waryoga

The WarYogin carries the weight of his ancestry on his shoulders, bearing the burden joyfully. This yoke connects him with the generations who have trodden the path he continues to walk. He is unconcerned with the modern fashions and trends of the world. Being grounded in his ancestry, the WarYogin walks through the world, but is not part of it. He operates within it, but does not succumb to it.

While he has his roots in the past, he is not afflicted with nostalgia. He lives in the present. He ruthlessly burns away all dross that would would mire him and bog him down in the past. He lives now, but is not of now. He is timeless, outside of the wheel of time and change. He remains steadfastly on his course. His upward trajectory is unstoppable.

The WarYogin remains true to his sacred cause. He is a holy warrior fighting a holy war in the hallowed terrain of his inner bodily landscape. His crusade is against his lower self. He strives to combine thought and action, fusing them together into a potent force capable of violent transformation. He is relentless. Ceaseless in his mission.

Every thought, every action, every interaction is geared towards his transcendent undertaking. He wastes no time on impotent deeds that do not aid him on his path. The WarYogin’s martial Way requires strength of body and mind. It requires purity of heart and Spirit. The WarYogin manifests his violent potential externally, but remains tranquil internally. In the blur of action, he is steady. He trusts his Self and allows it to take control during the flow state.

Active body. Calm mind. Pure Spirit. At peace in a state of constant battle. The WarYogin is a blazing torch, a dazzling, blinding light that banishes the darkness and illuminates the world around him while conducting his silent revolution.

The meander, or meandros in Greek, is associated with the river Meander in Asia minor. This lead modern people to believe the pattern suggested the winding flow of life and aimless movement. This could not be further from the true meaning of the meandros, a powerful symbol of self-determination and resilience.

Also known as a Greek Key, this decorative pattern was used in Ancient Greek architecture and ceramic arts. It carries a deeper meaning beyond its simple aesthetics. The meander is derived from an ancient hand grip utilised in wrestling and pankration. The modern day equivalent to the meandros grip is the s-grip.

This powerful grip held the wrestler’s opponent securely, no matter how much they fought back. On a metaphysical level, the meander was a symbol of the heroic spirit. It signified resilience in the face of adversity and the hero’s ability to overcome all challenges laid before him, regardless the odds.

An Ancient Greek red-figure ceramic painting depicts the hero Peleus gripping the nymph Thetis with the meander grip as she goes through several metamorphoses. The hero continues to grip her throughout. In mythology, Peleus marries Thetis after this, siring Achilles. The ceramic depiction is the key to the meaning of the meandros, as the grip of Peleus is stylised and then the motif is continued throughout the painting.

The meander reminds the WarYogin that he is able to challenge the gods. He holds the power to control his destiny in his own hands. He is able to face external and internal foes through the unification of his Self. Through the medium of combat, he is able to transcend, to defeat the gods and snatch control of his fate. By fighting both the inner and outer the holy war, he can achieve the atidevic state beyond the gods. This is a key part of the Silent Revolution of the WarYogin.

As the assault of modernity reaches deep into the longest held traditions, the life of the WarYogin is a silent revolution against the modern world.

The modern world fosters a crass consumerist culture, driven by obnoxious self-serving influencers and celebrities. The vacuity of the lifestyle propounded through them by their corporate overlords is hollow and destructive. It leads only to a place of personal crisis that leaves its victims empty and unfulfilled at best.

The path of WarYoga is a silent revolution against this mode of living. The WarYogin understands that the cure for the disease that plagues almost every corner of the earth is not political. It is not protest. It is not social action. He quietly goes about his work, modelling his way for others to see, embodying his philosophy, not evangelising with rhetoric.

He rejects toxic foods, intoxicants and lifestyles. He pays no attention to any media intended to elicit emotional responses. He trusts his inner measure, closing his senses to the assailants waiting at every turn to influence his character for the worse.

This is his silent revolution

He walks through the world, while being alien to it. He operates in society, but rejects much of what it is selling. He strengthens his body and mind, yoking them together to create an adamantine vehicle for the Self to attain transcendence.

His is a silent revolution, one that does not purposely draw attention to itself in order to gain fame or notoriety. He simply goes about his business, working on himself, improving that which he has control over, not worrying about that which he cannot control.