, IT IS EASY TO SEE THAT THIS IS NOT SO BECAUSE GOD CANNOT IN FACT  BE PARTISAN TO SOME GROUP IDENTITY SO THAT OTHERS WHO ARE ALSO HIS/HER CHILDREN ARE EXCLUDED WITHOUT RISKING THE QUEST FOR JUSTICE.   WITH OUT THE NOTION OF JUSTICE IN GOD, NOBODY COULD ACTUALLY CLING ON TO BELIEF, BECAUSE IT IS THE NEED OR JUSTICE IN AN ALIENATING WORLD, THE EGALITARIAN PRINCIPLE, THAT SUSTAINS THE QUEST FOR GOD. THERE IS BUT ONE GOD, WHO IS INFINITE  AND UNMEASURABLE.  AYYAPPA WAS AN ENLIGHTENED SOUL OR A BUDDHA, WHO LIKED TO STAY CLOSE TO THE ADIVASIS( SABARI'S HILL- AND THE CAMPHOR PYRE LIGHTING,THE CROUCHING POSITION) TO THE MUSLIMS(VAVAR), WOMEN(MALIKAPPURAM) AND WAS GREETED WITH SARANAM. IT IS RIDICULOUS TO THINK THAT HE HAS TO BE PROJECTED AS ANTI- WOMEN OR COMMON FOLK. WHEN THE RULERS TRY TO APPROPRIATE BUDDHAS INTO THEIR CONTROL THEY TRY TO STOP OTHERS FROM GAINING CONTACT  WITH THEIR SPIRITS  AND TO KEEP THEM ISOLATED AND UNDER DELUSIVE INFLUENCES. A TEMPLE IS BASICALLY SUCH A PLACE, CREATED BY BRAHMINISM TO GAIN THIS CONTROL AND THE FUNCTION OF THE IDOL IS TO SUSTAIN THE DELUSION, RATHER THAN ALLOWING FREE SOULS TO INHABIT EARTH. GOD IS A LIVING ENTITY AND INHABITS EVERYBODY'S SOULS RATHER THAN A STATIONARY IDOL. THE HINDU IDOLS AND BUDDHIST SCULPTURES WHICH PRE-DATE THEM ARE DIFFERENT IN FUNCTION IN THAT IN BUDDHISM AND JAINISM WHERE THE PRINCIPLE OF ENDARKENMENT OR A SPIRITUAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE SOUL  IS AT WORK, THE ATTEMPT IS AT REPRESENTING RATHER THAN RITUALLY WORSHIPING THE IMAGES. THE IMAGE AT BEST IS ONLY AN INDICATOR OF THIS POSSIBILITY AND SHOULD NOT BE SUBJECTED TO WORSHIP, BECAUSE IT REDUCES THE INFINITE TO FINITELY DEFINED IMAGERY, AND REDUCES THE ENCOUNTER WITH GOD TO MERE RITUAL.